Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-01

think the only use of the sword OF truth
is to stick somebody There is one
passage Of the Scriptures that they like
better than all others, and that is this:
''Blessed be the Lord which teacheth
my hands to war and my fingers to
fight" Woe to us IL we come to Gods
word as controvcrsialists, or us skeptics,
or as connoisscurs, or as fault finders,
or merely as poets!
Those only get into the heart of Gods
truth who come seeking Christ. We'll
come all such! They will find Him
coming out from behind the curtain of
prophesy until He stands in the full
light of New Testament disclosure,
Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of tho
world. They will find him in genoa
logical table and in chronological call
culation, in poetic stanza and in histor-
ical narrative, in profound parable and
in startling miracle. They will see His
foot on every sea and His tears in the
drops of dew on Hermon,
and hear His voice in the wind
and behold His words all abloom
in the valley between Mount 0livet and
Jerusalem. There are some men who
come and walk around the temple of
truth and merely see the outside. There
are others who walk into the porch and
then go away. There are others who
come in and look ut the pictures, but
they knew nothing about the chief
attractions of the Bible. 1t is only the
man who comes and knocks at the gate,
saying, II would sec Jesus" For him
the glories of that book open and he
goes in and finds Christ and with him
peace, pardon, life, comfort and Heaven.
'All in all is Jesus" in the Bible.
l remark again that Christ is every
thing in the great plan of redemption.
We are slaves; Christ gives deliverance
to the captive. We are thirsty; Christ
is the river of salvation to Stake our
thirst We are hungry; Christ says: II
am the bread of life" We are con-
demned to die; Christ says: Save that
man from. going down to the pit; l am
the ransom" We are tossed on a sea
of troubles; Jesus comes over il. saving:
1T is !, be not afraid" We are in dark
ness; Jesus says: II am the bright and
star" We are sick, Jesus is
the balm of Gilead. We are dead;
hear the shrouds rend and the
grave hillocks heave as he cries:
Il am the resurrection and the
life; he that believeth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live"
We want justification; being justified
by faith, we have peace with God
our Lord Jesus Christ" We
want to exercise faith; believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved" want to get from under con-
There is now, therefore,
no condemnation to them who are in
Christ Jesus" The cross-He carried it.
The flames of hell-He suffered them.
The shame-He endured it. The crown
He won it. Heights of Heaven sing it,
and worlds of light to worlds of light
Ill round the Heaven cry: 'Glory,
glory"
/ remark again, Christ is everything
10 the Chistian in trouble. We must all
stoop down and drink out of the bitter
AXE. The moss has no time to grow on
the buckets that come up out of the
hearts we'll, dripping with tears. Great
trials are upon our track as certain as
greyhound pack on the scent of deer.
From our hearts in every direction there
ire thousand chords reaching out
binding US to loved ones, and ever and
mon some OF these tendrils snap. Tho |
winds that cross this sea of life are not |
Ill abaft The clouds that cross our |
ky are not feathery and afar, atraying
ike Aocl1s Of sheep on heavenly
pastures: but wrathful, and SOM
per, and cleaning with terror,
hey wrap the mountains in FIRE, and
,ome down baying with their thunders
through every gorge. The richest
fruits of blessing have prickly shell.
Life here is not lying at anchor; it Is
gale. 1t is not sleeping
n soldiers tent with our arms
it is a bayonet charge. We
stumble over gravestones and we drive
IN with our wheel deep in the old rut
# graves. Trouble has wrinkled your
,row and it has frosted your head.
Falling in this battle of life, is there
10 angel to bind our wounds? Hath
Tod made this world with so many
Kings to hurt and none to heal? For
his snake bite of sorrow is there no
lerb growing by the brooks to
zeal the poison Blessed be
Tod that in the gospel we find the
.ntidote! Christ has bottled an ocean
4 tears. How many thorns He hath
,lucked out of human agony! OF He
Knows too we'll what it is to carry q
ross not to help us carry ours He
;nows too well what it is to climb the
not to help us up the steep.
lie knows too we'll what it is to be per-
ecuted not to help those who are inn
'osed upon. He knows too well what
t is to be sick not to help those who
uffer. Az, He knows too well what 1t
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