Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-12

sins.
There are hospitals for ''incurables."
When men are hopelessly sick, they
are sent there. Thank God! there Is
no hospital for spiritual incurables
Though you had tho worst leprosy that
ever struck soul, your flesh shall
come again like little child. o, this
mercy Of God! am told that it is IN
ocean. Then place on 1t four swift
sailing craft with compass, and charts,
and choice rigging. and slsillful naviga-
tors, and tell them to launch away,
and discover for me the extent OF this
ocean. That craft puts out in one d.
rection, and sails to the north; this
craft TO the south; this to the east; this
to the west They crowd on all their
canvass, aud sail ten thousand years,
and one day come up the harbor OF
Heaven, and shout to them from the
beach, shave you found the shores"
and they answer, mo shore to Gods
mercy!" Swift angels, dispatched from
the throne, attempt to go across 1t. For
a million years they fly and fly, but
then come back and fold their wings at
the foot of the throne, and cry, mo
shore! no shore 70 Gods mercy!
Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! ] sing it
/ preach it. Ipray it. Here ! tiud a
man bound hand and foot to the devil,
but with one stroke of the hammer OF
Gods truth the chains fall off and he
is free forever. Mercy! Mercy
Mercy! There is no depth it cannot
fathom, there is no height it cannot
scale, there is no infnity it cannot
compass take my stand under this
goodly cedar and see the hocks flying
thither. They are torn with the shot
of temptation, and wounded, and sick.
and Scared. Some fought with iron
beak, some once Toasted on carcasses,
some were fierce of eye and cruel OF
talon. but they came, flock after flock
TALL fowl of every wing" Again, all
the dying will find their nest in this
goodly cedar 1t is cruel to destroy
a birds nest, but death does not hesi-
tate to destroy one. There was beau
tiful nest in the next street Lovingly
tho parents brooded over 1t. There
were two or three little robins in the
nest The scarlet fever thrust its
hot hands into the nest and the birds
are gone. Only those are safe who
have their nests in the goodly cedar.
They have over them ''the feathers OF
the Almighty" o. to have those soft,
warm, eternal wings stretched over us!
Let the storms beat, and the branches
of the cedar toss on the wind-no dam
ger. When the storm comes you Gun
see the birds flying to the woods. Ere
the storm Of death comes down, let us
fly to the goodly cedar. Of what great
varieties Heaven will be made up!
There come men who once were hard
and cruel, and desperate in wickedness,
yet now, soft Qnd changed by grace,
come into glory: "All fowl OF every
wing" And here they come. the chill
dren who were reared in loving home
circles, flock NJ through the gates OF
life; "All fowl of every wing" These
were white and came from northern
homes; these were black and as
cended from southern plantations;
these were copper colored and
went up from Indian reservations.
"All fowl of every wing" So
God gathers them up. tits astonishing
how easy it is for a good soul to enter
Heaven.
1t is easy to 60 when the time comes.
There are no ropes thrown out to pull
us ashore; there are no ladders letdow
to pull us up. Christ comes and takes
us by the hand and says: "You have
had enough Of this; come up" Do you
hurt a lily when you pluck it? 1sthere
any rudeness when Jesus touches the
cheek and the red rose of health
whitens into the lily Of immoral purity
and glndness?
When autumn comes and the giant
OF the woods smites his anvil and the
leafy sparks fly on the autumnal gale,
then there will be thousands OF birds
gathering in the tree at the corner OF
the field. just before departing to
warmer chimes and they will call and
sing until the branches drop with the
melody. There is better Cline for us
and by and by we snail lmmlgrRte' we
gather in the branches Of the goodly
cedar, in preparations for departure.
You heard our voices in the opening
song; you will hear them in the closing
song-voices good, voices bad. voices
happy, voices distressful-"All fowl OF
every wing" BY and by we shall be
gone. II all this audience is saved-as
] hope they will bel see them enter
ing into life. Some have had it hard,
some have had it easy. Some were
brilliant some were dull. Some were,
rocked by pious parentage, others have
had their infantile cheeks scalded with
the tears of woe. Some crawlcd as it
were, into the kingdom on their hands
and knees, and some seemed to enter
in chariots of flaming fire. Those fel!
from q ships mast these were crushed