Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-07

Whlte. You decide to risk 1t. Only n
few strokes of the pen now. But oh.
how your hand trembles. how dread
fully it .rembles! The die is cast. By
the strangest and most awful con
junction of circumstances any one
could have imagined, you are pros
trated. Bankruptcy, humiliation, ex-
exposure. CRIME. Good men
moan and devils carnival, and
you see your own name at the
head OF the newspaper column in a
whole congress of exclamation points;
and while YOU are reading the anathc-
ma in the r%eportorial and editorial
paragraph, il occurs to you how much
this story is like that of the ~defalcation
fifteen years ago. and clap of thunder
slaises the window-sili, saving: with
what measure We metc, it shall be meas
urcd 70 You again.
You look in another direction. There
is nothing like an ebullition of temper
20 put "A man to disadvantage. You, a
man with calm pulses and a fine diges-
ton and perfect health, cannot under
stand how anybody should be capsized
in temper BY an intinitesimal annoy
ance You say: IL couldn't be un-
balanced in that way Perhaps YOU
smile at a provocation that makes an
other man swear. You pride yourself
on your imperturbability. You say
with your manner. though YOU have too
much good taste to say it with your
words: IL have Il great deal
more sense than that man has; | hay, u
great deal more equipose of temper
than that man has: | never could make
such a puerile exhibition of myself a.
that mar has made
My brother YOU do not know that
that man was born with "A keen nervous
organization. that for forty years he
has been under II depicting process,
that sickness and trouble have been
helping undo what was left of original
healthfulness. that much Of his time it
has been with him as fling saws. that
his nerves have come to be merely n
tanglc OF disorders, and that he is the
most pitiablc object on earth who,
though he is very sick. does not look
sick and nobody sympathizes. Let me
see. Did YOU not say that you could
not be tempted TO an ebullition of tenn
per? Some September YOU come home
from your summer watering place and
you have inside, away back in your
liver or spleen, what we call
in our days malaria, but what
tho old folks called chills and
fever. You take q~uinine until your
ears are first buzzing beehive. and
then roaring Niagaras. You take
roots and herbs, You take everything.
You Get well. But the next day you
feel uncomfortable, and YOU yawn, and
you stretch, and YOU SILVER, and YOU
consume, and You suffer. Vexed more
than you can tell, you annot sleep,
yCn cannot eat. you cannot bear TO see
anything that looks happy, you 90 out
20 kick the cat that is asleep in the
sun. Your chiidren's mirth was once
music TO You; 10Y it i, ~dcafcning. You
say: Boys, stop that racket You
turn back from June to March. In
the family and in the neighborhood
your popularity is % per cen off. Tho
world says: What is the matter
with that disagrocable man? Wha At
woc-begone ~countcnance. can't
bear the sight OF him. You have got
your pay at last-got your pay. You
feel just rs the man felt, that man for
whom you had no mercy, and my t.
comes in with marvellous opposite
ness: with what measure We mete, il
shall he measured to you again"
Oh. my friends. let us be resolved to
scold less and pray more! That which
in the Bible is used as the symbol OF
all gracious influences is the dove, not
the porcupine. We may so unskill.
fully manage the lifeboat that we shall
run down those whom we want to
rescue. The first preparation for
common sense, practical sympathy for
those whom we want TO save. VIA,
Roadway will we make in the judgmeI,
if in this world we have been hard OF
those who have gone astrayp What
Roadway will you make and | in the
last great judgment, when we mus,
have mercy or perish9 The Bible saws
"They shall have Judgment without
mercy that showed no mercy" ! see
the scribes Of heaven looking up into
the face of such a man, saying: What
you plead for mercy, you, whom in
all your life never had any mercy on
your fellows? Don't you remember
how hard you were in your opinion.
of thos. who were astray? Don't You
rcmcmbe. when you ought to have
g,ver a helping hand you employed >
hard heele Mercy! You must mis-
speak yourself when you plead fol
mercy here. Mercy for others but no
mercy for you. ''Look," say the
scribes OF heaven, '.look at that in
scription over IL throne of Judgment.
the throne of Gods Judgment" See
it coming out levtcr by letter, word by
word, sentence By sentence, until your
startled vision reads it and your re-
morscful spirit appropriates it
with what measure We mete, it shall
be measured to you again. Depart ye
cursed!'
Go Forward.
BY Rev. Frank VI. Bristol: No mat.
ter though the voices Of ~tyrannical Gus