The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-04

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Al generations.
take . step higher. and look at
mans moral nature Made in the inn
I age OF God Vast capacity for enjoy
neut, capable Gt first of eternal iov.
and, though now disordered, still
through the reeuperatfvs force Of heav-
I emily grace, able to mount up 70 more
than It's original felicity; faculties that
Ensy blossom aud bear fruit insEhaust-
| IDLY. Immortality written upon every
/ caPacityi a soul destined to range in
unlimited spheres of activity long after
! the world has put on ashes. and the
solar system shall have snapped its
aSle, and the stars that, in their courses,
fought against Sisera, shall have been
| slain. aad buried amid the toiliug
thunders OF the last day.
You see that God mas adapted every
I thing 20 our comfort and advantage.
| Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for the eye, aroma
for the aostrils. poetry for our taste,
religion for Our soul We are put In a
garden and told that from all the trees
we may eat except here and there one
/ He gives the sun to shine on us. and
| the waters to refresh US, and food to
| strengthen us; and the herbs yield med
/ iciue when We sre sick and the forests
lumber when we would build house
/ or cross the water ia a ship The rocks
are transported for orr foundation, and
4 metals upturDed for our currency; and
/ wild beasts must give as covering; and
I the mountains must be tunuelsd to let
US pass; snd the fish of the sea come up
/ in our net; and the birds of the air
! drop at the fash of our guns; and the
cattle on a thousand hills come down
/ to give US meat For us the peach
| orchards bend down their fruit, and the
| vineyards their purple clusters To feed
| and refresh our intellect ten thousand
! wonders in nature and providence
| wonders OF mind and body, wonders OF
| earth. and air, and deep analOgies
and antithesss; all colors and sounds;
/ lyrics in the airi idyls in the feldsi
1 CONGREGATIONS in the sunset; robes of
/ mist on the mountains; and the ''GraGd
March' OF God in the storm
But for the soul still higher adapta-
| ton; fountain In which it may Wash}
3 ladder by which It may climb a song
Of endless triumph that it may sings a
crown of unfnding light that it may
! wear. Christ came to save it-came
/ with cross on his back came with
spikes In his feeti came when no one
else would come, to do a work which
no one else would do. See how suited
TO mans condition Is what God has
done for himl Man is "A sinner; here is
/ pardon He has lost Gods image;
/ Christ retraces it. He is helpless; AL
| mighty grace is proffered. He is a lost
! wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He
/ is blind, and at one touch of Him who
cured Bartimeus, eternal glOries stream
| into his soul.
Jesus, I sing thy graceI Cure of
/ worst diseased Hammer to smite of
I heaviest chaini Light for thiclrest
darlznessI Grace divinei Devils scoh
/ at it, and men reject it, but Heaven
celebrates i'll
/ wish you good cheer for the ma
/ tionRl health Pestilence, that in
other years has come to drive out its
I thousand heErses to Greenwood aud
/ Laurel hill, has not visited our nation.
1t is a glorious thing to be well. How
! strange that we should keep our health
! when one breath from a marsh or the
falling of tree branch might fatally
assault our lifei Regularly our lungs
1 work and their motion seems to be
spirit within Us painting after its i'm.
mortality. Our sight fails not though
the air is so full OF objects which By
| one touch could break out the souls
| window. What ship, after q years
tossing on the sea, could come in with
so little damage as ourselves. though
! we arrive after years voyage to-dayf
wish you good cheer for the nation
al harvest ReaPiug machines never
/ swathed thicker rye, and corn husker's
peg never ripsned out fuller ear, and
NOW poles never bent down under
1 sweeter hay, and windmill's hopper
never shook out larger wheat. Long
trains of white covered wagons have
/ brought the wheat down to the great
thoroughfarez The gamers are full,
the Etorehouses are Overcrowded, the
canals are blocked with freights press
ing down to the markets. The cars
rumble all through the darkness and
whistle up the hagman at dead OF
night to let the western harvest come
cities 4 race of kings has taken
possession OF this land-King Cotton,
King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice,
King Grass, King Coal
I wish you good cheer for civil and
| religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does an
l armed soldier interfere with the honest
day with our arms free to work, and
| our tongues free to speak. This Bible
it is all unclasped. This pulpit
| there is no chair around about it There
is no swapping Of muslzetry an the
/ street Blessed be God that to-day we
are free men, with the prospect and de-
termination of always being free. No
established religion; Jew and Gentle
Arminiau and CaIvanist-Trinitaria
and Observation-Disclosures and Roman
Catholic - on the same footing.
If persecution should come agains
| the most unpopular OF IA the oGGLaH 4
believe that all denominations would
band together and arm themselves, and
hearts would be stout, and blood would
be free, and the right Of men to yyor-
chip God according to the dictates OF
their conscieuces would De contested
at the point of the bayOHet and with
blood flowing up to bits OF the horses
bridleA
For mercies temporal and spiritual
let cOnsecrated lives be offered Where
ever Gods light shines and Gods rain
dsscends. and Gods mercy broods, let
the thanksgiving arisel