Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-05

most merciful and glorious and wise
being in all the universe You cannot
teach omnipotence anything. You have
fretted and worried almost enough.
Do you not think so2 Some OF you are
making yourselves ridiculous in the
sight of the angels Here is a naval
architect, and he draws out the plan of
a ship Of many thousand tons Many
workmen are engaged on it for long
while The ship is done. and some day,
WITH the flags up and the air gorgeous
with bunting, the vessel is launched
for Southampton At that time lad
six years OF age comes running down
the dock with toy boat which he has
made with his own jackknife- and he
says: Here. my boat is better than
yours. Just look AT this jibbocm and
these weather crossjack braees.'' And
he drops his little boat beside the great
ship. and there is roar of laughter on
the decks, All. my friends that great
ship is your life as God planned it
vast. million toned, ocean destined
eternity bound, That little boat is your
life as you We're trying to hew it out
and fashion it and launch IT. Dc not
try to be ? rival OF the great Jehovah.
God is always right and in nine cases
what kind OF Grain you are, and ne
sends the right kind OF thrashing ma
chine. Il viii be rod or stan or iron
wheel just according as you are ftches
OF cummin or corn
Again, my subject teaches that God
keeps trial on Us until we let go. The
farmer shouts Whoa TO his horses
as soon as the grain is dropped from
the stalk. The farmer comes with his
fork and tosses up the straw, and he
sees that the straw has let go the grain
ana the grain is thoroughly thrashed.
So Goa. Shifting rod and turning
wheel both cease as soon as we let go.
( We started under the delusion that this
was a great world. We learned out of
/ our geography that it was so many
/ thousand miles in diameter, and so
many miles in circumference, and we
said, '-Oh, my. what a worldI'' Trou-
4 BILE came in after life and this trouble
: sliced on one part OF the world. and it
has got to be smaller world and in
some estimations very insignificant
world, and it is depreciating all the
lime IS snsrft.,al r-nveerfv Fen 80
/ cent on. 80 per cent of, and there are
those who would not give 10 cents for
this world-the entire world-as soul
possession
We thought that Friendship was a
grand thing. In school We used 10
write compositions about friendship.
and perhaps we made our graduating
/ speech on commencement day on
friendship Oh, it was charming
thing, But does it mean as much TO
you as it used TO? You have gone on
in life. and one friend has betrayed
you and another friend has misinter-
preted you, and another friend has
neglected you. and friendship comes
now sometimes to mean TO you merely
another ak TO grind, So with money.
We thought If a man had a compe-
tency he was safe for all the future
but We have learned that mortgage
may be defeated by an unknown pre-
yious incumbrance; that signing your
name on the back of a note may be
1 your business death warrant: that q
new tariff may change the current oi
trade; that man may be rich to-day
and poor tomorrow. And God by al
these misfortunes, is trying to loosen
| your grip, but we still hold on God
smites with a staff but we hold on
And he strikes us with rod, but we
hold on. And he sends over US tbs
iron wheel of misfortune, but we hoiC
on There are men who keep theil
grip on this world until the last mo
meRt, who suggest to me the condi
tion and conduct of the poor Indian il
the boat in the Niagara rapids, com
ing on toward the fall. Seeing that b.
could not escape. g moment or TIVE
before he got to the verge of th'
plunge he lifted wine bottle ant
drank il on and then tossed the bottI
; into the air. So there are men VIII,
: clutch the world, and they go dow
| through the rapids of temptation an,
t sin, and they hold on to the very las
moment to life. drinking to their eter
nal doom as they go over and dow
oh. let go, Let go. The best for
; tunes are in heaven There are N
) absconding cashiers from that bank
: no falling in promises to pay Sc
5 your affections on things above, no
: on things on the earth Let go, De
: pend upon it that God viii keep upol
, you the stan or the rod or the irol
: wheel until You do let 90.
1 Another thing my text teaches u
f is that Christian sorrow is going L
have a sure terminus Ny text says
! Bread corn is bruised because h
! will not ever be thrashing it, Bsesse
. | be God for that. Pound away, o fiai,
Turn on, o wheel. Your work vii
soon be done He will not ever b
| thrashing it, so much OF US as i