Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-06

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Chalmers said, he had been many
years preaching the gospel before his
heart had been changed, and as many
ministers of the gospel declare they
were preaching and had been ordained
to sacred orders years and years before
their hearts were regenerated. Gra-
cious God, what solemn thought for
those of us who minister at the altar!
With the present ministry in the pres
ent temperature of piety, this land will
never be enveloped in revivals. While
the pewS on one side the altar cry for
mercy, the pulpits on the other side
the altar must cry for mercy. Minis
ters quarreling. Ministers trying to
pull each other down. Ministers strug-
Cling for ecclesiastical place. Minis
ters lethargic with whole congrega-
tions dying on their hands. What a
spectaclei
Aroused pulpits will make aroused
pews. Pulpits af1ame will make pews
afiame. Everybody believes in a re-
vival in trade, everybody likes a reviv-
al in literature, everybody likes a re-
viva1 in art, yet great multitude can
not understand revival in matters of
religion. Depend upon it, where you
find man antagonistic to revivals,
whether he be in pulpit or pew, he
needs to be regenerated by the grace
of God.
More Troops Wanted.
During our civil war the president of
the United States made proclamation
for $4,000 troops. Some of you remem-
| ber the big stir. But the King of the
| universe today asks for twelve hum
| dred million more troops than are en-
listed, and we want it done softly, i'm
perceptibly, no excitement, one by
one. You are a dry goods merchant on
a large scale, and 1 come to you and
want to buy 1000 yards of cloth. Do
you say: Thank you. I'll send you
| 1000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell you 20
yards today, and 20 tomorrow, and
20 the next day, and if it takes me six
months, I'll send you the whole thou
sand yards. You will want as long as
that to examine the goods, and I'll
| want as long as that to examine the
| credit, and besides that 1000 yards Of
/ cloth is too much to sell all at once?"
| No; you do not say that. You take me
| into the counting room, and in ten
| minutes the whole transaction is con-
summated. The fact is we cannot af-
| ford to be fools in anything but re-
| ligion.
That very merchant who on Satur
| day afternoon sold me the thousand
| yards of cloth at one stroke the next
Sabbath in church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether it would
| not be better for a thousand souls to
come struggling along for ten years
instead of bolting in at one service.
We talk a good deal about the good
| times that are coming and about the
worlds redemption. How long before
they will come? There is, a man who
says 500 years. Here is a man who says
200 years. Here is some one more con-
fident who says in so years. What,
so years? Do you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before
tie world is converted? Suppose by
pfolongation of human life at the end
of the next so years you should walk
the length of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, or the length of Broad
way, New York. In all those walks
you would not find one person that
| you recognize Why? All dead or SO
| changed that you would not know
| them In other words, if you post
| pone the redemption of this world for
| so years you admit that the majority
of the two whole generations shall go
off the stage unblessed and unsaved.
tell you the church of Jesus Christ
cannot consent to it. We must pray
and toll and have the revival spirit,
and we must struggle to have the
whole world saved before the men and
women now in middle life part
The Coming Great Revival.
1t seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and univer-
sal movement A celebrated electri-
clan gave me telegraph chart of the
world. On that chart the wires cross
ing the continents and the cables un-
der the sea looked like veins red with
blood On that chart I see that the
headquarters of the hghtnings are in
Great Britain and the United States.
In London and New York the light
nings are stabbed. waiting to be har-
messed for some quick dispatch. That
shows you that the telegraph is in the
possession of Christianity.
1t is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian, Cyrus w. Field,
and that the president of the most ia
nous of the telegraph companies of
this country was an old fashioned
Christian. William Orton, going from
the communion table on earth straight
to his home in heaven What does all
that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether -four is up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby or