Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23


and who live there and how they
dress. He reads Revelation ten times
now where he reads Genesis once
The old story, I'm the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth,
does not thrill him half as much as
the other story, Il saw new heaven
and a new EARTH The old mans
hand trembles as he turns over TINS
apocalyptical leaf, and he has to take
out his handkerchief to wipe his spec
tacles That book of Revelation is
prospectus now of the country INTO
which he is soon to immigrate; the
country in which he has lots already
laid out and avenues opened and man
sions built.
1t is trouble, my friends, that makes
us feel our dependence upon Cod we
do not know our weakness nor Gods
strength until the last plank breaks
1t is contemplate in us that only
when there is nothing else to take
hold of we catch hold of God why,
do you know who the Lord is? He Is
not an autocrat, seated far up IN
palace, from which he emerges once
a year, preceded by heralds swinging
swords to clear the way. No. He Is
a father, willing at our call to stano
by us in every crisis and predlcamenI
of life. / tell you what some of you
business men make me think OIL a
man is unfortunate in his business.
He has to raise a good deal OF money
and raise it quickly. He borroWs on
word and note all he can borrow Al
ter awhile he puts mortgage on MS
house. Then he puts a lien on MS
furniture. Then he makes over MS
life insurance. Then he assigns al
his property. Then he goes TO MS
father-in-law and asks for help Well'
having failed everywhere, completely
failed, he gets down on his knees anu
says, "Oh, Lord, 1 have tried every
body and everything; now help me
out of this financial trouble. he
makes God the last resort instead of
the first resort
The Last Resort.
Now, some of you treat God just as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into a financial perpleA-
! ity, you call on the banker, you call on
| the broker, you call on your creditors,
you call on your lawyer for legal coun-
sci, you call upon everybody, and when
I you cannot get any help then you
go to God You say: "Oh, Lord,
/
perplexity." And the Lord comes
though it is the eleventh hour. He
says: .sWhy did you not send for me
before? AS one whom his mother com
forteth, so will 1 comfort you 1t is
to throw us back upon God that we
have this ministry of tears
I like what Martin Luther said to
Philip Melanchton when Melanchtor
eyc,6
to Luther: "Our cause is lost. We have
had all our work for nothing 1 an
in a state of despair Then Luther
said: Come, Philip; we have hat
enough of such talk, Let us sing the
Forty-sixth Psalm of David: God i!
our refuge and strength, very pres
ent help in trouble, therefore will no
we fear though the earth be removed
and the mountains cast into the mids
of the sea- Though the waters there
of roar and be troubled, though tn
mountains shake with the swellin:
thereof. Selahi'''
Again, it is the use of trouble t,
capacitate us for the office of sympa
thy. The priests, under the old dis
pensation, were set apart by havin;
water sprinkled upon their hands, fee
and head and by the sprinkling o
tears people are now set apart to tn
office of sympathy When we are il
prosperity, we like to have grea
many young people around us, an
we laugh when they laugh, and W
romp when they romp, and we sin
when they sing, but when we hav
trouble we like plenty of old folk
around. Why? They know how t
talk. Take an aged mother, rs year
of age, and she is almost omnipoten
in comfort. Why? She has bee
through it all. At o'clock in tn
young mother who has just lost he
babe Grandmother knows all abou
that trouble Fifty years ago she fel
it. At IL O'Clock of that day she goe
over to comfort widowed soul. Sh
knows all about that. She has bee
walking in that dark valley 20 year.
At o'clock in the afternoon some on
knocks at the door. wanting breat
She knows all about that. Two or thre
times in her life she came to her las
loaf At 10 O'Clock that night sh
goes over to sit up with some on
, severely sick She knows all about i
. She knows all about fevers and pler
, risies and broken bones. She has bee
doctoring all her life, spreading plas
: ters and pouring out bitter drops an
, shaking up hot pillows and contri,
, ing things to tempt a poor appetit
Drs. Abernethy and Rush and H(
, sack and Harvey were great doctor
? but the greatest doctor the world eve
saw is an old Christian woman Des
: met Do we not remember her abol