Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

night in Longstone lighthouse was n
girl of gentle spirit and comely coun-
tcnance. As the morning dawns, / see
that girl standing amid tho spray and
tumult of contending elements, look
ing through n glass upon the wreck
and the nine wretched sufferers. She
proposes TO her father to take boat and
put out across the wild sen TO
rescue them. The father says: at
cannot he done! just look ut the
tumbling surfw But she persisted and
with her father bounds into the bont
Though never accustomed to plying the
oar she takes one and her father the
other The sea tossed up the boat rs
though 1t were bubble, but amid the
foam and the wrath of the sea the
wreck was reached, the exhausted pco-
pie picked up and saved. Humane so
cicties rendered their thanks Wealth
poured into the lap of the poor
girl. Visitors from all lands came to
look on her sweet face; and when soon
after she launched forth on dark sea
and death was the oarsman, dukes and
duchesses and mighty men sat down in
tears in Alnwick castle, to think they
never again might see the face OF Grace
Darling.
No such deeds of daring will probab-
ly be asked of you, but hear you not
the howl Of that awful storm OF trouble
and sin that hath tossed ten thousand
shivercd hulks into the breakers?
Know you not that the whole earth is
strewn with the shipwrecked? That
there are wounds to be healed and
broken hearts to be bound and drown
ing souls to be rescued? Some have
gone down and you come too late, but
others are clinging to the wreck, are
shivering with the cold, are strangling
in the wave, are crying to You for de-
liverance. Will you not, ore in hand,
put out to-day from the lighthouse?
And Christ, pointing to the inebriate
that you reformed, and the dying sim
ner whom you taught to pray, and the
outcast whom you pointed to God for
shelter, will say: "You did it to them!
You did it to me-"
Again, the scene of the text impresses
upon us the strength of maternal attach
ment Not many men would have had
courage or endurance for the awful
mission of Rizpah. There is no emotion
so completely unselfish as maternal af-
lection. Conjugal love expects the re-
turn of many kindnesses and atten-
tions. Filial love expects parental care
or is helped by the memory OF past
watchfulness. But the strength of a
mothers love is entirely independent OF
the past and the future, and is, OF all
emotions, the purest The child
has done nothing in the past
to earn kindness, and in the future
it may grow up to maltreat its
parent; but still from the mothers
heart there goes forth understandable
affection. Abuse cannot offend 1t;
neglect cannot chill it: time cannot
efface it; death cannot destroy it. For
harsh words it has gentle Gliding, for
the blow it has beneticent ministry, for
neglect it has Increased watchfulness
But from this weird text of the morn
ing comes rushing in upon my soul u
thought that overpowers Inc. This
watching by Rizpah was an after death
watching. wonder now If there is an
after death watching? 1 think there is.
There are Rizpahs who have passed
death, and who are still watching.
III cannot believe that those who
before their death were inter-
ested in us have since their
death become indifferent as to what
happens to u.s. Not one hour Of the six
months during which Rizpah watched
seated upon the rocks, was she more
alert or diligent, or armed for us than
our mother, If gloriiied, is alert and dill
gent and armed for us, 1t is not now
Rizpah on rock, but RiZpah on Il
throne. How long has your mother
been dead? Do You think she has been
dead long enough to forget you? My
mother has been dead twenty-nine
years. believe she knows more
about me now than she did
when / stood in her presence, and
l am no spiritualist either. The
Bible says: Are they no: all minister
| ing spirits sent forth 10 minister 10
them that shall BE- heirs of salvation"
Young man! Better look out what you
do and where you go for your gloritied
mother is looking at you. You some
times say to yourself: What would
mother say If she knew this?" She does
know. You might cheat her once, but
YOU cannot cheat her now.
Oh, this tremendous thought of my
text, this after-death watching! What
an uplifting consideration. And what
a comforting thought. Young mother,
you who have just lost your babe, and
who feels the need of a nearer solace
than that which comes from ordinary
sympathy, your mother knows all
about it You cannot run in and talk
it all over with her rs You would if she