Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-16

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carried q mountain; Christ carried a Him.
a'av; Christ carried a world for you, and
You canno, iii an ounce for Him.
But here is a man whose cross viii bt
20 announce among his business asso.
ciatcs tomorrow morning n Change that
he has begun Il new life; that while ht
wants to be faithful in his worldly duties,
he is living for another world, and he
ought to advise all those who are las as.
soClatcs, 50 far as he can influence them.
10 begin with him the Christian life.
Could you 90 that, my brother? "Oh,
no, you say, mot just that. | think
religion is religion and business is bust
ness, and 1t would be. impossible for me
to recommend the Christian religion in
places Of worldly business Just as !
feared, There is a second cross offered
YOU. and you cannot carry it. Christ
lifted a mountain for you-you cannot
lift an ounce for Him.
There is some one whose cross will be
to present religion in the home circle.
Would you dare to kncel down and pray,
if your brother and sister were looking at
you? Could YOU ask Il blessing at the
tea-table? Gould you take the Bible and
gather your family around you, and read
OF Christ and heaven and your immortal
soul? Gould you then kneel and pray for
a blessing on yourhousehoidy ''On' YOU
say, mot exactly that. | couldn't quite
do that because | have a very quick
temper, and if ! protested religion and
tried to talk religion in my household,
and then after that | should lose my
temper they would SCOT at me and say:
y on are a pretty Christian -, SO you
are cowed down aud their sarcasm keeps
you out of heaven and away from Christ,
when under God YOU ought TO take your
whole family into the kingdom. Christ
lifted a mountain, lifted a world for YOU;
YOU cannot III an ounce for him. see
how it is; you want TO be favorable to re
hgion, you want 10 support Christian in
situations, YOU like to be associated with
those who love Jesus Chris; bat as to
taking n positive stcpOn this subject, you
cannot YOU Cannot-and my text, Ike a
gate OF II hundred bolts, bars YOU away
from peace on Garth and glory in heaven.
There are hundreds Of men and ONE
here brave enough IN other things in life
who simply for the lack OF manlincss aud
wOmanliness stay away from God. They
dare not say: Forever ana forever,
Lord Jesus, ! take Thee. Thou hast re-
deemed me by Thy blood. here is my
immortal spirit. Listen, all my friends.
Listen, all the world They are lurking
around by the kingdom of God-they are
lurking around about it, expecting to
crawl in some time when nobody is look
ing, f0rgctful Of the tremendous words Of
my text: whatsoever doth not bear his
cross, and come after Me, cannot be Ny
disciple"
An officer Of a neighboring church told
me that he was III a store in New York
Just happened in-where there were
many clerks, and a gentleman came in
n said to n young man standing behind
the counter; Are yOu the young man
that arose the 0thernight in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle and asked for prayersI'
Without any flush Of check, he replied
II nm. ! haven't always done right,
and ! have been quite bad; but since |
arose for prayers, | think ! am better
than | was. 1t was only his way Of
announcing that he had started for the
higher life. God will not cast out a man
who is brave enough 10 take Il step ahead
like that.
| tell YOU these things this morning be
cause, my dear friends. | want TO show
You how light the cross is that we have
to carry compared with tia, which Christ
carried for rs. You have not bad the
flesh torn of for Christ sake in carrying
your cross. lie tainted dead away under
His cross. You have not carried the
cross until il fetched the blood. Under
His there was a pool Of carnage that
FLASHED the horses fetlocks. Yea have
friends to sympathize with you IN carry
ing the cross; Christ trod The wincpress
of Gods wrath alone, slone, The cross
that you and ! ought 10 carry represents
only "A few days or a few years of trial.
The cross that Christ carried for us had
compressed into il the agonies of eter-
nifty.
There has some one come here today
whom YOU have not observed. He did
dot come through the front door; He did
not come down any Of these a%isles; yet
| know He is here. tie is from the east,
the far east. He comes with blistered
foot, and with broken heart, and checks
red 10 with health but with blood from
the temples. | take hold Of His coat and
| say; 1t does not seem to tit Thee"
No He says, 1t is not mine; it is Dor
rowed; il does not belong &c me now. For
my vosturc did they cast lots" And |
say to Him: Thine eyes are red as
though from loss of sleep He says:
Yes, the Son of man had not where to
lay His head" And | touch the log on
His back and | say: "Why carry Thou
this?' All" Tie says, that is a cross |
carry for thee and for the sins of the
whole world. That is a cross. FAN into
line, march on with me in this process
sion, take your smaller crosses and your
lighter burdens, and join me in this march
to heaven And we join that process
sion with III smaller crosses and our
ligher burdens, and Christ looks back and
He sees some:areI faltering because they
cannot endure the shame, or bear the
burden, and with a voice which has in it
majesty and omnipotence, He cries until
all the earth trembles: "NThosoever doth
not bear his cross, and come after Ne,
cannot be My disciple"
o, my brethren, my sisters-for ! do
not speak professionally, | speak as a
brother would speak to n brother or sister
my brother, can you not bear q cross II
at last you can wear q crown? Come,
now, let ns divide off. Who is on the
Lords side? Who is ready to turn his
back upon the Lamb of God that taketh
AVA the sin of the world?
A Roman emperor said TO a Greek
architect: "You) lid me a coliseum, q