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


en-, and they will be glad to see you
On the highest throne you will find
one who said, Behold thy mother
Sit anywhere you please You will be
at home anywhere Take your pick
out of that sheaf of scepters- What.
The wrinkles have all gone out OF
your face, and the once rheumatic step /
has become like that of the bounding
roe Just as expected, you aged, glor-
ihed soul. you had an abundant en-
trance.
Consecrated Amuence-
Well, this man of consecrated af-
fuence is about to go out of the world |
He feels in brain and nerve the strain
OF the early struggles by which he won
his fortune, and at go or 20 years col |
lapses under the exhaustions of the
twenties and thirties of his lifetime.
When the morning papers announce
that he is gone, there is excitement not
only on the avenues where the man
sions stand but all through the hos
pitfalls and asylums and the homes of
those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness
on earth is a very tame affair COM
pared with the excitement of gladness
in heaven. The guardian angel of that
good mans life swept by his dying
pillow the night before, and on swift
wing upward announced that in few
hours he would arrive, and there is a
mighty stir in heaven. He comesi"
cries seraph to seraph. The Kings
heralds are at the gate to say, Come,
we blessed" and souls who were saved
through the churches that good man
supported and hundreds who went up
after being by him helped in their
earthly struggle will come down on
their thrones and out of their palaces
and through the streets to hail him
into the land which they reached some
time before through his Christian phil
| anthropy. why, that is the man who,
when I was a-hungered, gave me
bread!" why, that is the man." says
another, who encouraged me when I
was in the hard struggle of business
life!' "Why, that is the man." says
another, who paid my rent when 1
had nothing with which to pay!"
why, that is the man through whose
| missionary spirit I heard the gospel
call in Bombay" 'tWhy, that is the
man." says another, "who helped send
the gospel of Christ to the aborigines
| Of America and caused me to exchange
the war whoop of the savage for the
song of Christian deliverance!" Stand
back" commanded the gatekeeper of
heaven, "al we throng redeemed
through this mans instrumentalities!
Make way for him to the feet of the
King, where he will cast a crown, and
then make way for him to the throne,
where he shall reign forever and ever!"
Now. that is what I call an abundant
entrance. You see. it is not necessary
to be a failure on earth in order to be
a success in heaven
Demand of Fiial Devotion.
After years of filial fidelity on the
part of this self-sacrifcing daughter,
the old folks go home. Now the daugh-
ter is free from marital alliance, but
the damask rose in her cheek is faded,
and the crows feet have left their mark
on the forehead. and the gracefulness
is gone out of the figure, and the world
calls her by a mean and unga1lant
name. But, my Lord and my God
surely thou wilt make it up for that
girl in heavenly rewardi On all the
banks of the river of life there is nc
castle of emerald and carbuncle richer
than that which awaits her. Its win
dows look right out upon the Kings
park, and the white horses of the
chariot are being harnessed to meet hel
at the gate, and if there are no Others
to meet her, father and mother will be
there to thank her for all she did fol
them when their strength failed anc
the grasshopper became a burden, and
they will say: MY daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the lasti How
good it is to be together in heaven!
That is the Kings chariot come fol
you. Mount and ride to your ever.
lasting home." Now, that is what
call an abundant entrance.
The Stranger in Heaven.
But imagine one of these scarcely
saved" Christians entering the shininf
; realmi He passes in a stranger. Sain
says to saint. who comes there?'
And angel says to angel, "Who Il
that?" He moves up and down tn,
streets and meets no one whom h
helped to get there. He goes into tn,
| great temple and finds among TIA
throngs of the white robed not one sou
, whom he helped to join the doxoIogies
!, He goes into the house of many man
, sions'' and finds not one spirit whom
? he helped to start for that high resi-
r dence. / am glad that he got in, but
am amazed that in the 80 or 40 or z
, years of his life he did nothing for Co
, and the betterment of the world whicl
= woke the heavenly echoes. Oh, child @
, God, if you had never thought of i
: before, present the startling fact tina
you are now deciding not only tn
style of your heavenly reception, blu
the grade Of your association and en-