I know He can save to the uttermost, all that come
unto Him. “Heaven is made for redeemed
sinners and hell for the proud and disobedient.”
When I see the proud glance, the boastful manner,
the display of, “I am better than thou,”
I feel pity and commiseration for the poor dying creature
and see “behind the face a grinning skull”.
I like the companionship of the servant in the kitchen
more than the mistress in the parlor. I covet
the humblest walk. I wish for the power, often,
to make the rich take back seats, and give the front
to the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind.
I will not have a piece of fine furniture. I have
no carpets on my floors. I have two small rooms
in Topeka in the building I desire to give to the
W. C. T. U. for prohibition work. The little cupboard
I use is made of a dry-goods box, with shelves in
it, a curtain in front. My dishes, all told,
kitchen and dining-room, are not worth five dollars.
This is what the poor have, and better than some have.
It is good enough. It is better than my blessed
Lord had. I desire nothing better. I would
feel like a reprobate to fill my room with expensive
furniture, using money I could feed the hungry with,
clothe the naked, doing things that would please my
Lord. What a change! I used to delight in
cut-glass, china, plush, velvet and lace. Now
I can say “vanity of vanity, all is vanity!”
There may be almost selfishness in this eager desire
I have to give away the means that are at my disposal.
What I use or leave behind will never be placed to
my credit in the bank of heaven. What we give
away for the love of God and our neighbor is all we
take with us. I will be so delighted with a home
that I can call mine, forever. I like nice wearing
apparel but I will not be deceived by spending my time
and means for that which will hinder me from having
them where moth and rust doth not corrupt and where
thieves do not break through and steal. So I
wish to make to myself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness
and not enemies, for the hoarded dollars are bitter
foes that will be witnesses against these rich men
at That Day. I am praying that God may send me
means to carry out a plan to save Kansas from traitors.
The state has made herself a name, that will endure
forever, because she began a warfare against a government
at a time when few were wise enough to see that this
revolution meant defiance to the rum-soaked republican
rule. Every moral reform is a protest against
this government we live under. What does the
W. C. T. U. mean? The mothers banding themselves
together to prevent the Government from slaughtering
them.