Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

| In his hand stop the hurt on his
scratched knee? Did you assure a bust
ness man swamped by the stringersy
! of the money market that times would
after awhile be better? Did you lead a
Magdalen of the street into a midnight
mission, where the Lord said to her,
Neither do I condemn thee. Go and
sin no more?" Did you tell a man
clear discouraged in his waywardness
and hopeless and plotting suicide that
Tor him was near by a Iaver in which
he might wash and a coronet of eter-
nal blessedness he might wear? What
are epitaphs in graveyards, what are
eulogiums in presence of those whose
breath is in their nostrils, what are un-
read biographies in the alcoves of a
city library, compared with the imper-
1shable records you have made in the
lllum1ned memories of those to whom
you did such kindnesses?. Forget
them? They cannot forget them. Not
w1thstanding all their might and
sp1endor there are some things the
glorif1ed of heaven cannot do, and this
Is one of them. They cannot forget an
earthly kindness done. They have nc
cutlass to part that cable They have
no strength to hur1 into oblivion that
Inhabitants of Malta, who extended the
island hospitality when he and others
with him had felt, added to a ship
wreck, the drenching rain and the
sharp cold? Has the victim of the
h1ghwayman on the road to Jericho
Iorgotten the good Samaritan with a
medlcament of oil and wine and a free
ride to the hostelry? Have the Eng
nsh soldiers who went up to God from
the Crimean battlefields forgotten
Florence Nightingale? Through all
eternity will the northern and south
ern soldiers forget the northern and
southern women who administered to
the dying boys in blue and gray after
the awful fights in Tennessee and
Pennsylvania and Virginia and Geor-
g1a, which turned every house and barn
and shed into an hospital and incarna-
dlned the Susquehanna and the James
and the Chattahoochee and the Savan-
nah with brave blood? The kindnesses
you do to others will stand as long in
the appreciation of others as the gates
OF heaven will stand, as the house of
many mansions" will stand, as long as
the throne of God will stand.
Defeat of Oblivion.
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom
we rescue, uplift or save. Character is
eternal Suppose by a right influence
we aid in Transforming a bad man into
good man, dolorous man into a
happy man, a disheartened man into a
courageous man, every stroke of that
work done will be immortalized. There
may never be so much as one line in a
newspaper regarding it or no mortal
m oyynr III -
ear, but wherever that soul shall go
your work upon 1t shall go, wherever
that soul rises your work on it will
rise, and so long as that soul will last
your work on it will last. Do you sup
pose there win ever come such an idi-
otic lapse in the history of that soul
in heaven that it shall forget that you
invited him to Christ; that you, by
prayer or gospel word, turned him
round from the wrong way to the right
way? No such insanity will ever smite
a heavenly citizen 1t is not half as
well on earth known that CHRISTOPHER
Wren planned and built ST. Paul's as it
Will be known in all heaven that you
were the instrumentality of building a
temple for the sky. We teach a Sab
bath class or put a Christian tract in
the hand of passerby or testify for
Christ in prayer meeting or preach a
sermon and go home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished
when we had been character building
with material that no frost or earth
quake or rolling OF the centuries can
damage or bring down.
There is no sublimer art on earth
than architecture. With pencil and
rule and compass the architect sits
down alone and in silence and evolves
from his own brain a cathedral or a
national capitol or a massive home be-
fore he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolls his plans and
calls carpenters and mason and arti-
sans of all sorts to execute his design,
and when it is finished he walks
around the vast structure and sees the
completion of the work with high sat
isfaction. and on a stone at some cor
ner of the building the architects name
may be chiseled- But the storms do
their work, and time, that takes down
everything, will yet take down that
structure until there shall not be one
stone left upon another. But there is
a soul in heaven.