Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

to his own advantage. Columbus and
John Fitch and Stephenson and Rob
ert Bruce and Cyrus W. Field and 500
others were illustrations of what ten
acity and pluck can do. Hard pound
ing said Wellington at Waterloo,
hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see who can pound the longest
Yes, my friends, that is the secret, not
flight from obstacles in the way, but
who can pound the longest" The
child had it right when attempting to
carry ton of coal, a shovelful at a
time, from the sidewalk to the cellar,
and some one asked her, do you ever
expect to get all that coal in with
that little shovel?'' And she replied,
Yes, sir, if 1 work long enough" By
the help of God choose your calling
and stick to it. The gadabouts are
failures for this life, to say nothing of
the next.
Fixed Spiritual Condition.
So also many are unfixed in regard
to their spiritual condition and day
after day and year after year go gad-
ding about among hopes and fears and
anxieties. They sing with great en-
phasis that old hymn which we have
all sung:
'Tis a point long to know;
Oft it causes anxious thought;
Do 1 love the Lord or no?
Am 1 his, or am 1 not?
Why do you not find out whether
you are his or not? There are all the
broad invitations of the gospel. Ac-
cept them There are all the assur-
ances. Apply them. There are all
tha Of
Adopt them. There is the Kings high
way. Start on it, Travelling any road,
you are not satisfied until you haYe
found out whether it is the right or
the wrong road, and you climb up in
the darkness to read the words on the
finger board at the roadside to see if it
be the right road, and if it be the
wrong road you cross over to the
right road. If you are on the sea, you
want to know into what port you will
run or upon what rocks you are in
danger of crashing. This moment you
have all the information pointing to
the road that terminates at the gate
of the Golden City and the voyage that
anchors in the haven of eternal rest
Why go on guessing when you have
all the facts before you? You ought to
know by examination of chart and
compass and thermometer in what
latitude and longitude you are sailing,
whether in the arctic or the tropics. A
man who does not know whether or
not he is a Christian is like a man who
does not know whether he is a mil
lionaire or a pauper. Better go to the
records and find out. The Scriptures
are the records. If you cannot there
read your title, it is because you have
10 title, and you ought to begin anew
Start new prayer, sing a new song,
open a new experience.
So, alas, there are those who CAD
about among particular churches. No
pastor can depend on them for a sin
gle service. At some time when he
has prepared a sermon, after all pray
er and all research, putting nerve and
muscle and brain and soul into it's
every paragraph, these intermittent
attendants are not there to hear it,
While an occasional absence is ex-
~cusable for the qualification of some
wish to hear that which is consecrated
Or religiously oratoric in some other
pulpit, when the pastor of church
with his eye calls the roll of attend
ance, by your presence in the old place
practically answer, saying: 81 am
here to get the benefit of all the use
full thoughts you may utter and of all
the hymns that you may give out and
of all the prayers you may offer. l,
a soldier of Jesus Christ, am in my
own place in the company, in the
battalion, in the regiment, and when
you command sMarch,' 1 will march,
and when you command Haiti l will
halt, and when you order Ground
arms,' I will ground arms
NegIecting Ones Hone.
Among the race of gadabouts are
those who neglect their homes in Or
der that they may attend to institu-
tions that are really excellent and do
not so much ask for help as demand
it, 1 am acquainted, as you are, with
women who are member OF SO many
boards of direction of benevolent in
stitutions and have to stand at a booth
in so many fairs, and must collect
funds for 50 many orphanages and
preside at SO many philanthropic
meetings. and are expected to be in
time that their children are left to the
care of irresponsible servants, and if
the little ones waited to say their
prayers at their mothers knee they
would never say their evening prayers
at all. Such a woman makes her own
home so unattractive that the husband
spends his evenings at the clubhouse
or the tavern. The children of that
house are as thoroughly orphan as any
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