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

ask OF you a k1nQneSS, you
do kindness for me or If any one else
would do it If. when you are Ill, I
should come to you with vial OF
medicine and say, This kind of medi-
cine has cured fifty people who were
just as badly on as you are; take it,
and you replied, Il do not want to take
it; have no confidence in it, 1 would
say, Take it to oblige me,'' and you
would say, We'll, if it will accommo-
date you I will take it," Now, you
have found that this world is INSULT
cient and you are sick of sin. 1 come
TO you with gospel medicine. 1t has
cured hundreds and thousands and
millions. Will you take it? NO"
you say, Il have no confidence in it,
Take it, then, to oblige me- I tell you
of a Physician who has cured more
blind eyes, and bound up more broken
hearts, and healed more CHASTITY
wounds than all the doctors since the
time of Aesculapius. Be obliging and
Just make the experiment. If you are
not acquainted with the ordinary
modes of prayer, say in substance:
u Lord Jesus, this is strange
thing for me to do. know nothing
about the formulas of religion. These
Christian people have been talking so
long about what thou canst do for me
| am ready to do whatever thou COM
mandest me. If there be any power in
religion, as these people say, let me
nave the advantage of it, Will you
not try that experiment?
Gospel of Peace and Hope.
Oh, men, skeptical and struck
through with unrest! I beg you come
on that great Sahara desert of doubt
into the bright and luxuriant land OF
gospel hope and peace. You do not
want your children to come up in that
skepticism. If you do not believe in
anything else, you believe in love-a
fathers love, a mothers love, wife's
love, child's love. Then let me tell
you that God loves you more than all
these together The great heart or
Christ aches to have you come in, and
he looks into your eyes this moment,
saying. "Other sheep 1 have which are
not of this fold'
I want to tell you that God loves
to take hold of very bad case. When
the church casts you off, and when
the clubroom casts you off, and when
society casts you off, and when busi-
ness associates cast you OF, and when
casts you off, and when everybody
casts ven off yeur first cry for help will
bend the eternal God clear down to the
ditch of your suffering and shame. The
Good Templars cannot save you, al
though they are grand institution. The
sons OF Temperance cannot save you,
although they are mighty for good.
Signing the temperance pledge cannot
save you, although 1 believe in it.
Nothing but the grace of the eternal
God can save you, and that will if you
will throw yourself on it.
The Modern Catacombs.
They talk about the catacombs OF
Naples and the catacombs of Rome and
the catacombs of Egypt, the great buri-
al places under the city where is the
dust of many generations passed on, but
l tell you New York has it's catacombs
and Washington it's catacombs, and all
our cities their catacombs. They
are underground liquor dives, full OF
dead mems bones and all uncleanness.
There is no need of going into the art
gallery to see in skillful sculpture that
wonderful representation of a man and
his sons wound round with serpents.
There are families represented here to-
day that are wrapped in the martyr
| dom of fang and scale and venom, a
living LAGOON of ghastliness and hor-
ror.
But turn to outsiders with an ex-
pectation that thrills through me,
body and soul. "Other sheep 1 have,
which are not of this fold" You are
not gospel hardened. You have not
heard many sermons during the last
few years. You feel the Holy Ghost
this moment in your heart. You do not
weep. but the tear is not far on. You
sigh, and you have noticed that there
is always a sigh in the wind before
the rain falls. There are those here
who would give anything if they could
find relief in tears. They say: ..On,
my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past!
Oh, the graves over which have STUN
bled! Whittier shall 1 fly? Alas. for
the future! Everything is SO dark, SO
very dark! God help mel God pity
mel" Thank the Lord for that last ut
terance. You have begun to pray. and
when a man begins to petition GOD
steps in and beats back the hounds
of temptation to their kennel and round
1 about the poor wounded soul puts the
covert of his pardoning mercy. Hark!
hear something fall. What was that?
1t is the bars of the fence around the
sheep-fold- The Shepherd lets down
the bars, and the hunted sheep of the
mountain bound in, some of them their
fleece torn with brambles, some OF
them their feet famed with the dogs.