Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-22

of them by poor laborers who had come
down to offer their services free of all
charge for the removal OF the bread
stuffs from the ship to the imperial
freight train that took the Hour to
the interior free of charge. While we
stood there the long freight train rum
bled down to the DOCKS. the locomotive
and each cur decorated with hag-the
American flag and the Russian fag IL
ternating Though flag to some eyes
is only floating rag, you ought to see
how the American flag looks 5000 miles
away from home. It looked that day
like n section of Heaven let down 10
cheer mortal vision. Addresses of well
come and responses were made, and
then the work began, the only contest
being who should lift the hardest and
be the most expeditions. From ship to
rail train, from rail train to kneading
board, from lSneading board to oven,
from oven to the white and quivering
lips of the dying Upon ail who,
whether by contribution small or large,
helped make that scene possible, may
there come the benediction OF Him who
declared II was hungry and we fed me. |"
But must also give word OF report
concerning my other GRAND - the
preaching of the gospel in Great Britain
last summer. 1t was tour i had for
many years anticipated. With the
themes of the gospel confronted more
people than ever before in the same
length of time-multitude after multi
tudes, and beyond anything l can de-
scribe The throngs in all the cities
were so great that they could be con-
trolled only by platoons of police, so
that none should be hurt by the pres
sure, each service indoors followed by
q service for the waiting throngs out
doors, and both by hand shakings to
the last point Of physical endurance.
From the day in which I arrived at
noon in Liverpool, and that night ad-
dressing two vast assemblages, until l
got through my evangclic journey, it
was scene of blessing to my own soul
and hope to others. At all the assem-
blages large collections were taken, the
money being given to local charities,
feeble churches, orphan asvlums or
Young Mems Christian association.
1t seems to me that the gospel is max
ing mighty strides over there. Only
one thing I saw in the chapels and
churches did not like. That is lack
of appreciation of each other, as be-
tween the National church and the Dis
senters. Now, each is doing great
work that the other cannot do God
speed them all, they of the Episcopacy
and they of the Disscnters! Some need
the ritual of the National church and
others the spontaneity of the Wesleyan.
In the Kingdom of God there is room
for all to work and each in his own way.
Some people are born Episcopalians and
others Methodists and others Baptists
and others Presbyterians, and do not
let us force our notions on Others. AS
for myself, was born so near the limo
that feel as much at home in one de-
nomination as another, and when in the
Episcopal church the liturgy stirs my
soul so that cannot keep back the tears
and it overwhelms me with its solemnity
and its power. When in an old fash
toned Methodist church the responses
of "Amen! and "Hallelujah!" lift me
until like Paul, l am in blessed bewilder-
ment as to "whether in the body or out
of the body God knoweth." And as for
the Baptists, though have never been
anything but sprinkled, / hnve i'm
mersed hundreds and expect to immense
hundreds more in the baptistry under
this pulpit where / now stand. What
is the use of controversy about any
thing, except how we shall keep close
to the cross and do the most for helping
people for this world and the next?
Nav there come in England more
cordialitv between the National church
and the Dissenters.
If the pessimists would get out OF the
way the people who SWIVEL and groan,
and think everything has gone to the
dogs or is about to go, say if these
pessimists would only get out of the
way the world would soon see the sal
walton OF God. Christianity is only an
other name for elevated optimism Was
Isaiah an optimist? See his deserts in
carnadined with red roses, and showed
under with white lilies. Was st. John
an optimist? Read the uplifting splen-
doris in the Apocalypse and the Halle
lujah chorus with which the old book,
which they cannot kill, closes. The
greatest thing / can think of would be
to have n triple alliance of America.
England and Russia in complete har-
nomination, and then to have upon all
of them come deluge of the Holy
Ghost Let the defamation of other
nations cease. Peace and good will to
men For that glorious contamination,
which may be nearer than we think,
let us pray, remembering that God can
do more in five minutes than man car
do in five centuries. If the consumma'
ton is not effected in our day, / shall
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