The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-01

kiss: MY peace leave with you My 1
peace give unto you
beard Baptist preacher once say /
that he thought In the millennium it /
would be all one great Baptist church; |
and heard a Methodist minister say |
that he thought in the great niliennial |
day il would be all one great Method /
ist church; and have known a Presby-
terrain minister who thought that in the |
millennial day it would be all one great
Presbyterian church Now, 1 think
they are all mistaken 1 think the
millennial church viii be a composite
church; and just as you may take the
best parts of five or six tunes, and un-
der the sl1illfuI hands of a Handel, Mo
Fart or Beethoven. entwine them into
one grand and OverpOwering symphony,
so, suppose, in the latter days of the
world, God will take the best part OF
all denominations of Christians and
weave them into one great ecclesiastic-
al harmony, broad as the earth and
high as the heavens, and that viii be
the church of the future.
Still further, you mean by these stones
the salvation of the people. We did not
build this church for mere worldly re-
forms or for an educational institution,
or as a platform on which to read
essays and philosophical disquisitiOns,
but a place for the tremendous work of
soul saving. o, I had rather be the
means in this church of having one
soul prepared for a joyful eternity than
5000 souls prepared for mere worldly
success. All churches are in two
classes, all communities in two classes,
all the race in two classes-be-
levers and unbelievers. To augment
the mum Der of the one and subtract
from the mum Der of the other we built
this church; and toward that supreme
and eternal idea we dedicate all our
!
all our Sabbath Understandings. We
want to throw detection into the
| enemy's ranks We want to make them
either surrender Internationally to
| Christ or else fly in rOut, scattering the
| way with canteens, blankets and KNAPP
| sacks We want to POPularize Christ.
! We would like to tell the story of his
| love here until men would feel that
! they had rather die than live another
hour without his sympathy and love
! and mercy.
o, that this day of dedication might
be the day of emancipation of all inn
| prisoned souls. My friends, do not
make the blunder of the ship carpen-
! tiers in Noah's time who helped to build
| the ark, but did not get into it God
forbid that you who have been so gen
| erOus in building this church should not
get under its saving influence. Come
| thou and all thy house into the ark. -
| Do you think a man IS safe out of
| Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not
one minute, not one second
Three or four years ago, you remem-
Der, a train broke down a bridge on the
way to Albany, and after the catas-
trOphe they were looking around the
timbers of the crushed bridge and the
fallen train and found the conductor.
He was dying and had only strength tc
say one thing, and that was: Hoist the
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to us tonight, from the eternal word
| voices of God, voices of angels, voices
of departed spirits, crying: Lift the
warning; blow the trumpet; give the
alarm; hoist the flag for the next train.
Oh, that tonight my Lord Jesus would
sweep His arm around this great audi
| ence and take you all to His holy heart
You will never see 50 good a time fol
personal cOnsecation as now. ''Wha
mean ye by these stOnes?'' We NEAR
your redemption from sin, and death
: and hell, by the power of an OmnipO
tent gospel
/ Well, the Brooklyn tabernacle i
= erected again. We came here tO-nigh
not to dedicate it. That was done thi
| morning. Tonight we dedicate our
selves. In the Episcopal and Methods
t churches they have a railing around tn,
altar and the people come aud knee
f down at that railing and get the sacra
! /
would take more than night to gathe
t yOn in circles around this altar. The1
= just bow where you are for the bless
, ing. Aged men, this IS the last church
that you will ever dedicate.
May the God who comforted Jacol
the patriarch, and Paul the aged. maxi
l this house TO you the gate of Heaven
4 and when in your old days you put OF
your sPectacles to read the hymn or tn
| Scripture lesson NAV Won get Urerara
/ ton for that land where yOu shall Il,
more see through a glass darkly. Ma,
the warm sunshine of Heaven thRv tn
D! snow off your foreheads! Men in tn
I nnidlife, do you know that this is tn
2 place where you are going to get you
e fatigues rested, and your sorrows az
' Peased, and your souls saved
I Do you know that at thi
altar your sons and daughters vii
e take upon themselves the vows O
= the Christian, and from this place vii
e you carry out some of you, you
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