Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-17

purpose, InlJ UUe DunTeTb Oh ncdVtHly
dominion might come down over it and
all the redeemed OF earth travel up
over it.
Being kings highway of course it
is well built. Bridges splendidly arched
and buttressed have given way and
crushed the passengers who attempted
to cross. But Christ. the King, would
build no such thing as that. The work
done, He mounts the chariot of His love,
and the multitudes mount with Him,
and He drives on and up the steep of
Heaven amid the plaudits Of gazing
worlds! The work is done-well done
-gloriously done-magnificently done.
Still further, this road spoken of is n
clean road. Many fine road has be-
come miry and foul because it has not
been properly cared for, but my text
says the unclean shall not walk on this
one. Room on either side to throw
away your sins. Indeed, If you want
to carry them along, you are not on the
right road. That bridge will break,
those overhanging rocks will fall, the
night will come down, leaving You mt
the mercy of the mountain bandits, and
ut the very next turn of the road you
will perish. But if you are really on
this clean road of which have been
speaking, then You will stop ever and
anon to wash in the water that stands
in the basin Of the eternal rock. Ay,
at almost every step of the journey you
will be crying out: Create within me
a clean heart! If you have no such
aspirations as that it proves that you
have mistaken. your way, and If you
will only look up and see the finger
board above your head you may read
upon it the words. "There is way
that seemeth right unto man, but the
end thereof is death" Without holt
ness no man shall see the Lord, and if
you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world
Illness and yet get to the end OF the
Christian race, you arc so awfully mis-
taken that, in the name of God, shat
ter the delusion.
Still further, the road spoken Of is q
plain road. The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein"
That Is, If man is threc-fourths of an
idiot he can find this road just as we'll
as if he were a philosopher. The imbe-
cile boy, the laughing stock OF the
street, and followed by mob hooting
at him, HIS only just to knock once at
the gate of Heaven and it swings open;
while there has been many man who
can lecture about the pneumatics. and
chemistry, and tell the story of Fara-
days theory Of electrical polarization,
and yet has been shut out OF Heaven.
There has been many man who stood
in the observatory and swept the
heavens with his telescope, and yet he
has not been able to see the morning
star. Many n man has been familiar
with all the higher branches of mathe-
mates, and yet could not do the
simple sum, What shall it profit
n man if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?" Many Il
man has been Il fine reader Of tragedies
and poems, and yet could not read his
title clear to mansions in the .skieS."
Many man has botanized across the
continent, and yet did not know the
"Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the
Valley" But if one shall come in the
right spirit, asking the way to Heaven,
he will find it in plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain
He who tries to get on the road to
Heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says:
Come to me, and will take all your
sins away, and / will take all your
troubles away" Now what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
this plain? If you wanted to go to
London, and pointed you out high
way thoroughly laid out, would l be
wise in OBTAINING you by geological
discussion about the gravel you will
pass over, or physiological discussion
about the muscles you will
have to bring into play? No.
After this Bible has pointed you
the way to Heaven, is it wise for me TO
detain you with any discussion about
the nature of the human will or wheth-
er the atonement is limited or unlim-
tied? There is the road-go on it. 1t
is plain way.
This is n faithful saying, and worthy
of all acccptation, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners"
And that is you and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
well as can. "Unless You become as
a little child, you cannot see the King
dom of God" If you are saved, it will
not be us a philosopher, it will be as q
little child. ''Of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
Still further: This road to Heaven is
save road Sometimes the traveller in