Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.
Zones and Small: the Evangelists, at Red
Rock MINI.
Closing Sermons by the Two Sans at That
Place Saturday.

Jones then his teXtIltuS H.,
Ills:
For the grace Of God that bringeth saliva
ton, appearing to all men, teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously and godly In
this present world; looking for that blessed
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave
himself for ne, that he might redeem US from
all ~iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar
people, jealous Of good works.
He spoke as follows;
The first part of the text is that the
grace of God hath appeared to all men.
The term grace is purely "A New Tesla
ment term. The grace of God! We
know not how to determine it in all It's
fullness. how to estimate its value. l
value an article by its market price.
How shall estimate the value of grace?
Grace never showed its full value until
the blessed Lord died on the cross, and
the recording angel wrote on the cano-
!. py of heaven, Peace on earth, good
! will to men, the magma charta of the
Christian world. The best way to de-
eide The value of what he has done for
NE, is to think what justice would have
done. Amazing grace! How much it
has done for me! Grace has brought
me thus far, aud grace will take me
home. Now, this is the grace of God
that bringeth salvation. Thank God
for salvation. You may take Webster,
and take the 39,999 words and put
them in one scale, and this
ono word salvation in the other.
and it will outweigh them all.
Thank God this old world is beginning
to see at last that God is our father and
that we are his children. | was com
ing up on the train the other day and
met a friend. | asked him what had
happened lately. re said: '.Nothing
special, only | anne pretty near getting
killed the other day" .'Ei 9lain YOU
SELF" said l.. why, the agent at the
depot was drunk, and when | endeav-
ored to help him on to the train, he
pulled out his pistol and shot at me"
GLOW was that?' ''Why. he's the
brother of the president of the railroad.
That's the reason he keeps his posi-
ton SO God will do almost anything
to protect his children. Thank God
for a gospel that goes to all men. We
talk about the elect, and | can tell YOU
who they are, and don't you ever for
get it. The elect are the whatsoever
wills, and the non-clectcd are the who
soever won'ts. The gospel don't come
TO save men primarily. 1t comes to
make men worth saving. What would
you bring if you were put up for sale?
AoEE-HORsE FELLOW.
An old, selfish, one-horse fellow,
sittin' back there and thinkin' you are
n little God. You are the nominativc
l, and think only of the possessive my.
The gospel comes only to make you
worth savin'. | was always afraid of
hell, and | am not ashamed to say it.
I've seen a murderer with pistol in
hand who said he wasn't afraid Of the
gallows, but he was hung all the came.
want to say to you that up to the
twenty-first year OF my age / was the
biggest fraud the world ever saw or
yOu ever saw, unless you look into the
glass. The best fellow in this country,
except Christ, is a ~whitewashed rus
cal. N~incty-nine hypocrites in every
hundred in this country are inside the
church. A fellow who stole a horse
stood up in court and said: Judge, i
stole that horse, but I'm an honest man,
l won't tell a lie" Teaching us! We
: need instruction. Do you know God
: Almighty puts his augur into a
fellows head and bores right down
into his heart and then into his pocket
book, and it springs right. up like al
artesian we'll. God didn't
at the bottom and bore up; if he did,
WHAT u nc no Win CHS ulTI! i RpllcNc
if America wants to bring China to
Christ, she'll have to bring her through
the school houses. Some fellow said if
we didn't Christianize China, she'd hea-
thenize us. And China's got Il heap
the easiest job. Now. I'm ready to say
one of these things is true: Either the
gospel is inadequate to reach the
depths of human degradation, or it
isn't preached as it ought to be, or else
the peoples heads and hearts are so
full of error and other things that the
gospel cannot affect them. You've got
to reflect upon Jour Christ. or your
preacher, or yourselves. You've got
to get the error out of your hearts be-
fore the gospel ear get in. The head
and heart of every man and boy in this
country is chock full of opinions. A
Christian says there's no harm in deal
ing in futures. Why, I'd get out the
old greasy deck of cards and play
seven-up at ten dollars a game rather
than deal in futures. You say, Its
my opinion there's no harm in a
dance" You old hypocrite. to sit
there and argue there's no harm in
drink. Down in Georgia we've got