Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19

Christian or the sharp pen Of n con-
troversialist but the sword Of truth,
which Is the word of God. The word
'if" is made up Of the same number OF
letters rs the word 'Og," and 1t Is just
rs big u giant II the Bible be true.
II the soul be immortal. II Christ be
God. II our belief and behavior here
decide our future destiny. II II. IT,
/ hate that word '.if." Noah Webster
says It is conjunction; say 1t is IN
armed giant Satan breathed upon it
a curse when he said to Christ: 'If
Thou be the Son of God" What
dastardly and infamous 'if." Against
that giant III" hurl Jobs II know"
and Paul's 81 know" II know
that my Redeemer liveth." ~ know
in whom l have believed" Down
with the 'if" and up with
"a know" o, that giant Doub t is such
a cruel giant 1t attacks many in the
last hour.
Another impression from my subject:
The march of the church cannot be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. That
Israelitish host led on by Moses was
the church and when Og, the giant,
him of the iron bedstead, came out
against him with another host-a fresh
host against one that seemed worn out
things must have looked bad for
Israel. No account is given of the bed
stead of Moses, except that one in
which he first slept-the cradle of
aquatic vegetation on the Nile, where
the wife of Chenephres, the king, found
the floating babe and, having no child
Of her own, adopted him. Moses of
ordinary size against og Of extraordi-
nary dimensions. Besides that Og was
backed by sixty fortified cities,
Moses was backed up seemingly
by nothing but the desert that
had worn him and his army into
a group of undisciplined and ex-
hausted stragglers. But the Israelites
triumphed. If you spell the name Of
0g backward, you turn it into the word
60" and Og was turned backward
and made to go. With Og's downfall
all the sixty cities surrendered. Moth
ing was left of the giant except his
iron bedstead. which was kept in q
museum ut Rabbath to show how tall
and stout he once was. So shall the
last giant of opposition in the church's
march succumb. Not sixty cities cap
tured, but all the cities Not only on
one side of Jordon, but on both sides
OF all the rivers The day is coming.
Hear it all We who are doing something
for tho CONC uest of the world for God
and the truth, the time will come when,
Us there was nothing left OF Og the
giant, but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbath as q curiosity, there will be
nothing left of the giants OF iniquity
except something for the relic hunters
to examine.
Which of the giants will be the last
slain know not but there will be a
museum somewhere to hold the relics
of what they once were. A rusted
sword will be hung up-the only relic
of the giant of war; A demijohn-the
only relic Of the giant of inebriation.
A roulette ball-the only relic OF the
giant of hazard. A pictured certificate
of watered stock-the only relic OF
stock gambling. A broken knife-the
only relic of the giant of assassination.
A yellow copy of Tom Paine-the only
relic of the giant of unbelief. And
that museum will do for the later ages
of the world what the iron bedstead at
Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do
you not see it makes all the difference
in the world whether we are fighting
on toward miserable defeat or to-
ward final victory? All the Bible
promises prophesy the latter, and
so / cheer you who are the
troops of God, and though many
things are dark now, like Alex
ander, review the army by torchlight
and I give you the watchword which
Martin Luther proclaimed: "The Lord
of hostsI" 1.-THE Lord of hosts!" and /
cry out exultingly, with Oliver Crom-
we'll at the battle OF Dunbar: Let God
arise; let His enemies be scattered"
Whatever your work and wherever
your work for God-forward! You in
your way and in my way. With holy
pluck fight on with something OF the
strength of Thomas Troubridge, who
at Inkermann had one leg shot of and
the foot of the other leg, and when they
proposed to carry him of the field re-
Piled: mo, 1 do not move until the
battle is won" Whatever be
the rocking OF the church or
state, have the calmness OF
the aged woman In an earthquake that
frightened everybody else, and who,
when asked IL she was not afraid, said:
mo. am glad that have God who
can shake the world" Whether your
work be TO teach Sabbath class, or
nurse an invalid, or reform wnnderer,
or print tract, or train q household,
or bear the querulOusness of senility,
or cheer the disheartened, or lead
soul to Christ, know that by fidelity