Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30

lutlN TO their tOtiet, come anu SIT dow
they do not want to be crowded,
they like a whole seat TO themselves
and then, if they have any time lefl
from thinking OF their store, and from
examining the style Of the hat in front
of them, they sit and listen to "a sermon
warranted to hit 40 mans sins, and
listen to music which is rendered by 4
choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows! And then after an hour
and a half of incident yawning they &c
home refreshed. Every man feels bet.
ter after he has had a sleep!
In many of the churches Of Christ in
our day.
THE MUSIC Is SIMPLY A MOCKERY.
! have not a cultivated ear, nor Il cul-
tivated voice, yet no man "A do my
singing for me. / have nothing to say
against artistic music. The 81 or 81
| pay TO hear any Of the great queens
Of song is a good investment. But
when the people assemble in religious
convocation, and the hymn is read. and
the angels of God step from their
throne to catch the music on their
wings, do not let us drive them away
by our Indifference. | have preached
in churches where vast sums of money
were employed to keep up the music
and it was as exquisite as any heard on
earth, bat ! thought at the same time,
for all matters practical. | would pre-
fer the hearty. ~outbreaking song of a
backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Archimedes destroyed a fleet of ships
coming up the harbor. You know how
he did it? He lifted IA great sun glass.
history tells us, and when the fleet of
ships came up the harbor of Syracuse
he brought to bear this sun glass and
he conveyed the suns rays upon those
ships. Now the sails are wings of fire,
the masts fall, the vessels sink. Oh!
my friends. by the sun glass of the Cos
pei converging the rays of the Sun of
Righteousness upon the sins, the wick
edness Of the world. we will make them
blaze and expire.
In that day of which | speak. do you
believe there will be any midnight
%carousal? Will there be any kicking
off from the marble steps, of shiyering
mendicants? Will there be any un-
washed, unfed. uncombed children?
VIII there be any b~lasphemies in the
street? Will there be any inebriates
staggering pastp No. No wine
stores.
No LAGER BEER SALOONS.
No distilleries where they make the
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bloatcd cheek. No instruments of ruin
aud destruction. No list pounded fore
head. The grandchildren of that
woman who goes down the street with
"A curse, stoned by the boys that follow
her, will be the reformers and philan-
~thropists aud the Christian men and
honest merchants of New York and
Brooklyn.
Then, what municipal governments,
too, we will have in all the cities! Som,
cities are worse than others. but in
many of our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in ut some OF
the rooms occupied by politicians, and
see to what a sensual. toathsome. igno.
rant besotted crew city politics is Otter
abandoned. Or they stand around
the hall picking their teeth, waiting
for some moluments of crumbs to falI
TO their feet. waiting all day long, and
waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched women tax.
en- up for drunkenness and carried W
to the courts, and put in prison, o,
~coursep What will you do with the
grogshops that made them drink;
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
Jail? One of them stole a pair o.
shoe That boy stole a dollar. Thu
girl snatched a purse, All Of then
crimes damaging society less thar
twenty or thirty dollars. But wha'
will you do with the gambler who
last night robbed the young nan OF
a thousand de- arsp Nothing. Wha'
shall be done with that one who break:
through and destroys the purity of {
Christian home, and with an adroit
ness and periidy that beats the strate
gy of hell, filings a shrinking. shrek.
ING soul into a bottomless perdition!
Nothing. What will YOU do with those
who fleece that young man, getting hin
to purloin large sums of money from his
employer-the young man who cab
to an officer of my church and told
the story and frantically asked what he
might dop Nothing.
All! WE do well to punish small crimes,
but have sometimes thought it would
be better in some Of our cities, if the
officials would only turn out from the
jails the petty criminals, the little Of
Tenders,
TEN-DOLLAR DESPERADOES,
and put IN their places some Of the
monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets so swift
". that honest men have to leap to get
out of the way of being Il over. Oh,
the damnable schemes that protested
Christian men will sometimes cpgage
in until God puts the finger Of His retri-
but on into the collar of their robe of
hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bot
tom,
But all these wrongs are going 10 be
rightod. | expect to live TO see the day.
| think / hear in the distance the rum
bling of the Kings chariot. Not always
in the minority is the church Of God
roinr to be-: or are rood nan going Ia