Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

in rejection of his mission Of mercy
Having dethroned other kings, the
world would like to dethrone the King
Of Kings. But he knew what he was
coming to when he left the portals of
pearl and the land where the sun
never goes down. Yes, he knew the
world, how cold it is, and knew pain,
how sharp it is, and the night, how
dark it is, and expiation, how excru-
ciating it is. Out of vast eternity he
looked forward and saw Pilates GRIM
1nal courtroom, and the rocky bluff
with three crosses, and the lacerated
body in mortuary surroundings, and
heard the thunders toll at the funeral
OF heavens favorite, and understood
that the palaces of eternity would hear
the sorrow of bereft God.
What do the Bible and the church
liturgies mean when they say, HE de-
scended into help They mean that
his soul left his sacred body for awhile
and went down into the poison of
moral night, and swung back it's great
door, and lifted the chain of captivity,
and felt the awful lash that would have
come down on the worlds back, and
wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice,
and took the bolt of divine indigna-
ing vanquished death and hell, came
out and came up, having achieved an
eternal rescue If we will accept it.
Read it slowly, read it solemnly, read
it with tears, He descended into hell"
He knew what kind of pay he would
get for exchanging celestial splendor
for Bethlehem caravansary, and he
dared all and came. the most Illus
trious example in all the ages of disip-
Echoing Back Divine Love.
Now, the only fair thing for human
hearts to do is to echo back that SOW
ereign love. You ard 1 have stood in
mountainous regious where, uttering
one distinct word. the echoes would
come back with a ,esonance startling
and captivating, and from all our
hearts there should sound unto the
heavens responses glorious and long
continued. Let the world change its
style of payment for heavenly love- No
more payment by 1ances, by hammers;
no more payment by blows on the
cheek and scourging on the back, and
hooting of mobs, but payment in ar
dors of soul, in true surrender of heart
and love to the I'D that made US,
and the Christ wi ransomed us and
the eternal spirit Who by regenerating
power makes US all over again.
Alexander the Great, with his host,
was marching on jerusalem to capture
and plunder it. The inhabitants came
out, clothed in whlee led on by the
high priest wearing a miter and gilt
terfng breast plate On which was en-
blazoned the name of God. and Alex
ander, seeing that word, bowed and
halted his army, and the city was
saved. And if we have the love of God
written in all our hearts and on all
our lives and on all our banners at
the sight of it the hosts of temptation
would fall back, and we would go on
from victory unto victory, until we
stand in Zion and before God.
Leander swan across the Hellespont
guided by the light which Hero the fair
held from one of her tower windows,
and what Tablespoons of earthly strug-
gle can we not breast as long as we
can see the torch of divine love held
out from the tower windows of the
King! Let love of God to us and our
love to God clasp hands this minute.
o We dissatisfied and distressed souls,
who roam the world over looking for
happiness and finding none, why not
try this love of God as a so1ace and
inspiration and eternal satisfaction?
When a king was crossing a desert In
caravan, no water was to be found, and
man and beast were perishing from
thirst Along the way were strewn
the bones of caravans that had pre-
ceded. There were harts or reindeer in
the kings procession, and some one
knew their keen scent for water and
cried out, Let loose the harts or REIN
deeri" 1t was DONE and no sooner
were these creatures loosened than
they went scurrying in all directions
looking for water and soon found it,
and the king and his caravan were
saved. and the king wrote on some
tablets the words which he had read
some time before, 'As the hart panteth
after the water brooks, SO panteth my
soul after thee, o God"
Some have compared the love of
God to the ocean. but the comparison
fails, for the ocean hasa shore, and
Gods love is boundless. But If you
insist on comparing the love Of God to
the ocean, put on that ocean four swift
sailing craft, and let one sail to the
north, and one to the south, and one |
to the east, and one to the |
west, and let them sail on a |
thousand years, and after that let them |
all return and some one hail the fleet |
and ask them If they have found the |
shore of Gods love, and their four |
voices would respond: mo shore. No |
shore to the ocean of Gods mercy"
American Honored by italian King.
General w F. DraDer of Milford