Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-20

90 ND and assault that old Episcopa
church, which has been storming the
heavens for centuries with the suhlim-
est prayers that were ever uttered
church OF Bishop Leighton, Bishop
White and Bishop Mcllvaine and get
that denomination discussing men In
stead OF discussing the eternities.
Abaddon the Fourth! You go up TO
that old Methodist church, which has,
through her revivals, sent millions T.
heaven which we would have otherwise
added 10 our population, the church OF
Wesley and Matthew Simpson, against
which we have an especial grudge, ana
get them so absorbed In discussing
whether women shall take part In her
conference, that they shall not have so
much time to discuss how many sons
and daughters she will take to glory"
Now, what part shall you and take
In this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? Ny advice Is:
Take no part. In time OF riot all
MAYORS Of cities advise good citizens to
stay at home or in their places OF busi-
ness and in this time OF religious riot
advise you to 60 about your regular
work for God. Leave the bottles on the
higher shelves for others to fight about
and take the two bottles on the shelf
within easy reach, the two bottles
which all this dying world needs;
the one filed with q potion whlcn IL
for the cleaning of all sin, the other
filed with potion which Is for the
soothing o. all suffering. The gospel
bottles! Christ mixed them out OF his
own tears and blood. In them Is no
admixture. Spend no time on the mys-
teries! You, a man only i've or six
feet high. ought not to try to wade an
ocean thousand feet deep.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church Is creeded to death. The
Young men entering the ministry, are
going to be launched in the thickest log
that ever settled on the coasts. AS l
am told that in all our services students
of Princeton and Union and Drew and
other theological seminaries are pres
ent and as these words will come 10
thousands OF young men who are soon
to enter the ministry, let me say 10
such and through them TO their asso-
ciates, keep out OF the bewildering be-
ittling, destroying and angry contro-
yersies abroad. The questions our doc
tors OF divinity are trying to settle will
not be settled until the day after the
day OF ;--Sa.oent. 1t is such a poor
economy or time to spend years and
wears in trying to fathom the uniath-
omable, when in five minutes in heaven
we will know all we want to know.
Wait till we get our throne. Wait I'M
til the light OF eternity flashes upon our
newly assembled spirits. 1t is useless
for ants on different sides OF mole hill
to try to discuss the comparative heights
of Mount Blanc and Mount Washing
ton.
You see, God knew as much when He
made the Bible as He knows now. He
has not learned thing in six thousand
wears. He knew at the start that the
human race would 60 wrong and what
would be the best means OF its restora-
ton and redemption. And the law
which was numbered on Mount Sinai,
from whose top had the two tables OF
stone in yonder wall transported, Is the
perfect law. And the gospel which
Christ announced while dying on that
mount from which brought that stone
| in wonder wall and which Paul preach
ed on that hill from which l brought
yOnder granite, is the gospel that is go
ing to save the world. Young man,
put on that gospel armor! No other
shield will protect like that. No other
helmet will glance of the battle axes
like that Our theological seminaries
are doing glorious work, but II ever
such theological seminaries shall cease
to prepare young men for this plain
gospel advocacv and become mere phil
osophical schools for guessing about God,
and guessing about the Bible, and
guessing about the soul they will cease
their usefulness, and young men, as in
olden time, when they would study Tor
the gospel ministry, will put themselves
under the care OF some intelligent and
warm hearted pastor and kneel with
him in family prayer at the pastorate
and go with him into the room OF the
sick and the dying and see what victo'
ries the grace OF God can gain when the
couch Of the dying saint IL the Mara
thon.
Now, what is the simple fact that you
in the pew and Sabbath school class
and reformatory association and We IN
the pulpits have to deal with? 1t is
this: That God has somewhere, and 1t
matters not where, but somewhere,
provided q great heaven, great for qui-
etness for those who want quiet great
for vast assemblages for those who like
multitudes, great for architecture,
great for beautiful landscape for those
who like beautiful Ian lscape, great for
music for those who like music, great
for professions for those who like
armies on white horses and great for
anything that one especially desires in
such rapturous dominion; and though
the doings Of One who was born about
five miles south OF Jerusalem and died
about ten minutes walk from its eastern
gate, all may enter that great heaven
for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is
that all. That is all. What then is
your work and mine? Our work is to
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