Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21

saying: Hugh Latimer, bethink thee /!
Thou art in the presence Of thine
earthly king who can destroy thy
body! But bethink thee, Hugh Lati-
mcr, that thou art in the presence Of
the king Of heaven and earth, who can
destroy both body and soul in he'll fire,
o, king, cursed by thy crimes.''
ii. Another lesson that comes to us:
There is a great difference between the
opening of the banquet of sin and its
close. Young man, if you had looked
in upon the banquet in the first few
hours you would have wished you had
been invited there and could sit at the
feast. 80, the grandeur of Belshaz-
zor's feast" you would have said: but
you look in at the close of the banquet
and your blood curdles with horror.
The
KING OF TERRORs
has there a ghastlier banquet; human
blood is the wine and dying groans are
the music Sin has made itself a king
In the earth. 1t has crowned itself. 1t
has spread a banquet. 1t invites all
the world TO come to it. 1t has hung
in its b%anqucting hall the spoil. IT ell
kingdoms and the bannefc Of All ma
tons. 1t has gathered from all
music. 1t has strewn from its wealth
through. 1t was unexpected. Sud-
denly, almost always, ONE the doom
OF those who despise God and defy the
laws OF men. How was 1t at the
Deluges DO you suppose it came
through \ long northeast storm, so
that people for days before were sure
of its coming? No; ! suppose the
morning was bright; that calmness
broodcd on the waters; that beauty sat
enthroned on the hills; when suddenly
the heavens burst, and the mountains
sank like anchors into the sea, that
dashed clear over the Andes and Him
alayas.
The Red Sea was divided. The
Egyptians trlea a cross ii. There
could be no danger. The Isrealites
had just gone through; where they haC
gone why not the Egyptians? O, t
was such a beautiful walking place. n
pavement Of tinted shells and pearls,
and on either side two great walls Of
of water, solid. Tlere can be no dan
ger. Foiwar =, EFT host of the
Egyptians! Clap the cymhals and
blow the trumpets of victory. After
them! We will catch them yet and
they shall be destroyed. But the walls
of oolidifed water begin to tremble.
They rock. They fall. The rushing
waters! The Shrek Of drowning men!
The swimming of the warehouses in
vain for the shore! The strewing OF
the great host on the bottom Of the sea.
or pitched by the angry wave on the
beach, battered, bruised and losth-
some wreck! Suddenly destruction
came. One half hour before they could
not have believed it. Destroyed and
without remedy.
AIN just setting forth n fact which
you have noticed as well as /. Ananias
comes to the apostle. The socstle says;
did you sell the lind for so muche''
He says: Yes" 1t was a lie. Dead
AS quick rs that! Sapphire, his wife,
comes in.
did you sell the land for so much:'
Yes 1t was a lie and she was dead
Gods judgments are upon those who
despise and defy him. They come
suddenly.
To-day invite you to a grander
banquet than any | have mentioned.
My Lord, the King. is the b~anqueter.
Angels arc the c~up-bearers. All the
redeemed are the guests. The halls OF
eternal love, frescoed with light, and
paved with JOY, and curtained with un-
fading beauty, are the banqueting place.
The harmony of eternity is the music.
The chalices of heaven are the plate;
and | am one of the servants coming
out with both hands filled with invita-
tons, scattering them everywhere; and
of that for yourselves, you might break
the seal Of the invitation and read the
words written in red ink of blood by
the tremulous hand of Il dying Christ:
Come now. for all things are ready"