The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-12-28

Of God, and even her kneeling prayer
by the bedside derision. and Is NO
more ii for her holy companionship
than a filthy crow would be At COM
panion for . robin or a golden oriole.
Compromise with the world and sur
render to its conventionalities and 1t
may let you alone. but all who will
live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution. Be theater-going. card
playing. wine-drinkipg. round-dancing
Christian, and you may escape criti-
etsm and social pressure. But be an up
and down. out and out follower of
Christ. and wording will wink to
wording as he speaks your name, and
you will be put to many a doggerel, and
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 to
instant death. Mr.. p. p. Bliss was
seated on one side of the aisle of the
car writing down a Christian song
which he was composing, and on the
other side group of men were play
Ing cards. Whose landing place in
eternity would you prefer-that Of F.
P. Bliss, the Gospel singer, or of the
card-players?
A great complaint comes from the
theaters about the ladies' high hats.
because they obstruct the view of the
stage. and a lady reporter asked me
what l thought about it, and l told
her that IL the indecent pictures of &C
tresses in the show windows were ac-
curate pictures of what goes on in
many of the theaters. night by night.
then 1t would be well if the ladies' hats
were mile high, so as to completely
obstruct the vision. II professed
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 for conse-
Grated behavior. grimace and carica-
ture. For the body, thanks to the God
of free America, there are now no
swords or fiery stakes, but for the souls
of thousands of the good in figura-
tive sense. rack and gibbet and Tor
Quemada. The symbol Of the domestic
and social and private and public suf-
fering of great multitude of Gods
dear children. pillars of smoke. What
an exciting scene in India, when. dur
ing the SepOy rebellion, regiment OF
Highlanders came up and found the
dead body of one of General Wheeler's
daughters. who had been insulted and
mauled and slain by the Sepoys. So
great was the wrath against these
murderers that the Scotch regiment
sat down and, cutting OF the hair Of
this dead daughter of Gen. Wheeler,
they divided it among them, and each
one counted the number of hairs given
him, and each one took an oath, which
was executed, that for each hair of
the murdered daughter they would
dash out the life of a bestial Sepoy.
But as we look over the story of those
who in all ages have suffered for the
truth. while we leave vengeance to
the Lord, let us band together in one
solemn vow, one tremendous oath.
after having counted the host of the
martyrs, that for each one OF those
glorious men and women who died for
truth an immortal shall liye-live with
God anc live forever.
But as l already limited in the first
sentence of this sermon, nothing can
be more beautiful than the figures OF
on a clear sky. You can see
what you viii in the contour of this
volatile vapor. now enchanted castles,
now troops of horsemen. now hammered
now winged couriers. now a
black angel of wrath under spear of
the sunshine turned to an angel OF
light. and now from horizon to hori-
zon the air is a picture gallery filled
with masterpieces of which God is the
artist, morning clouds of smoke born
in the sunrise. and evening clouds of
smoke laid in the FURNISHED sepulchres
Of the sunset.
The beauty of the TRANSPORTED smoke
Is a divine symbol of the beauty of /!
The church. The fairest of all the fair
IS she. Do not call those prosecutors
If whom l spoke the church. They are |
he parasites of the church, not the |
church ITSELF Her mission is to cover
he earth with supernatural gladness.
o open all the prison doors. to balsam
Ill the wounds. to moss all the graves.
% burn up the night in the fireplace
If a great morning. to change iron
landcuffs into diamonded wristlets. to
urn the whole race around. and where
Is it faced death, commanding it.
Right about face for heaven!" Ac-
,ording to the number of the spires Of
he churches in all our cities. towns
Ind neighborhoods. are the good
ZONES. the world properties. and the
,ure morals and the happy souls.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men
hat it is not so certain that William
julien Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," or
-ongfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as that
,od. by the hand of prophet and apos-