Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-25

But ''the crystal cannot equal It." John
saws crystal sea. That means multitu-
dinousiy vast. Vast in rapture. Rap
ture vast as the sea, deep as the sea,
strong as the sea. ever changing as the
sea. Billows OF light. Billows OF beau
ty, blue with clouds that were never
clouded and green with depths that
were never fathomed. 6rctics and Ant
arctics and Mediterraneans and Atlant-
les and Pacilics In crystalline magnifi-
cence. Three crystals. Crystal light
falling on crystal river. Crystal river
rolling into crystal sea. But 1.-THE
crystal can not equal It,"
80" says some one, putting his hand
over his ewes, lean it be that l, who
have been in so much sin and trouble,
will ever come to those crystals!" Yes,
it NAV be-it will be. Heaven we must
have. whatever else we have or have
not. and we come here to get 1t. "How
much must pay for it?" you say. You
will pay for it Just rs much as the coal
paws to become the diamond. In other
words. nothing. The same Almighty
power that makes the crystal in the
mountain will change your heart, which
is harder than stone. for the promise Is.
IT will take away your stony heart and
l will give you a heart OF flesh"
TO-" says some one. lit is just the
doctrine | want: God is to do everything
and am to do nothing" My brother,
it is not the doctrine you want The
coal makes no resistance. It hears the
resurrection voice in the mountain and
it comes to crystalization, but your
heart resis:s. The trouble with you,
INV brother, is the coal wants to stay
coal. I do not ask you to throw open
the door and let Christ in. only ask
that YOU stop boiling it and barring it.
o. my friends. we will have to gel
rid OF our sins, will have to get rid o.
my sins and YOU will have to get rid o.
YOUR sins. What will we do with our sin:
among the three crystals? Tho atmos
phere would display our pollution. The
crystal river would be befoulel with oul
touch. The crystal sea would whelm
us with its glistening surge. Trans
formation now or no transformation al
sll. Give sin full chance in your heart
and the transformation will be down
WdTu luoUctlu vi upNdtus lHSlSou "
OF crystal it will be cinder.
In the days OF Carthage Christian
girl was condemned to die for her faith
and a boat was bedaubed with tar ant
pitch and filled with combustibles and
set on fire and the Christian girl wa;
placed in the boat, and the wind was of
shore and tide boat floated away with its
precious treasure. No one can doubt
that the boat landed at the shore o
heaven. Sin wants to put YOU in {
fiery boat and shove you of in an oppo
site direction-off from peace. off from
God, Off from heaven, everlastingly off
and the port toward which you would
sail would be FORT OF darkness. and
the guns that would greet you would be
the guns of despair and the flags that
would wave at your arrival would be
the black flag OF death. o, my brother,
YOU must either kill sin or sin will kill
you. 1t is no wild exaggeration when
say that any man or woman that wants
to be saved can be saved. Tremendous
choice! y thousand people ere choos.
ing this moment between salvation and
destra elton, between light and dark
ness. between heaven end he'll, between
charred ruin and glorious crystalliZa
ton.