Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-27

Now you can 60 that distance In SIX or
seven days And so ! measure the
great chime OF gladness? Here Is
man who Is moral He 10 IN example
70 great many professors OF religion
in some things; he never did mean
thing In his life; he pays all hs debts
and Is n good citizen and q good neigh
Dor, but he says he Is not Christian.
Some day the Holy Spirit comes into his
heart and he sees that he cannot
depend upon his morality for salvation.
He says: 20 Lord God, have been de-
pending upon my good works; find
am sinner, and I want Thy salvation.
Lord, for Jesus sake have mercy on
me-" And God pardons him, and inn
mediately one Of the towers OF Heaven
distance between earth and Heaven,
and find it is only fash. 1t Is one
instant here and another instant there
It is very near to-day. DO you not feel
the breath of Heaven on your faceP
Christ said in one place 1t is not twen-
ty-four hours distance, when he says
to the penitent thief, ''This day. this
day, shalt thou DE with me in Para
disc"
NV subject also impresses me with
the fact that the salvation Of the soul
is of vast Importance. II you should
make $500, 900 this year, do you sup
pose that news would be carried to
Heaven? It would not be of enough
Importance or significance to be car
ried heavenward If at the next
quadrennial election you are made
president of the United States, do you
suppose that news would be carried to
Heaven? Do you suppose that the
news OF revolution in France or Spain
would be carried to Heaven? These
things are not of enough Importance,
but there is one item that is sure to be
carried. 1t is the salvation OF your
soul, 1t Is your repentance before God
You remember years ago a stage
driver in the White mountains became
very reckless. He had a large number
of passengers on the stage, and the
stage was drawn by six horses, wild
and ungovernable. and he drove near
the precipice, and he drove of, the
stage and its precious freight rolling
down the embanlSment and many were
slain but a few were saved. suppose
when they wrote home they wrote
with CONGRATULATIONS at their rescue.
The angels OF Gcd look down
and they see men driving on the
edge of great precipices of ruin
and danger, drawn by wild, leaping,
foaming and un govcrnable perils in
this life, and If any shall escape before
they capsize, do YOU not suppose the
angels of God rejoice, crying: Good,
good! Saved from sin, saved from
death, saved from hell, saved forever"
Having found in my own experience
that this religion is comfort and
Joy / stand here to commend it to you.
In the days of my infancy was carried
by Christian parents to the house OF
God, and consecratei in baptism to the
Father and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost: but that did not save me. In
after time was taught to kneel at t he
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters, the
most OF them now in glory; bat that
did not save me. In after time l read
Doddridge's Rise and Progress, and
Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, and all
the religious books around my fathers
households; but that did not save
me. But one day the voice OF Christ
came into my heart, saying. Repent,
repent; believe, believe" and / &C
cepted the offer of mercy, and though,
no doubt, there was more joy in
Heaven over the conversion OF other
souls because of their far reaching in
fiuence, verify believe tina: when
gave nv heart to God there were some
spirits in Heaven the gladder for the
deed. "There Is Joy in Heaven among
the angels of God over one sinner that
returneth." Turn this day to the Lord
who bought you. Let this whole audi
ence surrender themselves 10 Jesus
Christ. If for ten, twenty, fifty years
you have not prayed, begin now to pray.
10" you say, IL can't pray" Can
you not say, God, be merciful to me.
a sinner" NO" you say, II can't
say that" Then can you not look to
the throne of mercy? NO" you say,
~ can't look up" Can you not then
give some signal like that which was
given by the lad in the hospital? He
was sick and suffering and dying and
wanted speedily to 60 away from all
suffering and pain, and he said TO his
comrades in the hospital Tits strange
to me that Jesus doesn't see me when
He goes through here nights and takes
others to Himself He goes through
here aud He doesn't see me; must be
asleep and He doesn't know l want to
GO"
''Now I'll tell You how Ill arrange
it I'll 60 to sleep with my hand up,
and then, when Jesus comes through
the hospital by night He will see my
hand lifted and He will know by that
want to 90 with him" So it was done.