People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-28
"ChRIST IN HIS WORLD"
Grover Cleveland Has Nothing to Do with
the Case.

the Case.
The Rev. DR.. Gray, OF Chicago, de-
livered a lecture Wednesday evening
in the NJ. Z. church at Wellington.
Mr.. Gray does not consider, nor
does Christ teach, that conversion is
the end Of christianity. The King.
dom of Christ on earth is coming,
but it must grow out Of the souls Of
men who have Christ within.
"The end and purpose Of christian
ity is for the redemption Of society.
Conversion is not character. 1t
gives nobody anything but the foun.
dation upon which character is built,
There is in christianity no sacred and
secular things. Everything the chris
tian does that enters into the fOrma-
tion of right character is as sacred
as God himself.
Christianity is for the establish
ment Of right relations between man
and man-nOt only pure heart and
pure motive, but right government
aud right society, right business
right everything.
christianity is life, not form.
Do | believe in morals? Most assur-
edly yes. But moral life must grow
out Of the life within.
mo true christian ever wonder:
whether he is christian-he knows
lit. Christianity is a hidden life
like the leayen which the woman bic
| in three measures OF meal until The
whole was leavened. The leaver
works out from within.
Everybody is trying to reform sOci
ETY. by outward applications Of goOC
and bad remedies. Thank God tn,
leaven has worked to make refOrmer
out of everybody. The Republican
have been trying to reform things 70
thirty years; the Democrats for abou
sixty years; the POpulists are the LAT
est in the field; the Prohibitionist
have also been hammering away 70
ten years.
But everyone Of them from tn
, Grahamites, who thought to reforT
society by eating brown bread, to tn
POpulists OF Kansas. have presente,
only outward remedies. The redemI
tiOn must work out.
Let US 90 back 1900 years and S;
Christ planting the idea of the brOtl
! hood Of man-in which there is neitl
l er Jew nor Gentle, neither bond M
free, neither male nor female. lS(
j years have passed, the leayen hidde
is working-but meanwhile millior
of people have been killed, tyranI
and beggary, dissipation and misel
on every hand until 1t sOmetim,
seems that God has deserted IL
e world. But the leayen works. III
9 great upheaval Of '6l that overture
: slavery was the work Of the leave
{ Christ placed in the hearts of Il
/ world.
f "NO man can read history withol
4 seeing Christ on every page. b
throw aside history, and look at d
, condition of the United States tod
e torn and strained at every nery
Q The man is blind who cannot see
r. THE Republicans charge Grow
Cleveland with all these disturbanc
they make Of him the greatest mi
n in the world. Cleveland is not
le great a man as to cause all this
q rising, it is the leayen in the hear
Of the people.
Ie II am not a POpulist-in fact, dol
le know what they adyOcate-but VIII
ID | see this uprising and discomfort
farmers and labOrers-when ! Isee m
struggling as the strikers at Pullm
$ as | see the earnest discussion al
e, uprising Of the farmers OF Kansas
ty turn back to hear Christ whiSp
= BLESSED are the meek, for they sh
inherit the EARTH" / believe t
ID time is come for a government Of
n people. The reign Of aristOcracy a
al wealth Of a few and oppression Of
- many must give place to the grow
Il of the life from within.
"Christian life is an OutgrOwth
RS Gods lOve-it is life-that is all il
70 "a life of love. There is no chi
- tianity outside Of love. Love me
dl ures christianity-it is the only thi
III that does measure it. We come fr
,ly death unto life because we love
brethren. God never did anyth
except on the basis Of love. L.
ne is the center, the circumference,
re- all Of christianity.
a Somebody has said that "loye
he blind"-that is lie. Love sees
,te erything-seizes every opportunity
~ Il like a love that does SOmeth
We don't care much about the eifer'
'ut cling kind Of love.
di- Look at that man. G1G .ceS
much in the man in the gutt,s is
!. one in the presidents cnA.r. h
ho furnish a foundation on which
OF can build a life. Often the best fC
So Ga.iUn is l.iI the lowest.