Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-04

the idea that the stars were inhabited
O bearer, does not your soul thrill
with the thought .hat there is another
world beautifully inhabited? Nay,
more. that you by the grace of God
may become one of its glorious citl-
zens?
Ill. Again ! remark; If we want to
become Christians. like Ruth in the
text, we must choose the Christian
habitation. "Where thou lodgest, will
| lodge" cried Ruth TO Naomi. She
knew that wherever Naomi stopped,
whether it were howell or mansion, there
would be a Christian home, and she
wanted to be in it. What do | mean
by a Christian home? | mean a home
in which the Bible is the chief book; a
home in which the family kneel in
PRAYERS: a home in which father and
mother are practical Christians; a
home i'm which on Sabbath. from sun
rise 10 sunset, there is profitable con-
verse, and cheerful song. and suggest
ons of a better world. Whether the
wall be frescoed or not, or only n cell
ing of unplancd ~rafters; whether mar
BILE lions are couchant at the front en-
trance, or a plain latch is lifted by Il
tow-string, thai home is the
ANTE-CHAMBER OF HEAVEN.
A man never gets ove having lived
in such an early home. 1t holds YOU
in an eternal grip. Though your par
ents may have been gone forty years,
the tears of penitence and gladness that
were wept at the family altar still gilt
ter in your memory. Nay. do YOU not
now feel warm and hot on your hands
the tears which that mother shed thirty
years ago, when, one cold winter night,
she came and wrapped you up in the
bed and prayed for your welfare here
and for your everlasting welfare before
the throne?
! y, We who are TO set up your own
home, see that ii be a
CHRISTIAN HOME!
Let Jesus make the wine at that we'd
ding. A home without God is an awful
place, there are SO many perils to
threaten it and God Himself is SO bit
tcrly against it,; but 1.-The Lard cncamp-
eth around about the habita.ion of tn,
just What II grand thing it is tC
have God stand guard of that door, and
the Lord Jesus the family physician
and the wings of angels the canopy
over the pillow; and the Lord of Glory
a perpetual guest. You say it is i'm
portant that the wife and mother be 4;
/, Christian. | say to YOU it is just rs i'm
portant that the husband and father bt
n Christian. Yet how many clever
men there are who say: MY wife does
all the religion of my house. ! am
worldly man; but | have confidence il
her. and / think she will bring thu
whole family up al right 1t vii
; not do, my bro her. The fact that yol
are not q Christian has more ~intlucnc,
on your family than the fact that you
wife is a Christian. Your children vii
say: Father a very good man; he
not n Christian, and if he can risk tn
} future, | can risk the future" {
father and husband! join your wife o
the road to heaven, and ut night gathe
: your family
AT II ALTAR.
5 DO you say: II can't pra,
| am Il man Of few WORD
G md don't think | could put half
dozen sentences together in such
prayer" You al pray; you can.
your child were down with scarf;
fever, and the next hour were to decid
its recovery or its death, you woul
pray in sobs, and groans, and pa
oxysms Of earnestness. Yes, you ca
pray. When the eternal life Of yol
household may depend upon you
supplication, let your knees timber an
20 down; but if you still insist that 70
cannot compose a prayer, then buy {
borrow a prayer book of the Episcop;
church, and gather your family, an
G put your prayer book on a chair, an
kneel down before it, and in the so
e emn and hushed presence of God, gait
Q er up all your sorrows, and tempt;
G tons, and sins, and cry out:
GOOD LORD, DELIVER Us"
n ~. Again, | remark: If we want
e become Christians, like Ruth in th
text we must choose Christian associ'
I. tons. '.Thy people shall be my pee
: pie" cried out Ruth to Naomi. ..rh
G folks you associate with / want to q.
sociate with. They will come and sc
me, and | will 90 and see them.
!: want to move in the highest of all cil
| cles, the circle of Gods elect; an
e therefore, mother, | am going bac
! with YOU to the land Of Judah" -
you who are seeking after God-ard
suppose there are many such In Til
&. p~resonce-do You who are seeking al
= ter God prefer Chri tian society {
worldly society? NO" you say; :
t prefer the worlds mirth, and tn
worlds laughter, and the worlds in
| nuendo, and the worlds %parapherna
&. iia." Well, this is n free country, an,
[ you shall have the right of choice; bu
let me tell you that the purest mirth
i and the most untrammelled glce, an'
t the greatest recilience of soul are in
side
CHRISTIAN COMPANrONSHIr,
: and not outside of it.
t have tried both styles of com
, panion,hip--the companionshlp Of tn,
world and the companionship of Christ
/, and | know by experience. | hay,
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