Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-27

ten years. Every day of their exist
ence was a defiance of the laws of
anatomy and physiology but they had
this supernatural vivacity of the gos-
pei in their soul. and that kept them
alive.
The Question of Self Dental
1 know there is a great deal of talk
about the self-denials of the Christian.
1 have to tell you that where the Chris
tian has one self denial the man of the
world has thousand self denials. The
Christian is not commanded to sur
render anything that is worth keeping.
But what does a man deny himself
who denies himself the religion of
Christ? He denies himself pardon for
sin, he denies himself peace of con-
science, he denies himself the joy of
the Holy Ghost, he denies himself a
comfortable death pillow, he denies
himself the glories of heaven. Do not
talk to me about the self denials of
the Christian life. Where there is one
in the Christian life there are a thou
sand in the life of the world. Her
ways are ways of pleasantness.'
Again, find great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine ex-
planation- To a great many people
life is an inexpHcable tangle. Things
turn out differently from what was
supposed. There is useless woman
in perfect health. There is' an indus
trious and consecrated woman a COM
plete invalid. Explain that. There is
bad man, with 100000 of income.
There is a good man with $500 of in
come Why is that? There is foe of
society who lives on, doing all the
damage he can. to rs years of age, and
here is a Christian father, faithful in
every department of life, at 35 years
of age taken away by death, his fam
lily left helpless. Explain that. Oh,
there is no sentence that oftener drops
from your lips than this: 4 cannot
understand it. 1 cannot understand
it"
Well, now religion comes in just at
that point with it's illumination and its
explanation. There is business man
who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were 20 carriages that stopped at the
| door of his mansion. The week after
he lost his fortune all the carriages
! you could count ON one finger. The
| week before financial trouble began
people all took off their hats to him as
| his financial prospects were under dis
| cussiOn people just touched their hats
| without anywise bending the rim The
| week that he was pronounced insol-
| vent people just jolted their heads as
| they passed. not tipping their hats at
all, and the week the sheriff sold him
out all his friends were looking in the
store windows as they went down past
| him.
All Is for the Pest.
There are hundreds of people who
| are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all
| things working together for good for
their soul. How a man can get along
| through this life without the explana-
| ton is to me mystery. What! Is
| that child gone forever? Are you new
er to get it back? Is your property
gone forever? Is your soul to be bruis-
ed and to be tried forever? Have you
| no explanation, no Christian explana-
| ton, and yet not a maniac? But when
you have the religion of Jesus Christ
in your soul it explains everything SO
| far as it is best for you to understand.
You look off in life, and your soul is
| full of thanksgiving to God that you
are so much better off than you might
| be. A man passed down the street
| without any shoes and said: Il have
no shoes. Isn't it a hardship that 1
| have no shoes? Other people have
| shoes. No shoes. no shoes," until he
saw a man who had no feet Then he
| learned a lesson. You ought to thank
God for what he does instead of
grumbling for what he does not. God
arranges all the weather in this world
the spiritual weather, the moral
weather, as well as the natural wealth
er. What kind of weather viii it be
| today?" said someone to farmer. The
farmer replied, 1T will be such wealth
er as 1 like F'What do you mean by
that?'' asked the other Well" said
the farmer, "it will be such weather
as pleases the Lord, and what pleases
| the Lord pleases me-"
Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of
Christian explanation, Here is some
one bending over the grave of the
dead What is going to be the conso-
| lation? The flowers you strew upon
| the tomb? Oh, no. The services read
at the grave? Oh, no. The chief con-
ISOLATION on that grave is what falls
| from the throne of God. Sunshise,
glorious sunshine, Resurrection sum
shine.
Place for Study.
And geology, What a place that
| will be to study geology when the
world is being picked to pieces as
easily as a school girl in botanical les
sons uuIls the leaf from tie corolIa,