The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-06

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hands" I went into the room OF an
aged man-his eyesight nearly gone,
his hearing nearly gone-and what do
you suppose he was talking abOutT
The goodness of God and the joys OF re-
lipion- What is IL that gave that aged
man so much satisfaction and Peace2
It is the grace of God that is brighter
than sunshine and that is sWeeter than
music. o, religions ways are ways Of
pleasantness and all her paths are
peace And if you have not the salts
faction that is to be found in Jesus
Christ I must tell yOu, with all the con
centrated emphasis of my sorl: ''One
thing thou laclzest-"
remark again, that you lack the eie-
Hent of usefulness Where Is your
business? You say it Is No. 45 such .
street, or No 26O such a street, or No
800 such street. Ny friend immortal,
your business is wherever there IS a
tear to be wiped away or a soul to be
saved You may, before coming TO
Christ, do a great many noble things
You take a loaf of bread TO that starv-
ing man in the alley; but he wants i'm
mortal bread You take a pound of
candles to that dark shanty. They
want the light that springs from the
throne of God, and you can not take it
because you have it not in your own
heart. You know that the flight of an
arrow depends very much upon the
strength of the bow, and have to tell
YOU that the best bow that was ever
made was made out of the cross of
Christ; and when religion takes q soul
and puts it on that, and pulls it back
and lets it fly, every time it brings down
a Saul or Goliath. There are people here
of high social position, and large means,
and cultured minds, who, if they would
come into the Kingdom of God, would
set the city on fire with religious avvalE-
ening, o, hear you not the more than
million voices of those in these two
cities who are uncOnverted? voices of
those who in these two cities are dying
in their sins? They want light. They
want bread. They want Christ. They
want Heaven. o, that the Lord would
make you flaming evangel. We all
have a work to do. I can not do your
work, nor can yOu do my work. God
points US out the place where we are to
serve, and yet are there not people IN
this house who are so, 40, so and go
| years of age and yet have not begun the
great work for which they We're Gre
ated? With every worldly equipment:
zone thing thou lackest.'
Again, You lack the element of per
sOnal safety. Where are those people
who associated with you twenty years
| ago? Where are those people that, ff-
| teen years ago, used to- cross South
| ferry or Fulton ferry with you to New
| you were in business fifteen years ago
| and see how all the signs have changed.
/ Where are the people gone? How many
of them are landed in eternity I can not
say, but many, many. I went to the
| village of my bOyhoOd. The houses
were all changed, 1 passed one house
| in which once resided a man who had
! lived an earnest, useful life, and he is IN
glory now. In the next house miseF
lived. He devOured widows houses, and
| spent his whole life in trying to make
the world worse and worse. And
he is gone-the good man and the IniseT
both gone to the same place. All, did
! they go to the same place?
My hope in Christ is not so bright as
many Christians I know; but 1 would
not give it up for the whole universe,
in one cash payment, if it were offered
me. 1t has been so much comfort to
me in time of trouble, it has been SC
much strength to me when 1 have been
aSSailed, 1T has been so much rest to me
when have been perplexed, and it is
around my heart such an encasement
of satisfaction and blessedness that ]
can stand here before God and say;
Take away my health, take away my
life, take any thing rather than rob me
of this hope, this plain simple hope
which have in Jesus Christ, my Lord
1 must have this robe when the last
chill strikes through me. I must have
this light when all other lights go out
in the blast that comes up from the cold
Jordan I must have this sword with
which to fight my way through all those
foes on my way heavenward
/ When was in London 1 saw
there the wonderful armOr of Henry
: VIII and Edward III. and yet
have to tell you that there is nothing il
? chain mail or brass plate or gauntlet OF
haIberd that makes man so safe a
the armOr in which the Lord clothes hi
1 dear children. o, there is a safety il
[ religion. You will ride down all you
[ foes. Look out for the man who hai
the strength OF the Lord God with him
In Olden times the hOrsemen used to rid.
5 into battle with lifted lances, and tn,
enemy fed the field
5 The Lord on the white horse of vic
l tory, and with lifted lances OF divin.
strength, rides into the battle, anS
{ down goes the spiritual foe; while tn,