Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-01

10 90 anu iOr tno w w Az oiNS.
grand accomplishment! Here Is o
pulpit, and clergyman breaches IN II.
Your pulpit is the bank. You pulpit Is
the store, Your pulpit Is the editorial
chair. Your pulpit Is the anvil. Your
pulpit is the house scaflolding. Your
nulpit Is the mechanics shop. / may
stand In this place and, through cow
ardice or through self seeking, may
keep back the word l want to utter;
while you, with sleeves rolled up and
brow besweated with toll, may utter
the word that will jar the foundation OF
heaven with the shout OF a great
victory. o, that to-day this whole
audience might feel that the Lord Al
mighty is putting upon them the hands
of ordination. Every one, go forth and
preach this gospel. You have as much
riphI to preach as have, or as any man
has. Only find out the pulpit where
God will have you preach, and there
preach. Hedley Wears was Q wicked
man in the English army. The grace
of God came to him. He became an
earnest and eminent Christian. They
scoffed at him and said: 'You are
hypocrite: YOU are as bad as ever you
were.n Still he kept his faith In
Christ. and after awhile, finding that
thew could not turn him aside by call
ing him a hypocrite, they said to him:
"Oh, YOU are nothing but fanatic"
They did not disturb him he ;sent on
performing his Christian duty until he
had formed oil his troops into a Bible
class. and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence OF God. So
HavelOck went into the heather tenn
pie in India while the English army
was there. and put candle into the
hand of each OF the heather gods that
stood around in the heather temple,
and by the light OF those candles, keid
up by the idols, General Havelock
preached righteousness, temperance
and judgement to come. And who will
say on earth or in heaven that Have
lock had not the right to preach?
remark again that in order to be
qualified to meet your duty in this par
ticular age you want unbounded faith IN
the triumph Of the truth and the over
flow of wickedness. How dare the
Christian church ever get discouraged?
Have we not the Lord Almighty on our
side? How long did ii take God to Stay
the hosts OF Sennacherib, or burn Sodom,
or shake down Jericho? How long will
it take God, when He once arises in His
strength. TO overthrow all the forces OF
iniouity? Between this time and that
there may be long sessions oil darkness
the chariot wheels OF Gods gospel
NAV seem to drag heavily; but there is
the promise and wonder is the throne;
and when Omniscience has lost its eye
sight and Omnipotence falls back impo-
| tent, and Jehovah is driven from his
throne. then the church OF Christ can
afford to be respondent, but never un-
til then. Despots may plah and armies
NAV march. and the congresses OF the
nations may seem to think they are ad-
iusting all the affairs OF the world, but
the mighty men OF the earth are only
the dust OF the chariot wheels OF Gods
providence.
think that before the sun OF this cen
tury shall set the last tyranny may fall.
and with q splendor OF demonstration
that shall be the establishment OF the
universe God will set forth the bright
ness aud pomp and glory and perpetu::
ity of His eternal government Out OF
the starry flags and the emblozoned in
sigma of this world, God will make a
path for His own triumph. and, return
| inc from universal contest, He will sit
down, the grandest, strongest, highest
throne OF earth His footstool.
.'Then shall all nations song ascend
To Thee. our Ruler, Father Friend,
Till Heavens high arch resounds again
With peace on earth, good will 10 men,"
I preach this sermon because l want
to encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. Hosts OF
the living God march on! His spirit
will bless you. His sword will strike
for YOU. March W! march on. The
last depotism wi fall, and pa2anism
will burn up its idols, and Mohammed-
anism will give up its false prophet,
and the great walls OF superstition Will
come down in thunder and wreck
at the long loud blast OF the
Gospel trumpet. March on!
March on! March on! March on!
The besiegement will soon be ended.
Only q few more steps on the long way;
only few more sturdy blows; only o
few more battle cries, then God will
put the laurel upon your brow, and
when the living foundations OF heaven
battle OF the sweat and the heat and
the dust of the conflict. March on!
march on! For you the time for work
will soon be passed, and amid the out
flashing OF the judgment throne, and
the trumpeting Of resurrection angels,
and the upheaving Of a world OF graves,
and the hosanna Of the saved and the
grooming Of the lost, we shall be re-
warded for our iaithfulness or punished
for our stupidity. Blessed be tho Lord
God of Israel from everlasting to ever.
lasting, and let the whole earth be filled
with his glory. Amen and amen.
Peppered Dishes.