Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28

a kindness for me, or If anyone else
should ask Of You a kindness. YOU
would do it. Now | have a kindness
10 ask of YOU to-day. 1t is something
that will cost you nothing and will give
me great delight. | want you by ex-
perlcnce to try the power of
CHRIsT's %ELIGION
If ! should come to you, and you were
very sick, and doctors had given YOU
up and said there was no chance for
YOU, and | should take out Il little bot
tie and say: Here is "A medicine that
will cure you you would say: II
have no confidence in it." | would
say: Wont You take it to oblige
me?' 'Well." you would say. '.if it's
any accommodation to you I'll take
it, My friend, will you be just us
accommodating in matters of religion?
There are some of you that have
found out that this world cannot sat
isfy your soul. You are like the man
who told me after the service
was over: II have tried
this world and found it an insult
ticient portion. Tell me of something
better" You have come to hat. You
are sick for the need of Divine medi-
cament. Now | come and tell you of
Il Physician who will cure you, who
has cured hundreds and hundreds who
were sick as you are.
"Oh," YOU say. IL have no conf
dence in Him. But will you not try
HimP Accommodate me in this mat
ter; oblige me in this matter; just try
Him. am very certain He will cure
you. You reply: 81 have no special
confidence in Him; but if you ask me
as a matter of accommodation, intro
ducc Him" So | introduce Him
Christ, the Physician who has cured
more blind eyes, and healed more
CHASTITY wounds, and bound up more
broken hearts, than all the doctors
since the time of Esculapius.
That Divine Physician is here. Are
yo. not ready to try Him? Will You
not as Il pure matter of experiment
state your case before Him now? Hold
nothing back from Him. If you cannot
pray, if you do not know how to pray
any other way, say: ooh. Lord Jesus
Christ, this is a strange thing for me to
do! | knew nothing about the formula
of religion. These Christian people
have been talking so long about what
Thou canst do for me. and | am ready
to do whatever Thou
CoMMANDEsr ME- TO DO.
! am ready to take whatever Thou
commanded me to take. Ii there be
any power in religion, as these people
say. let me have the advantage of it,"
VIII you try that experiment. do
not at this point of my discourse say
that there is anything in religion; but
| simply say, try it, try it. Do not
take my counsel or the counsel of any
clergyman, if You despise clergy men.
Perhaps we may be talking profession
ally; perhaps VIZ may be p%rejudiced in
the matter; perhaps we may be hypo-
critical in our utterances; perhaps our
advice is not worth taking. Then
take the counsel of some other
respectable laymen-as John Mil
ton, the poet; as William
Wilberforce, the statesman; as Isaac
Newton, the astronomer; as Robert
Boyle. the philosopher; as Locke, the
mctaphysician. They never preached
or pretended to preach; and yet put
ting down, one his telescope. and an
other his parliamentary scroll, and an
other his electrician wire, they all de-
clare the adaptedness of Christ's relig-
ion to the wants and troubles of the
world. If you will not take the recon-
mendation of ministers of the gospel,
then take the recommendation of high
~ respectable laymen. Oh, men skep-
teal and struck through with unrest!
would you not like to have some of the
peace which broods over our souls to-
day? | know all about your doubts. |
have been through them all. / have
gone through all the curriculum. l
have doubted whether there is q God,
whet' er Christ is God l have doubted
whether the bible was true. have
DOUBTED THE IMMORTALITY
of the soul. l have doubted my own
existence. | have doubted everything;
and yet. out of that hot desert of doubt,
| have come into the broad, luxuriant,
sunshiny land of Gospel hope and
peace, and comfort; so l have conf
dence in preaching to you and asking
You to come in. However often you
may have caricatured religion, step
ashore from that rocking and tumul-
tuous sea If you 60 away adhering
to your infidelities. you will not sleep
one wink tonight
You do not want your children to
come up with your skepticism. You
cannot afford to die in that midnight
darkness, a youp If you do not be
lieve IN anything else you believe in
Iowa fathers love, a mothers love,
"A wife's love, a child's love. Then let
mt tell you that God loves you more
than them all. Oh! you must come in.
You will come in. The great
HEART OF CHRIST
aches to have you come in. and Jesus
this very moment--whethor you sit or
stand-looks into your eyes and says:
.'Other sheep l have, which are not of
this fold"
Ill. Again | remark. that tho Hcav-