Baxter Springs news., 1919-03-28

A dream story taken from the
BIhle picture Of Lazarus and Dives
the rich man falls asleep and sees the
resurrection and the end Of time.
This story Ii the eliminating cli-
mayor the end-of q book which
viii enter the 1920 campaign, entitled
"FrOm President TO Road overseer."
The author, q citizen Of Baxter, be-
llsvsi the dream story to be worthy OF
the closest study, for the reason that
10 qualities personal beings in the last
court-the judgment-and attributes
IGhSi TO the consultations frequently
PSiea.Of. at the birth Of the Savior
:. Ard, thus the dream begins:
Looking out across the world TO-
ward the rising Of the sun, two white
figures crossed the orbit Of the eye
and shot toward the earth. They were
messengers from God on 4 mission Of
fulhllment. Beside o newly fresh
tomb In the hills of Golgotha in the
garden Of Gethsemane they stopped
and rolled a heavy stone away and
Christ. the entombed Savior Of the
world, arose, while the two angels
stood guard ut the head and at the
foot Of the tomb. / see figure run
ming toward the tomb, excited, in
haste, and looking in amazement at
the open tomb, and as the figure wept
Il said to the guards: They have
taken away the Lord; where is my
Lord?" Another figure appeared and
said: "Mary, 60 unto my brethren
and say / ascend to the Lord"
Now I look again and from Mount
Olivet / see q scene so soul-inspiring
and resplendent that the pre-eminence
Of the best world writers, bards and
theologians, have never been able to
re-produce-Christ in the ascension.
Saturn, with its halo Of glory in
priSmatic colors, proud that it was
marked thus as q signal in the sky
that the wise men Of the east might
lind their way to Jerusalem to see the
Fnewly born Savior Of the world 1.-THE
same sign was over the heads Of Mary
and the Son); the moon and stars and
all habitation Of the ethereal world
Swelled into a heavenly chorus that
measured time from the birth in the
manger at Jerusalem to the crucifix-
ion at Golg0tha.
The moon is now rising from its
eastern heritage which casts its glow
ing spires toward the western world
whose monstrous clouds held the mir
age Of the Savior.
The ascension passed.
A storm arose. With it came a re-
versal Of natures beauty. Birds flew
into wild confusion. Flowers dropped
their heads and fell before a mighty
tempeat. Saturn, the crowned king OF
all the world, shown out thru the
blaekness Of the hour that divorced
the moon and stars from light and
made the earth a darkened veil.
Thunder and lightning appeared and
thru the murky biaclness Of it all the
stars in heaven shot hither and thith-
or. From the hills Of Mount Calvary
arose the clouds which were to mark
the end Of time, on whose turbulent
bosom, speeding toward the earth'
were Christ and the heavenly angels.
Christ had but just arisen from the
tomb, and now He was on His flight
backi Two thousand years had come
and gone in this dream-this small
atom Of time (which may have been a
second, q minute, an hOur-since had
seen the ascension, and now time was
to Be no m6rel
Hail, HeaRenly Chief, in whose
preasnce ! GEnl Show me by word or
siGrn that thGu art the Son Of God and
Him cruci6edl And Immediately there
Sycse q cross from the hills Of Col
1otha benring the legend Of PLATE:
%eSus q: Nazareth, the King Of the
Jews!" g.
Like the God of Eden who led Moth
or Eve into that blissful paradise, so
the God Of this dream turned our po-
sition 70 the eastward, and with eyes
wide open, it seemed, saw a heaven
" amphitheatre running in long seat
circles that extended from the tropics
Of the south to the more northernly
limits Of the world; the two poles
seemed to act in unison as standards
Of Rravitation to balance the amphi-
theatre and sustain it from smashing
into the earth. There 1t was in mid
heaven, above the terrible conhagra-
ton beneath, for the end had come
and the world was on frel This am
phitheatre contained the legions OF
1ayed souls who could be seen in col
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