Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-01
observation. All. it is a hard Il ing for a

observation. All. ii is a hard Il ing for !.
woman to make an
HONEST lying
even when her heart is not troubled and
she has a fair cheek ana the magnetism
of an exquisite presence. But now the
husband or the father Is dead. The cA-
pcnscs ef the obsequics have absorbed all
tina. was left in the savings bans and wan
and wasted with weeping ami watching
she goes forth-a grave, u hcarSc, . CONN,
behind hcr--to contend for her existence
and the existence Of her children. When
| see such IA cattle as that open ! shut my
eyes at the ghestliness of the spectacle.
Men sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartlcss essays about women s
wages; but that question IS made up Of
tears and blood, and there is more blood
than tears. Oh. give ONE free access
to all the realms where She can get a live
lihooG from the telegraph Office the pull
pit. Let men wares be cut down before
hers are cut down. Men have iron in
their souls and can stand ii. Make the
way free to her of the broken heart. MAY
God put into my hand the cold. bitter cup
OF priyation. ANA give me nothing but Il
W~indoWlcss hut for shelter for many
years, rather than. that after am dead
there should 20 out from my home into
tie pitilcss world Il woman's arm 10 fight
The Gettysburg the Austcrlitz, the Water
100 OF life, for bread.
CONSOLATION oN THE ArEN.
And yet how many wOmcn there are
seated between the rock Of bereavement
on the n side and thcrock Of restitution
IN the other, Bozcz and Scn,h intcrlock-
ing their shadow and dropping thcmupon
her miserable way. There is IA sharp
rock on the one side and a sharp rock ON
the other side What are such to doY
Somehow, let them climb up into the
heights Of the g%lorioas promise: "Leave
Thy fathcrlcss children; | Will preserve
them alive, and let Thy widows trust in
Me or get up into the heights Of that
other glorious promise: The Lord pre-
serveth the stranger and rclicvcth the
widow and the fathcricss.' O! ye w
ing woman on starving WAGES, O. we
widows turned out from The once bcauti-
ful home. @. We female teachers, kept
ON niggardly stipend. O, We dcspairing
woman, seeking invain for work, wander.
ing along the docks, and thinking TO
throw yourself into the river last night.
~ \ NV ~ WAN = We XIV ~ illll
sides, and short breath and broken heart,
you need something more thar mlman
sympathy. YOU need the sympathy of
God. Climb up into His arms. He knows
it all, and He loves YOU more than father,
or mother, or husband ever could or ever
did; anG instead OF sitting down. wiring
Ing your hands in despair, YOU had better
begin TO climb. There are heights of
pAs,aAf,t;A,, fAv -, 4ll.rI ,,A.,~ tAthn,,
is a sharp rock on the one size and a
sharp rock on The other side"
Persisted BETWEEN THE ROCKS.
Again, that man is in the crisis Of the
text who hM wasted a life on
the one side and an illuminated eternity
ON the other. Though a man may all his
life have cultured dcljbCration and self
poisc, If he gets into that position all his
self possCssjuG is gone. There all the
wrong thoughts OF his existence, all the
wrong deeds. all the wrong words-s'rAta
above strata, granite. pondcrous. over
shadowing. That rock / call Bozez. On
the other side are AL the rctributions of
the future, the thrones of judgment, the
eternal ages, angry with his long def
ancc. That rock / call Sench. Between
these two rocks Lord Byron persisted and
lIerod persisted and ten thousand times
ten thousand have persisted. O., man i'm
moral, man redeemed, man blood bought.
climb up out of those shadows. Climb
up by WAY of the cross. Have your
wasted life forgiven. Have your eternal
life secured. This morning just take one
look TO the past and see what il has been
and take one look TO the future and see
what it threatens to be. lou can afford
10 lose your.aealth. your can afford to
lose Your property, you can afford TO lose
your reputation, but You cannot
AFFoR TO LOSE YOUR SOIL.
That bright, cleaning, glorious,
precious, eternal possession YOU must
carry aIolt in the day when the earth
burns up and the heavens burst. You see
FROM my subject that when a man goes
into the safety and peace Of the gospel he
does not delucan himself. There is moth
ing in religion that leads to meanness OF
unmanllness. The gospel Of Jesus Christ
only asks Won to climb as Jonathan did
climb toward God, climb toward heaven.
climb into,thc sunshine of Gods favor.
To become Il Christian is not to 20 mcanly
down. it is TO cone gloriouslv up-up
lilto tht kOAllbJlilpl vi SAINTS. NY llllo lilt
peace hat passeth all understanding. up
into the oon,panionship Of angels. He
lives up: he dies up.
CLIMB.
o, then, accept the wholesale invitation
which | make this morning TO all the peo-
pie. Come up from between your in
valldism and financial ADVERTISEMENTS,
Come up from between your bereavc-
mcnts and your restitution. Come up
from between wasted life and an an
illumined eternity Like jonathan, climb
with all your might, instead OF sitting
down 10 ~tiag Your hands in the shadow
and IN the dagiGneSs-'a sharp rock on
the one side, and a sharp rock on the
other side
SuaLes kHfipy ENUe Horses.