The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-06-04

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would make him as "the morning star"
3. The morning hour is the freshest
lour of the day: Then it is that the dew
lrops hang like pearly coronets upon the
ose's brow; the chalice OF the lily
iparkles with the morning rhyme, and
'verything that buds and blossoms filings
is aroma upon the air, as though the
morning hour was n section from the per-
iumed halls Of paradise!
II L RELIGION aooD ENOUGH.
Now, the world has sometimes been
with stale bread, until the world
has grown weary OF it. We want, how
sver, no new religion, no new theology,
"higher criticism" The religion that
my father and mother TO Heaven
Is good enough for me-! But we need to
get rid of the old jingle; and tell the 'old,
old story" in nineteenth century Ian
guage. Freshen up the feed! The fire is
there, we only need to blow away the
forth.
4. The morning hour is the concert
hour OF the day.
''The air is loaded with Perfume;
And thrilled with u murmuring hum,
As though a band from fairy land
Were beating a silver drum"
True happiness lies right along the line
of duty rightly performed.
5. The early morning hour is the rest
hour also of nature. 'The hush of the
dawn" Rest from this fast and feverish
life is sorely needed in America to-day.
The American people nave been called a
fast people. We eat too fast, talk too fast,
walk too fast. Your rapid American
walks as though he had a galvanic battery
in each boot legi We say al can't" in
stead OF 81 can not" Our very language
betrays the haste and the hurry that char
acterizes every thing that is American. We
can not be said to eat at all. We bol our
foodI
Now, energy is one thing, and fever is
another. We need rest from that fast and
feverish life, that is burning out our
vitality as a people, ard that rest can only
be found at the feet of Him who tanned
the tempest of Galilee.
RELIGION I'LL OF ENERGY.
6. But, on the other hand, there are
people who will never die OF a fever in
religious matters. People who take this
life SO easy that it rests you to look at
theml Heaven has no use for a lazy m
Your man hat lets his wife do all the
work, and he do nothing but sit around
and be sanctiied. Whyl A lazy man can
never reach Heaven. Heaven would be
out, before he could get there!
z. But again, the morning star shines
as brightly on a week day as On Sunday,
Many good people in our churches shine
fairly of a Sunday, but their religion
seems to suffer q marvellous eclipse about
9 O'Clock on Monday morning. We want
AZ every day religion. It is this Sunday
religion, this church religion, that is
devitalizing all our churches.
One great difficulty with us in the past
has been, we have placed the plane of our
moral life too low, and the plane OF our
spiritual life too high. We want a relig-
ion OF common honesty. We have started
out. however, saying: eve must have an
angel or nothing" and the result has some
times been a pretty good sized pile OF
nothing. God don't expect angels in this
world. Heaven wants better men and
women here aud now, purer hearts, and
happier homes, and more stainless spirits
in this world. That is what Heaven re-
quires.
APILLAR OF MORAL PURITY.
The world is dotted all over with monu-
ments that perpetuate the fame Of earth's
mighty ones. Boston boasts its Bunker
Hill. Baltimore has its iron hero. st.
Louis, and New Orleans, and maay an
other city, has each its monument OF mar
BILE and bronze. Above them all towers
the white shaft that perpetuates the name
OF Washington, the rare consumate flower
OF our earlier civilization. But, obi Out
from amidst the dirt and the impurity Of
this world, some of us can see rising, q
greater, and a grander pillar-the pillar Of
moral purity. Every kind deed which
You perform in the name OF Jesus; every
pure thought which finds its birth in
your soul, and which is carried out into
your life, adds another stone to that pill
lar. UP, ever up it rises, as h e-wonderfu
years roll on. Up, ever up, into the beau.
tiful blue, up along the cloudy corridors
of day, up along the shining stairway o.
the stars, until it touches the beautiful
land, when the angels will put upon il
the crown of God, and there it shall stant
f~oreveri.
B. +. CTS GOO WORK.
And right along these lines is the splen.
did work of Baptist Female College, anG
the scene which we witness here to-day
The great demand of this age is, the high
er education OF woman. Next to thu
power of Almighty God, woman swayi
the mightiest influence in moulding tn,
destinies OF nations, and of men. Educate
the mothers, and the education of tn,
sons will naturally, and / may say neces
sarily, follow. To this demand, this col
lege, under the splendid management o
President Wilson, has responded during
the past year most nobly, and to-day thei
grand work is before us. May these fai
girls forever remember and cherish thos,
principles of moral purity that the presi
dent and faculty Of this grand institution
Of learning, always and ever inculcate 6,
faithfully; and may the impress of thei,
pure lives ever remain a proud monumen
10 f~yfpetuafe the name and fame OF Bap
fezHet> koilege, of Lexington.
taHfsT's SECOND COMING.
s.. The1norning star indicates that tn
sun IL aoon to rise. We heal much now
4@ieSk ekoaf the second coming of Christ
Hte7 Heis coming to reign as a mer
ko6f>7 Ring, and wear a materia
crown and EHayan earthly sceptre, / will
not stop to discuss to-day. That was tn
delusion of the age among the Jews at tn
time of His advent. They asked Him, VIII,
was to sit at His right hand, when H
would reign in His kingdom. His answe
was: sfThe kingdom of Heaven is within
you" Many OF those passages hat sc
forth His coming kingdom, may possibl
bear another Interpretation. He is comini
las a thief in the night" But a THE
comes no more suddenly than many othe
things. But he always ZONES secretly
silently. Christ is coming to-day, Ii
those arts and sciences that are unfoldin
the splendor of God right before our eye
every day and every hour, lifting human
ity into purer paths, and mightier poten
tialities. Eighteen hundred years age
these words were written "As the light
ming shineth from the east unto the west
so shalt the coming OF the Son OF Man be-.
This day
THIS SCRIPTURE MAY BE FULFILLING
right before our eyes. Mark you, tn