Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-20

door, discussing Lne contents Oh Jne
castor standing mid-table. They are
shaking their fists at each other.
One says there is too much vim
egar In the castor, and one
says there Is too much sweet oil,
and another says there Is not the
proper proportion of red pepper. i say,
''Get out of the way and let the hungry
people come H." Now. our blessed
Lord has provided n great supper, and
the oxen and the fatlings have been
killed and fruits from all the vineyards
and orchards of Heaven crowd the
table. The world has been invited to
come. and they look in, and they nre
hungry, and people would pour in by
the millions to this worldwide table,
but the door is blocked up by con-
troversies, and men with whole
libraries on their backs are disputing
rs to what proportion of sweet oil and
cayenne pepper would make up the
creed. cry, "Get out OF the way and
let the hungry world come in"
The Christian church will have to
change its tack, or it will run on the
rocks of demolition. The worlds pop
ulation annually increases $4,000, 600.
No one pretends that half that number
of people are converted to God. There
are more than twice as many Buddhists
as Protestants; more than twice as
many Buddhists as Roman Catholics.
Protestants, l35, 900, 600; Catholics, 1885,
900, 600; Buddhists, 400, 100000. There
are 175, 900, 900 Mohammedans and 220,-
900. 600 Brahmins. Meanwhile many
of the churches are only religious club
houses where few people go on Sun
day morning, averaging one person to
a pew or one person to half dozen
pews. and leaving the minister Mt night
to sweat through sermon with here
and there lone traveller.
Did say there would have to be n
change? correct that and say, there
will be change. If there be 15,0OO.-
600 persons added every year to the
worlds population, then. there will be
80, 600, 900 added to the church and 40
600, 900 and 5O,000,000 and 10000, 600.
How will it be done? 1t will be done
when the church will meet Christ on
the plain. Come down out of the
mountain of exclusiveness. Come down
out of the mountain of pride. Come
down out of the mountain of formal
ism. Come down out of the mountain
of freezing indifference.
The full charge will have to come
from the rising ministry. We now in
the field are too set in our ways We
IRE lum bered up with technicalities.
We have too many concordances and
dictionaries and and encyclopedias
and systems OF theology on our head
to get down on the plain.
Come on, young men OF the ministry.
Take this pulpit, take all the pulpits
and in the language of the street and
the market place and the family circle
preach God on the plain. AS soon as
the church says BIZ its attitude, not
necessarily by its words. MY one mis-
sion is to help for this life and help for
the life to come all the people" and it
proves its earnestness in the matter,
people on foot and on horseback and
in wagons and in carriages will come
to the churches in such numbers that
they will have to be met at the door
bv ushers saying: "You were here last
Sunday; you cannot come in to-day.
Gentlemen and ladies, you must take
your turn"
Astronomers have been busy measur-
ing worlds, and they have told us how
great is the circumference of this world
and how great is its diameter yea,
they have kept on until they have
weighed our planet and found its
weight to be six seXtiilion tons. But
by no science has the weight of this
worlds trouble been weighed. Now,
Christ standing on the level OF our hui
mainly stands in sympathy with every
trouble. There are so many aching
heads; His ached under the thorns.
There are so many weary feet; His
were worn with the long journey up
and down the land that receive him
not. There are SO many prosecuted
souls; every hour of His life was under
human outrage. The earth had no bet
ter place to receive Him than a cattle
pen, and its farewell was a slap on the
cheek and a spear in his side. So in
tensely human was He that there has
not been in all our race a grief or
infirmity or exhaustion or pang that
did not touch him now. The universal
trouble of the world is bereavement
One may escape all the other troubles,
but that no soul escapes Out of that
b ter cup every one must take . drink.
For instance, That all NAV know how
He sympathizes who have lost daugh-
ter, Christ comes 10 the house OF Jairus
There is such big crowd around the
door, He and His disciples have to push
their way in. From the throng Of peo-
pie, conclude that this girl must have
been very popular; she was one Of
those children whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there was