The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-29


more fit for her holy companionship
than a filthy crow would be 1T COM
panlon for a robin or a golden oriole'
with the world and sur
render to its conventionalities and IL
may let you alone, but all VINO VIII
live godly in Christ Jesus must suher
Be theater-going, caro-
playing. wine-drinking. round-danclhg
Christian, and you may escape criu-
clsm and social pressure. But be an up
and down, out and out follower Oh
Christ, and wording will wink 10
worldling as he speaks your name anu
you will be put to many doggerei, anu
snubbed by those not worthy to blacK-
en- your Oldest shoes. When the bridge
at Ashtabula broke, and let down the
most of the carload of passengers 10
instant death, Mr.. p. P. Bless was
seated on one side of the aisle OF the
car writing down Christian song
which he was composing, and OH 'ne
other side group of men were play
ing cards. Whose landing place IN
eternity would you prefer-that OF h:
p. Bliss, the Gospel singer, or OIL ene
card-players?
A great complaint comes from the
theaters about the ladies' high hals'
because they obstruct the view Oh tne
stage, and lady reporter asked me
what thought about 1t, and toid
her that IL the indecent pictures OF ac-
tresses in the show windows were ac-
curate pictures of what goes ON In
many of the theaters, night by Right
then 1t would be well If the ladies hats
were mile high, so as to compieteiy
obstruct the vision. If proiesseu
Christians go to such places during the
week. no one will ever prosecute them
for their religion, for they have none
and they are the joke of hell. But let
them live a consecrated and CHRISTIAN
life and they will soon run against
sneering opposition.
For a compromise Christian char
acter an easy time now, but Tor conse-
Grated behavior, grimace and carica-
ture. For the body, thanks to the COO
of free America, there are now NO
swords or fiery stakes, but for the souls
of thousands of the good, in a fgura-
tive sense, rack and gibbet and Tor
quemada. The symbol of the domestic
and social and private and public SUI
fering of a great multitude of Gods
dear children, pillars of smoke. What
an exciting scene in India, when, our
ing the Sepoy rebellion, regiment OF
Highlanders came up and found the
dead body of one Of General wheeler $
daughters, who had been insulted ana
mauled and slain by the Sepoys. 81
great was the wrath against these
murderers that the Scotch regiment
sat down and, cutting OF the halr Vi
this dead daughter of Gen. Wheeler
they divided it among them, and eacn
one counted the number of hairs given
him. and each one took an oath, which
was executed, that for each mar VI
the murdered daughter they woule
dash out the life of bestial sepoy
But as we look over the story OF thos'
who in all ages have suffered for tn'
truth. while we leave vengeance u
the Lord, let us band together in on
solemn VOW, one tremendous oath
after having counted the host or tn'
martyrs, that for each one OF thos'
glorious men and women who died 10
truth an immortal shall Twelve Will
God and live forever.
But as already limited in the mrs
sentence of this sermon, nothing cal
be more beautiful than the figures
smoke on q clear sky. You can SCI
what you will in the contour OF thl
volatile vapor, now enchanted castles
now troops of horsemen, now bannere'
procession, now winged couriers, no"
black angel of wrath under spear
the sunshine turned to an angel
light, and now from horizon to horl
zon the air is picture gallery flle'
with masterpieces of which God Is tn
artist. morning clouds of smoke borl
in the sunrise, and evening clouds
smoke laid in the FURNISHED sepulchre
of the sunset
The beauty of the TRANSPORTED smok
Is a divine symbol of the beauty o
the church. The fairest of all the fai
is she. Do not call those prosecutor
of whom l spoke the church. They ar
the parasites of the church, not tn
: church itself. Her mission is to cove
the earth with supernatural gladness
to open all the prison doors, to balsan
all the wounds, to moss all the graves
to burn up the night in the fireplac
of a great morning, to change irol
handouts into diamonded wristlets, t.
turn the whole race around, and where
as 1t faced death, commanding il
Right about face for heaven!" Ac
cordiug to the number of the spires o
the churches in all our cities, town
and neighborhoods. are the goo
homes, the world properties. and tn
pure morals and the happy souls.
1t is demonstrated to all honest mel
that it is not SO certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," o
Longfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as tina
God, by the hand of prophet and apos
tie, wrote the Bible. All the wise mel
in science and law and medicine ant
literature and merchandise are grad
ually coming to believe in Christianity