Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-21
The world had a monarchy.

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everywhere dominant and recognized.
Then the world will get tired of the re-
publican form of government, and 1t
will have an anarchy, which is no gov
eminent ut all. And then, all nations,
finding out that man Is not capable
of righteously governing man, will
cry out again for theocracy,
and suy: LET God come back and
conduct the affairs of the world" Ev-
cry step-monarchy limited monarchy,
republicanism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocracy and
the last theocracy, or segments OF the
great circle of the earth on which God
sits. But do not become impatient be-
cause you cannot see the curve OF events,
and therefore conclude that Gods gov
eminent is going to break down. His
tory tells us that in the making OF the
Pyramids it took 1000 men two years
to drag one great stone from the quarry
and put it into the Pyramids Well
now, IL men short-lived can afford to
work so slowly as that, cannot God in
the building of the sternities afford to
wait? What though God should take
10, 900 years to draw circle? Shall we
take our little watch, which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock OF eter-
nal ages? II, according to the Bible, n
thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then according to that calcu-
lation the G,OOO years of the worlds
existence have been only to God from
Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
bound is quicker, and the circle is
sooner completed. You resolve that
you will do what good you can. In one
week you put word of counsel in the
heart of Sabbath school child. Dur
ing that same week you give letter of
introduction to young man struggling
in business. During the same week
YOU make an exhortation in a prayer
meeting. 1t is all gone; you will never
hear of it perhaps, you think. A few
years after man comes up to You and
says: "You don't know me, do your
You say: mo, don't remember ever
to have seen YOU" why" he says, ~
was in the Sabbath school class over
which you were the teacher
one Sunday you invited me to Christ; /
accepted the offer; you see that church
with the two towers yonder?" 'Yes,"
you say. He says: THAT is where
preach" or, ''Do you see the governors
house? That is where ! live" One
day man comes to you and says:
Good morning" You look ut him and
say: "Why you have the advantage of
me; l cannot place YOU" He says:
Don't you remember thirty years ago
giving a letter of introduction to q
young mana letter of introduction
to Moses II. Grinnell?' Eyes, yes,
do" He says: II am the
man: that was my first step toward
fortune; but have retired
from business now and am giving my
time to philanthropics and public in
terests. Come up and see me-" Or u
man comes to you and says: IL want
to introduce myself to you. went into
prayer meeting in Atlanta some years
ago: sat back by the door; you arose
to make an eyhortation: that talk
changed the whole course of my life
and if 1 ever get to Heaven, under God
/ will owe my salvation to you" In
only ten, twenty or thirty years the cir
Gle swept out and swept back again to
your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is wider circle
and does not return fora great while.
saw a bill of expenses for burning
Latimer and Ridley. The bill of eX-
penses says:
Ono load Of frs fagots IS %
Carriage for four loads OF wood. ...........2s
Item, post. ...''''''.'I 10 ~
Item, TWO cnains ''''''''''''''0s "
Item, two staples Observation-Disclosures. %
Item. four laborers. .............Ss I'd
That was cheap fire, considering all
the circumstances; but it kindled n
light that shone all around the world
and aroused the martyr spirit, and out
from that burning of Latimer and Rid
lev rolled the circle wider and wider,
starting other circles, convoluting, over
running, eircumscribing, overarching
all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good is just as
true of the bad. You utter SANDER
against your neighbor. 1t has gone
forth from your teeth; it will never come
back you think. You have done the
man all the mischief you can. You re-
ioice IN see him vince You say,
didn't give it to him" That word
has gone out, that slanderous word, on
its poisonous and blasted way. You
think it will never do you any harm.
But l am watching that word, and
see it beginning to curve, and it curves
around, and it is aiming at your heart
You had better dodge it You cannot
dodge it. 1t rolls into your bosom, and
after it rolls in word Of an old book
which says: with what measure We
mete, it shall be measured to you