Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-09
DISABLED HUNTERS
Physical Disabilities Have AL
ways Proven a Great
Blessing.
"Drop the rchor, furl he Sail,
Am Safe Within the vaie."
Rome Was Not Built in a Day
--Step By Step We Ac-
complish Wonders.
The Power OF God Breaks Up Rad
Habits and Paycs n Di-
rect Route TO
Heaven.

mage, b.D., ltlu lnc account OF inc man
helpless at the Beautiful Gate Of the
Temple. lie then gave out the hymn be
ginning;
"A cloud Of witenesses around
Hold thee in full survey;
Forget the step. already trod,
And onward urge Thy way"
The subject Of the eloquent Doctors
discourse was: Disabled Hunter Bring
ing Down the Game His text was
from Isaiah, Oh. 33, v. 23. The lame
take the prey" Following is the sermon:
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only robust
men should go forth and gather the spoils
of conquest. but even men crippled Of
arm and crippled Of foot should 90 out
and capture much that was valuable.
Their physical disadvantages should not
hinder their great enrichment. So ii has
been in the past, SO it is now, SO it will
be in the future. So it is in all depart
ments. Men labor under seemingly great
disadvantages, and amid the most unfav-
orable circumstances, yet making grand
achievements, getting great blessing for
themselves, great blessing for the world,
great blessing for the church, and SO the
lame take the prey
Dc you know that the three great poets
of the world were totally blind? Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that
Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book "Thc Conquest of Mexico" never
saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
on which he was writing? A frame work
across the sheet, between which, up and
down, went the pen immortal. Do You
know that Gambassio, the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him, or the
chiscl with which he cut it into shapes
hewitcning2 DO you know that AleXan-
der Pope, whose poems will last as long
"a the English language, was so much of
every morning in rough canvas in order
to stand OF his feet at all?
DO you know that Stuart, the celc-
bratcd painter, dia mach Of his wonder
full work under the shadow Of the dun
gcon. where he had been uniustly impris.
oned for debt? Do you krow that De
mosthencs by almost superhuman eXcr-
ton first had 10 conquer the lisp of his
own speech before he conquered assem-
blages with his c%loqucnce? Do you know
tina Bacon struggled all through innu
merable sicknesSos. and that Lord Byron
and Sir Walter Scott went limping On
clubfoOt through all their life, and that
many OF the great poets and painters and
orators and historians and heroes Of the
void had something TO keep them back,
and pull them down, and impede their
way, and cripple their physical or their
intellectual movement, and yet that they
pushed on and pushed up until they
reached the spoils of worldly success, and
amid the huzza OF nations and centuries,
'thc anne took the prey
You know that a vast multitude of
these men started under the disadvantage
of obscure parentagc. Columbus, the
son of a weaver, Ferguson, the astrono-
mcr the son Of "A shepherd. America the
prev Of the one. Worlds on worlds the
prey Of the other. But what is true in
secular directions is more true in spiritual
and religions directions and | proceed to
prove it.
There are in all communities many in
valids. They never know a well day.
They adhere to their occupations, but
they 90 painting along the streets with
exhaustion, and at eventime they lie
down on the lounge with achings beyond
all medicament. they have tried all pre-
scriptions, they have gone through oil the
cures which were proclaimed infalliblc,
and they have come now to surrender to
perpetual ailments. They consider they
are among many disadvantages. And
when they see those who are buoyant in
health pass by they almost envy their ro-
bust frames and easy respiration. But |
have noticed among the invalid class
those who have the greatest knowledge
of the bible. who are in the nearest init
macy with Jesus Christ, who have the
most glowing experiences of the truth.
who have had the most remarkable an
swer5 TO prayer, and VINO have the most
exhilarant anticipations Of heaven. The
temptations which weary US in robust
health they have conquered. They have
among them the spoils of the conquest.
Many who are alert and athletic and
SNhlllN lolltl III III way. ihNSC lut
anne that take the prey. Robert Hall an
invalid, Edward Payson an invalid,
Richard Baxter an invalid, Samuel Ruth
erford an invalid. This morning. when
you want to call to mind those who are
most Christlike. you think Of some dark
ened room in your fathers house from
which there went forth an influence po-
tent for eternity.
A step farther: Through raised letters
the art Of printing has been brought to
to the attention of the blind.
You take up the bible for the blind.
and you close your eyes, and you run
your fingers over the raised letters, and
you sa7' "Why, | never could get any
information II this way. What "A slow.
umbrous way of reading! God help the
blind"
And yet find among that class Of per