Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-31

golden grain fields turned into q pastur
ing ground for cavalry horses! What
meant the corn fields quilted with the
wheels of the heavy supply train:
Why those river OF tears-those lakes
of blood? God was angry. Justice
must come. A handwriting on the
wall. The nation had been weighed and
found wanting. Darkness. Darkness
Woe TO the north! Woe to the south
Woe TO the east. Woe to the west
Death to the banquet!
have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction OF the vicious
and of those who despise God will be
very sudden. The wave OF mirth had
dashed to the highest point when the
Assyrian army broke through. II was
unexpected. Suddenly, almost always,
comes the doom of those who despise
God and defy the laws OF men. How
was it ut the deluge? Do on suppose 1t
came through long northwest storm,
so that people for days before were sure
it was coming? No: | suppose the
morning was bright: that calmness
brooded on the waters: that beauty sat
enthroned on the hills: when suddenly
the heavens burst and the mountains
sank like anchors into the sea that dash
ed clear over the Andes and the Him.
alayas.
THE LORDS JUDGEMENT SWIFT.
The Red sea was divided. The Egyp-
tian tried to cross it. There could be
no danger. The Israelites had just
gone through. where they had gone,
why not the Egyptians? o! it was such
a beautiful walking place! A pavement
of tinged shells and pearls and ON either
side two great walls of water-solid.
There can be no danger. Forward,
great host of Egyptians. Clap the Gym
balls and blow the trumpets OF victory?
After them. We will catch them yet,
and they shall be destroyed. But the
walls begin to tremble. They rock!
They fall! The rushing waters! The
shrieks OF drowning men! The swim
ing OF the war holtes in vain for the
shore! The strewing OF the great host
on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by
the angry wave on the beach--a battered,
bruised and loathsome: wreck! Suddenly
destruction came. One half hour be-
fore they could not have believed it..
Destroyed. and without remedy. l
am Just setting forth fact which you
noticed as well as l. Ananias comes
TO the apostle. The apostle says: did
YOU sell the land for SO much?" He
SAYS, "Yes." 1t was lie. Dead! as
quick as that. Sapphire, his wife,
so much?" Yes" It was a lie: and
quick as that she was dead! Gods
judgements are upon those who despise
and defy Him. They come suddenly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt. Do you suppose that any OF the
peoplessknew that he was coming? Did
they hear the flap of great wings? No.
No! Suddenly, Unexpectedly, he came.
Skilledsportsmen do not like to shoot
a bird standing on sprig near by. II
they are skilled, they pride themselves
on taking it on the wing; and they wait
till it starts. Death is an old sports
man, and he loves to take men flying
under the very sun. He loves to take
them on the wing.
Are there any here who are unpre-
pared for the eternal world? Are any
here who have been living without God
and without hope? Let me say to you
that you had better accept of the Lord
Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last
chance be gone. The lungs will cease
to breathe: the heart will stop. The
time will come when you shall go no
more to the Office. or to the store, or to
the shop. Nothing will be left but
death, and Judgment and eternity. o.
Aae IN Cod this hour
PREPARING FOR THE LAST DAY.
IIf there is one in this presence who
has wandered far away from Christ,
though he may not have heard the call
Of the gospel for many year, / invite
him now to come and be saved. Flee
from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold OF
the gospel! Now is the accepted time;
now Is the day of salvation.
Good night! my young friends! May
you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him
who never siumbers! May you awake
In the morning strong and we'll! But
o. art thou q despiser of God? Is this
thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou
be awakened in the night by me'hing,
thou knowest not what, and there be
shadows floating in the room, and q
handwriting on the wall, and you feel
that your last hour is come, and there
be iainting at the heart and tremor
in the limb and a catching of the
breath-then thy doom would be but an
echo Of the words Of the text: In that
night was Belshszzar, the king of the
Chaldeans, slain"
Hear the invitation OF the gospel
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whom l shall never speak again, and
therefore let it be in the words Of the
gospel, and not in my own, with which
] CLOSE: "Ho, every one that thirsteth!
Come We to the waters. And let him
that hath no money come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price"
Come unto Me, all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and win give you
rest" OF that my Lord Jesus would
now make Himself so attractive to your
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