Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-08

I he can throw tnem ashore. In otn0t
{ words, in our Christian work, why do
we not go where the fish are? 1t is not
I so easy to catch souls in church for
: they know that we are trying to take
: them. If you can throw your line out
= into the world, where they are not ex.
; pecting you, they will be captured Is
it fair to take men by such stratagem?
Yes. would like TO cheat 5000 souls
, into the Kingdom.
The whole policy Of the church of
God is to be changed. Instead of chiefly
looking after the few who have become
Christians, our chief efforts will be for
those outside. II after a man is con-
verified he cannot take care of himself l
am not going to take care of him. II
he thinks that am going to stand and
pat him on the back and feed him out
of an elegant spoon and watch him so
he does not get into draft of worldli-
ness, he is much mistaken. We have
in our churches great mass of help
less, inane professors who are doing
nothing for themselves or for others,
who want us to stop and nurse them!
They are so troubled with doubt rs to
whether they are Christians or not.
The doubt is settled. They are not
Christians. The best we can do with
these fish is to throw them back into
the stream and go after them again
with the gospel net.
go into the world and preach the
Gospel" says Christ; into the factory,
the engine house, the club room, into
the houses of the sick, into the dark
lane, into the damp cellar, into the
cold garnet, into the dismal prison. Let
every man, woman and child know that
Jesus died, and that the gate of Heaven
is wide open. With the Bible in one
pocket, and the hymn book in another
pocket, and loaf of bread under your
arm, launch out into the great deep of
this worlds wretchedness.
The text is appropriate to all the un-
forgiven. Every sinner would come to
God if he thought that he might come
Just as he is People talk as though
the pardon of God were narrow river,
like the Kcnnebec or the Thames, and
that their sin draws too much water to
enter it. No; it is not river. nor q
bay, but sea. ] should like to per-
suade you to launch out into the great,
deep sea of Gods mercy. l am a mer-
chant, have bought cargo of spices
in India. / have, through u bill Of ex-
change, paid for the whole cargo. You
are ship captain. give You the
orders and say: Bring me those
spices" You land in India. You go
to the trader and say: Here are the
ORDERS" and you find everything all
right. You do not stop to pay the
money yourself. 1t is not your bust.
ness to pay it. The arrangements were
made before you started. So Christ
purchases your pardon. He puts the
papers, or the promises intoyour hand
Is it wise to stop and say: IL cannot
pay for my redemption?" God does not
ask you to pay. Relying on what has
been done launch out into the deep
1t is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by the three
armies OF the Saracens in the pass of |
Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, in |
terrible earnestness, seized u trumpet |
and blew it with such terrific strength |
that the opposing army reeled back |
with terror, but at the third blast it
broke in two see your soul fiercely
assailed by all the powers of earth and
hell. l put the mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lips and ! blow it three
times. Blast the first: whatsoever
will let him come" Blast the second
seek We the Lord while He may be
found" Blast the third-"Now is the
accepted time; now is the day of saliva.
ton" DO not the host of your sins
fall back? But the trumpet does not,
like that of Roland, break in two. As
it was handed down to us from the lips
Of our fathers, we hand it down to the
lips of our children, and tell them to
sound it when we are dead, that all the
generations of men may know that our
God is pardoning Coda sympathetic
Coda loving God; and that more to
Him than the anthems of Heaven, more
to Him than the throne on which He
sits, more 70 Him than are the temples
of celestial worship, is the joy of seeing
the wanderer putting his hand on the
door latch of His Fathers house. Hear
it, all We nations! Bread for the worst
hunger Medicine for the worst sick
ness. Light for the thickest darkness
Harbor for the worst storm:
DR.. Prime, in his book of wonderful
interest entitled "Around the World"
describes q tomb in India of marvellous
architecture. Twenty thousand men
were twenty-five years in erecting that
and the buildings around it Standing
in that tomb, if you speak or sing, after
Won have ceased you hear the echo com.
ing from height of $50 feet 1t is no.
like other echoes The sound is drawn
out in sweet prolongation, as though
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