Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-02-16


being compelled to walk, they get the
necessary exercise, and, their diet be-
ing limited to plain food. they do not
suffer from midnight salads and are
not victimized by rare caterers. They
retire for wholesome sleep at the very
hour in which others are leaving their
homes for the dance or the card party.
They will sleep the last sleep just as
well in the plain graveyard as those
who have over them an arch OF sculp-
tured granite in the costliest metropolis
or most historical abbey.
Let Well Eaeugh Alone.
The reason so many people are mis-
cradle is because they do not let well
enough alone. They are in one occu-
patton and see its annoyances and SO
change to another occupation and find
as many annoyances, if not more. They
live in one place and know it's uncom-
Portable environments and move into
another place which has just as many
limitations. Their investments yield
them per cent and they sell out to
make investments that will yield 1O
per cent and lose all. Better settle
down and stop fretting about yourseI
An officer in Cromwell's time was so
worried about public affairs that ne
could not sleep. His servant, Christ
ain man, said he would like the priv1l-
ege of asking the officer a question.
Leave being granted, the servant said,
DO you not think that God governed
the world very well before you came
/ into it?'' mo doubt of it, was the re-
ply. And do you not think he Will
govern it quite as well when you are
gone out of it?' Certainly "Then-
pray, sir, excuse me-but do you not
| think you may trust him to govern 1T
as long as you live in it?'' The remark
was SO sensible that sleeplessness de-
parted and tranquility came.
An Unlimited Supply.
| Do any of us fully realize the fact
/ that God gives US three things in un-
limited supply, although no formula
of prayer that 1 ever heard recognizes
/ them-water, air and sunlight? Water
| by the riverful. Water by the lakeful
] Water by the oceanful. Some for ablu-
| tion, some for slaking the thirst, some
| for baptistry, some for fountains and
| aquariumS. 1 never appreciated what
wonderful thing water is until last
summer I stood by the fountains be-
| fore and around the emperor's palace
| at Peterhof, Russia I had been fami-
! liar with this wonderful element of
nature from childhood, having been
born on the banks of the beautiful
Raritan, and as barefooted boy dab
bled in the brook near my fathers
house But / never realized until last
summer what water could do in play,
or in strange caprice, or Identification,
or when climbing the ladder of the
light, or when a skillful workman took
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shape it into crowns, or hoist it into
columns, or spring it into arches, or
lift it into stars. or turn it into cres-
| cents. or build it into temples. You
forget you ever saw the less glorious
waters at Chatsworth, England, or
| Versailles, France, as you stand in the
balcony of the palace overlooking the
| Finland gulf, bewildered and trans
ported as you look at the one display
called the Golden Stairway fountain.
The water rolls down over "a steps one
foot high and 20 feet long. All of these
"a steps are covered with sheets of
FURNISHED gold. Silver step of the
water on stairs of goldi What a glee
of liquids, Rolling, dashing, foaming
enrapturing splendorsi Chorus OF
floods, Poetry of waters, Doxology
of torrents, But that which most i'm
pressed me there and elsewhere is the
abundance of water, the fact that there
! are so many waters that the CONT
| nents can afford to throw them away
| into the sea, Hudsons and Ohios, Ore
gons and Amazons. Rhines and Dan
ubes and Volgas, and so abundant
that the earth can afford to have its
oceans evaporate into the heavens,
| Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa
cfflcs- How rich the earth is with wat
ers! Best beverage of all the nations,
for after the richest banquet with the
richest beverages, every one wants at
| least sip of it-water, cool water, God
| descended water,
With still more abundance is the air
distributed An earth full of it. A
eagle cannot fly so high as not to
have it in the nostri1 or under wing
And what affiuence of sunlight No
one but the infinite God could dispense
SO much of it The golden candlestick
set on the blue mantel of the heavens,
So great that the Almighty is COM
| pared to it, the psalmist crying out,
The Lord God is a sun" 1t is high
time that we recognize in our liturgies
and in our formulas of prayer the
most abundant blessings OF the
universe which come to all
Trust Thoroughly in God.
Now, is it not time that we all be-
gan more thoroughly to trust the
Lord? We trust him with our souls,
why not trust him with our bodies?