Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-12

d4I 10 8R&ak Oh muSlc ana p810I10X ana
sculpture and architecture, but they
forget to mention the finest of al the
| fine arts-the art of doing good, the art
of helping others, the art of saving
men, An art to be studied as you study
music, for it is music in the fact that it
| drives out moral discord and substi-
tutes eternal harmony; an art to be
studied like sculpture, for it is sculp-
ture in the fact that it builds a man,
not in the cold statueA but in immortal
| shape, that will last long after all PEN
| telican marble has crumbled; an art
to be studied as you study architec-
ture, for it is architecture in the fact
that it builds for him a house of God.
eternal in the heavens, but an art that
We cannot fully learn unless God helps
us. Otherwise saved by grace divine.
we can go forth to save others, and
with tenderness and compassion and
pity that we could not otherwise ex-
erciss we can pronounce the warning
word with magnificent result The
Lord said to the prophet Amos, amos.
what seest thou2' And he answered,
"A basket of summer fruit" But 1 do
not think Amos saw in that basket of
summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many a saved man
has seen in the warning word of some
hearty, common sense Christian adj
wiser, for word fifty spoken is s'like
apples of gold in baskets of silver"
So also is a word of invitation po-
tent and beautiful Who can describe
the drawing power of that word, SO
small and yet so tremendous, Come"
1t is a short word. but its influence is
as long as eternity. Not sesquipeda-
liam word, spreading its energy over
many syllables, but monosy1labic.
Whether calling in wrong direction or
right direction, many have found it
irresistible. That one word has filed
all the places of dissipation and dis
soluteness. 1t is responsible for the
denominations that curse the earth In
quire at the door of persons what
brought the offender there and at the
door of almshouses what brought the
pauper there. and at the door of the
lost world what was the cause of the
Incarceration, and if the inmates speak
the truth they will say, "The word
Gomez brought us here" Come and
drink. Come and gamble. Come and
sim Come and die. Pronounce that
word with one kind of infection, and
you can hear in it the tolling of all the
/
The chief baker in prison in Pha-
raoh's time saw in dream something
quite different from apples of gold in
baskets of silver. for he said to Jo-
seph, Il also was in a dream, and, be-
hold, had three white baskets on my
head, and in the uppermost basket
there was all manner of baked meats
for Pharaoh, and the birds did eat
them out of the baskets upon my
head" Joseph interpreted the dream
and said it meant that the chief baker
should be beheaded and the birds
would eat his flesh. So many a man
has in his own bad habits omens of
evil that peck at him and foretell doom
and death.
But oh, the power of that word
Come" when Alright utteredi We do
well when we send young men into
schools and colleges and theological
seminaries and by nine years of in
struction and drill hope to prepare
them to sound Alright that sweet and
enrapturing and heaven descended
word Come" The gospel we believe
in is gospel of Gomez" That word
speak all the churches. That word is
now building thrones for conquerors,
and FURNISHED coronets for kings and
queens. That WORD is to sound so
clearly and impressively and divinely
that the day is advancing when all ma
lions shall respond, I'VE comet" I'VE
| GOMEZ" And while the upper sleeps
toward God and heaven will be throng-
ed with redeemed souls ascending
there will not be one solitary traveller
| on the road to sin and death.
The Gospel Bell
| In the Kremlin at Moscow. Russia,
| is what is called the king of bells"
but it is a ruined bell, and it has rung
no sound for near 200 years 1t is Ct
| feet in circumference and in height it
| is more than ten times the height OF
the average man, and It took score
| of men to swing its brazen tongue. 1t
weighs 200 tons. On the 18th of June,
| 1905, in great fire it fell and broke.
1t broke at the part which was weak
ened by the jewels which the ladies of
Moscow threw into the liquid metal at
| the casting. The voices of that bell
| are forever hushed- 1t will never ring
| again, either at wedding or obseQuy or
| coronation. What majestic and over
towering silencei Enthroned and ever
lasting quietude! One walks around it
| full OF wonder and historical reminis-
| cence and solemnity. On it are figures
| in relief representing car and en-
press and Christ and Mary and the
evangelists. But as 1 stood before it
| last summer 1 bethought myself of a
| greater bell and one still ringing. 1t Is
the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the