Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-01-06


c. A. He had large audiences and
keenest attention. His text was from
Joshua xiv. Is. Choose We this day
whom We will serve. He said:
In our day the human will. although
still ambitious and avaricious. has
taken higher plane for its exercise
than in the days of Alexander the
Great and Napoleon. 1t is rather en-
ployed in the conquering of mountains
and valleys. in the casting up of high
ways and piercing of tunnels; in the
erection of bridges and the master
pieces of mechanical enginery which
traverse the land and the sea with al
most incredible speed
The WiIPs Greatest Achievement
But. said the Pastor. the most won
derful achievement of the will is seen
In self-control. The Scriptures say tru-
~. Greater is he that ruleth his own
will than he that captures a city"
proverbs xvi. 81, The most wonder
full illustrations of the will thus exer-
cised he believes are to be found in
the case of Jesus and His footstep fol-
lowers By the exercise of His will
Jesus surrendered His glorious condi-
ton for the human estate and then de-
livered up Himself. as the Man Christ
Jesus to the doing of the Divine will.
even unto death. that thus by the
grace of God He might taste death for
every man" Hebrews ii, o., The
motive behind that strong will was not
selfishness. but love
Compliments the Japanese
When l note the gentleness and
kindness and courtesy of japanese life
in general. | am astonished and won
der little that the ordinary Christian
message has not appealed more to
your hearts and displaced Shinto wor-
| ship, for which | understand you have
two hundred thousand figures, temples
| Sympathetically putting myself in the
place of the japanese. | fancy you say
| ing. Shall we exchange our simple.
esthetic gentleness anu kindness of
spirit for the rudeness and sometimes
swagger of the soldiers and sailors.
and the domineering readiness of the
| upper classes who come to us?
Sympathetic Ay. again l hear you
say The missionaries who have ex-
| pounded Christianity to us for years
| have told US that our parents ana an
cestors whom we reverently worship
are despised by your Christian God.
and are damned to an eternity of tor
ture because they did not know Jesus
and become His followers. They tell
US. additionally. that we also are bound
for that place of eternal horror and
torture unless we repudiate the religion
of our birth which has made US SO
happy and contented. Can you won
der that we resent such teaching: that
we merely tolerate it to avoid war;
that we prefer Buddhism and Shinto-
ism. and that our Shinto temples in
crease the more rapidly because of an
tagonism TO Christianity?
Heathen Ancestry Not Roasting.
Alas. my dear hearers. Christianity
with very precious truths at its four
dalton, seriously lost its way long
centuries ago and wandered far from
the inspired teachings of the Bible
This is the explanation of the numer-
GUS sects and parties Of Christendom
and the different doctrines none of
which I I'M here to defend-either fro:'i
the standpoint Of reason or the Bible
The Bible does not teach. as once
You supposed. that eternal torment is
the penalty for our first parents dis
| obedience in the eating of the forbid
den fruit On the contrary. it teaches
that 1.-THE wages Of sin Is death" and
that this death wage has been the ex
perience of our entire race for now si1
thousand years. II teaches that in
Gods due time this curse or sentences
= of death will be lifted and that sor'
row and signing shall Zee away
1t teaches that the whole earth shar
become Paradise ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and that those who. when fully In
formed. shall prefer sin. viii be Mt
terly. completely and everiastingly de
stroyed. in the Second Death"
{ So then. my friends If from Shin
toism you have learned to be estheti'
In your tastes. kind and gentle in you
manner and loyal-these lessons learn
ed will be to you great advantage II
that future time OF blessing undo
Messiah's Kingdom On the othe
hand. whoever has cultivated con
: trary spirit will be correspondingly de
PRAYED and will correspondingly hav'
the more and severer lessons to learn
Take heart then today from the as
y surance of the good time coming ant
that every grace of character that ha
been acquired by you either through
Shintoism or otherwise. is not lost. bu
should be maintained