The Globe-republican., 1894-06-01

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Flashes from Mr.. Busser's Sermon
ON Jonah.
The speaker started out by saying thai
he proposed to show that the world wa.
full of Jonahs to-day. Thousands Of
years have passed away; new worlds
have been discovered; stupendous prog
ress has been made, yet men act just Al
Jonah did. They are indecisive. They
halt and stumble in duty. They poison
and injure others bv their folly. If turn
Ing ones back to the call Of duty running
away from God and Sinking resron-
sibilities: constitutes Jonah, surely we
have Jonahs in the present age. II get
ting up excuses to avoid active work in
the vineyard Of Christ, II rausacking
our brains to find subterfuges to sustain
our position of negligence and opposi-
tion to God, constitutes a Jonah, we
need not 60 out Of the United States, or
the state of Kansas, or the city of Dodge
City, to find them. II trying to hush the
calls OF conscience and injure the claims
OF our fellow men to our sympathy and
help, constitutes Jonah, we find them
every where.
God sent Jonah to Nineveh to preach
the gospel. He knew he ought to 20,
but he used his mind to invent excuses
and tried to run away from God. Many
people in Dodge City know they ought
to be christians, but they are getting up
excuses all the time to keep away from
God.
If men originated good deeds, charity
and brotherly love az fast and carefully
as they originate excuses to get out of
work, what a different and happy world
We would have! What is an excuse? It
is mans reason highly exercised in a
line with bis own convenience. Argu-
ment is the essence of excuses. We
search high and low for reasons to en-
dorse US in any course we desire to take. |
There have been men who reasoned |
themselves into blocks of stone, in order |
to become irresponsible creatures. Toi
rub out the Possibility Of future punish.
ment. men hxSe been known to make |
brutes. without souls, whose |
deeds extend no farther than the grave.
Why do some men try to prove that they
have no souls, that death is the end of
III things? Because then they have moth
ing to fear. The people that have most
10 fear from hell, are the ones that try
70 knock the bottom out of it.
All men are builders of air castles, into
which they call their consciences, put.
ing them to sleep with the narcotic Of
his worlds delusive hopes. When Jonah
vas on the ship on the Mediterranean,
'e tried to sleep, but bis bad conscience
Iept him awake.
Jonah refused to 20 to Nineveh be-
'ause he feared God would repent, and
'eing long suffering and merciful, might
70 induced to spare the Ninevites. If he
vent and preached damnation to them,
le wanted the damuatiOn to come quick.
Tonah thought be carried hell with him,
nd he hesistated about going, If it was
{ all likely that some would slip
trough. What = lesion this Is for US! ,
low common it is to threaten men, in
tead of loving them into the Kingdom.
We like to make God consuming fire.
0me men have worn their knees out
raYing, and have made so many sacri-
ces for Christ, that they can't endure {
hat any one should be saved without {
UGH hard experiences as they had. We
ften think that we are Gods favorites,
nd we make religion monopoly. The
cart of God was in that great, wicked
ity of Nineveh. He loved them, though
hey were very ignorant and wicked.
hink of the Nineveh that lies around
ach one of us. Think of the suffering
! society. Think of the abused and the
ronged. Think of the millions bred to
ice and crime. Think of the burdens
nd embargoes. Practical christianity
to get up and go into this city and 4
reach the glad tidings of the love and
ercy of God.
Gods heart is oftener found among the
inning, suffering masses of the world, O
ian in frescoed churches. like the :
'ldier's idea; for country give my life, i
my country's enemies l hold out for "
accompanied by n
ercy. General Grant en,leared himself 7.
his soldiers, by his generous treatment >;
Lee at AppomatOX. l,
l like the fireman'S idea; he risks his
e without regard for whom he makes
e sacrifice. The property may belong
an enemy. and it may be an enemy in :.