Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-30

too sanguinc, or 100 hOpe1ul, OF toV fn-
practical, am sure it will do no harm
that have expressed my wish for such
an international jubilee, celebrative OF
the birth of our Emmanuel. My friends,
such birthday celebration Mt the close
of one century and reaching into new
century would be something in which
Heaven and earth could join. 1t would
not only be international, but inter-
planetary, inter-stellar, inter-constel-
lation.
Aye! Aye! Ibethink myself such
vast procedure as that might hasten
our Lords coming, and that the eX-
pectation of many millions OF Chris
tians, who believe in the Second Ad-
vent, might be realized then ut that
conjunction of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. ! do not say it
would be, yet who knows but that our
blessed and adored Master, pleased
with such plan of world wide observ-
ance, might say. concerning this. wan
dering and rebellious planet: THAT
world, at last, shows a disposition to
appreciate what have done for it, and
with one wave of my Scared hand, l
will bless and reclaim and save it."
That such celebration of our Lords
birth. kept up for days and months,
would please all the good of earth, and
nightly speed on the gospel chariot,
and please all the heavens sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, and di-
vine, is beyond question.
Whether this suggestion OF worlds
celebration of the nativity be taken or
not, it has allowed me an opportunity
in somewhat unusual way OF express
ing my love for the great central char
acter of all time and all eternity. He
is the infinite None-such. The armies
of Heaven drop on their knees before
Him. After Bourdaloue, before over
whelmed audiences, has preached Him,
and Milton in immortal blank verse
has sung Him, and Michael Angelo has
g,orified the ceiling of the Vatican
with His second coming, and martyrs
while girdlcd and canopied with
the flames of the stake have
with burning lips kissed His memory,
and in the hundred and forty and
four thousand" of Heaven with feet on
seas of glass intershot with sunrise,
have with uplifted and down-swung
ba ton, and sounding comets, and wav-
ing banners, and heaven-capturing
doxologies celebrated Him, the story
of His loneliness, and His might. and
His beauty, and His grandeur. and His
grace, and His interccssion. and His
sacrifice, and of His birth and His death
will remain untold. BE His name on
our lips while we live, and when we
die after we have spoken farewell to
father and mother and wife, and child,
let us speak that Name which is the
lullaby of earth and the transport of
Heaven.
Before the crossing of time on the
midnight between December 81, 1900.
and the 1st of January, 1901, many of
us will be gone. Some of You will
hear the clock strike IL of one century
and an hour after il hear it strike of
another century, but man. of You will
| not that midnight hear either the
stroke of the city clock, or of the old
timepiece in the hallway of the home
stead. Seven years cut wide swath
through churches and communities and
nations. But those who cross from
world to world before Old Time
| in this world crosses that midnight
from century to century, will talk
among the thrones of the coming
earthly jubilee, and on the river bank
and in the house of many mansions,
until all Heaven will know of the COM
ing of that celebration, that will fill
the earthly nations with JOY and help
augment the nations of Heaven. But,
whether here or there, we will take
part in the music and the banqueting,
| if we have made the Lord our portion.
Oh, how / would like to stand ut my
front door some morning or noon or
night and see the sky part and the
blessed Lord descend in person, not as
he will come in the last judgment,
with fire and hail and earthquake, but
in sweet tenderness, to pardon all sin,
and heal all wounds, and wipe
away all tears, and feed all hunger,
and right all wrongs and illumine all
darkness, and break all bondage, and
harmonic all discords. Some think
he will thus come, but about that COM
ingL make no prophecy, for ] am not
enough learned in the Scriptures as
some of my friends are to announce a
very positive opinion. But this do
know, that it would be well for us to
have an international and an inter
world celebration of the anniversary OF
his birthday about the time of the birth
of the new century, and that it will be
wise beyond all others wisdom for us
to take him as our present and ever
lasting coadjutor, and il that Darling Of
earth and Heaven will only accept you
and me. after all our lifetime of
unworthiness and sin, we can never pay
Him what we owe, though, through all
| the eternity to come, we had every