Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-01


that would borrow of thee turn not
thou away" 1t is right that one bor-
row the means of getting an education,
as the young student of my text bor-
rowed the AK 1t is right to borrow
means for the forwarding of CONNER
cial ends.
We borrow time;- we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies return For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in i'm
provement of ourselves and helpful-
ness for others. For what we borrow
in the shape of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood or womanhood for all the ages to
come we ought to be paying back. The
hallelujahs of heaven will be returned
for cruciixion agony.
Furthermore, let us admire these
young men of Elishas theological sem
mary for the fact that they were earn
ing their own way. Those are the kind
of men who know what education is
worth and know how to use it.
Those students in the valley of
palms by the Jordan had a physical
strength and hardihood that would
help them in their mental and spirit
ual achievements. We who are tofling
for the worlds betterment need Drawn
as we'll as brain, strong bodies as well
as illumined minds and consecrated
souls
Let all those who toll for their edu-
cation remember they are especially
favored, and if things go against them
and the ak head should fly the helve
that very hinderment may some time
turn out advantageously, as the acci-
dent by the river Jordan, which SEEM
ed TO finish the young students capac-
1ty to help build the new seminary
resulted in a splendid demonstration
OF the power of Elisha's God to help
any one who helps himself. No ak that
was ever welded has wrought SO well
as that ak, the handle and head of
which parted
Notice, also, how God is superior to
every law that he has made, even the
strongest law of nature, the law of
sravitation. What rebuke to those
who reject miracles on the ground that
they are contrary to nature, as though
the law were stronger than the God
who made the law, Again ard again
in Bible times was that law revoked
There Christ stood by his disciples
on the Mount of Olives after his com
ing out of the sepulcher. No ladders
let down for his ascension, but his feet
lift from the hill, and he goes up until
the curtain of cloud drops, and he is
invisible. Law of gravitation again
embarrassed. Enoch, Methuselah's s
father, escaping death, went up bodily
and will have no need of resurrection
So will all the good who shall be still
alive at the end of the world They
will not need wings. Every one of the
millions of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, if then alive, will 'sbe
caught up" as the Bible says, body as
well as soul, the law of gravitation
paralyzed. God mightier than any law
he ever created. Oh, 1 like the mir
ac1es because they show God independ-
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power in the
backwoods. Wonderful things were
done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru-
salem and Babylon and Nineveh, and
the great cities of our time have seen
the divine power, but this miracle OF
my text was IN the backwoods, far
away from the city, in the lumber dis
tricts, where the students had gone to
cut timber for the new theological
seminary. And il this sermon shall
come. as it will come, like my other
sermons for the last thirty years, with
out missing a week, let me say to
those far away from the house of God
and in the mountain districts that my
text shows the divine power in the
backwoods- The Lord by every stream
as he certainly was by the Jordan, ON
every mountain as surely as he was on
Mount Zion, on every lake as on Ii
berias. ny every rock as by the one
whose gushing waters slaked the thirst
of the marching Israelites.
Do not feel lonely because your near
est neighbor may be miles away, be-
cause the width Of the continent may
separate you from the place where
your cradle was rocked and your faith
er's grave was dug. Take your Bible
out under the trees. IL the weather
will permit. and after you have lis
tened 10 the solo of bird in the tree
tops or the long meter psalm of the
thunder, read those words of the Bible.
which must have been written out of
doors: ssThe trees Of the Lord are full
of sap. the cedars Of Lebanon which
he hath planted, where the birds make
their nests; as for the stork, the fir
trees are her house The high hills are