Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-18

With reference to your mother the
words of my text are fulfilled; Thou
shalt be missed, because thy seat will
be empty"
Some one said to a Grecian general:
Whist was the proudest in
your lifeo He thought Il moment and
said: The proudest moment in my
life was when | sent word home to my
| parents that ! had gained the victory"
And the proudest and most brilliant
moment iu your life will be the nom
ent when YOU can send word to yoar
parents that You have conquered your
evil habits by the grace Of God, and
become eternal victor.
Oh, despise not parental ansiety!The
time will come when you VIII have
neither father and mother, and YOU
will 60 around the place where they
used to watch you and find them goue
from the house, and gone frorT the
field, and gone from the neighborhood.
Cry az loud for forgiveness as you MAY
over the mound in the churchyard, they
| will not answer.
DEAD! DEAD!
And then you Will take out the white
lock Of hair that was cut from your
mothers brow just before they buried
her, and you will take the cane with
which your father used to walk. and
you will think and think and wish that
you had done just rs they had wanted
you to. and would give the world If
you had never thrust n pang through
their dear old hearts.
God pity the young man who has
brought Disgrace on his fathers name!
God pity the young man who has
broken his mothers heart! Better if he
had never been born; better il in the
first hour of his life, instead of being
laid against the warm bosom of mater
nal tenderness, he had been cotlined and
sepulchred. There is no balm power
full enough TO heat the heart of one who
has brought parents to II sorrowful
grave, and who wanders about through
the dismal cemetery, rending the hair
and wringing the hands and crying:
Mother! Mothert' Oh, that to-day
by all the memories of the past and by
all the hopes of the future, Won would
yield your heart to God! May your
fathers God and Your mothers God be
your God forever!
III. | 90 on "A little further; | come
to the invalid's chair. What? How
long have you been sieke .'Oh, | have
been sick ten, twenty, thirty years"
Il ii possiblep What "A story Of endur-
ance! There are in many families of
my congregation these invalid chairs.
The occupants of them think they are
doing no good in the world; but that
invalid's chair is the mighty pulpit
from which they have been preaching
all these years, trust in God. One day
on IN island just of from Sandusky.
Ohio, ! preached, and there was a great
throng of people there; but the throng
did not impress me - much as the
spectacle of just one face-the face of
an invalid who was wheeled in on her
chair. / said to her afterwards:
MAIDEN, how long have you been
prostrated?" for she was lying Nat in
the chair. 'Oh," she replied, Il have
cen this way fifteen years" l said:
ado you suffer very much7" '.Oh.
yes" she said, II suffer very much;
suffer all the time; part of the time |
was. blind. always suffer" We'll"
l said lean you keep your courage
upr' '-Oh, yes" she said, Il am
happy very happy indeed" Her face
showed it. She looked the happiest of
anyone on the ground. Oh, what a
means Of grace to the world, these in
valid chairs!
ON that field of human suffering the
GRACE an GOD
gets it's victory. Edward Payson, the
invalid, and Richard Baxtsr, the invalid,
and Robert Hall, the invalid, and the
ten thousand Of w1om the world has
never beard, but otwhom all heaven is
o0gnizant. The most conspicuous
thing On earth for Gods eye and the
eye Of angels to rest on, is not a throne
Of earthly power, but tits the invalid's
chair. Oh, these men and women who
are alw ays suffering but never com
these victims of spinal dis
sase, and neural ic torture and rheu,
matte eAcruciatisn , viii answer to the
roll @cll Of the tsartyrs,. an3 rise to the
martyrs throne, and win wave the
martyrs palm! But when one of these
invasids' chairs, becomes vacant, how
suggestive it 81, No more bolsteriae
up of the seary head. No NOR,
changing FROM side to side To get Ar
easy position. No more use Of sh'
bandage and the cataplasm and th'
prescription. The invalid's chair ma,
be folded UP or taken apart, o Sc
away, but it will sever lose its qucenl,
power; it will Always peach of trust in
God and cheerful submission. Safer
ing all ended now. With respect t.
that invalid the words Of my tcxa ma,
have been fulfilled: Thou shalt "
missed. because thy seat uill b
empty"
Nv. fpass sa and | find ore NOR
vacant chair. II is a high chair. II
: the chifd's cham. IF that chais be oo
+. cupica | think il is the most poten
chair in the household. All ne chair
| wait on it; AL tie chairs are turne
G toward it. H. ean more than David
chair at Saal's banquet. Al any ratl
it makes racket. That is