Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28

cnaulcdl mOQe Oh us NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Irreverence for the holy Sabbath by
the way it is broken in pleasurable
excursions and carousal. Irreverence
on the part of children for their par
ents, insolence being substituted for
obedience. Irreverence for rulers,
which induces vile cartoons and assas-
sination. Irreverence in church dur
ing prayer, measuring off song and ser
mon by cold, artistic or literary criti-
cism, and in prayer time neither bow
ing the head nor bending the knee nor
standing as one does in the presence
of earthly ruler, thus showing more
respect for a man than to the King of
Kings. We ask not for genufections
or circumf1exions or prostrations, but
when prayer is offered let us either
bow the head or bend the knee or let
us in some way prove that we are not
Indifferent.
You will do we'll to follow the divine
leading, as the path you tread now
has not yet been trodden. ''Ye have
not passed this way before" Many of
you are suffering from just such an
noyances as have not occurred in all
your history. There have been mean
nesses practiced upon you or you have
received Sights or you are the subject
of misinterpretations or you are in the
midst of sore disappointments or there
are demands made upon your strength
and time more than you can meet or
some physical ailment is laying siege
to your castle of health or you are
under embarrassments that you cannot
mention even to nearest friends. You
say: well, L never saw anything like
this. / never expected such treatment
as this. 1 never thought it possible
to be placed in such circumstances
And when you say all that you are
only translating the words of my text
into your own phraseology. If you had
suffered something like this before, you
would have known what to do, but
here is flank movement for which
you are not ready.
AS you have had no experience Of
this kind upon which to draw for wis
dom and as you cannot fully state all
the circumstances to any human ear,
go to God and tell him all about it. He
knows already, but it will relieve you
and help you if you tell him. That is
what he has been doing ever since the
world got into trouble by disobedient
behavior on the banks of the Euphra-
tes. If in the first chapter of the Bible
we see the gate through which the
woes of the world entered, in the third
chapter of the Bible we see the open
ing Of the gate through which they are
to be driven out. Sacrificial lambs fore
telling the Lamb of God. Rock stricken
into gushing floods, typical of the fact
that the worlds thirst is going to be
slaked Pillar of fire hoisted above
wilderness march Star of hope over
~ ,1al,@
open. Trumpets of deliverance sound
ed. The Infinite God listening with an
ear in which a whisper 10000 miles
away is as audible as thunder.
But follow the ark, and it will lead
you to rivers of consolation. You will
| find that your child has gone into a
heaven of children, land where chill
dren are in vast majority, a score of
| infant souls to one manly or womanly
soul, for the vast majority of the race
die in infancy. Heaven a great play
ground for children. Palaces for kings
and queens? Oh, yesi But what wide
halls of pleasure, what gardens of de-
| light, what raptures, such as on earth
with ball and kite and hoop they never
| felti Let them go, mother. You can
trust him in the land of music and
/
nal home was opened by him who said
Suffer the little children to come unto
me and forbid them not, for such is the
kingdom of heaven" What time the
| children have up there, What rounds
of gladness: What laughter of eternal
! glee! Follow the ark, and it will lead
you to the crossing into the reunions
of the home where you will never part
AS our sorrows are new, our joys are
new and all our experiences are new
| Our life is one long discovery of things
| that we did not know and could not
know, because we have not passed this
way before. We have found, for in
| stance, that gratitude is the rarest OF
virtues. You used to suppose that il
| you do kindness it will be fully ap.
preciated and reciprocated. You have
| found out by experience, as you coulG
| have found out in no other way, thai
gratitude is apt to be only another az
to grind. You have found out that yol
should do the right thing not witt
respect to reward or gratitude, but be
cause it is the right thing to do. Man,
are miserable because they are all tn,
way looking for gratitude which they
cannot find. You might as we'll e
down Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton, or Broadway, New York, or Ire
mont street, Boston. your eyes scruti
nizing the pavements looking for tur
quoises and emeralds and rubies. Per
haps you might find them, but there i
NOT much r,roha hi1fty that in fiffv vear-