The Red Cloud chief., 1885-02-06
FED CLOUD PULPIT.
JUDGMENT TO THE LINE.

JUDGMENT TO TIE LfSE.
Sermon preached in the Baptist
Church by tie pastor. Rev. Geo. Il
Brown. Sunday morning January j.,
c1yxr .-Jncgaeut also VIII ] lay 70 ihc iine
and righteousness 'otiis riurIInet-" ls,ah 2s-iy
This chapter predicts 20 Ephram;
and lodges the complaint mainly on
two things. Pride and Drunkennesr.
These people in their excessive ure q
wine, he'd come TO disregard all Gods
claims upon them. aud then from the
stand point OF their unrghtecuspr.s
had made q covenant with death, ihus
defyIng the gracious, and omnIpolcni
powet @. toe almighty. The tex, - n
selection !roxl the warnings. and a. We
have To do .itb the same Interchangeable
God, Tor the Fa3ne causes, Judgment
are "a surely pronounced against ~ n
against the tribe cf fphr2!m. God
never pronnances judgement agair-i
sin, until he has held up before the
fransgrcssor q way Of escape. Erhr'-
i'm was required 10 offer sacrifice 70
God in an appointed way, as well "a
the trials Benjamin or Judah and t7ey
understood this, but refused. The
warning - Us coming from the text,
r very iust. a. based on the 10th YER"
Behold ! lay in zion for a foundation
a stone, Il tried stone, q precious cor
ner. a sure foundation" Il lay ?
foundation in Ziou." God begins nj the
iot:ora. lie builds his spiritual
house, and he iuiid4 "a suits himself.
no when completed the verdict mas lie
~ Paul has h aye are Gods building.
In rearing this spiritual structure. rlgid
things ere Observed. line and plummet
riyhtcousues- siii BE- established 10y
one, and judgement 10y the o,lior.
Perfection of Code work IL here Sc;
forth; the hori7on.ais must be correct,
the pe pendicular. exact to the plum
met. not gagged by the eve, no by slght
but measured and established by The
Righteousness. of God. There is no de-
lusion more fatal 10 the soul than the
Thought that God will not Judge tho
race by me standard of his own rgnt-
eousneSs, Gods way il righteousness,
and h.s way will be established, so he
says. "YOu covenant with death shall
he disannullcd and your agreement
with he'll shall not stand the scourgc
will cnme,your fnncicd securities viii
be sweet away, the refuge of f~alsehoods
will be gone. soursexpectations Will be
failures.
WHY UNDER JUDGEMEST
Perhaps there is no word IN our
language acknowledgements variety Of
ways than the word line" W. talk
cf boundary lines between our real
estate possessions, we talk OF railroad
lines. of steamship lines, We ST IN our
bucgies. and hold lines, VIC take a day
Of recreation and sport with fishing
with hook and line, e C. Now VIA;
do We meal 10y these expressions; SIN
rlv that the word line d~osigaatcs some
cljebt, principle or fact. There Is one
element that always goes with the
word, and belongs 20 At, no matter 81
what the word is applied. This Gle.
ment may he defined bv restriction
Boundary lines, decide possessions you
have right Just an far and no farther
these imaginory lines are controlling
influence restrict you. Railroad line
a fixed and definite highway t. contro!
rolling stock, travel, and traffic
Steamship line. An established WAY
between given points. Now lorb
Liverpool. and London, line does no.
mean sailing from SanFganSisco &
Toxic, Or from Galveston 10 4 tnouosht
islands oil tho Florida coass~ be
tween the objective poiae fa,hed rs 8
tact. In your buoy holding lines
Is for the purpose<sf guideing and con
trolling tho ho.Se. Fishing line. e
catch one holc1he fish: the one idea i,
10 hold in cleck, to dc ermine; and
this l. one universal element in tn,
word. to whatever it may be applied
Now | have used the word in iiv,
different ways in which it may So ap
piled to each one of us.
iETH
We have a birth line. OF all creation
connected with the earth. no even, wa:
so important as the creation OF man
Read the LIST chapter of genisis from
the 25th verse. Here We are impor
tant creatures by birth right. LEI
them have dominion over the fish o
the sea, oyer the fowl o. the mir, ovel
the cattle and over al. the earth: multi
ple and subdues the earth, and have
dominion over every living thing tina.
moveth on the earth" Wha: an en-
dowmeat is here given TO the race
power to CONTROL; what q commission
of honor is here bestowed "Subdue'
this digaises our birth, gives us roya,,
IN life, thus establishing q line in birth
Of which we may justly be proud, bu'
not with the pride Of Ephriam, which
Opposes God. We are all upon thi.
line, which in the dignity il confers
brings us ON TO the End line connected
with our being.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Our superior endowment embodies
accountability. God created man il
the image Of himself j. e. with ,mmor
tai attributes; with soul destined 70 liv,
whom towers palaces and kingdoms ar,
in the dust: when rocks and noun
tains c.umble, when III moon. aDt
s.ars are gone aud in the place of ere
ated worlds now existing there shall b.
o new heaven and q new earth. We
are To live on and on, while the silencs
of eternal stiffness prpclaims the uni
versal sovereignty Of God. We are Il
exist beyond the wreck Of present sys
tenn Of worlds; and because it depend
eth upon that power which alone ere
ates and preserves, We are accountable
creatures; no alone to the moral die
tates Of conscience. but 70 God who
brought US into being. for his own g'o
r. rather than for our amusement O,
profit. This line ofaccoun;ibili,y run:
along over the earth ere with the
days Of our existence; right on into the
eternal world, where God lays iadg
ment 10 il, Judgment l will also lay
20 the line. "is is this line Of accoun,i-
~biliey 20 him that def:es the boundary
this line holds us subject to God.