Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-25


chased ice coolers, and in the strych-
nine and the logwood and the tartarie
acid and the nux vomica that go to
make up our pure" American drinks.
I looked with wondering eyes on the
Heidelberg tun." 1t is the great
liquor vat Of Germany, which is said
to hold 800 hogsheads of wine, and
only three times in 100 years it has
been filed But as I stood and looked
at it 1 said to myself: THAT is moth
ing-S00 hogsheads- Why, our Ameri-
can vat holds 1O,200,O00 barrels OF
strong drinks, and we keep 3O0, 600 men
with nothing to do but to see that it is
filed
The Great Monster.
Oh, to attack this great monster Oh
intemperance and the kindred mons
ters of fraud and uncleanness requires
you to rally all your Christian courage.
Through the press, through the pulpit,
through the platform you must assault
it. Would to God that all our Ameri-
can Christians would band together,
not for cracked Drained fanaticism,
but for holy Christian reform. 1 think
it was in 1898 that there went out from
Lucknow, India, under the sovereign,
the greatest hunting party that was
ever projected. There were 10, 900 arm
ed men in that hunting party. There
were camels and horses and elephants.
On some princes rode and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500 cool
les waited upon the train, and the
desolate places of India were invaded
by this excursion, and the rhinoceros
and deer and elephant fell under the
stroke of the saber and bullet. After
awhile the party brought back trophies
worth $4,000 rupees, having left the
wilderness of India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that instead of here and there
straggler going out to fight these great
monsters of iniquity in our country the
millions of membership of our
churches would band together and hew
in twain these great crimes that make
| the land frightful with their roar and
| are fattening upon the bodies and souls
of immortal men! Who is ready for
such party as that? Who will be a
mighty hunter for the Lord?
I remark, again, if you want to be
| successful in spiritual archery you
need not only bring down game. but
bring it in 1 think one of the most
beautiful pictures of Thorwaldsen is
his Autumn" 1t represents a sports
man coming home and standing under
a grapevine. He has staff over his
shoulder and on the other end of that
staff are hung a rabbit and brace OF
birds. Every hunter brings home the
game. No one would think of bringing
down a roebuck or whipping up a
stream for trout and letting them lie
in the woods.
Bring Them to Church.
If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down under
the arrow of the gospel, but bring them
into the church of God, the grand home
and encampment we have pitched this
side the skies. Fetch them in; do not
let them lie out in the open field. They
need our prayers and sympathies and
help. That is the meaning of the
church of God-help. ye hunters for
the Lord, not only bring down the
game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting SO well
that for seven years he never went in
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to
have who are hunting for immortal
souls. If Domitian practiced archery
until he could stand boy down in the
Roman amphitheater with hand out
| L,
king could shoot an arrow between the
fingers without wounding them, to
what drill and what practice ought we
to subject ourselves in order to become
| spiritual archers and mighty hunters
| before the Lordi' But let me say you
will never work any better than you
pray. The old archers took the bow
put one end of it down beside the foot
| elevated the other end, and it was the
rule that the bow should be just the
size of the archer. If it were just his
size, then he would go into the battle
with confidence. Let me say that your
power to project good in the world will
correspond exactly to your own spirit
ual stature. In other words, the first
thing in preparation for Christian
work is personal conservation
oh, for a closer walk with God, :
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
1 am sure there are some men who
at some time have been hit by the gos-
pei arrow. You felt the wound of thai
conviction. And you plunged into the
world deeper, just as the stag, wher
the hounds are after it, plunges into
Schroon lake, expecting in that way tt
escape. Jesus Christ is on your TRACK
today, o impenitent mani Not in
wrath, but in mercy. o ye chased and
painting soulsi Here is the stream o1
Gods mercy and salvation, where yor
may cool your thirst, Stop that chass
of sin today. By the red fountain tha'
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