The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-01-05

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followed by separation, but In q place
'from which they shall go no more out
forever For emAciation and sigh
Ing. immortal health. Reunion, or, II
you like the word better, anticipation.
There is nothing left for them in this
world. Try them with Heaven. With
q chapter from the grea; book open
one a. the IL rates. Give them one note
Of seraphic harp, one fash from the sea
Of glass, ons clattsr OF the hoOfs Of the
horses on which victors ride. That
word reunion, or anticipation. htiy
~spoken-well, no fruit hsapsd up In all
YER baskets could equal it. or the 2.ooo
kinds Of apples that have blessed the
world, not one IL 90 mensw or 20 rich
or so hromsfie, but we take the sugges-
tion Of the text, and compare that
word Of comfort, atly spoken, to apples
Of gold In baskets Of silver. I
There must be no impatienee in the
warning we give others. We must
realize that hut for the kindness of
God TO us We would have been in the
same rapids. That mar going wrong
may be struggling with . tide Of evil
inherited FROM father and grandfather
and great-grandfsther. The present
temptation may be the accumulated
force of generations and centuries,
rNo," you say. "his father was
rood man. knew him" But did you
know his grandfather9 Evil habit
is apt TO skip one generation, a fact
recognized In the Ten Commandments,
which speak Of the third and fourth
generations but say nothing Of the
second generation.
Or the man astray may have an IN
happy home. and that is enough to
wreck anyone, We often speak Of
men who destroy their homes, but do
not say anything about the fact that
there are thousands Of wives in Amer
lea who by petulance and frstting and
reconsideration and lack Of economy
and all manner Of disagreeablenesa
drive sheir husbands into dissipation.
The reason that thousands OF men
Ipend their evenings in clubhouses
and taverns is because they cannot
stand II at home. I know men who
are 3o-yesr martyrs in the fact that
they are awfuily married. That a
risge was not made in Heaven. With
out asking Divine guidance they en-
tered into an alliance which ought
never to have been made. That IL
what Il the matter with many men
you and I know. They may be very
brave and heroic and say nothing
about Il but all the neighbors know.
Now. II the man going wrong has such
domestic misfortune. be very lsnient
and excusatory in your word Of warn
ing. The difference between you and
him may be that you would have gone
down faster than he IL going down II
you had the same kind Of eonjugal
wretchedness.
In mentioning hns arts people are
apt to speak Of music and painting
and sculpture and architecture, but
they forget to mention the finest Oh
all the hne arts-the art OF doing
good, the art Of helping others, tn,
art OF saving men. An art to bc
studied 40 you study music, for It Il
music in the fact that II drives ouf
moral discord and substitutes eterna
harmony; an art TO be studied like
sculpture, for IL 10 sculpture in thu
fact that Il bullds q man, not In the
cold statue, but in immortal shape
that will last long after pentehcaI
marble haA crumbled: an art tn h
4 studied as you study architecture, TO
Il IL architecture in the fact that !
builds for him a house Of God, eterna
T IN the heavens, but an art that vi
! cannot fully learn unless God help
: u 4. Ourselves saved by grace Divine
! we can 20 forth to saw others, am
with a tenderness and compassion an
8 q pity that we could not otherwise e1
y ercise va can pronounce the warninI
Z word with magnificent result. Tn
d Lord said 70 the prophet Amos
"Amos, what seest thou7" And h
answered: "A basket Of summe
V fruit" But l do not think Amos sal
y In that basket of summer fruit any
thing more inviting and luscious tina
T. many o saved man has seen in Oh
warning word Of some hearty, con
\ mon sense Christian adviser, for
N word Atty spoken 10 "hke apples
gold in baskets Of oliver"
"A 30 also is q word Of invitation p
tent and beautiful. Who can dsscrll
"a the drawing power Of that word.
small and yet "a tremendous, Come
"a II Is q short word, but It's influence.
as long as eternity. Not 4 sesqI
a, pedalian word. spreading its enerI
a. over many syllables, but monosyll
ga bic. Whether calling in wrong dire
n tion OF right direction, many ha
AZ found IL irresistible. That one wo
has Allied all the places Of dissipati
by and dissoluteness. II 10 respondt
In for the abominstions that curse I
ed earth. Inquire at the door Of prso
wv what brought the offender there, a
nd at the door Of almshouses VII
hui brought the pauper there, and at I
IN. door Of the lost world what was I
no cause Of the Incarceration, and II I
re inmates speak the truth they "
nd say: The word Comet brought
nd here" Come and drink. Come q
Iev gamble. Come and sin. Come a
81. die. Pronounce that word with q
led kind Of infection and you car hear
me II the tolling Of all the bells Of Ct
in fagrstion and woe.
,ut The chief baker In prison in Pl
raoh's time saw in dream somethi
I'VE quite different from apples Of gold
md baSketsof silver, for he said 10 JOSEF
Iou II also wal in a dream, and, beho
hat / had three white baskets on my he
US and In the uppermost basket TIL
hat was MI name OF baked meats
ny Pharaoh, and the birds did eat th
.ow out Of the baskets upon my hea
int, Joseph interpreted the dream and 9
10 Il meant that the chief baker sho
tar be beheaded and the birds would
The his flesh.
ton Bnt, oh, the power Of that W
est "Come" when Alright uttered We
ven well when we send young men
me schools aud colleges and theolog.
hat teminaries and by nine years OF
aall struction and drill hope TO prep
be- them 20 sound Alright that sweet
ter enrapturing and Heaven deseen
zen. word "Come. The Gospel we
ing lieve In SA Gospel Of "Con
ing That word speak all the chui
hat e.. That word IL now build
are thrones for c%onquerors and
mes uished coronets for kings and que
enc That word 10 10 sound so clearly
lac, imp~essiysiy and dlvinely that the
as 10 advancing when all nations shall
spond: eve GOMEZ" I'VE con
his And while the upper sleeps tow
de- God aud Heaven will be ~thronged '