Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-09


on your tombstone. "This man wronged
me OF my inheritance" Many q man
has died leaving q competency whose
property has, through his own care
lessness, atterward been divided be-
tween the administrators, the surro-
gate, the lawyers and the sheriff.
1 advise also that you be busy in
Christian work. How many Sabbaths
in the year? Fifty-two. II the text be
true of you, 1t does not say at what
time you may go, and therefore It Is
unsafe to count on oil of the ifty-two
Sundays. AS you are likely to go In
the first half of the year rs in the last
half, think we had better divide the
ffty.two into halves, and calculate only
on twenty-six Sabbaths
Come, Christian men, Christian wo-
men, what can you do in twenty-six
Sabbaths? Divide the 365 days into
two parts. What can you do In 1s9 days?
What. by the way Of saving your fam
ily, the church and the world? You
will not through all the ages OF eter-
nifty in Heaven, get over the dishonor
and the outrage OF going into glory and
having helped none up to the same
place. 1t will be found that many a
Sabbath school teacher has taken into
Heaven her whole class; that Daniel
Baker, the evangelist, took thousands
into Heaven; that Doddridge has taken
in hundreds of thousands; that Paul
took in hundred million. How
many will you take in? If you get into
Heaven, and find none there that you
sent, and that there arc none to como
through your instrumentality, beg OF
You to crawl under some seat in the back
corner and mover come out lest the re-
deemed get their ewes on you and some
one CRY out: THAT is the man who
never lifted hand or voice for the re-
demption of his fellows! Look at him,
all Heaven"
In view of the probabilities men
toned advise oil the men and women
not ready for eternity to get ready. If
tho text be true you have no time to
talk about nonessentials, asking why
God let sin come into the world, or
whether the book Of Jonah is inspired,
or who Melchisedec was, or what about
the eternal DEGREES. II you are as near
eternity as some OF you seem to be
there is no time for anything but the
question: "What must / do to be
savcd?" The drowning man, when a
plank is thrown him, stops not to ask
what sawmill made it. or whether
It is of oak or cedar, or who
threw ii. The moment it is thrown
he clutches it. If this year
you are to die. there is no time for any
thing but immediate laying hold on
God. 1t is high time to get out OF
your sins You say, ~ have committed
no great trausgre ssion1" But are you
not aware that your life has been sim
fnl? The snow comes down on the
Alps, fake by flake, and it is SO light
that you may hold it on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight; but
the flakes gather; thev compact, until
,me day a travellers foot starts the
slide. and it goes down in an avalanche,
crushing to death the villagers.
So the sins of your youth. and the
sins Of your manhood, and the sins of
your womanhood, may have seemed
only slight inaccuracies or triaing di-
vergences from the right-so slight
that they are hardly worth mentioning,
but they are piling up and piling up,
packing together and packing together,
until thev make mountain OF sin, and
one more step of your foot in the wrong
direction NAV slide down upon you an
avalanche of ruin and condemnation.
Let me announce that Christ, the
Lord stands req 1y to save any man that
wants to be saved. He waited for you
all last year, and all the year before,
and all your life. He has waited for
YOU with blood on His brow, and
tears in His eye, and two outstretched,
mangled hands of love.
wish you might know what a job
Jesus undertook when He carried your
case to Calvary. They crowded Him
to the wall. They struck Him. They
spat on Him. They kicked Him. They
cuffed Him. They scoffed at Him.
They scourged Him. They murdered
Him. Blood! blood! As He stoops
down to lift you up, the crimson drops
upon you from His brow, from His side,
from His hands. Do you not feel the
warm current on your face? o. for
thee the hunger, the thirst, the thorn
sting, the suffocation, the darkness,
the groan, the sweat, the struggle, the
death!
A great plague came in Marseilles'
The doctors held a consultation aud de-
cided that corpse must be dissected,
or they would never know how to stop
the plague. A DR.. Guyon said: TO
morrow morning / will proceed to q
dissection" He made his will, pre-
pared for death, went into the hospital,
dissected q body, wrote out the results
of the dissection. and died in twelve
hours. Beautiful self-sacri6ce, you
saw Our Lord Jesus looked out from
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