Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-05

heldS ana try I'd get Jnem 10 stop, Iuey
are so fur up they would hardly see 1t.
They are on their way south. You
could not stop them. o, that we were
as wise about the best time to
start for God and Heaven! We
say: "Wait until it is q little later
in the season of mercy. Wait until
some of these green leaves of hope are
all dried up and have been scattered
Wait until next year" After while
we start, and it is too late, and we per-
ish in the way when Gods wrath Is
kindled but little. There are, you
know, exceptional cases where birds
have started too late, and in the morn
ing you have found them dead on the
snow. And there are those who have
persisted half way between the world
and Christ. They waited until the last
sickness, when the mind was gone. or
they were on the express train going Mt
forty miles an hour, and they came to
the bridge and the ''draw was up" and
they went down. How long to repent
and pray? Two seconds! Two sec
onds To do the work of lifetime aud
to prepare for the vast eternity in two
seconds!
l was reading of an entertainment
given in kings court and there were
musicians there with elaborate pieces
of music. After awhile Mozart came
and began to play and he had blank
piece of paper before him and the king
Familiarity looked over his sh oulder and
said: what are you playing? l see no
music before you" And Mozart put
his hand on his brow, as much as to
say, ~ am improvising." 1t was very
well for him, but 0 my friends, we cam
not extemporize Heaven. II we do not
get prepared in this world we will never
take part in the orchestral harnonies
of the saved o that we were as wise
as the crane and the stork, flying away.
flying away from the tempest
Some of you have felt the pinching
frost of sin. You feel it to-day. You
are not happy. / look into your faces,
and know You are not happy. There
are voices within your soul that will not
be silenccd, telling you that you are
sinners, and that without the pardon OF
God you are undone forever. What are
you to do, my friends, with the accu-
mulated transgressions of this life
time? viii you stand still and let the
avalanche tumble over you? o that
You would go away into the warm heart
of Gods mercy. The southern grove,
redolent with magnolia and cactus,
never waited for northern focks as
God has waited for you, saying: II
have loved thee with an everlasting
love. Come unto me, all We who are
weary and heavy laden, and l will give
you rest"
Another frost is bidding you await
is the frost of sorrow Where do you
live now? 80" you say, II have
moved" Why did you move? You say,
II don't want as large house now rs
formerly" Why do you not want rs
large house? You say, my family is
not so large" Where have they gone
to? Eternity" Your m nd goes back
through that last sickness and through
the almost supernatural effort to save
life, and through those prayers that
seemed unavailing and through that
kiss which received no response because
the lips were ifeless. and / hear the
bells tolling and l hear the hearts
breaking-while l speak ! hear them
break. A heart! Another heart!
Alone. alone! alone! This world,
which in your girlhood and boyhood
was sunshine, is cold now, and OF
weary dove, you fly around this world
as though you would like to stay, when
the wind and the frost and the black
ening clouds would bid you away into
the heart of an all comforting God. o.
/ have noticed again and again what q
botch this world makes of it when 1t
tries to comfort a soul in trouble! 1t
says: Don't cry" How can we help
crying when the hearts treasures are
and father is gone, and
mother is gone, and companions are
gone. and the child is gone, and every
thing seems gone. 1t is no comfort to
tell man not to cry. The world comes
up and says: 20, it is only the body of
your loved one that you have put
in the ground" But there is no comfort
in that. That body is precious Shall
we never put our hand in that hand
again, and shall we never see that
sweet face again? Away, with your
o world! But come,
Jesus! and tell us that when the tears
fall they fall into Gods bottle; that the
lear bodies of our loved ones shall rise
radiant in the resurrection; and all the
down here shall be lifted up
there, and 'they shall hunger no more,
neither thirst no more, neither shall |
he sun light on them nor any heat, for
The Lamb " hich is in the midst OF the
throne shall lead them TO living fount-
Inns of water, and God shall wipe all
ears from their eyes,"
You may have noticed that when the
or the storlk or the crane
,to vte ~, ;tc r,,icr,-a ton II oollc all those