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

have wallowed in every kin
OF sin; but, saved by the grace of Jesu
and washed in His blood. they stand
there radiant now. There are those
who plunged in the very lowest hell Of
abomination. who for the tenth time
have been lifted up, and finally, by the
grace of God, they stand in heaven
~gloriously rescued by the grace prom
ised to the chief OF sinners. want to
tell you that God loves to take hold Of
a very bad case. When the church
casts You off, and when the club-room
casts you off, and when society casts
you off, and when business associates
cast you off, and when father casts you
of, and when mother casts you of,
and when everybody casts you of,
your first cry for help will send the
ETERNAL GOD
Clean down into the ditch of your suf-
fering and shame. The Good Tenn
plars cannot save you, although
they are a grand institution.
The Sons of Temperance cannot
save you, although they re
mighty for good. Signing the Temp
ance pledge cannot save you, although.
! believe IL it. Nothing but the grace
of the Eternal God can save you, and
that will if you will throw yourself on
it. A man said to me: ..Unlcss God
helps me / cannot be delivered. /
have tried everything, sir; but now /
have got into the habits of prayer. and
when | come to n drinking saloon /
pray that God will take me safely past,
and | pray until | am past. He does
help me-" For every man given to
strong drink there are
SCORES OF TRAPS SET,
and nc one but the everywhere present
God can see that man through. Oh!
they talk about the catacombs OF Ma
pies, and the catacombs of Rome, and
the catacombs of Egypt--the burial
places under tb" city where the dust Of
a great multitude lie: but I can tell
you New York has its catacombs.
Nashville has It's catacombs, and New
Orleans its catacombs. and Bos-
ton its ca:acombs, and Philadelphia
its catacombs. ard every town and
city neighborhood its catacombs. They
are the underground restaurants, full
of dead mems bones and all unclean-
ness. Young man, you know it. God
help you! There is no need of going
into the art gallery to see in skillful
sculpture that wonderful representa-
ton of a man and his sons wound
around with serpents. There are fam
lilies represented in this audience that
are wrapped in the %martyrdom of fang
n scale and living La
cocoon of ghastliness and horror. What
are you to dop Do not put your trust
in bromide of potassium, or in Jamaica
ginger. or anything else that apothe-
carries can mix. Put your trust only
in the eternal God, and He will see YOU
through.
Some of you do not have
TEMPTATION
every day. 1t is a periodic temptation
that comes every six weeks, oE every
three months, when il seems
as if the powers of dark
ness kindle around about your tongue
the fires OF the pit. 1t is well enough
1t such n time, as some Of you do, to
seek medical counsel; but your first
and most importunate cry must be to
God. If the friends will drag you to
the slaughter, make them do it on your
knees. Oh, God! now that the paroxysm
of thirst is coming again upon that
man, help him. Fling back into the
pit of hell the fiend that assaults his
soul this moment. Oh! my heart aches
to see men 90 on in this
FEARFUL STRUGGLE
without Christ. There are here those
whose hands so tremble from dissipa-
ton that tiey can hardly hold a book;
and yet | have to tell you that they
will yet preach the gospel, and on COM
munion days carry around the conse-
bread, acceptable to everybody,
because of their holy life and their con-
.'acrated behavior. The Lord is going
TO save you. Your home has got to be
rebuilt. Your physical health has got
20 be restored. Your worldly business
has got to be reconstructed. The
church of God is going to rejoice over
your dlscipleship. ''Other sheep I
have, which are not of this fold"