Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-09

one in Job: my days fly rs weaver's
shuttle" Of a text In the Psalms: $50
teach us to number our days that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom;" OF
the prayer of the vine dresser: Lord,
let II alone this year also" but pressed
upon my attention, first OF all, and last
of all, and above all, were the words:
This year thou shalt de-"
Perhaps 1t may mean me. Though
in perfect health now, 1t does not take
God one week to bring down the
strongest physical constitution. do
not want to die this year. We have
plans and projects on foot that / want
TO see completed, but God knows best,
and he has thousand better men than
to do the work yet undone have
hope that, Notwithstanding all my sins
and wanderings, shall through the in
finite mercy of my Saviour come out at
the right place. have nothing to brag
of by way of Christian experience, but
two things / have learned-my utter
helplessness before God and all
the Astounding grace OF the
Lord Jesus. II the text means some OF
Won, my hearers, do not want you to
be caught unprepared. would like to
have you, either through money you
have laid up. or life insurance" be
able to leave the world feeling that
your family need not become paupers.
But If you have done your best, and
you leave not one dollars worth OF
estate You may confidently trust the
Lord who hath promised to care for the
widow and the fatherless
The sooner the last hour comes the
better, il we are fitted for entrance in
the celestial world. There Is no clock
in Heaven, bee ause it is an everlasting
day, vet they keep an account OF the
passing years, because they are all the
time hearing from the world. The
angels flying through Heaven re-
port how many times the earth has
turned on its axis, and In that way the
angels can keep diary; and they say
It is almost time now for father to come
ND, or for mother to come up Some
day they see cohort leaving Heaven
and they say: "Whither bouud?" and
the answer is, ito bring up soul
from EARTH" and the question
is asked: ''What soul?" And
family circle in Heaven find
that it is one of their own number that
is to be brought up and they come out
to watch, as on the beach we now watch
for a ship that is to bring our friends
home. After while the cohort will
heave in sight, flying nearer and nearer.
until with great clang the gates hoist,
and with an embrace, wild with the
ecstacy of Heaven. old friends meet
again. Away with your stiff, formal
Heaven. Iwant none of it. Give me
a place of Infinite and eternal sociality.
NV feet free from the clods OF earth. l
shall bound the hills with gladness,
and break forth in laugh OF triumph.
Aha! aha. We weep now, but we
shall laugh. "Abraham's bosom"
means that Heaven has open arms
to take us in. Now we fold our
arms over her heart, and tell the world
to stand back, rs though our bosom
was two-barred gate to keep the
world out Heaven stands not with
folded arms, but with heart open 1t
is 'Abraham's BOSOM" / see mother
and her child meeting ut the foot Of the
throne after some years absence. The
child died twenty years ago, but it Is
child yet think the little ones that
die will remain children through all
eternity. 1t would be no Heaven with
out the little darlings. ] do not want
those that are in Heaven to grow up.
We need their infant voices in the
great song. And when we walk
out in the fields of light we want
them to run ahead, and clap their
hands, and pick out the brightest
of the field flowers. Yes, here is u
child and its mother meeting. The
child long in glory, the mother just ar
irving. 'How changed You are, my
darling!' says the mother. "Yes," "
saws the child. This is such happy
place, and Jesus has taken such care of
me, and Heaven is SO kind, / got right
over the fever with which died. The
skies are so fair, mother! The flowers
are so sweet, mother! The temple is
so beautiful mother! Come, take me
up to your arms rs you used to-" Oh,
do not know how we shall stand the
first day in Heaven. Do you think we
shall break down in the song from
over delight! once gave out in church
the hymn:
There is land OF pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
and an aged man. standing in front OF
the pulpit sang heartily the first verse,
and then he sat down weeping. Isaid
to him afterward: Father Linton,
what made You cry over that hymnT"
He said: II could not stand 1.-THE joys
that are coming" When Heaven rises
for the doxology can not see how we
can rise with 1t IL all these waves OF
everlasting delight come upon the soul.
billow of joy after billow Of joy. Me-
thinks Jesus would be enough for the