Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-06


one time. while the king was absent.
they persuaded the queen 70 turn a
lion loose in the court to test the
earl's courage. The earl, rising at
break of day, as was his custom, came
into the courtyard and met the lion.
and the jealous courtiers from the
windows watched the scene. The lion.
with bristling hair and a growl, was
ready to spring upon the earl when
he, undaunted, shouted to the monster,
Stand, you dog" Then the lion
couched, and the earl took it by the
name and turned it back into the cage,
leaving his handkerchief on the neck
of the monster, and, looking up in tri-
umph to the jealous courtiers, who he
knew were watching from the win
dows. cried out, Let him among you
all that prideth himself on his pedigree
go and fetch that handkerchief" And
you, young man, will find a lion in
your way, perhaps turned loose by the
jealousy of those who would enjoy
your ruin But in the strength of God
make that lion couch. By Gods help
you can do it and defy and challenge
your antagonists. The Earl of Alsatia
conquered the lion by stoutness of
voice and the glare of eye, but you
may overcome the lion with the prof
fered strength of an almighty arm and
an almighty foot. for God hath prom
ised: Thou shalt tread upon the lion
and adder. The young lion and the
dragon shalt thou trample under feet"
Columbus, by calculation, made up
his mind that there must be a new
hemisphere somewhere to balance the
old hemisphere, or it would be a lop-
sided world. And 1 have found out,
not by calculation, but by observation,
that there is a great success for you
somewhere to balance your great
struggle Do not think that your case
is peculiar. The most favored have
been pelted. The mobs smashed the
windows of the Duke of Wellington
while his wife lay dead in the house.
Christ's Fathomress Mercy.
Whether in your life it is south
wind, or north wind, west wind or
an east wind that is now blowing,
do you not feel like saying: This
whole subject now decide. Lord God,
through thy Son, Jesus Christ, my Sa
vior, 1 am thine forever 1 throw
myself, reckless of everything else,
into the fathomless ocean of thy
mercy
But says some one in a frivolous
farmer you find in your text. 1 do not
watch the wind. What do 1 care about
the weather vane? 1 am sowing now
What are you sowing, my brother?
Are you sowing evil habits? Are you
sowing infidel and atheistic beliefs?
Are you sowing hatreds, revenges, dis
contents, unclean thoughts or unclean
actions? If SO, you will raise a big
crop-a very big crop. The farmer
sometimes plants things that do not
come up, and he has to plant them
| over again. But those evil things that
you have planted will take root and
come up in harvest of disappointment,
| in harvest of pain, in harvest of
/ despair, in harvest of fire. Go
| right through some of The unhappy
| homes of Washington and New York
and all the cities, and through the hos
| pitals and penitentiaries, and you will
| find stacked up, piled together, the
sheaves of such an awful harvest.
/ Hosea, one of the first of all the writ
ing prophets. although four Of the
| other prophets are put before him in
| the canon of Scripture, wrote an as
founding metaphor that may be quot ed
as descriptive of those who do evil:
/ They have sown the wind, and they
| shall reap the whirlwind" Some one
has said. Children may be strangled,
| but deeds never"
There are other persons who truth
4 fully say: Il am doing the best 1 can.
/ The clouds are thick and the wind
blows the wrong way, but l am SOW
ing prayers and sowing kindness s
and sowing helpfulness and sowing
hopes of a better world" Good for
you. my brother, my sister, What you
/ plant will come up. What you SOW
will rise into a harvest the wealth of
/ which you will not know until you go
up higher l hear the rustic of your
harvest in the bright fields of heaven.
! The soft gales of that land, as they
| pass, bend the full headed grain in
curves of beauty. 1t is golden in the
| light of a sun that never SETS As
/ you pass in you will not have to grid
on the sickle for the reaping and there
| will be nothing to remind you of
| weary husbandmen toiling under hot
summer sun on earth and lying down
| under the shadow of the tree at noon
tide, so tired were they, so very tired.
| No, no; your harvest will be reaped
| without any toll of your hands, with
out any besweating of your brow
| Christ in one of his sermons told how
| your harvest will be gathered when
he said, The reapers are the angels -