Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-05

put "a missionary Of Christ On that foreign
shore. You can help ransom Il world
A rich man with his heart right-can yot
tell me how much good a James Lenno>
or a George Peabody or aPeter Coopel
or a William +. Dodge did while living
or is doing now that he is dead? There il
not IA city, town or ncighborhood that has
not glorious specimens of consecrated
wealth.
But suppose You grind the face OF the
poor. suppose when a mans wage are
due you make him wait for them because
he cannot help himself. Suppose that
because his family is sick and he has had
extra expenses he should politely ask you
to raise his wages for this year and you
roughly tell him if he wants a better place
to go and get it. Suppose by your man
ncr you act as though he were nothing
and you were everything. Suppose you
are selfish and ovcrbearing and arrogant
Your first name ought to be Attlla and
your last name Attilla, because you are
the star Norwood and you have embit-
tered one-third, if not three-thirds OF the
waters that roll past your employees and
operatives and dependents and associates,
and the long line OF carriages which the
undertaken orders tor your funeral In or
der TO make the occasion respectable, Will
be filled with twice as many dry, fearless
cy' $ as there are persons occupying them.
The clumsy pall-bcarors may make 'he
ga IS of your scpulchrc quake 10y striking
your silvcr-hanued coffin against them,
but the world will feel no jar as you 90
out of it.
There is an erroneous idea abroad that
there are ouly a few gcnluses. There ART
millions OF them; that is, men and women
who have especial adoption II quick
ness for some one thing. 1t may be
great. it may be small. The circle may
be like the circumference Of the earth or
30 larger than q thimble. There ARE
thousands Of gcniuses here this morning
and in some one thing you are a star
What kind Of a star are you? You will
be in this world but "A few minutes. AS
compared with eternity the star of the
longest Life on earth is not more than a
minute. What are we doing with that
minutef Are we emb!ttcriug the domes
tic or social or political fountains, or are
we like Moses, who, when thu lsraelites
in the Wilderness complained that the
waters Of lake Marah were bitter and
they could not drink them, their leader
cut of the branch of q certain tree and
threw the branch into the water. and it
became sweet and Stacked the thirst of
the suffering host2 Are W. with q branch
Of the Tree Of Life sweetening all
the brackish fountains that W.
can touch? Dear Lord, send us all out Gn
Thy mission. All around us embittfred
lives, embittered by persecution, esnbit-
tered by hypercriticism, embiti<red by
poverty, embittered 10y pain, e.sbitterrd
by injustice, embittered by FIN. Why
not go forth and swceten thc.9 by smile,
by inspiring words, by berefactions, by
hearty counsels. by ~prayesrby gosp LIKED
behavior. Let us remerySer that if we
are NORWOOD to others we are worm
wood to ourselves, aLl our life will be
bitter and our eternity bitter. The Cos
pei OF Jesus Christ IS the only swceten-
ing power that issuficient. Ii sweetens
the dlspOsitlonf 1t sweetens the manners.
1t sweetens lj.f1. Il sweetens mysterious
Providencest 1t sweetens Affections. II
sweetcns oath. 1t sweetens everything.
| have hard people asked IN social com
pany: IF you could have three wishes
grati6ed what would your three wishes
BET If | could have three wishes met
this morning | tell you what they
yc,uld be. First: More of the
Trace of God. Second. More of the
grace of God. Third: More Of the grace
of God. In the dooryard OF my brother
John. missi mary in Annoy, China, there
Is a tree called the emperor tree, the two
characteristics of which are that il always
grows higher than its surroundings and
Its leaves take the form of a crown. If
this emperor tree b. planted by q rose
bush it grows little higher han the
bush ana spreads out above it "a crown.
If il be planted ny the side OF another
tree, it grows IA little higher than that lree
and spreads above it a crown, Would
God that this religion of Christ, a more
wonderful emperor tree, might oyershad-
ow all your lives; are you lowly in ambi-
ton or circumstance, putting over you its
crown; are you high III talent and posi-
ton, putting over you its crown. Oh,
for more of the saCcharine in our lives
and less of the wormwoodl
What is true of individuals is true of
nations. God sets them up TO revolve as
stars but they may fall NORWOOD.
Tyre-the atmosphere of the desert fra
grant VIII spices tolliliS III CARAVANS W
her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by the
keels of her laden merchantmen; her
markets rich with horses and camels from
Togarmah, ner bazaars filled with up
h~olstery from Dedan, with emeralds, and
coral and agate from Syria. with wines
from Helbon, with embroidered work
from Ashur and Chalmad. Where now
the CLEAN of her towers? where the roar
of her chariotsy where the masts of her
ships? Let the fishermen who dry their
nets where once she stood, let the sea that
rushes upon the barrenness where once
she challenged the admiration of all ma
tons, let the barbarians who set their
rude tents where once her palaces gilt
tered, answer the question. She was a
star, but by her own sin turned TO worm
wood and has fallen.
Hundred gated Thebes-for all time to
be the study OF antiquarian and hero
gly phlst; her stupendous ruins spread
owe twenty-seven miles; her sculptures
presenting in figures Of warrior and char
lot the victories with which the now for.
gotten kings of Egypt shook the nations;
her Obelisks and columns; Carnac and
Luxor. the stupendous temples Of her
pride. Who can imagine the greatness
of Thebes in those days when the hippo
drome rang with her sports and foreign
roy atty bowed at her shrincs and her ave
nues roared with the wheels of process