Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-09

from outsiders would be considered
criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly suggestion, sweet influences.
that make us better men than we
otherwise would have been or could
have been.
The last chapter OF Proverbs recog-
nizes the good wife's influence when It
says, Her husband is known in the
gates when he ST ;teth among the elders
of the land"-that is, his apparel
indicates that he has some one to look
after his wardrobe, and his manners
show that he Is under refining influ-
ences at home. But no one fully ap-
precfates the sweet influences of the
wife until the dark day comes and the
slight symptoms become serious and
the serious phases of the disorder pass
into the fatal and the temperature is
106 and mental ingenuity is exhausted
and you are told for your consolation
that while there is life there is hope"
which means there is no hope at all,
and the precious life fiutters and is
gone and you must put out of sight
the one who from the day she took
the VOW amid the orange blossoms
under the marriage bell had been to
you more than all the world besides.
Then you realize as never before what
had been the sweet influences.
The World of Reunion.
The sweet influences of the heaven
ly world, which many wise men
thought for a long while was Alcyone,
the center of the constellation of the
Pleiades, world of our future resi-
dence. as we hope; world of chorus
and illumination, world of reunion,
world where we shall be ever1astingly
complete, world where our old fac
ulties will be intensified and quickened
and new faculties implanted, world of
high association with Christ, through
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets-Habakkuk 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. Sig
Quincy, who struck their harps till
nations listened, and David, the vic
tor over Goliath with what seemed in
sufficient weapons, and Joshua of the
prolonged day in Gideon, and Have
lock, the evangelist hero, and those
thousands of men of the sword who
fought on the right side. What COM
pany to move in! What guests to en-
tertaini What personages to visit!
What choirs to chant! What ban
quets with lifted chalices filed with
the new wine of the kingdom!" What
victories to celebrated
The stories of that world and it's
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.
But there is one star that affects us
more with its sweet influence than
the center star, the Alcyone of the
Pleiades, and that is what one Bible
author calls the Star of Jacob
and another Bible author calls
the Morning Star. OF all the
sweet influences that have ever
touched our earth those that radiate
from Christ are the sweetest. Born
an Asiatic vil1ager in mechanics
| home, living more among hammers
and saws and planes than among
books, yet at twelve years of age con-
| founding robed ecclesiastics and start
| ing out on a mission under which
those born without optic nerve took
| in the clear daylight, and those af-
| ficted with unresponsive tympanum
were made to hear, and those almost
| doubled up with deformities were
| Strengthened into graceful poise, and
the leprous became rubicund, and the
| widows only son exchanged the bier
| on which he lay hfeless for the arms
| of his overjoyed mother, and pro-
nouneing nine benedictions on the
Mount of Beatitudes and doing deeds
| and speaking words which are filing
| the centuries with sweet influences.
| Christ started every ambulance. kim
| died every electric ray, spread every
soft hospital pillow and introduced all
the alleviations and paeifications and
rescues and mercies of all time. He
| was the loveliest being who ever trod
| our earth. more beauty in his eye,
more tenderness in his manner, more
| gentleness in his footstep, more music
| in his voice, more dignity in his brow,
more gracefulness in the locks that
rolled upon his shoulders, more COM
| passion in his soul.