Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-21

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the dumb devil. If some one should
malign your father, or mother, or wife,
or husband, or child, you would flush
up quick, and either with IN indignant
word, or doubled fist, make response.
And yet here is our Christian religion,
which hos done so much for you and SC
much for the world that 1t will take all
eternity to celebrate 1t, and yet, when
it was attacked, you did not so much as
say: II differ. object. l am sorry
to hear you say that There is another
side to this" You Christian people
ought in such times as these to go
armed, not with earthly weapons, but
with the sword of the Spirit. You
ought to have four or five questions
with which you could confound any
man who attacks Christianity.
o friends, better load up with few
interrogation points. you cannot af-
ford to be silent when God and the
Bible and the things of eternity are as
sailed. Your silence gives consent to
the bombardment of your fathers house.
You allow a slur to be cast on your
mothers dying pillow. In behalf of
Christ, who for you went through the
agonies of assassination on the rocky
bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not
face a siclly joke. Better load up
with few questions so that next time
you will be ready. Say to the scoffer,
my dear sir, will you tell me what
makes the difference between the con-
dition of woman in China and the
United States? What do you think of
the sermon on the mount? How do you
like the golden rule laid down in the
Scriptures? Are you in favor of the
ten commandments? In your large and
extensive reading have you come across
lovclier character than Jesus Christ?
Will you please to name the triumphant
death-beds of infidels and atheists?
How do you account for the fact that
among the out and out believers in
Christianity were such persons rs Ben
jamin Franklin, John Ruskin, Thomas
Carlyle, Darlington Macaulay, William
Penn, Walter Scott, Charles Kinsley,
Horace Bushnell, james A. Garfield,
Robert Z. Lee, Stonewall jackson,
Admiral Foote, Admiral Farragut,
Ulysses S. Grant, John Milton, William
Shakespeare, Chief Justice Marshall,
John Adams, Daniel Webster, George
Washington? How do you account for
their fondness for the Christian re-
ligion? Among the innumberable col
leges and universities of the earth, will
you name me three, started by infidels
and supported by infidels? Down in
your heart are you really happy in the
position you occupy antagonistic to the
Christian religion? When do You have
the most rapturous views of the next
world?" Go ut him with few such
questions and he will get so rcd in the
face as to suggest apopleXy, and he will
look at his watch and say he has an en-
gagement and must go.
But then there are occasions when
this particular spirit that Christ exor-
cised when he said: 81 charge thee to
come out of him." takes people by the
wholesale. In the most responsive re-
ligious audience have you noticed how
many people never sing at all? They
have book and they have voice and
they know how to read. They know
many tunes, and yet are silent while
the great raptures of music pass by.
Among those who sing not one out OF a
hundred sings loud enough to hear his
own voice. They hum it. They give a
sort of religious grunt. They make the
lips go but it is inaudible. With voice
strong enough to stop a street car one
block away, all they can afford in the
praise of God is about half whisper.
During the cotton famine in Lanca-
shire, England, when the suffering was
something terrific, as the first wagon
load of cotton rolled in, the starving
people unlocked the horses and drew
the load themselves, singing, until all
Lancashire Joined in with triumphant
voices, their cheeks sopping with tears:
praise God from whom all blessings
flow." When Com. Perry, with his war
ship, the Mississippi, lay off the coast
of Japan, he bombarded the shores with
"Old Hundred" played by the marine
band. Glorious ''Old Hundred" COM
posed by William Franc, Of Germany.
In a war prison, at ten o'clock at night,
the poor fellows far from home and
wounded and sick and dying, one pris-
oner started the ''Old Hundred DoXol-
ogy" and then score of voices Joined,
then all the prisoners on all the floors
took up the acclaim until the building,
from foundation to topstone, fairly
quaked with the melodious ascription.
A British man of war, living of a for
eign coast, heard a voice sing
ing that doxology and immedi-
ately guessed, and guessd Alright,
that there was an Englishman in cap
tivity to the Mohammedans; and in the
small boats the sailors rowed to shore
and burst into a guard-house and set
the captive free. / don't know what
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