Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-02

COulnS. w III d ldlu6I dt VAST Oulldy
construct mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle
with fountains, and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house of
gospel mercy and will he then refuse
entrance to his children? Will gov
ernment at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
boats that can hover unhurt like a
petrol over the widest surge, and then,
when the lifeboat has reached the
wreck of a ship in the offing, not allow
the drowning to seize the life line Or
take the boat for the shore in safety?
Shall God provide at the cost of his
only Sons assassination escape for a
sinking world and then turn deaf ear
to the cry that comes up from the
breakers?
Two Things Believe.
But" you say, there are so many
things 1 have to believe and so many
things in the shape of a creed that I
have to adopt that 1 am kept back
No, no, You need believe but two
things-namely, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners,
and that you are one of them. But
you say, Il do believe both Of these
things." Do you really believe them
with all your heart? Yes Why
then, you have passed from death into
life. Why, then, you are a son or a
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of
an inheritance that will declare divi-
dends from now until long after the
stars are dead. Hallelujah, Prince of
God, why do you not come and take
your coronet? Princess of the Lord
Almighty, why do you not mount your
throne? Pass up into the light. Your
boat is anchored, why do you not go
ashore? Just plant your feet down
hard, and you will feel under them the
Rock of Ages. 1 challenge the uni
verse for one instance in which man
in the right spirit appealed for the
salvation of the gospel and did not get
it. Man alive, you are going to let all
the years of your life go away with you
without your having this great peace,
this glorious hope, this bright expect
ancy? Are you going to let the pearl
| of great price lie in the dust at your
feet because you are too indolent or
! too proud to stoop down and pick it
up? Will you wear the chain of evil
habit when near by you is the hammer
that could with one stroke snap the
| shackle? Will you stay in the prison
of sin when here is gospel key that
could unlock your incarceration? No,
| NO!
Magic of Word.
| AS the one word Come" has some
| times brought many souls to Christ
| will try the experiment of piling up
into mountain and then send down in
an avalanche of power many of these
! gospel Comes Come thou and all
| thy house into the ark Come unto
me all ye who labor and are heavy
! laden, and will give you rest Come,
for all things are now ready" Come
| with us, and we will do you good
Come and see'' tThe Spirit and the
bride say Come and let him that is
| athirst come The stroke of one bell
in a tower may be sweet, but a score
of bells well tuned and rightly lifted
and skillfully swung in one great
| chime fill the heavens with music al
most celestial. And no one who has
heard the mighty chimes in the towers
of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenhagen
can forget them. Now, it seems to me
that in this Sabbath hour all heaven
! is Ginning, and the voices of departed
| 1r1endS ana k1ndred ring down the SKY,
saying, Gomez The angels who never
fell, bending from sapphire thrones.
are chanting "Come." Yea, all the
towers of heaven, tower of martyrs,
tower of prophets, tower of apostles,
| tower of eyangelists, tower of the tenn
| pie of the Lord God and the Lamb, are
I Ginning, "Comei Comet Pardon for
all and peace for all and heaven for all
| who will come.