Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-23

the world miy borrow them, but they
only borrow them; they have no right
or title 70 them. God gave them tc
Christian people in my text when he
said: "All are yours"
N So all artistic and literary advantages
are in the Christians right i do not
care on whose wall the picture hangs
or on whose pedestal the sculpture
stands 1t belongs to Christians. The
Bierstadts and the churches are all
working for us "All are yours" The
Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gal
leries of Naples, and Rome, and Venice
they are all to come into the posses
sion of the church of Jesus Christ We
may not now have them on our walls,
but the time VIII come when the writ
of ejectment will be served and the
church possess everything. All parks,
all fish-ponds, all colors, all harvests-
all, ''all are yours.
Secondly, remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the Chris
tian's name. 1t is great affair to feed
the world. Just think of the fact that,
this morning, 1000, OOO,O Of our race
breakfasted Mt Gods table! The COM
missary department Of 100000 men in
IN army will engage scores OF people;
but just think of commissary depart
ment of world! Think of the gather
ing up from the rice swamps, and the
tea fields and the orchards and the 6sh-
cries! No one but God could tell how
many bushels it would take to feed five
continents
Then to clothe all these people how
many furs must be captured, and how
much fax broken and how much cotton
picked. Just think of the infinite ward
robe where 1900, 900, 900 people get their
clothes God spreads the table first OF
all for His own childre& OF course that
would be very selfish man who would
not allow other people to come and sit
ut his table sometimes; but, first OF all.
the right is given to Christian people,
and therefore it is extreme folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of
whose hand did the cormorant
pick its food? Whose loom
wove the butterfy's wing? Who
hears the hawks cry? If God takes
care of a walrus, and Siberian dog,
and wasp, will He not take care of you?
Will father have more regard for rep
tiles than for his sons and daughters?
If God clothes the grizzly bear, and the
panther, and the hyena, will He not
clothe His own children? Come, then,
this morning and get the key Of the in
finite storehouse. Come and get the
key of the infinite wardrobe. Here
they are-all the keys. "All are
yours" So all the vicisitudes of this
life, so far as they have any relig-
ious profit, are in the right of the Chris
tan. If you should stand along the
Allegheny mountains, especially near
what is called the Horseshoe" you
would have q train of cars almost
doubling on itself, and sitting in the
back car you see locomotive coming
as you look out of the window, and you
think it is another train when it is only
the front of the train in which you are
riding; and sometimes you can hardly
tell whether the train is going toward
Pittsburgh or toward Philadelphia, but
it is on the track, and it will reach the
depot for which it started, and all the
passengers will be discharged at the
right place.
Now, there are a great many sharp
curves in life. Sometimes we seem to
be going this way. and sometimes we
seem to be going that way; but II we
are Christians we are on the right track
and we are going to come out at the
right place. Do not get worried, then,
about the sharp curve.
One of the best things that ever hap
pened to Paul was being thrown off his
horse. One of the best things that ever
happened to Joseph was being thrown
into the pit. The losing of his physical
eyesight helped John Milton to see the
battle of the angels. One OF the best
things that ever happened to lgpatius
was being thrown to the wild beasts in
the Coliseum, and while $4,000 people
were jeering at his religion he walked
up to the fiercest of all the lions and
looked him in the eye, as much as to
say: Here am, ready to be devoured
for Christ's sake" All things work to-
gether for your good. If you walk
the desert the mamma will fall and the
sea will part If the feverish torch Of
sickness is kindled over your pillow by
its light you can read the promises II
the waves of trouble dash high above
your girdle, across the blast and across
the surge you can hear the promise,
when thou passest through the waters
will be with thee" You never owned
a glove, or q shoe, or hat, or coat
more certainly than You own all the
frets, and annoyances, and exaspera-
tions of this life and they are bound to
work out your present and eternal good
Here is vessel that goes along the