The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

business Worldly reform by all
means: but unless it be also gospel re-
form. it will be dead failure. In New
york it's chief work has been to give US
a change of bosses. We had a demo-
cratic boss and now it is to be a repub-
1ican boss. but the quarrel is, who shall
he the republican? Politics will save
the cities the same day that satan evan
gelizeS perd1tlon.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
a s spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it will have a momen-
tum and a power mightier than that
of the Atlantic ocean when, under the
force of the September equinox, it
strikes the highlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word gospel is
'.good news" and my text says it is
glorious good news and we must tell it
in our churches and over our dry goods
counters and in our factories and over
our threshing machines and behind our
ploughs and on our ships decks and in
our Darlors our nurseries and kitchens,
as though it were glorious good news
and not with a dismal draw1 in our
voice and a dismal look in our faces,
as though religion were a rheumatic
tWinge or a dyspeptic pang or mala-
rial chill or an attack of nervous pros
tration. With nine "blesseds" or hap
mount: Blessed the poor, blessed the
mourner, blessed the meek, blessed the
hungry, blessed the merciful, blessed
the pure, blessed the peace makers
blessed the prosecuted, blessed the re-
viled, blessed, blessed, blessed; happy.
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ they may
have their coming years ennobled and
for a life time all the angels of God
di11f0 all
heaven their allies. Glorious good news
| for the middle aged, as through Christ
| they may have their perplexities dis
| entangled and their courage rallied an0
their victory over all obstacles and him
| ORANGES made forever sure. Glorious
| good news for the aged, as they may
| have the sympathy of him of whom st
John wrote: His head and his hairs
were white like wool, as white as snow,
and the defense of the everlasting arms.
Glorious good news for the dying, as
| they may have ministering spirits to
! escort them and opening gates to re-
ceive them and a sweep Of eternal glo-
ries to encircle them and the welcome
of a loving God to embosom them.
oh, my text is right when it speaks
of the glorious gospel. 1t is an invi-
tation from the most radient being that
ever trod the earth or assembled the
| heavens, to you and me, to come and be
| made happy and then take after that a
royal castle for everlasting residence,
| the angels of God our cup bearers. The
price paid for all of this on the cliff of
limestone about as high as this house,
! about seven minutes walk from the
wall of Jerusalem. where with an agony
| that with one hand tore down the rocks
and with the other drew midnight
blaclxness over the heavens, our Lord
set US forever free. Making no apology
for any one of the million sins of our
life, but confessing all of them, we can
point to that cliff of limestone and say
There was paid our Indebtedness and
God never collects a bill twice. Glad
am that all the christian poets have
exerted their pen in extolling the match
less one of this gospel. Isaac Watts
how do you feel concerning him? Ane
he writes, Il am not ashamed to OWL
my Lord" Newton, what do you think
of this gospel? And he writes, "Amaz-
ing grace, how sweet the sound" Cow
per, what do you think of him? AND
the answer comes, There is fountain
filled with blood" Charles Wesley
what do you think of him? And he an
swers, Jesus, lover of my soul" Ho-
ratius Bonar, what do you think OF
him? And he responds, "I lay my sins
on Jesus" Ray Palmer, what do yor
think of him? And he writes, MY faitl
looks up to thee Fannie Crosby, VIVA
do you think of him? And she writes
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine" Blu
I take higher testimony: Solomon VIVA
do you think of him? And the answe
is, Lilly of the valley" Ezekiel, wla
do you think of him? And the answe
. is, PLANT of renown." David, what d.
. you think of him? And the answer is
my Shepherd" ST. John, what do vol
think of him? And the answer is
bright and morning star" ST. Paul
! what do you think of him? And tn
answer comes, Christ is all in ALL" D
you think we'll of him, o man, o wo
man of the b1ood-bought immortal spir
, it? Yes, Paul was right when he style,
) it '"The Glorious Gospel" And then a
, a druggist while you are waiting 70
t him to make up the doctors prescrip
ton, puts into a bottle so many grain
, of this and so many grains of that, an
! so many drops of this and so man
drops of that and the intermixture tax
| en-, though sour or bitter, restores tn
f health, so Christ, the Divine Physician
= prepares this trouble Of our life tim
: and that disappointment and this pei
I secution and that hardship and tina
I tear, and we must take the fnterrni1
+ ture, yet though it be bitter draugh
S under the divine prescription 1t admir-
! listers to our restoration and Spiritus
q health, ''a11 things working together fc
s good" Glorious gospel!
s And then the royal castle into whic
: we step out of this life without so niue
+ as soiling our foot with the upturne
d earth of the grave. "They shall reig
r forever and ever" Does not that mea
G that you are, if saved, to be kings an
l. queens, and do not kings and queer
7 have castles? But the one that you al
offered was for thirty-three years a
* abandoned castle, though now glorious
d ly inhabited. There is an abandone
Il royal castle at Amber, India. One hui
: dred and seventy years ago a kir
q moved out of it never to return. b
r the castle still stands in indescribab
e grandeur, and you go through braze
l., doorway after brazen doorway ar
d carved room after carved room and u