The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-24


anything But st is pleasant 70 know
that those who were &arthesE down
have been brought highest up. Out OF
internal serfdOEn into eternal liberty.
Out OF darkness into light From coal
&c the solitaire The crystal can not
equal It y
But, my friends, the chief transform
ing power of the gospel viii not be
seen in this world and not until Heaven
breaks upon the soul When that light
falls upon the soul then you viii see
crystals o. what magnificent set
ting for these jewels OF eternity I
sometimes hear people representing
heaven in a way that IS far from at
tractive to me It seems almost a vIll-
gar heaven as they represent it with
great bIOtcheS OF color and bands OF
music making a deafening racket
John represents Heaven as exquisite
" beautiful Three crystals In one
place he says; Her light was like a
precious stone, clear as crystal In
another place he says: 81 saw a pure
river from under the throne, clear as
crystal In another place he says:
Before the throne there was a sea OF
glass clear as crystal Three crystaisi
John says crystal atmosphere That
means Seslth. Balm of eternal June.
What weather after the worlds east
wind! No rack Of storm clouds. One
breath of that air will cure the worst
tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves
Crystal light shimmering on the topaz
of the temples Crystal light tossing in
the PluEnes of the equestrians of Heaven
on white horses. But 1.-The crystal can
not equal it.
CJohn says crystal river. That means
joy. Deep and ever rolling. Not one
drop OF the Thames or the Hudson or
the Rhine to soil it. Not one tear of
human sorrow to embitter it. Crys-
tai, the rain out of which it was
made. Crystal, the bed over which it
shall roll and ripple. Crystal, its inf
mite surface. But 1.-The crystal can not
equal it"
John says crystal sea That means
simultaneously vast Vast in rapture
Rapture vast as the sea, deep as the
sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as
the sea BillOws of light BillOyvs of
beauty, blue with skies that were never
clouded and green with depths that
were never fathomed. Arctics and
Antarctics and Mediterraneans and At
| lantics and Pacifics in crystalline mag
nifcence. Three crystals. Crystal
| light falling on a crystal river rolling
into a crystal sea. But the crystal
| cannot equal it"
| 80, says some one, putting his hand
! over his eyes, lean it be that I, who
! have been in SO much sin and trouble,
| will ever come to those crystals?'' Yes,
| it may bet will be. Heaven we must
| have, whatever else we have or have
not, and we come here to get it How
much must pay for it?'' you say. You
viii pay for it just as much as the coal
| pays to become the diamond In other
! words, nothing. The same Almighty
power that makes the crystal in the
mountain will change your heart,
| which is harder than stone, for the
promise is: 81 will take away your stony
heart and I viii give you heart of
flesh"
30, - says some one, sit is just the
doctrine want; God is to do every thing
! and am to do nothing" My brother,
| it is not the doctrine you want The
] coal makes no resistance. It hears the
resurrection voice in the mountain and
| 1t comes to capitalization, but your
heart resists. The trouble with you,
my brother, is the coal wants to stay
coal do not ask you to throw open
| the door and let Christ in. I only ask
| that you stop boiling it and barring it.
o, my friends, we will have to get
! rid of our sins I will have to get rid
of my sins and you viii have to get rid
of your sins. What will we do with
our sins among the three crystals? The
| crystal atmosphere would display our
pollution The crystal river would be
| befOuled with our touch The crystal
sea would whelm us with its glistening
! surge. 4TanSIOrndLlOn now or no
| transformation at all Give sin full
chance in your heart and the transform
alton viii be downward instead of up
ward Instead of crystal it will be a
| cinder.
In the days of Carthage a Christian
girl was condemned to die for her faith,
and a boat was bedaubed with tar and
pitch and filed with mbustibles and
set on Ere and the Christian girl was
placed in the boat and the wind was OF
shore and the boat fOated away with
It's precious treasure. No one can doubt
that the boat landed at the shore OF
Heaven Sin wants to put you in a fiery
boat and shove you OF in an opposite
directiOn-Of from peace, on from
God, off from Heaven, everlast.
ingly of; and the port to
ward which you would sail
would be 2 port OF darkness, ana the
guns that would greet yOu would be
the guns of despair, and the flags that