Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

church where you can thoroughly learn
these two letters, and all they stand
for, you ought to be edited and happy.
There are differences we admit, and
some denominations we like better
than others. But suppose three or four
of us make solemn agreement TO meet
each other, q week from now in Chi
cago on important business, and one
goes by the New York Central rail-
road, another by the Erie railroad, an
other by the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. One goes this way, because the
mountains are grander: another takes
this, because the cars are more luxur-
ious; another that, because the speed is
greater; another takes the other be-
cause he has long been accustomed to
that route, and all the employees are
familiar. So far as our engagement TO
meet is concerned it makes no differ
ence if we only get there. Now. any
n of the innumerable evangelical de-
nominations, if you practice its teach
ing-although some of their trains run
on a broad guage, and some on a mar
row ~guage-will bring you out at
II CITY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM.
1t being evident that you will be safe
in any of the evangelical denomina-
tons, | proceed To- remark, first: III
one of the married couple be a Chris
tan, and the other not, the one n
Christian is bound to go anywhere TO
a church where the u~nconverted com
panlor is willing to 90, if he or she
will 60 to no other. You, of the con-
nubial partnership, are q Christian.
You are safe for the skies. Then it is
your first duty TO secure the eternal
safety of your lifetime associate. Is
not the everlasting welfare of your wife
impenitent, or your husband jmpeni-
tent, of more Importance than your
church relationship Is not the resi-
dence of your companion for the next
quadrillion of years a mighticr consid-
Grafton to you than the qualification of
your ecclesiastical taste for forty or
fifty yearsP A nan or n woman that
would stop half n minute to weigh pre-
~ferenccs as to whether he or she had
biliIl ~ NlbAl III AIl'soL IL tu tOlII-
panion to this or that church or de-
nomination, has no religion at all, and
never has had, and | fear never will
have. You are loaded up with what
you suppose to be religion, but you are
like Captain Frobisher, who brought
back from his voyage of discovery a
shipload of what he supposed valuable
minerals, yet, instead of being silver
and gold, were nothing but
COMMON STONES OF THE FIELD,
to be hurled out finally as useless.
Mighty God! In all Thy realm is
there one man or woman protesting
religion, yet so stolid, so untitled, so
far gone unto death that there would
be any hesitancy in ~surrendering all
preferences before such an opportunity
of salvation and heavenly reunion? If
you, a Christian wife, are m attendant
upon this Brooklyn Tabernacle, and
your unconverted husband dos not
come here, because he does not like its
preacher. or its music, or its architect
ure, or its uncomfortable crowding and
goes not to any house Of worship, bat
would 90 if you would accompany him
somewhere else, change your churcl,
relations. Take your hl mn-book home
with you to-day. Say goodbye to
your friends in the n~eighboring pcws.
and 60 with him to any one Of a hun
dred churches, til his soul is saved
and he joins you in the march to hea-
ven. More Important tan that rihg
on the third finger OF your left hand, il
is, hat your Heavenly Father com
mand the angel of mercy concerning
your husband at his conversion, as in
the parable of old:
"PUT A KING ON HIS HAND"
No letter OF more Importance ever
came to the great city OF Corinth, sit.
uated on what was called the bridge
of the Sea- and glistening with sculp.
ture, and gated with "a style of brass
the magnilicence of which the follow
ing ages have not been able success.
fully to initiate. and overshadowed by
the Acro-Corinthus, a fortress of rock
1000 feet high say no letter ever
came to that great city of more i'm
portance than that letter in which Pau
puts che two startling questions: "Wha
knowest thou, . wife, whether thor
shalt save thy husbandp Or how
knowest thou, o man, whether thou
shalt save thy wifep" The deares,
sacrifice on the part Of the one is cheap
if it rescue the other. Better go to the
smallest, weakest, most insignificant
church on earth. and be co-partners in
eternal bliss, than pass your earthly
membership IN most gorgeously attrac-
tive church while your companion stays
outside of evangelistic privilege. Bet
ter have the drowning saved by a scow
or sloop than let him or her 90 down
while YOU sail by in the gilded cabins
of "a Britannia or "A Great + l>tern.
Second remark: Ii both of the mar
ried couple be Christians, but one is so
naturally constructed that it is impossi-
bic to enjoy the services of a particular
denomination, and the other is not so
sectarian or punctilious. let the one
less particular 90 with the other who
is very particular. AS for myself |
teel rs much at home in one denomina-
ton of evangelical Christians as an
other. and | think | must have been
BORN VERY NEAR THE LINE.