Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-11-01

been able to get our world out Of the
breakers. But the signals of dis
tress have been hoisted and the life
lines are out, and our worlds re-
lease is certain. The good influences
of the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help
from the heavenly world, and the Di-
vine power will overcome the de-
moniac. o man, o woman, expand
your idea and know the magnitude
of contest in which three worlds are
specially interested. From all the
seven worlds which my text calls the
Pleiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two worlds :
that am now mentioning. Ny only
hope for this world is in. the reen-
forcement that is to come from an
other world. But that is promised,
and so 1 feel as sure of the ratifica-
tion of all evil as though looking out
of my window to-day saw the parks
and the gardens Towering into anoth-
er paradise and the apocalyptic angel
flying through the midst of Heaven
with the news that the kingdoms of
this world have become the kingdoms
of our Lord
My text called Job and calls us to
consider "the sweet influences" We
put too much emphasis upon the acid
tiles of life, upon the irritations of
life, upon the disappointments of
life. Ammianus Marcellinus said that
Chaldea was I'm o1den times overrun
with lions, but many of them lost
their power because the great swamps
produced many gnats that would get
into the eyes of the lions, and the
lions to free themselves of the gnats
would claw their own eyes out and
then starve. And in our time many
lion has been overcome by gnat.
The little singing annoyances of life
keep us from approaching the sweet
influences. And how many of these
last there are! Sweet influences of
home, however plain it may be! That
is the harbor into which we sail.
That is the goal for which we run.
That is the place where we rest.
There abide all confidence and affec-
lions. There we lay our plans. There
we extend our sympathies. There
we talk over our successes. There
we unload our griefs. It's four walls
shut out a prying and inquisitive
which we were born, the home in
we expect to die!
Not sufficiently do we recognize the
sweet influences of the wife. We men
| are of rougher mold, and our voice is
| loud, and our manners need to be
tanned, and gentleness is not as much
| of characteristic as it ought to be,
and we often say things we ought to
+ take back. It is to change this that the
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| the twain are identical. That which
| from outsiders would be considered
| criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly suggestion, sweet influences
! that make us better men than we 9TH
erwise would have been or could have
been.
| The sweet influences of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought
for a long while was Alcyone, the CEN
ter of the constellation of the Plei-
AIDES, world of our future residence,
| as we hope; world of chorus and IL
] Elimination, world of reunion, world
where we shall be everlastingly COM
plete, world where our old faculties
will be intensified and quickened and
new faculties implanted, world of high
association with Christ, through
! apostles and poets-Hab akkuk and ST.
John, of Patmos, and Edward Young,
his might Thoughts" turned into
eternal day; and Horatius Bonar, of
modern hymnology; and Hannah More,
and Mrs. Hemans and Mrs. Sigourney,
who struck their harps till nations lis
| tened; and David, the victor over Co
Hath with what seemed insufficient
weapons; and Joshua, Of the pro-
.longed day in Gideon; and Havelock,
the evangelist hero, and those thou
sands of men of the sword who fought
on the right side. What company to
move in: What guests to entertain!
| What personages to- visit! What
choirs to chanti What banquets with
lifted chalices filed with "the new
wine of-the kingdom!" What victories
Ito celebrate!
The stories of that world and its
holy hilarities come in upon our soul
sometimes in song, sometimes in SER
mon, sometimes in hours Of solitary
reflection, and they are. to use the
words of my text, sweet influences.
i But there is one star that affects us
more with its sweet influence than the
center star, the A1cyone of the Plei-
AIDES, and that is what one Bible au-
thor calls the Star of Jacob and anoth-
er Bible author calls the Morning
| Star.
Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost,
with all His Transforming and COM
fortingand emancipating power! When
that power is fully felt, there will be
no more sins to pardon and no more
| wrongs to correct and no more sor-
rows to comfort and no more bondage