Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-30

that have poured from the writer's
inkhorn that appeared in Ezekierf
visioni
The Mothsrs' Letters.
While you recognize the distinguish
ed ones who have dipped into the ink
stand of the worlds evangelization dc
not forget that there are hundreds OF
thousands Of unknown men and wom-
en- who are engaged in inconspicuous
ways doing the same thing, How
many anxious mothers writing to the
boys in town, How many sisters writ
Ing encouragement to brothers far
away! How many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at
their side, writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves!
They are flying all the time kind
words. gospel words, helpful words,
saving words. Call the evangelistic
inkhorn into service in the early
morning, when you feel well and you
are grateful for the protection during
your sleeping hours, and write before
you retire at close of day to those who
all night long will be saying, Would
to God it were morningi" How many
bruised and disappointed and wronged
souls Of earth would be glad to get a
letter from you, Stir up that consola-
tory inkhorn.
The Inkhorn of Gods Mercy.
The other angels spoken of in my
text were destroying angels, and each
had what the Bible calls a slaughter
weapon in his hand. 1t was a lance
or battleax or a sword God hasten
the time when the last lance shall be
shivered and the last battleax dulled
and the last sword sheathed, never
again to leave the scabbard. and the
angel of the text, who, Matthew Henry
says, was the Lord Jesus Christ, shall.
from the full inkhorn of his mercy.
give saving call to all nations That
day may be far off, but it is helpful to
think of it's coming As DR.. Raleigh
declared, that when so miles at sea off
the coast of New England the cattle
on board the ship, as well as himself,
scented the clover on the New Eng
land hills, so we, amid all the tossing
waves of the worlds controversies. in
hale the redOlence of the white lilies
OF universal peace. Is it not time that
the boasted invention of new and more
explosive and more widely devastatine
weapons of death be stopped forever,
and the gospel have a chance and the
question be not asked, How many shots
can be fired in a minute? but. How
many souls may be ransomed in a day?
The world needs less powder and
more grace, fewer fortresses and more
churches, less power to destroy and
more power to save. Oh, 1 am sick OF
the war cries and the extinguished eye
sight and the splintered bones and the
grave trenches and the widowhood and
orphanage and chfldlessness which sob
and groan and die in the wake of the
armies on both sides of the seal oh.
for less of the slaughter weapon and
more of the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh,
for the stopping of the science of as
sass1natlon, that crime of crimes. that
woe of woes, that horror of horrors.
that hell of hells-war, which this mo-
ment stands reeking with blood and
washing itself in tears and blasphem-
ing the heavens and pushing off the
edge of this life men who have as
much right to live as you and 1 have.
and blasting homes in which there
dwells as much loveliness as in our
owni Would that the mercifulS angel
OF my text take the last weapon of
war and fling it off and fling it down
with such force that it shall cIang on
the lowest round of the perdition
where the first keen edge of human
strife was sharpenedi War, In the
name of Almighty God and of all the
homesteads it has destroyed and is
now destroying, 1 hate it, 1 denounce
it. curse it,