The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-04


fine arts-the art of doing good, the art
of helping others. the art OF saving
men. An art to be studied as you study
music, for 1t Is music In the fact that IL
| drives out moral discord and substi-
tutes eternal harmony; an art to be
studied like sculpture, for 1t is sculp-
| ture in the fact that It builds a man,
not in the cold statue, but in immortal
shape, that will last long after all pen
| teican marble has crumbled an art
to be studied as you study architec-
ture for it is architecture in the fact
that 1t 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 OK
summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many saved man
has seen in the warning word of some
hearty, common sense Christian ad-
wiser, for word fifty spoken is like
apples Of gold in baskets of silver"
So also is a word of invitation po-
tent and beautiful Who can describe
the drawing power Of that word, so
small and yet so tremendous, Come"
1t is a short word, but its influence is
as long as eternity. Not sesquipeda-
liam word, spreading it's 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 Gis-
soluteness. 1t 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 if the inmates speak
|
Comet 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 confagration and woe.
The chief baker in prison in Pha-
raohs time saw in dream something
quite different from apples of gold in
baskets of silver, for he said to Jo-
seph, 81 also was in 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 man
| has in his own bad habits omens OF
evil that peck at him and foretell doom
} and death.
/ But oh, the power of that word
t Come" when Alright uttered! We do
we'll when we send young men into
t schools and colleges and theological
| seminaries and by nine years of in
struction and drill hope to prepare
) them to sound Alright that sweet and
: enrapturing and heaven descended
word Come" The gospel we believe
in is a gospel of "Comel" That word
speak all the churches That word is
i, now building thrones for conquerors,
and FURNISHED coronets for kings and
queens. That word is to sound so
clearly and impressively and divinely
that the day is advancing when all ma
lions shall respond, I'VE comet" 1--WE
GOMEZ" And while the upper sleeps
toward God and heaven will be throng-
ed with redeemed souls ascending
there will not be one solitary traveller
on the road to sin and death.
, The Gospel Boil.
In the Kremlin at Moscow, Russia,
is what is called the king of bells"
but it is ruined bell, and it has rung
no sound for near 200 years. 1t is 67
/ feet in circumference and in height it
is more than ten times the height Of
the average man, and it took score
| of men to swing its brazen tongue. 1t
weighs 200 tons. On the 10Th of June,
t 1905, in a great fire it fell and broke.
1t broke at the part which was weak
ened by the jewels which the ladies of
Moscow threw into the liquid metal at
| the casting The voices of that bell
; are forever hushed. 1t will never ring
again, either at wedding or obsequy or
coronation. What majestic and over
towering silence. Enthroned and ever
lasting quietude! One walks around it
full of wonder and historical reminis-
cence and solemnity. On it are figures
in relief representing car and en-
press and Christ and Mary and the
evangelists. But as stood before 1t
last summer / bethought myself of a
greater bell and one still ringing. 1t Is
the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the
beam of the cross. 1t has vaster cir
conference and with mightier tongue
i o.~occ cane ard continents ond