Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-03

care: Lest tnOu QaSn tiny 1OOC aRulnSl
n stone;" ''he will not suffer thy foot to
he moved, ''thy tect shall not stumble. u
Especia! charge: keep thy foot when
thou goest to the house of God" Els.
pecial peril: "Their feet shall slide ip
due time" Connected with the worlds
dissolution: HE shall set one foot on
the sea and the other on the earth"
Give me the history of your foot and
/ will give you the history of your life
time. Tell me up what steps it hath
gone, down what dcclivitics and in what
roads and in what directions and l will
know more about you than l want to
know. None of us could endure the
scrutiny. Our feet are not always in
the paths of God; sometimes in paths
of worldliness. Our feet, divine and
glorious machinery for usefulness and
work, SO often making missteps, so
often going in the wrong direction,
God knowing every step; the patriarch
saying. Thou settest a print on the
heels of my feet" Crimes of the hand,
crimes of the tongue, crimes OF the eye,
crimes of the ear not worse than the
crimes of the foot. o, we want the
wings of humility to cover the feet.
Ought we not to go into self abnegation
before the all searching, all scrutiniz-
ing, all trying eye of God? The seraphs
do. How much more we. with twain
he covered the feet"
Another seraphic posture in the text:
with twain he covered the face.
That means reverence Godward. Never
so much irrevercnce abroad in the
world as to-day. You see it in the de-
faced statuary, in the cutting out of
figures from fine paintings, in the chip
ping of monuments for memento, in
the fact that military guard must stand
Mt the grave of Grant and Garfield and
that old shade trees must be cut down
for firewood, though fifty George z.
Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the
tree, and that calls u corpse cadaver,
and that speaks of death as going over
to the majority, and substitutes for the
reverent terms, father and mother,
"the old man. and 1.-The old woman"
and finds nothing impressive in the
ruins of Baalbee or the columns of
Karnac, and see no difference in the
Sabbath from other days except it
allows more dissipation and reads the
Bible in what is called higher
criticism, making it not the Word
of God, but a good book with some fine
things in it. Irreverence never
so much abroad. How many take the
name of God in vain, how many trivial
things said about the Almighty. Not
willing to have God in the world, they
roll up an idea of sentimentality, and
humanitarianism. and impotence, and
and call it God. No wings
of reverence over the face, no taking off
of shoes on holy ground. You can tell
from the way they talk they could have
made better world than this, and that
the God of the Bible shocks every sense
of propriety. They talk of the love of
God in a way that shows You they be-
lieve it does not make any difference
how bad man is here, he will come in
at the shining gate. They talk OF the
love of God in such way which shows
you they think it is general Jail deliv-
cry for all the abandoned and the
of the universe. No pun
ishment hereafter for any wrong done
here.
The Bible gives us two descriptions OF
God, and they are just opposite, and
they are both true. In one place the
Bible says God is love. In another
place the Rible says God is consuming
fire. The explanation is as plain as
plain can be. God through Christ is
love. God ont of Christ is fire. To win
the one and to escape the other we have
only to throw ourselves, body, mind
and soul into Christ's keeping. NO"
saws Irreverence, Il want no atonement,
l want no pardon, want no interven-
ton; / will go up and face God, and l
will challenge Him, and ! will defy
Him. and will ask Him what He wants
to do with me-" So the finite confronts
the infinite, so n tack hammer tries 20
break a thunderbolt, SO the breath of
human nostrils defies the everlasting
God, while the hierarchs of Heaven bow
the head and bend the knees as the
Kings chariot goes by. and the arch
angel turns away because he cannot en-
dure the splendor, and the chorus of all
the empires of Heaven comes in with
full diapason, ''holy, holy, holy
Reverence for the sham, reverence for
the old merely because it is old, rever-
ence for stupidity however learned,
reverence for incapacity however finely
l have none. But we
want more reverence for God, more rev.
erence for the sacraments, more rever-
ence for the Bible, more reverence for
the pure, more reverence for the good.
Reverence characteristic OF all great
You hear it in the roll of the
master oratOrios. You see it in the
Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandijos.
You study it in the architecture of the