The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-23


with an all persuasive invitation
But" says some one, you Christian
people keep telling MS to come yet
you do not tell us how TO come" That
charge shall not be true on this Occa-
sion. Come believing! Come repent
ing! Come prayingl After all that
God has been doing for 5000 years,
sometimes through patriarchs and some
times through prophets, and at last
through the elimination of all tragedies
on GOlgotha, can any one think that
God will not welcome your coming?
VIII a father at vast outlay construct a
mansion for his son, and lay out
parks white with statues, and green
with foliage, and all a sparkle with
fountains, and then not allow his son
to live in the house, or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house of
gospel mercy and viii He then refuse
entrance to His children? VIII a Gov
eminent at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
boats that can hover unhuTt like n
petrol over the widest surge. and then
when the life-bOat has reached the
wreck of a ship in the Ofing not allow
the drowning to seize the lifeline or
take the boat for the shore in safety?
Shall God provide at the cost of His
only Sons assassination escape for "A
sinking world and then turn deaf ear
to the cry that comes up from the
bral1ers?
''But, you say, ''there are so many
things have to believe and so many
things in the shape of a creed that L
have to adopt that 1 am kept back
No; no! You need believe but two
things; namely, that Jesus Christ came
into the world to save sinners, and that
you are one of them. But" you say,
81 do believe both of those things!' Do
y.aa11.y hafiavya them with al NyOT1E
heart? Yes
Why, Ghen,yOu have passed from death
into life. Why, then, you are a son or
a daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of
an inheritance that will declare divi-
dends from now on until long after the
stars are dead. Hallelujah! Prince OF
God, why do you not come and take
your cOrOnet? Princess of the Lord Al
mighty, why do you not mount your
throne? Pass up into the light? Your
boat is anchored, why not go ashore?
Just plant your feet hard down and you
will feel under them the Rock of Ages.
challenge the universe for one in
stance in which a man in the right
spirit appealed for the salvation of
the Gospel and did not get it. Man alive!
are you going to let all the years of your
life go away with you without your
having this great peace, this bright eX-
pectancy? Are you going to let the
pearl of great price lie in the dust at
your feet because you are too indOlent
or too proud to stOOp down and pick it
up? viii you wear the chain of evil
habit when near by you is the hammer
that could with one stroke snap the
shackle? VIII you stay in the prison of
sin when here is a gospel key that could
unlock your incarceration? No; moi
AS the one word, Come" has some
times brought many souls to Christ,
I will try the experiment of piling up
into mountain and then sent down
in an avalanche of power many
thou and all thy house into the ark"
/ ''Come unto me all ye who labor and
| are heavy laden and will give you
rest;'' Come, for all things are now
ready ''COme with us and we will do
/ you gOOd;'' Come and see;'' 1.-The Spirit
and the Bride say Come and let him
/ that heareth say come and let him
/ that is athirst come" The stroke Oh
one bell in a tower may be sweet, but q
! score of bells we'll tuned and rightly
lifted and slzillfully swung in one great
| chime fill the heavens with music al
most celestial. And no one who has
heard the mighty chimes in the towers
/ of Amsterdam, or Client, or COpen-
hagen, can forget them
!
bath hour all Heaven is Ginning, and
the voices of departed friends and kin.
bred ring down the sky saying, Gomez
| The angels who never fell, bending
/ from sapphire thrones, are chanting
! Gomez Yea, all the towers of Heaven
| tower of martyrs, tower of prophets
tower of apostles, tower of evangelists,
tower of the temple of the Lord GOO
and the Lamb are Ginning. Come
/ Gomez Pardon for all, and peace fol
all, and Heaven for all who Will come
When Russia was in one of her great
| wars the suffering of the soldiers hat
/ been long and bitter and they We're wait
/ ing for the end of the strife. One day &
messenger in great excitement ran
among the tents of the army shouting
! Peace! Peace!'' The sentinel on guard
asked; ''WhO says, 'Peace?'" And the
sick soldier turned on his hospital mat
/ tress and asked: ''VhO says Peace?" and
all up and down the encampment of the
/ Russians went the question: ''WhC
says Peace?'' Then the messenger re