Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-16

anu 10 HI JANUS, 4 nominate rs tne DdI-
tie cry of Christendom in the approach
ing Armageddon the words of my text,
sounded before the ark as it was car
ried to Mount Zion: "Let God arise.
bet his enemies be scattered"
As far as our finite mind can Judge,
it seems
ABOUT TINE FOR GOD TO RISE.
Does it not seem to you that
the denominations of this earth
Lave gone far enough. Was
there ever a time when sin was so
defiant Were there ever before so
many fists lifted toward God, telling
Him to come on if He daree Look at
the blasphemy abroad! What tower
ing profanity! Would it be possible
for any one TO calculate the number of
times that the name of Almighty God,
and of Jesus Christ. are every day
taken irreverently on the lipsP So
common has blasphemy become that
the public mind and public ear have got
used to it, ana a blasphemer goes up
and down this country in ais lectures
defying the plain law against BIAS
phemy, and there is not n mayor in
America that has backbone enough to
interfere with him save one, and that
the mayor of Toronto.
his COUNTRY Is P~RE-EMINENT Fol
B~LAsPHEMY.
A man travelling in Russia was sup
,nznI IN ha a rlapnxn,nn ..tNhu do
you take me to be a Clergyman" said
the man. oh said the Russian, ''all
other Americans swear" The crime
is multiplying in intensity. God very
often shows what He thinks of it, but
for the most part the fatality is hushed
up. A few summers ago among the
Adirondacks | met the funeral process
sion of Il man who, two days before,
had fallen under a flash of lightning
while Boosting, after II Sunday of work
in the fields, that he had cheated God
out of one day anyhow; and the man
who worked with him on the same Sab
bath is still living, but a helpless in
valid under the same flash. On the
road from Margate to Ramsgate, Eng
land, you may find a rough monument
with the inscription: "A boy was struck
dead here while in the act of swearing"
Years ago in a PittSburg prison two
men were talking about the bible and
Christianity, and one Of them, Thomp-
son by name, applied to Jesus Christ n
very low and villainous epithet, and as
he was uttering it he fell. Aphysician
was called, but no help could be given.
After a day lying with d~istended pupils
and palsied tongue, he passed out of
this world. In Il cemetery in Sullivan
county, this state, are eight headstones
in a line and oil alike, and these are
the facts: In 1861 diphtheria ragged in
the village, and a physician was re-
markably successful in curing his pa
TENTS. So confident did he become
that he boosted that no case of diphthe-
ria could stand before him, and finally
defied the Almighty God to produce a
case OF diphtheria that he could not
cure. His youngest child soon after
took the disease and d'od, and one
child after another, until all the eight
had died. The blaSphcmer challenged
Almighty God, and cod accepted the
challenge.
Then
LOOK A MOMENT AT II Evu OF DRUNK
ENNEsS
Whether you live in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or
Savannah, or in Boston or in any of
the cities of this land, count up the sa-
looms on that street as compared with
five years ago, and see they are grow
ing far out of proportion TO the increase
of the population. You people who are
SO precise and particular lest there
should be some imprudence or rashness
in attacking the rum traffic. will have
your son some night pitched into your
front door dead drunk, or your daugh-
ter will come home with her children
because her husband has by
strong drink been turned into
a demoniac.
/ indict this evil as the fratricide. the
patricide, the matricide, the uxori-
eide, the regicide of the century. Yet
under what innocent ana deluSive and
mirthful names alcoholism deceiyes the
people! 1t a cordial 1t is ''bit-
ters." 1t is an ''eye-opener." 1t is
an appetizer" 1t is a "digester."
1t is an ''invigorator." 1t is a 'se.-
tier" 1t is . ''night-cap.'
WY DON'T THEY q ON Ii RIGHT
Essence of perdition," conscience
stupefer," live drachms Of heart
ache" clears of orphanage,' ''hlood
Of souls ''scabs Of an eternal lepro-
sy,n ''venom Of the worm that never
dies3" Only once in awhile is there
anything in the title of liquors to even
hint their atrocity, as in the case Of
sou mash. That 1 see advertised ali
over. 1t q an honest name, and any
one can understand it. Sour mash!
That is, it makes a mans disposition
sour. and his associations sour. and his
prospects sour; and then it is good to
mash his body, and mash his soul, and
mash his business, and mash his fami-
". Sour mash! One honest name at
last for an intoxicant! But through
lying labels of many of the a%potheca-
ries' shops good people who are only
a little undertone in health, and want
ing Of some invigoration. have unwit-
tingly got on their tongues the fangs