The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-15

| Eager crowds streamed into the au-
| ditorium again last night despite the
threatening clouds. TO hear Evangelist
Whitman and his singers
| The services began with Rock OF
| Ages" sung with stately effect. The
company then sang when the Mists
| Have Rolled Away" and Seeking the
Lost" and the evangelist announced
| that he would talk about Jacobs lad
| der. This beautiful vision of the flee
| ing fugative was to him one Of the
| brightest lessons in all the Bible. jacob
! was runaway. He had run from the
hard conditions which he had brought
| upon himself by his own misdoings. A
| homeless wanderer he slept in the wild
| erness.. Adversely had brought him
| down. yet he had only himself TO blame.
But God came TO him in the valley and
\ on the rocks.
This vision" he said. teaches me
| first, that God comes 10 His human
| children even when their own sins have
brought them down hard and low. The
gates OF life open outward and up
wards and even the lowest may look to-
| wards them. The ladder signifies the
gospel means of reaching and elevating
| the fallen. And this is first the thing
| that Jesus came into this world to do.
| The gospel is a mighty reaching down
| TO lift up and 10 save. The gospel is
| the power of God reaching up and down
| TO the two worlds. No man ever sin
| cerely wanted to lead a new life and
| reform his character and did not find
| the means for doing so in the gospel Of
Jesus Christ in His life and in His con-
| duct, will rise in character and in pow
Il ~. Id -
| munication Is set up between earth and
| heaven. Jacob saw in the vision tha;
| angels assembled upon IL and descended.
| This is a beautiful assurance. Angel
| means messenger. and TO come and go
| signifies TO bear messages betwixt two
| points. Say what we may in doubt and
| fear, this is what our Heavenly Father
| meant for Jacob to understand. Heaven
| is not out our human reach. Life feels
! a receding wave and shorewards we
| meet wave coming from above. The
| agels went up and down between the
| pillow OF loneliness and trouble and the
1 arched gateway of faith and hope the
| messengers are ever going and the two
| worlds are not far apart.
| Again, the ladder teaches that the
| life which struggles upward ends on
high. The rocks of Haran were low for
Jacobs head but the house of God was
| there and the gate Of heaven was at
| hand. Faith and hope, see the SUBMITS
| and the bright whispers of the soul are
the messengers. cheering us upwards.
| True character is the firm resting
! ground for all upward aims and blessed
| is the man whose ladder rests upon it,
| The speaker then showed at length
how the gospel had elevated his people
| in the south and how the good work
| was still going on. He altogether felt
| happy and cheerful and knew the end
| must be good for his race.
| The vast audience listened to the
| speaker with the closest attention
| throughout the discourse and little
Essie then sang a SOLO with unusual ef-
| feet
| Mr.. Whitman then announced that
tonight his company would give No. ;
| concert. which would embrace an en-
tirely new program from the others
| given