Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-28

other lands have been estab-
lished for the PRONUNCIATION of
Theosophy. Instead of needing the
revelation of Bible, you can have
these spirits from u cave in central
Asia to tell you all you ought to know.
and after You leave this life You may
become prima donna or robin or u
gazelle or sort of prize fighter or
Herod or ,Iezebel; and so be enabled
to have great variety of experience,
rotating through the universe, now
rising, now falling, now shot out in
straight line, and now describing
parabola, and ON ana on, and up and
up, and down and down, and round
and round. Don't you see? Now, that
Theosophic life-boat has been launched.
II proposes to take you off the rough
sea of doubt into everlasting quietude.
How do YOU like that life-boat? My
opinion is you had better initiate the
mariners of my text and cut off the
ropes of that boat and let her fall Off
Another lifc-boat tempting to enter
is made up of many planks of good
works. 1t is really beautiful boat
alms-giving, practical sympathies for
human sutfcrering, righteous words
and righteous deeds. j must admit /
like the looks of the Prov and OF the
row-locks and of the paddles and OF the
steering gear and of many who are
thinking to trust themselves on her
benches. But the trouble about that
life-boat is it leaks. never knew a
man yet good enough to earn Heaven
by his virtues or generosities. If there
be one person here present on this
blessed Sabbath all of whose thoughts
have been always right, all of whose
actions have always been right, and all
of whose words Shave always been
right, let him stand up, or if already
standing, let him lift his hand, and
will know that he lies Paul had it
about right when he said: by
the deeds of the law shall no
flesh living be justified" David
had it about right when he
said: "There is none that doeth good;
no. not one" The Old Book had it
about right when it said: "All have
sinned and come short of the glory OF
God" Let man get off that little
steamer called 1.-The Maid of the Mist"
which sails up to the foot of Niagara
falls, and then climb to the top of the
falls on the descending floods he can
do it easier than any man ever will be
able to climb to Heaven by his good
works. If your thoughts have always
been exactly right, and your words ex-
actlv right, and your deeds always eX-
actly right, and your deeds always en-
actly right, you can go up to the gate
of Heaven, and you need not even
knock for admittance. but open it your
self. and push the angels out of the
front seats. But you would be so I'M
like anyone else that has gone up from
this world that you would be curios-
'ity in Heaven, and more fit for n heav-
enly museum than for place where
the inhabitants could look at you free
of charge
Another life-boat is Christian lncon-
sistencies. The planks of this boat are
composed of the split planis of ship
wrecks That prov is made out OF
hypocrisy from the life of man who
professed one thing and really was an
other. One oar of this life-boat was the
falsehood of church member, and the
other was the wickedness of some min
lister of the gospel, whose iniquities
were not for long while found out.
Not one plank from the oak of Gods
eternal truth in all that life.boat All
the planks, by universal admission,
are decayed and crumbling, and fallen
apart and rott en- and ready to sink.
''Well, WELL" you say; mo one will
want to get into that life-boat" Oh;
my friend, you are mistaken. That
is the most popular life-boat ever
constructed. That is the most pop
ular life-boat ever launched. Mil
lions of people want to get into
it. They jostle each other to get the
best seat in the boat. You could not
keep them back though you stood at
the gunwales with n club Even by
such violence rs that you could not
keep people from jumping into the
most popular lifc-boat, made of church
member inconsistencies. In times of
revival when sinners flock into the in
quiry room, the most of them are kept
from deciding Alright because they
know SO many Christians who are bad.
The Inquiry room becomes worlds
fair for exhibition of all the frailties of
church members, so that If you believe
all is there told you, you would be
afraid to enter church lest
you get your pockets picked or
get knocked down. This is the way.
they talk: 81 was cheated out of $500
by leader of a Bible class" "A Sun
day-school teacher gossiped about me
and did her best to destroy my good
name" ~ had partner in business
who swamped our business concern by
his trickery, and then rolled up his
orop ~ Eridou mint Y,ravar maaainn