Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-14

been able to stand il. They look at thei,
once happy home, surrounded by all com
fort. Gone, They think Of the time wheT
they used TO rise strong in the morning
and walk vigorously down the street, ant
had experienced IA health they thought
inexhaustible. Gone Everything gone
but Jesus. He has pitied them. His eye
has watched them. Yes. He has beer
with them. They have gone through
disaster, and He was "a pillar Of fire 10y
night. They have gone across stormy
Galilee, but Christ had his foot or the
neck Of the storm. They felt the waves
Of trouble coming up around them gradu
ally, and they began to- climb into the
strong rock of Gods defense, and then
they sang as they looked over the waters
God is our refuge and strength. an ever
present help in time of trouble; there
fore we will not fear though the earth be
removed, though the mountains be car
ried into the midst Of the sea, though the
waters Thereof roar and he troubled,
though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Sclah." The other
day there was a sailor who came into the
BETHEL
in New York, and said: My lads (he
was standing among Sailors, | don't
know what's the matter w'.h me. | used
TO hear a good deal alb { religion and
about Jesus Christ. | DO. know that
have any religion. or thai ! know any
thing much about Christ; but when ! was
in mid Atlantic | looked up one day
through the rigging, and there seemed 10
come light through my soul. ! have felt
different every since, and J loved those
that | ono hated, and ! feel a JOY | can't
tell you. ! really don't know what is the
matter Of me" \ rough sailor got up
and said: My Lad, know what's the
matter OF you. You have found Jesus.
Ii is enough 10 make any man happy
"IIis worth If all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Hin too"
| remark again: Christ is precious TO
the believer, as "A final deliverer. You and
| must after a while get out Of this world.
Here and there, one perhaps may come
on TO eighty, to ninety years OF age, but
your common sense tells you that the
next twenty five years will land the ma
jOrity OF this audience in eternity. The
next ten years will thin out a great many
of these family circles. This day may do
the work for some Of us. Now why do
say this? To scare YOU No; but just
as | would stand in your Office, if | were
a business man, and talk over risks. You
do not consider il cowardly to talk in
your store over temporal risks. Is il base
in us this morning to talk a little while
over the risks of the soul, that are for
eternity? In every congregation death
has the last year been doing a great deal
~ ,,nrl MI, =; ,,A,, f.tl., LEh,,.
is your mother? Your child? Your
brother? Your sister? O, how cruel does
death seem to be? Will he pluck every
flower? Will he poison every fountain?
VIII he put black on every door-knob?
win he snap every heart -stringY Can |
keep nothing? Are there no
CHARMED WEAPONS
with which TO go out and contend against
him. Give me some keen sword, sharp
cncd in Gods armOrv, with which | may
stab him through. Give me some battle
AK that ! may clutch il, and hew him
from helmet to sandal. Thank God,
thank God, that he that rideth on "A pale
horse hath more than a match in him
who rideth on the white horse. st. John
heard the contest, the paving Of the
ok'AbS, IL luNh' Alt bdAAl1 ~ IN Oll-NA
until the pale horse came down on his
launches and his rider bit the dust, while
Christ. the conqueror, with uplifted
voice declared it: 20 death, | will be
thy plague; o grave, | will be thy de-
struCtion.
The sepulchre is a lighted castle on the
shore of heavenly seas, and sentinel
angels walk up and down at the door TO
-...l :, III, .l,,-. AL H., l,,.,,,r- &c
the grave are only the spray of the white
surf of celestial seas, and the long breath
ing OF the dying Christian. that YOU call
his gasping. is only the long inhalation
of the air of heaven. o, bless God for
what Christ is to the Christian soul here
and hereafter
INCREMENT IN HEAVEN.
heard a man say some time ago, that
they never laugh in heaven. | do not
| think they do laugh in heaven. When
victors come home. do we not laugh
When fortunes are won in a day, do we
not laugh2 After we have been ten or
fifteen years away from our friends, and
We greet them again, do We not laughy
Yes. we will laugh in heaven. Not hol-
low laughter, not meaningless laughter,
but a full, round, clear, deep, resonant
outbreak of eternal gladness. Oh, the
glee of that moment when we first see
Jesus. | think we will take the first two
or three years in heaven to look at Jesus;
and if, in ten thousand years, there should
be a moment when the doXolOgy paused,
ten thousand souls would cry out: Sing,
sing and when the cry was: what
shall we sing?" the answer would be-:
Jesus. Jesus oh. you may have all
all the crowns in heaven; ! do not care
30 much about them. You may have al
the robes in heaven; | do not care so
much abcut them. You may have all the
sceptres in heaven; | Go not care so much
about them. You may have all the
thrones in heaven: | do not care SO much
about them. But give me Jesus--that is
enough heaven for me. Oh, Jesus, /
long to see Thee. Thou chief among
ten thousand, the one altogether lovely
There may be some here who have
come hardly knowing why they come.
Perhaps it was in Paul time-you have
come to hear what this babblcr saycth
but ! am glad to meet you face to face
and to strike hands with you in one ear
nest talk about your dcathless spirit. DO
you know my friend that this world is
not good enough for you. 1t cheats. 1t
fades. 1t dies. You are immortal, ]
see it in the deafness spirit looking cut
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