Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-15

cited four OF my lines without the prop
er accent and gesture. TO have the
children OF my brain 60 hung, drawn
and quartered, fortunes me like con-
demned spirit"
L want TO persuade my audience that
this world is Door investment; that II
does not pay so per cent. Dissatisfaction.
nor so per cent, nor 20 per cent, nor
. per cent, nor j; that 1t gives no solace
when q dead babe lies on your lap; That
Il gives no peace when conscience rings
an alarm: that il gives no explanation
in the day of dire trouble: and at the
time OF your decease, II takes hold OF
the pillow case, and shakes out the
feathers, and then .jolts down in the
place thereof signs, and groans and ex-
:crations, and then makes you put your
head on it. o, you who have tried this
world, is it satisfactory portion:
Would YOU advise your friends TO make
the investment? No. "Ye have sold
Yourselves for nought.n Your con-
science went. Your hope went. Your
Bible went. Your heaven went. Your
God went. When a sheriff under a
writ from the court sells man out, the
officer generally leaves few chairs, q
bed and few cups and knives, but in
this awful vendue in which YOU have
been engaged the auctioneer's mallet
has come down upon body; mind and
soul: Going! Gone !Ye have sold your
selves :Jr nought.
How could you do so? Did you think
that your soul was mere trinket which
for few pennies you could buy in toy
shop? Did you think that your soul. If
once lost. might be found again II you
went out with torches and lanterns!
Did you::think that your soul was too
short-lived, and that. painting, 1t would
soon lie down for extinction? Or had
YOU no idea what your soul was worth:
Did you ever put your foreingers on its
eternal pulses? Have you not felt the
culver OF its peerless wing? Have You
not known that, after leaving the body,
the first step OF your soul reaches to the
stars, and the next step to the fal thest
outpost of Gods universe, and that It
wilt not die until the day when the ev-
erlasting Jehovah expires? o, my
brother, what possessed you that you
should part with your soul so cheap?
rye have sold yourselves for noug mt.
But have some gooo news to tell
you. want to engage in a litigation
Tor the recovery OF that soul Of yours. l
want T. show that you have been cheat
ed OUT OF it. / want to prove, as / will.
that you were crazy on that subject,
and that the world. under such circum-
stances, had no right to take the title
deed from you: and If you will join me |
will get q decree from the high
chancery court OF heaven reinstating
you into the possession of your soul.
20" YOU say, II am afraid oil law suits:
they are so expensive, and can not
pay the costs" Then have you forgot
ten the last half of my text: I'VE have
sold yourselves for nought: and ye shall
be redeemed without money"
We have in this day proiessed Chris
tians who are SO raretied and ethereal
lied that they do not want religion Of
blood. What do you want! You seem
to want a religion Of brains. The Bible
says: ''In the blood is the life. No
atonement without blood. Ought not
the apostle TO know? What did he
say? "You are redeemed not with cor.
ruptible things. such as silver and gold,
but by the precious blood OF Christ,
You put your lance into the arm OF our
holy religion and withdraw the blood
and you leave it mere corpse, fit only
for the grave. Why did God command
the priests OF old to strike the knife into
the kid and the goat and the pigeon
and the bullock and the lamb? 1t was
so that when the blood rushed out from
these animals on the floor OF the ancient
tabernacle the people should be com
PEELED to think of the coming carnage
o. the Son of God. No blood, no atone
ment.
think that God intended to impress
us with vividness of that color. The
green Of the grass, the blue Of the sky,
would not have startled and aroused us
like this deep crimson. 1t is as II God
| had said: Now, sinner, wake up and
see what the Saviour endured for you.
This is not water. This is not wine. II
is blood. It is the blood OF my own Son.
It is the blood OF the Immaculate. 1t is
the blood OF God." Without the she'd
ding Of blood is no remission. There
has been many a man who in courts oi
law has pleaded mot guilty." who new
eFI0el6SS ud6 Uccu COuuCluhSo OCSohoS
there was blood found on his hands, or
blood found in his room, and what shall
we do in the last day II 1t be found that
we have cruciHed the Lord OF Glory,
and have never repented Of it? You
must believe in the blood or die. No
escape. Unless you let the sacrifice Of
Jesus 90 in your stead you yourself
must suffer. It is either Christ's blood
or your blood. ''Oh," says some one,
''t6e thought of blood sickeus me.
Good. God intended 1t to sicken you
with your sin. Do not act as though
you had nothing to do with that Calva-
rian massacre. You had. Your sins
were the implements Of torture. Those
implements were not made Of steel, and
iron, and wood, so much as out oil your
sins.
The highest price that was ever paid
for anything was paid for your soul.
Nothing could buy it but blood! The