Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-29

| The music turns out to be n groan. The
fruits burst the rind with rank poison
The filagree is made up of twisted
snakes. The couch is grave. Small
allowance of peace, small allowance OF
comfort. Cold, hard, rough-nothing
but file. So it is with Voltaire, the
most applauded man of his day.
The Scripture was his text book, whence h.
drew
Bon mots to gall the Christian and the Jew.
| An intde when well, but what when sick!
| Oh then text would touch him to the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs
in Paris, where he had gone to be
crowned in the theater as an idol OF
all France, he sends messenger to get
priest that he may be reconciled to
the church before he dies. A great
terror falls upon him. He makes the
place all about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for
all the wealth of Europe see another
infidel die. Philistine iniquity had
promised him all the worlds garlands,
but in the last hour of his life when he
needed solacing, sent tearing across his
conscience and his nerves a file, file.
So it was with Lord Byron, his I'M
cleanness in England only surpassed
by his uncleanness in Venice,
then going on to end his
brilliant misery in Missolonghi, fret
ting ut his nurse, Fletcher, fretting ut
himself, fretting at the world, fretting
Mt God; and he who gave to the world
IL .,.1a a olytc
and The Prisoner of Chillon," and
''The Siege of Corinth," reduced to
nothing but file. Oh, sin has great
facility for making promises, but it
has just as great facility for breaking
them. A Christian life is the only
cheerful life, while life of wicked
surrender is remorse. ruin and death.
It's painted glee is sepulchral ghastli-
| ness.
learn from this subject what o sad
thing it is when the church of God
loses its metal. These Philistines saw
that if they could only get all the
metallic weapons out of the hands OF
the Israclites all would be well, and,
therefore. they took the swords and the
spears. They did not want them to
have single metallic weapon. When
the metal of the Israelites was gone
their strength was gone. This is the
trouble with the church of God to-
day. 1t is surrendering its cour-
age. 1t has not got enough metal
How seldom it is that you see
man taking his position in pew,
or in pulpit, or in a religious So
ciety, and holding that position against
all oppression. and all trial, and all
persecution, and all criticism. The
church of God to-day wants more back
bone, more defiance, more concentrated
bravery, more metal. How often you
see man start out in some good enter
prise. and at the first blast of newspa-
perdom he has collapsed, and all his
courage gone. forgetful of the fact that
if man be right, all the newspapers
of the earth, wiz all their columns
pounding away ut him, cannot do him
any permanent damage. 1t is only
when a man is wrong that he can be
damaged. Why, God is going to vindi-
cath His truth, and He is going to stand
by you, my friends, in every effort you
make for Christ's cause and the saliva
| ton of men.
We want more of the determination
of Jonathan. do not suppose he was
n very wonderful man: but he got on
his knees and clambered up the rock,
and with the help of his armor-bearer
| L 4 4 q. s..Ns nd IN
man of very ordinary intellectual at
tainments on his knees can storm any
thing for God and for truth. We want
something of the determination OF the
general who went into the war, and as
he entered his first battle his knees
knocked together, his physical courage
not quite up to his moral courage, and
he looked down ut his knees and said:
.'Ah, if you knew where was going to
take YOU, YOU would shake worse than
that" There is only one question for
YOU to ask and for me to ask. What
does God want me to do? Where is the
field? Where is the work? Where is
the anvil? Where is the prayer meet
ing? Where is the pulpit? And, find
ing out what God wants us to do, go
ahead and do tall the energies of our
BODY, mind and soul enlisted in the I'M
dertaking. Oh, my brethren, we have
but little time in which to fight for
God. You will be dead soon. Put in
the Christian cause every energy that
God gives you. what thy hand lind
eth to do, do it with all thy might, for
there is neither wisdom nor device in
the grave whittier we are all hasten
ing" Oh, is it not high time that we
wake out of sleep? Church of God, lift
ND your head at the coming victory!
The Philistines will go down, and
the Israelites will go up. We
are on the winning side. Hear