The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-05

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men. An art to be studied as you study
music. for il is music IN the fact that Il
drives out moral discord and substi-
tutes eternal harmony: an art to be
studied like sculpture, for it is sculp-
ture in the fact that it builds man,
not in the cold statue, but Ia immortal
shape that will last long after al pen
telican marble has crumbled; an art
to be studied as you study arehitec-
ture. for it IS architecture in the fact
that it builds for him a house of God,
eternal in the heavens. but an art that
we cannot fully learn unless God helps
US. Otherwise saved By grace divine.
we can go forth to save others, and
with a tenderness and compassion and
a pity that we could not otherwise ex-
ercise we can pronounce the warning
word with magnificent result The
Lord said to the prophet Amos. Amos,
what seest thou? And he answered.
A basket Of summer fruit. But ] do
not think Amos saw IN that basket Of
summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many a saved man
has seen in the warning word Of some
hearty common sense Christian ad-
wiser, for word ftly spoken is like
apples Of gold in baskets OF silver"
SO also is q word of invitation po-
tent and beautiful Who can describe
the drawing power Of that word, so
small and yet so tremendous. Come
It is a short word, but its influence is
as long as eternity. Not a sesqulpeda-
lian word, spreading its energy over
many syllables. but monosyllabic.
Whether calling in wrong direction or
right direction, many have found It
irresistible. That one word has filled
all the places OF dissipation and dis
soluteness. II Is responsible for the
denominations that curse the earth. In
quire at the door Of persons what
brought the offender there, and at the
door Of almshouses what brought the
pauper there, and at the door OF the
lost world what was the cause Of the
Incarceration, and II the inmates speak
the truth they win say. THE word
'Comen brought us here" Come and
drink. Come and gamble. Come and
sin. Come and die Pronounce that
word with one kind Of infection. and
you can hear in It the tolling Of ali the
bells Of conaagratlon and woe.
The chief baker In prison in Pha-
raoh's time saw in dream something
quite different from apples OF gold in
baskets Of silver. for he said to Jo-
seph, Il also was in a dream, and. be-
hold had three white baskets on my
head, and IN the uppermost basket
there was all manner Of baked meats
for Pharaoh. and the birds did eat
them out Of the baskets upon my
head" Joseph interpreted the dream
and said It meant that the chief baker
should be beheaded and the birds
would eat his flesh. So many a man
has IN his own bad habits omens OF
evil that peck al him and foreten doom
and death.
But oh, the power OF that word
Come" when Alright uttered We do
well when we send young men into
schools and colleges and theological
ieminaries and by nine years OF in
itruction and drill hope 10 prepare
hem to sound Alright thar sweet and
and heaven descended
word Come" The gospel we believe
a is a gospel Of "Come!" That word
peak all the churches That word "a
low building thrones for conquerors.
md Furnished coronets for kings and |
queens. That word is to sound so
learly and impressively and diyinely |
hat the day is advancing when all ma /
ions shall respond, I'VE comet" we |
omel" And while the upper steeps
oward God and heaven win be throng- /
d with redeemed souls ascending
here viii not be one solitary traveller
N the road to sin and death.
Tho Gospel Bell.
In the Kremlin at Moscow. Russia. /
5 what is called the king Of bells"
ut Il Is a ruined bell. and Il has rung
10 sound for near 200 years. Il Is 81
eet in circumference and In height it
5 more than ten times the height OF
be average man. and Il took a score
Z men 20 swing its brazen tongue. Il
leighs 200 tons On the 18th Of June.
706. In a great FIRE Il fell and broke.
/ broke at the part which was weak
ned by the jewels which the ladies' or
loscow threw into the liquid metal at
be casting. The voices Of that bell
re forever hushed. Il viii never ring
gain. either at wedding or obseQuy or
What majestic and over
owering silencei Enthroned and ever
lsting quietude. One walks around it
al Of wonder and historical rsminls-
snce and solemnity. On it are figures
] relief representing czar and em-
ress and Christ and Mary and the
But as I stood before %
lst summer I bethought myself OF a
reater bell and one stili ringing. tt is
ie gospel bell. ages ago hung on the