Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-15

the edge OF the ultcn Lne SOOu Hau So
Hloquizes and says to himself, IF
had had as bad a father and mother as
he had and all the surroundings of
my life had been as depraving as those
that have cursed him 1 myself would
probably have been down in the ditch,
and if that man had been blessed with
as good a father and mother as 1 have
and he had been surrounded by the
kindly influences which have encom-
passed all my days he would probably
have been standing here looking down
at me in the ditch" Then the good
man puts his knee to the side of the
ditch and bends over and says to the
fallen one, Brother, give me your
hand,'' and with one stout grip lifts
him up to God and heaven. There are
wounds of the world that need the
probe and the sharp knife and severe
surgery, but the most of the wounds
want an application of ointment or
salve, and we ought to have three
or four boxes of that gospel medica-
ment in our pocket as we go out into
the world We all need to carry more
of the balm of Gilead" and less caus-
tic, more benediction and less anathe-
ma When l find a professed Chris
tian man harsh and merciless in his
estimates of others, L silently wonder
If he has not been misusing trust
funds or beating his wife. There is
something awful the matter with
him.
We also have need of patience with
slow results of Christian work. We
want to see our attempts to do good
Immediately successful. The world is
improving but improving at SO delib-
crate a rate Why not more rapidity
and momentum? Other wheels turn
so swiftly, why not the gospel chariot
take speed electric? 1 do not know.
I only know that it is Gods way. We
whose cradle and grave are so near to-
gether have to hurry up, but God, who
manages this world and the universe,
is from everlasting to everlasting He
takes 500 years to do that which He
could do in five minutes His clock
strikes once in a thousand years
While God took only a week to fit up
the world for human residence, geol-
ogy reveals that the foundations OF
the world were cons in being laid, and
God watched the glaciers and the fires
and the earthquakes and volcanoes as
through centuries and milleniums they
were shaping this world. before that
A few days ago my friend was talk
ing with a geologist. AS they stood
near a pile OF rocks my friend said
to the scientist, q suppose these rocks
were hundreds of thousands of years
in construction" And the geologist
replied, Yes, and you might say mill
lions of years, for no one knows but
the Lord. and He won't tell 1t it
took so long to make this world at
the start, be not surprised if it takes
a long while to make it over again
now that it has been ruined The Ar
chitect has promised to reconstruct it,
and the plans are all made, and at
lust the right time it will be so COM
plete that it will be fit for heaven to
move in, if, according to the belief
of some of my friends, this world is
to be made the eternal abode of the
righteous The wall of that temple is
going up, and my only anxiety is to
have the one brick that l am trying
to make for that wall turn out to be
of the right shape and smooth on all
sides, so that the Master Mason will
not reject it, or have much work with
the trowel to get it into place. l am
responsible for only that one brick
though you may be responsible for
panel of the door or carved pillar or
a glittering dome
Patience Under Physical Pain.
Again, this grace is needed to help
in time of physical ailments. What
vast multitudes are in perpetual pain
while others are subject to occasional
paroxysmi Almost every one has
some disorder to which he is occa-
sionally subjected 1t is rheumatism
or neuralgia or sick headache or indi-
brings on that old spell and you think
you would rather have almost any
thing else, but that is because you
have not tried the other. Almost ev-
eryone has something which he wishes
he had not. There are scores of dis
eases ever ready to attack the human
frame. They have been in pursuit of
signed their innocence well as the
worlds health 1t is amazing how
persistent and methodic those disor-
ders are in their attack on the world
and how regular is the harvest which
with the sharp scythe of pain they
NOW down for the grave No such
disciplined and courageous army ever
fering- They do their work in the or
der 1 name, and you may depend upon
their keeping on in that same order
for a good while yet; first of all tuber-
culosis, next organic heart disease,
next pneumonia, next in number of
its victims is aDOplexy next Rriqht'S