Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-28

lOruly residences III WHICH
was ever q guest had morning and eve
ming prayers, all the day long there Was
an air OF cheerful picty in the converoa'
ton and behavior. Lord Kadstock car
ried the gospeI 20 the Russian nobility.
Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns spent their
vacation in evangelis,ic services Lord
Conglcton became missionary to Bagdad.
And the Christ who was born in IN east
crn carovansary has again aEd again
lived IN : palace.
SOME GptED THINGg.
1t is a grand thing to have plenty OF
money, and horses that dent compel YOU
to take the dust OF every numbering and
lazy vehicle; and books of history that
give You a glimpse of AL the past, and
shelves Of poetry to which you may 70
and ask Milton or Tonnyson or spencer
or Tom Moore or Roberr Burns 10 step
down and spend an evening with you;
and other shelves to which you may 60
while you feel Disguised with the shame
Of the world. and ask Thackcray To OK
press your chagrin or Charles Dickens TO
expose the Pecksniilianism or Thomas
Carlyle TO thunder your Indignation; or
the other shelves whore the Old gospel
writers stand ready 20 warn and cheer us
Xhile they open doors into that city
which is 50 bright the MONDAY sun Is
abolished, There is no virtue in owning
a horse that takes four minutes to go a
mile if YOU can own one that can 80 IN a
little over two minutes and q half; no
virtue in running into the teeth of "a
northwest wind with thin apparel if you
can afford furs; nor virtue in being poor
when O can honestly be rich. There
are names of men and women that | have
only to mention and they suggest not
only wealth bat religion and generosity
and philanthropy, such as Amos Law
renee, James Lcnnoy, Peter Cooper,
William j.. Dodge, Shoftcsbury, Miss
Wolfe and Nrs. Astor. A recent writer
says that of
FIFTY LEADING BUSINESS
men in one of our Eastern cities, and Of
the fifty leading business men Of one Of
our Western cities three-fourths of them
are christians. The fact is, that about all
the brain and the business genius is on
the side of religion. lnfidclity is incipi-
ent insanity. All infidcls are cranks.
Many of them talk brightly, but you o
find that in their mental machinery there
is a screw loose. When they are not lee
llllliB i1dlllSl Vii ISlIdliill ili'N w oit"
ting in barrooms squirting tobacco juice.
and when they get mad swear till the
place is sulphurous. They only talk to
keep thcir courage up and AZ best will
feel like the inidcl who begged to he bur
ried with his Christian wife and daughter,
and when asked why he wanted such
burial replied: IF there be a rosurrcc-
ton Of the good as some folks say there
,,;lI l., .,,. (br;ati,n ,riro onl dotrItor
viii somehow get me up and take me along
with them"
CHRISTIANITY M HONESTY.
Man may pretend TO dcspisc religion,
but they are rank hypocritcs. The sea
captain was right when he came up TO The
village on the sea coast, and insisted on
paying ten dollars TO the church although
he did not attend himself. When asked
his reason. he said that he had been in the
habit of carrying cargoes of oysters and
clans from that place, and he found since
that church was built the people We're
more honest thar they used to be. for be-
fore the church was built he often found
the load when he came TO count it "A thou
sand clans short. Yes, Godlincss is prof
table for both worlds. Most Of the great
DOIltSl, pt1Illtlltllb WOllNlN Sitt'CS'S hlC
by those who reverence God and the Bi-
Bile. But what ! do say is that if a man
have nothing but social position and tinan-
cial SQUIRE a womGn who puts hcrhap-
piness hy marriage in his hand rc-enaCts
the folly Of Abigail when she accepted
disagrecablc Nabal, whose possessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very
great, and he had three thousand sheep,
and a thousand goats
MORAL CHARACTER PRTMUS,
If there be good moral character accom-
panied by aflucnt circumstances ] con
gratulatc YOU. If not, let the morning
lark fly clear Of the Rocky mountain
eagle. The sacrifice of woman on the
altar Of social and financial expectation is
cruel and stupcndous. ! sketch you Il
scene YOU have more than once witnessed.
A comfortable home with nothing more
than ordinary surroundings but an attrac-
tive daughter carefully and christianity
reared. From The outside world comes in
a man with nothing but money, unless
YOU count profanity and selfshness and
fondness for champagne and general rcck-
~lcssncss as a part of his possession. He
has his coat collar turned up when there
~ no Chill III 'lt ~ but p'NfilSt ~ El'NN
him an air of abandon. and cyeglass, not
because he is nearsightcd but because it
gives n classical appearance, and with an
attire somewhat loud. a%canethick enough
to be the club Of Hercules and clutchod
at the middle, his conversation intcrlarded
with French phrases inaccuratcly pro
nOunccd and Il sweep Of ANN indicat-
ing that he was not born like most folks
but terrestially landed. BY arts learned
Of the devil he insinratcs himself into the
affections of the daughter Of that Chris
| tian home. All the kindred congratulate
her on the almost supernatural prospects.
Reports come in that the young mar is
fnst in his habits, thai he has broken sew
eral Young hearts, and that he is mean
and selfish and cruel. But all this is GOV
! cred up with tho fact that he has several
! houses in his own name. and haslarge de.
nosits in the bank, and, more than all. has
a sather worth many hundred thousand
dollars and very feeble in health and may
any Gay drop OF. and this is the only son.
and a round dollar held close TO ones eye
is large enough TO shut out a great desert,
and how much more will several bushels
Of dollars shut out.
MisrTT MARRIAGES.
The marryagc'd day m and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough and the
| orange blossoms fragrant enough and the