Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25

900 things want cXplnined-about you,
about myself, about the government Of
this world, about God, about every
thing. We start in q plain path of
what we know, and In a minute come
mp against high wall Of what we do
not know. wonder how 1t looks over
there. Someeody tells me 1t is like q
paved city-paved with gold; and
another man tells me 1t Is like
q fountain, and 1t il like a tree, and
1t is like triumphal procession; and
the next man meet tells me 1t Is all
fgurative. Ireally want to know, after
the body is resurrected, what they wear
and what they eat; and have an Inn
measurable curiosity to know what It
is, and how it is, and where II is Co
lumbus risked his life to find this con-
tinent, and shall we shudder to go out
on voyage of discovery which shall
reveal n vaster and more brilliant coun-
try? John Franklin risked his life to
find o passage between icebergs and
shall we dread to find a passage to
eternal summer? Men in Switzerland
travel up the heights Of the Matterhorn
with alpenstoch and guides, and rockets,
and ropes, and, getting half way up,
stumble and fall downs in q horrible
massacre. They just wanted to say
they had been on the tops of those high
peaks.
And shall we fear to go out for the
ascent of the eternal hills which start
one thousand miles beyond where stop
the highest peaks OF the Alps, when in
that ascent there is no peril? A man
doomed to die stepped on the scaffold
and said in joy: "Now in ten minutes 1
will know the great secret" One min
ute after the vital functions ceased, the
little child that died last night knew
more than Jonathan Edwards, or st.
Paul himself, before he died. Friends,
the exit from this world, or death, II
you please to call it, to the Christian il
glorious explanation. 1t is demonstra-
ton. 1t is illumination. 1t is sunburst
It is the opening Of all the windows.
1t is shutting up the catechism of doubt
and the unrolling of all the scrolls Of
positive and accurate information.
Instead of standing ut the foot
of the ladder and looking up,
it is standing at the top of the ladder
and looking down. 1t is the last mys-
terry taken out of botany, and geology.
and astronomy, and theology. o, will
it not he grand to have all questions
answered? The perpetually recurring
Interrogation point changed for the
mark of exclamation All riddles solved.
Who will fear to go out ON tnat discov-
cry, when all the questions are to be
decided which we have been discussing
all our lives? Who shall not clap his
hands in the anticipation of hat blessed
country, if it be no better than through
holy curiosity crying: ''The time OF my
departure is at hand?"
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in Heaven just as brother
talks with brother. Now, what will
Eau ask him first? l do not know. l
h think what I would ask Paul first
II I saw him in Heaven. l think l
would like to hear him describe the
storm that came upon the ship when
there were 275 souls on the vessel, Paul
being the only man on board cool
enough to describe the storm. There is
q fascination about ship and the sea
that I never shall get over, and think
! would like to hear him talk about that
first. But when meet my Lord Jesus
Christ, of what shall I first delight
to hear him speak? Now / think
what it is I shall first want to
hear the tragedy of his last hours;
and then Luke's account OF the
crucifxion, and Marks account OF tho
crucifixion, and Johns account of the
crucihxion will be nothing, while from
the living lips of Christ the story shall
be told of the gloom that fell, and the
devils that arose, and the fact that
upon his endurance depended the res
cue of race; and there was darkness in
the sky, and there was darkness in the
soul, and the pain became more sharp.
and the burdens became more heavy,
until the mob began to swim away from
the dying vision of Christ, and the ours
ing Of the mob came to his ear more
family, and his hands were fastened
to the horizontsl piece Of the cross, and
his feet were fastened to the perpen-
dicular piece of the cross, and his.
head fell forward in q swoon as he
uttered the last moan and cried: ut is
finishedl" All Heaven will stop to list
en- until the story is done, and every
harp will be put down, and every lip
closed, and all eyes fixed upon the
divine narrator, until the story is done;
and then, at the tap Of the baton, the
eternal orchestra viii rouse up; finger
on string of harp, and lips to the mouth
of trumpet, there shall roll forth the
orntorio of the Messiah: Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive bless
ing, and riches, and honor, and glory,
and power. world without end!''
What He endureth o. who can tell,
To save our souls from death and hell!