Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-26

supplied ecclesiastic, and backwoods
minister who in the log cabin meeting
house preached in a linen dusterf
Among the great surprises Of heaven
for the bigot will be the celestial
friendliness of those who on earth OPP
posed each other in wrathiest polem-
les. He will get through the gate. for
he has a spark of divine grace in his
heart. but there will not be an inch
OF room to spare on either side of him.
1t will not take long for heaven to edu-
cate him into glorious big hearted
ness.
Christian BenevoIence-
For thirty years this man has been
practicing an economy which prided it
self on never passing a pin without
picking it up, and if he responded at
all in church would put on the collec-
ton plate so insignificant coin that
he held his hand over it so that no one
could discover the smallness Of the de-
nomination. Somewhere in the fifties
or sixties of his life, during revival
of religion, he became Christian. He
is very much changed in most respects,
but his all absorbing acquisitiveness
still influences him. To extract from
him a gift for an orphanage or
church or poor woman who has Just
been burned out is an achievement
You and / know very good men, their
Christian character beyond dispute, and
yet they are pronounced by all as
penurious, and they know 1t them
selves and pray against it. We all have
our bad habits, and yet expect to get
to heaven. and this skinf1int has mis-
mighty temptation. The passion OF
| avarice well illustrated its strength.
| when in one of the houses Of exhumed
| Pompeii was found the skeleton Of a
| man who was trying to escape with 60
coins and silver saucepan. For those
| valuables he dared the ashes and scoria
Of Vesuvius, which overwhelmed him,
and many a good man has been held
nightly by avarice. But the day is
coming for that penurious Christians
departure from the world. He has an
awful struggle in giving up his govern
ment securities. The attorney who
drew his last will and testament saw
how hard it was for him to leave his
farm or his storehouse or investments,
| especially those that in the markets
are called gilt-edged Those that yield
only 8 per cent he easily resigns to
the care of his executors. but those
that yield 8 or 9 or 10 per cent. how
can he give them up while the market
is still rising?
Reward of Self Sacrifice.
But that brings me to the other
those who will, when they leave this
life, bound into heaven amid saluta-
| lions infinite. For so an entrance
shall be administered unto you abund-
antly" Such exultant admission will
await those who enter heaven after on
earth living a life for others and with
Sut reference to conspicuity. On the
banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa or
the Androscoggin is large family, all
of whom have been carefully and reli-
giously reared. In the earlier stages of
that family there were many priva-
| lions. The mother of the household
never had any amusements. Perhaps
| once in a year a poor theatrical play
| was enacted in the neighboring school
house or a squawking concert in the
town hall, and that was all the diver
sion afforded for the winter season.
asked the manager of an insane asylum
in Kentucky, From what class of per-
sons do you get most Of your patients? p
and he said, From farmers wives" ]
asked the same question of the mana
ger of an insane asylum in Pennsylva-
mia, and the same question of the man
ager of an insane asylum in Massachu-
sets, and got the same reply, eve
have on our rolls for treatment more
farmers wives than persons coming
from any other Glass; That answer
will be surprise to some; it was nc
surprise to me. The simple reason is
farmers wives as a general thing have
J no diversion. 1t is breakfast. dinner
and supper, sewing, securing, scrub
bing knitting, mending, year in and
year out. That mother is the milliner
the mantua maker, the nurse, the doc
tor, the accountant of the whole fam
, lily. She plans the wardrobe of spring
: of summer, of autumn, of winter, cut
; ting fitting, completing garments, ou
of which the children soon grow ant
must have something else. The news
J paper does not come. or. if coming
there is no time to read it. No selec
ton OF good books. The neighbors call
ing in are full of the same grindin,
routine. No wonder so many of then
, go into dementia, Oh, the country il
: beautiful to look at and a recuperativ
place in which to spend summer and
you have the means to bring yoursel
/ amusements or go where they are o
5 you can surround yourself by inspirin.
= social life it is a good place to sta,
all the year round. But, alas for tn
> thousands of good and noble womel
i, who are dying by inches in its soil
l tudeSi
Gladly Welcomed to Heaven.
Now tho mother 0f whom, cnoolr q