Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-14

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in his face when he was preaching.
EARTHLY WOES REAL BLESSINGS.
What mellowed and glorihed WILDER
forces Christian character? A imam
cial misfortune that led him TO write:
II know not why my life Is spared SO
long except II TO be shown that mar
can be Us happy without a fortune a
with one." What gave John Milton
such keen spiritual eyesight that he
could see the battle OF the angels! FIX
tinguishment OF physical eyesight
What is the highest observatory. ioi
studying the stars OF hope and faitt
and spiritual promise? The believers
sick-bed. What proclaims the richest
and most golden harvest that wave OF
the hills OF heavenly rapture! The
SHOWS. the deep SHOWS. the awful SHOWS
of earthly calamity. And that comfort
ing thought is one Of the treasures Of
| the snow. -,
Another treasure OF the snow Is the
suggestion that this mantle covering
the earth is like the soul after It Is Tor
gotten. wash me-" said the Psalmlst
'and shall be whittier than snow" MY
dear friends, Gasherie Dewitt, never
went over to Geneva, Switzerland, foi
the recovery OF his health, but the Lord
had something better for him thar
earthly recovery. Little did l think
when babe him goodby one lovely
afternoon on the other side the sea h
return to America that we would mol
meet again till we meet in heaven. Az
he Law one Sabbath morning on his dy'
ing pillow in Switzerland, the window
opened, he was looking out upon Mount
Blanc. The air was clear. That great
mountain stood in its robe Of snow, gilt
tering in the morning light, and my
friend said to his wife: 'Jennie, do you
know what that snow on Mount Blanc
makes me think Of? 1t makes ne think
OF that Righteousness Of Christ and the
pardon OF God cover all the sins and I'M
PROJECTIONS OF my life as that snow
covers I'D that mountain, for the pro
mise is that though our sins be as scar
let they shall be as white as snow
Was not that glorious?
THE ONLY TRUE PURIFIcATIoN.
LIDO not care who you are, or where
4 YOU are, you need as much as do that
cleansing which made Gasherie Dewitt
good while he lived and glorious when
he died. Do not take 1t as the tenet OF
an obsolete theology that our nature II
corrupt. We must be changed. We
must be made over again. The ancientl
thought that snow water had especial
power to wash out deep stains. AL
other water might fail, but melted snow
would make them clean. Well, Job hac
great admiration for snow, but he de
clares in substance that If he shoulc
wash his soul in melted snow he woult
still be covered in mud like man down
in ditch. JOB TX, 3O,) IF l wash my
self in snow water and make my hands
never SO clean, yet shalt thou plunge
me in ditch and mine clothes shall
abhor me-" We must be washed in the
fountain of Gods mercy before we can be
winter than snow. without holiness
no man shall see the Lord" o, for the
cleansing power.
If there be in all this audience one
man or woman whose thoughts have
always been right, and whose words
always right, and whose actions always
right. let such one rise, or II already
standing. lift the right hand. Not one
All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Unclean! unclean! And yet we may be
made whittier than snow, whittier than
that which, on cold winters morning
after night Of storm, clothes the tree
from bottom Of trunk to top OF the high
est branch; whittier than that which,
this hour, makes the Adirondacks and
the Sierra Nevada and Mount Washing.
ton heights Of pomp and splendor fit Ia
enthrone an archangel.
In the time OF Graham, the essayist,
in one mountain district Of Scotland an
average OF ten shepherds persisted
every winter in the snow drifts, so he
proposed that, at the distance of every
mile, pole fifteen feet high and with
two cross pieces be erected, showing
the points Of the compass, and q bell
hung at the top, 80 that every breeze
would ring it, and so the lost one in the
mountains would bear the sound and
take the direction given by this pole
with the cross pieces and get safely
home.
PERFECT PURITY IN HEAVEN.
Whether that proposed plan waa
adopted or not do not know, but de-
clare to all you who are in the heavy
and binding drifts Of sin and sorrow
that there Is cross near by that can
direct you to home, and peace, and God;
and hear you not the ringing Of the
gospel bells hanging to that cross say.
ing: ''This is the way, walk ye in itg"
No wonder that the sacred poet put the
psalmist's thought into rhythm with
that ringing chorus we have so often
sung:
Dear Jesus, long 10 be perfectly whole;
want thee forever 70 live In my soul
Break down every idol, cast down every fool
Now wash me, and ! shall Be whittier than
snoWl
winter than snowi yes, whittier than snowl
Now wash me, and I shall be whittier than
snoWl
Get that prayer answered, and We win
be at not only for earth, but for the
heaven where everything Is 90 whita
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