Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-07-29

/ tANaf uuDhDsAA-l NALl' l4SlN-o lcll llGll HIS
cradle carcases il the wilderness Of Beth
ayen. So it always is. The triumph Of the
wicked is short. You make $4,000 at
the gaming table. Do you expect 10
keep it: You will die in the poorhouse.
You madea fortune by iniquitous traffic.
Do you expect TO keep itl Your money
will scatter, or it will stay long enough
to curse your children after you are
dead, Call over the roll Of bad men who
prOspered and see how short was their
prosperity. For q while, like the men Of
Al, they went from conquest 10 con-
quest, but after a while disaster rolled
back upon them, and they were divided
into three parts; misfortune took their
property, the grave took their body, and
the lost world took their soul. / am al
ways interested in the building of the
atres and the building OF dis
| sipating saloons. ! like 10 haye 1hem
built Of the best granite aud have the
rooms made large and 10 have the pillars
made very firm. God is gong to conquer
them, and they will be tnI ed into asy-
lums and art galleries and Gin riches. The
stores in which fraudulent 10 n do bust
ness, the splendid banking nstitutions
where the president and CO lier put all
their property in their wives ands and
| then fail for two hundred thu sand dol
lars-all these institutions are e become
the places where honest Christian men
| do business.
| How long will il take your bCys to get
through your i'll gotten gains. Tie
wicked do not live out half tAr.r days.
For while they swagger aud s'rit and
make a great splash in the newspapers,
but after awhile it al dwiIdles down
into a lrief paragraph: Died suddenly,
| July %. lsSs, at 35 wears Of age. Rel
atiyes and friends Of che family are in
vited to attend the funeral On Wednes-
day, at ? O'Clock. from his late resi-
dence on Madison square. lnterment at
Greenwood" Some Of them Jumped off
the docks. Some them took prussic acid.
Some Of them fell under the snap Of a
Deringer pistol. Some Of them spent
their last DAYS in a lunatic asylum.
Where are William Tweed and
his associates: Where are ketCham and
Swartwou', abscouding swiudlers. Where
is james Fix. the ibgtine: Where is
John Wilkes Booth. the assassin! and all
the other misdemeanantsi The wicked
do not live out half their days. Disem-
bogue. o world Of darkness Come up,
HildeLrand and Henry IL and Robes
pierre. aad with hl!stering and blasphem-
ing and ashen lips, hiss out: The tri-
umph Of the wicked is short" Alas for
the men Of Al when Joshua stretches
out his spear toward the city!
Lesson the third. How much may be
accomplished by living in ambush for op-
portunities Are YOU hypercritical Of
Joshua's maneuver: Do you say that
it was cheating for him 10 take that city
| 10y gLbuscaae: Wast wrong for Wash
iuruu tu kind. camp fires ca New Jer-
scy Heights. E.' the impression 70 the
lTVos.E- .o.g. Thar great army was
euraml,l ,arr when there was none at
all; ! answer. Il the war wa- right then
Joshua was right in his strptagem. He
! violated nu iig- ot ttICe. He broke no
/ treaty. btG ay lawful umllsgadc cap
turcl The city of AZ, Oh, thai call knew
how to liu iU ambush for opportunities to
serve Col. The l,-t Of our omnrtuni-
ties DO uJI H. m The surface. hut are se-
crete4; 10y tact, ly s'iutagem, by Chris
| tiau uNausc1le, You may take almost
any castle Us slH 81 Christ. Come up
toward men with regular besiegcment
Of argument and you viii le defeated;
but just wait until the door of their
hearts !, so aiar, or they are OF their
guard. or their severe caution Is away
from home. aud lheu drop in on them
from Christian amluscade. There hns
bcnu M Hra nau mp 10 lis chin in seien.
tiiic p0rIuliJs Wl.iC. proved there was no
Ch ~ &Dd no divine revelation. lis pan q
sc.mpt5r luug into lbe heart ot theologi-
c.l or,1yuts. who. nevertheless. has
| bon liscuitei aud captured for God
rs agur ii:tln threo-year-old child who
b. got up and put her snowy arms
aroHHl his .lncwy neck, AMI asked some
sitnl De- .al ,i1u about God and heaven.
oh. make Aank movement; steal
march "a the devil, cheat that man into
heaven, \ - treatise that will stand all
the laws Of homiletics may fail to do that
which q penny tract Christian enuealy
may accomplish. Oh, for morc Chris
tiJns IN amluscade. not lying in idloness,
but waiting for a quick spring waiting
Until Just the right timc.cumcs Do not
talk toa mau about the vanity Of this
world on the day when he has bought
something at "twOlve" and is going to
spll II 10 "aitceu." But talk to
him about the vanity II the world
one the day whvu hr has bought some
thing al "iiftrcu' and Is compelled TO
sell at "uwolvo. Do not rub a mans
disposition The wrong way, Do not take
the imperative mood when the subiunc-
tive mool viii do iusJ rs well Do not
talk IN pcri,ryij ayloto phlegInalic. nor
try tu tirklC a t1rrid Temperament with an
iciclt. You can take any man for Christ
IL you know how 10 get at him. Do not
srul word IA linn that tomorrow at 10
O'Clock you propose 70 open your batter
les upon him, but come on him 10y a
slillful. persevering God directod ambus-
cadc
LlAson the fourth; The Importance of
taking good aim. There is Joshua. but
how are these people in ambush up yon-
der 90 know whom they are 20 drop on
the city and how are these men around
Joshua 10 know when they are % stop
thcr Hight and aduncoi There must
I be- sJmo signal a signal t. stop the ono
division and TO start the other. Jcahua.
with Fraf on which were ordinarily
hung thg Culors Of LATHE. poiuta toward