Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-29

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is a vagabond boy; he introduces him to
a mission school. Here is a family freez
ing TO death; he carries them a scuttle OF
coal. There are eight hundred millions
perishing in midnight heather darkness;
by all possible means he tries to send to
them the Gospel. He may be laughed at,
and he may be sneered at and he may be
caricatured, but he is not ashamed TO 90
everywhere, saying: II am not ashamed
of..the Gospel of Christ. 1t is the power
Of God and the wisdom of God unto saliva
ton" Such q young man can go through
everything. There is no force on earth
or IN hell that can resist him.
THREE sPECTACLEs.
I show you three spectacles. Spectacle
the first: Napoleon passed by with the
host that went down with him TO Egypt,
and up with him through Russia, and
crossed the continent on the bleeding
heart Of which he set his iron heel, and
across the quivering flesh of which he
went grinding the wheels of his gun car
riages-in his dying moment asking his
attendants to put on his military boots for
him.
Spectacle the second; Noltaire, bright
and learned, and witty and eloquent, with
tongue and voice and stratagem internal,
warning against God and poisoning whole
Kingdoms with his infidelity, yet ap-
plauded by the ~clapping hands of thrones
and empires and continents-his last
words, in delirium supposing Christ stand
ing by the bedside-his last words:
Crush that wretch
G,o,+oolo ~, ,l:.r. Do,,1 DonI ;neir
n~iticant IN pcyatn, thrust out from all re-
fined association, scourged, spat on,
bounded like a wild beast from city to
city, yet trying to make the world good
and heaven full; announcing resurrection
to those who mourned dt the barred gates
Of the dead; speaking consultations which
light up the eyes Of widowhood and
o%rphanage and want with glow Of certain
and eternal release; undauntcd before
those who could take his life, his cheek
flushed with transport, and his eye on
heaven; with one hand shaking defiance
at all the foes on earth and all the princi-
p~alitles of hell, and with the other hand
Reckoning messenger angels 20 Conc and
bear hun away, as he says: Il am now
ready to be offered, AID the time OF my
departure is at hand ! have fought the
good fight, ] have finished my course, |
have kept the faith; hcnccforth there is
laid up for me a crown OF righteousness
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
give me-"
WHICH Is TO BE ADMIRED.
Which of the three spectacles do you
most admire? When the wind. of death
struck the cOnqReror and the inidel they
rr,p t,g1,I lt1yn tI, coo u,11s -, 4, tow,
pest. drcnched Of the wave and torn of
the hurricane, their dismal voices heard
through the everlasting storm; but when
the wave and the wind of death struck
Paul ike an alabastrOS, he made q throne
OF the tempest and one day tloated away
into the calm, clear summer Of heaven,
brighter than the dove, its wings covered
with silver, and its feathers with yellow
GOLD. Oh, are you rot in love with such
a r~cligion-a religion that can DO SO much
for q man while he lives and SO much for
a mau when he comes to die? suppose
yOg may have noticed the contrast be
tween the departure OF a Christian and
the departure of az infd J. Deodorus,
dying in chagrin because he Coald not
compose 4 joke equal to. Joke uttered
at the other end OF his table, Leuxis, dy.
ing in a fit of laughter at The sketch Of an
aged woman-a sketch made by his own
hand; Nazarin, dying playing cards, his
friends holding his hands because he was
unable 10 hold them himself. All that on
one side, compared with the departure OF
the Scotch minister, who said to his
friends Il have no interest as to whether
| live CT die; if | die | shall be with the
Lord. and if live the Lord shall be with
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1T is we'll" Or the last words of McIr.
tosh, the learned and the great; Happy
Or the last word of Hannah More, the
Christian poetess: "Joy!' Or those
thousands Cf Christians who have
gone, saying: Lord Jesus, receive
nay spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly" 20 death! where is thy stang
O grave. where is thy victory Behold
the contract. Behold the charm Of the
one, behold the darkness of the other
Now, know it is very popular in thi'
day for young men to think therei is some
thing more charming in skepticism thar
in religion. They are ashamed Of the ole
fashioned religion of the cross, and the,
pride themselves on their free thinking
on AL these subjects. My young friends
| want to tell you what | know frsm oh
servation that while skepticism is a beau
tifui land at the start, it is the great Sa
hara desert at the last.
TiFE MINISTER'S SON.
Years ago a minister's son went -o1
from home to college. At college b
formed the acquaintance of a young ma.
whom I shall call Ellison. Ellison wa
an inidcl. Ellison scoffed at religion
and The ministers son soon learned from
HIM the infdelity, and when he wen
home on his vacation broke his father
heart by his denunciations Of Christianity
Time passed on and vacation came, ant
the minister's son went off to spend tn,
vacation, and was or a journey and cam'
to a hotel. The hotel keeper said: Il an
sorry that tonight | shall have to pat YOU
in a room adjoining one where there is
very sick and dying a | can give YOU
no other accommodation" oh" sale
the young college student and minister
son, that will make no difference to me,
except the matter of sympathy with any
body that is suffering" The young mar
retired to his room but could not sleep
All night long he heard the grooming o
the sick man, or the step of the watchers
and his soul trcmbled. He thought tc
himself; Now, there is only a thin wal
between mt and a departing spirit? How
if Ellison should know how | feel? How
if Ellison should find out how my hear
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