Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

have always been opposed to wicked
ness and always will be opposed to it.
The world is to me an affront infinite,
and away with it." If omniscience had
spoken. it would have said: "I have
watched that plane. with minute and
all comprehensive inspection, and /
cannot have the offense longer con-
tinued." II truth had spoken, it would
have said, 81 declare that they who
offend the law must go down under
the law" But divine love took a diff
ferent view of the worlds obduracy
and pollution. 1t said: 81 pity all those
woes of the earth. I cannot stand
here and see no assuagement of those
sufferings. I will go down and reform
the world. 1 will medicate its wounds.
will calm its frenzy. 1 will wash off
its pollution. I will become incarnat-
ed. T wifi take on my shoulders and
upon my brow and into my heart the
consequences of that worlds misbe-
ha,vior. l start now. and between my
arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent
from Olivet will weep their tears and
suffer their griefs and die their death.
Farewell, my throne, my crown, my
scepter, my angelic environment, my
heaven, till I have finished the work
anu COIil6 DdCh. OOu WAS never COn-
quered but once, and that was when he
was conquered by his own love. God
is love-
Christ the Comforter.
If one paragraph of the creed seems
to take you, like a child, out of the
arms of a father. let the next para
graph put you in the arms of a moth
er. LAS one whom his mother COM
what a mother We have in God, And
my text is the lullaby sung to us when
we are i'll, or when we are maltreated,
or when we are weary, or when we are
trying to do better, or when we are be-
reft, or when we ourselves lie down to
the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek
of the mother against our cheek, and
there sounds in it the hush of many
mothers: God is love-"
This was the reason the Bible was
written. The world needs no inspired
page to tell it that God will chastise
sin, for that is proved in the life of
many an offender. You can look
through the wicket of any prison and
see the fact which the world under
stood thousands of years before Solo
mon wrote 1.-THE way of the trans-
gressor is hard The world needed
no Bible to tell it that God is omnipo-
tent, for any one who has seen Mont
Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean
in cyclone knows that. The world
needed no Bible to tell it of Gods wis
dom, for everything, from a spiders
web to the upholstery of a summers
sunset, from the globe of dewdrop to
the rounding of a worl@. declares that.
But there was one secret about God
that was wrapped up in a scroll of
parchment, and it staid there until
apostolic hand unrolled that scroll,
and let out upon the world the start
ling fact, which it could never have
surmised, never guessed, never expect
ed, that he loved our human race so
ardently that he will pardon sin and
subdue the offender with a divine kiss
and turn foaming malefactors into
worshipers before the throne. Oh, 1
am so glad that the secret is out and
that it can never again be veiled! Tell
it to all the SHINING, suffering, lying
race; tell it in song and sermon, on
canvas. and in marble, on arch and
pillar; tell it all around the earth
God is love-
The Domination OF Fear.
Notice that the wisest men OF the ma
tiOuS IOT IuOuSdHuS OI years QlO not,
amid their idolatries, make something
to represent this feeling, this emotion.
They had a Jove, representing might;
Neptune, the god of the sea: Minerva,
the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the
goddess of base appetite; Ceres, the
goddess of corn, and an Odin, an an
Osiris, and a Titan. and a Juggernaut,
and whole pantheons of gods and god
desses, but no shrine, no carved image,
no sculptured form has suggested
god of pure love. That was beyond
human brain 1t took God to think
that, a God to project that, God let
down from heaven to achieve that.
Fear is the dominant thought in all
false religions. For that the devotees
cut themselves with lances and swing
on iron hooks and fall under wheels
and hold up the right arm so long that
they cannot take it down. Fear, brut-
ish fear, But love is the queen in our
religion. For that we build temples |
For that we kneel at our affairs. For |
that we contribute our aims. For that |
martyrs suffered at Brussels market |
place and at Lucknow and Cawnpur |
and Pekin. That will yet bejewel the |
round earth and put it an emerald ON |
the great, warm, throbbing heart of |
God
Proof That God Is Love-
Do you want more proof that tGod |
is lover Yea, disinterested love No |
compensation for its bestowal No re-
ward for its sacrifices. But 1 call that |
back The world did pay him 1t paid |
him on Calvary, paid him with bram-