Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-14

have preached. 1t seems to me as if
Jesus in the
were standing on a platform in a great
amphitheater. AS if the prophets were
behind him, throwing light forward
on His sacred person, and AS If the
apostles and evangelisis stood before
Him, like footlights, throwing up their
light into His blessed ~countcnance, and
were the applauding auditory. The
Bible speaks of Pisgah, and Carmel,
and Sinai. bat makes all mountains
bow down TO Calvary. The Hocks led
over the Judean hills were emblenis Of
The Lamb Of God that taketh away
the sins of the world and the lion
leaping out Of its lair was an emblem
of 1.-THE lion of Judah's tribe. l will in
my next breath recite to you the most
wonderful sentence ever written: .'This
is u faithful saying and worthy Of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners" No
wonder that when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem heaven sympathized with
earth, and n
WAVE OF JOY
dashed clear over the battlements
and dripped upon the shepherds in
the words: GLORY to God in the
highest and on earth peace, good will
towards men" Ia my next sentence
every word weighs a ton: ''God so
loved the world that He gave his only
begotten son, that whatsoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life Show me any other
book with such a doctrine, so high, SO
deep, so vast.
4. Again: The Bible is right in its
effects. | do not care where you put
the Bible, it Just suits the place. You
put it in the hand of a man seriously
concerned about his soul. ] see people
often giving to the serious soul this
and that book. 1t may be very veil,
but there is no book like the Bible.
He reads the commandments and
pleads to the indictment. Guilty
He takes up the Psalms of David and
says: They just describe my fee
ings.' He flies to good works;
starts him out Of that by the announce
ment: "a man is not justified by
works" He falls back in his
encouragement; the Bible starts
him up with the sentences: are
I member Lots wife ''Grieve not the
Spirit" Flee the wrath to come
Then the man in despair begins TO cry
out: What shall do? where shah
go?" and IA voice reaches him saying.
Come unto me ali We who are weary
and heavy laden and | will give you
rest"
Take this Bible ard place it in the
hands of men in trouble. Is there any
body here in trouble? All, | might
better ask are there any here who have
never been in trouble. Put this Bib,
in the hands of the troubled. You find
that IS some of the best berries grow
on the sharpest thorDs, so some of the
sweetest consultations of the gospeI
grow on the most singing affection.
You thought that Death had grasped
your child. Oh, no. 1t was only tn,
heavenly Shepherd taking "A lamb out
of the cold.
HRS
bent over YOU as you held the child il
your lap, and putting his arms gently
around the little one, said: ''Of suct
is the kingdom of heaven
Put the Bible in the school. Palsico
be the hand that would take the Bib,
from the college and the school. Edu
cate only n mans head and YOU make
him an intidcl. Educate only n man.
heart and you make him a fanatic. Ed
ucate them both together, and you hav,
the noblest work Of God. An educate,
mind without moral principle is IA shil
without a helm, a rushing rail train
without brakes or reversing rod to con
troll the speed.
Put the Bible in the family. Thcrei
lies on the table. an unlimited power
Polygamy and unscriptural divorce ar,
prohibited. Parents are kind an'
faithful, children polite and obedient
Domestic sorrows lesscncd by being Iii
vided. joys increased by being multi
piled.
o FATHER, o MOTHER,
take down that long neglected Bible
and read it yourselves and let You
children read it!
Put the Bible on the rail train and OF
~ship-poard, till all parts Of this lane
and all other lands, shall have its illum
i%nation. This hour there rises the vel
of heather worship, and the face Of thi.
d ty's sun smokes the blood of human
sacrifice. Give them the Bible. Unbin'
that wife from the funeral pyrc, for ne
other sacrifice is needed since the bloc,
of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin
| am preaching this sermon becaus,
there are so many who would have yol
believe that the Bible is an outlandisl
book. and obsolete. 1t is fresher an,
more intense than any book that yes
terday came II Of the great publish
ing houses. Make it your guide in lf'
and your pillow IN death.
After tho battle of Richmond a dea,
soldier was found with his hand lyin,
on the open Bible. The summer in
sects had eaten the flesh from the hand
but the
SKELETON FINGER
lay onthcse words: Yea, though wall
through the valley of the shadow o