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


and 1 by our good or bad behavior
blessed or blasted only those imme-
diately around US but our goodness or
our badness will reach as far as the
strongest ray of Alcyone-yea, across
the eternities. Under this considera-
ton what do you think of those who
give themselves up to frivolity or idle
ness and throw away fifty years of
their existence as though they were
shells or pebbles or pods instead of
embryo eternities?
Surprises of the Next World
1 suppose one of the greatest sur
prises of the next world will be to see
what wide. far-reaching influence for
good or evil we have all exerte1. am
speaking of ourselves, who are only
ordinary people. But who can fully
appreciate the far-reaching good done
by men of wealth in Great Britain for
the working classes-Mr. Lister of
Bradford, Edward Akroyd of Halifax,
Thomas Skies of Huddersfield, Joseph
| Wentworth and Josiah Mason and Sir
| Titus Salt? This last great s5ul, with
| his vast wealth, provided 756 houses
at cheap rent for 5000 working people
and chapel and cricket ground and
croquet lawn and concert hall and
savings bank where they might depos-
| it some of their earnings and life in
surance for those who looked further
| ahead and bathing houses and parks
| and museums and lecture halls with
philosophical apparatus, the generous
| example of those men of a previous
| generation being copied in many
places in Canada and the United
| States. making life, which would
| otherwise be prolonged drudgery, an
! inspiration and a joy.
At Dunfermline, Scotland, is a
stone house. the room on the second
| floor twelve feet by fourteen in size.
| The annual rent of this room years
| ago was $3.50. That was the one room
in which the father and mother of
Andrew Carnegie lived with the whole
family. Influences were started there
which made Andrew Carnegie the
most distinguished philanthropist of
all time, and what his gifts of great
libraries on both sides the sea will do
! for the coming generations / do not
think any angel of God would have
enough capacity to calculate. Who
could bind the sweet influences of that
/ Pleiades?
Influence of Other Worlds.
Notice also in my text the influence
of other worlds upon this world. We
I all regard the effect which our conti-
nent has upon other cont mems or one
hemisphere upon the other hemi-
sphere. Great harvest or drought on
one side of our world affects the other
side of our world. A panic in
Wall street, New York, has it's echo
in Lombard street and the bourse.
he - H. ~
grammed together all feel the same
thrill of delight or shock of woe. But
we do not appreciate the influence of
| other worlds upon our world The
author of my text rouses us to the
consideration. 1t takes all the worlds
of known and unknown astronomy to
keep our world in it's orbit, every
| world dependent on ether wo- Ids. The
| stellar existence is fe-t all through the
heavens. Every constellation is sis
terhood. Our planet feels the bene-
diction of Alcyone and all the other
stars of the Pleiades. Yea, there are
two other worlds that decide the fate
of our world, its redemption or it's de-
| molition. These two worlds are the
headquarters of angelology and dem
onology. From the one world came
| Christ, come ministering spirits, come
| all gracious influences. From the
other world rise all satanic and dia-
bolic influence. From that world OF
moral night rose the power that
wrecked our poor world 5000 years
ago, and all the good work done since
then has not been able to get our
world out of the breakers. But the
signals of distress have been hoisted
and the life lines are out, and ouI
worlds release is certain. The good
influences of the consecrated people in
our world will be centupled by the
help from the heavenly world, and the
moniac. o man, o woman, expand
your idea and know the magnitude oi
contest in which three worlds are
specially interested. From all the
seven worlds which my text calls the
P1eiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two worlds
that I am now mentioning. My only
hope for this world Is In the re-
enforcement that is to come from an
other world. But that Is promised
and so feel as sure of the ratification
of all evil as though looking out OF
my window today 1 saw the parks and
the gardens towering into another
paradise and the apocalyptic ange
| flying through the mist of heaven
with the news that the kingdoms oi
this world have become the kingdoms
| of our Lord.
The Wife's influence
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