Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-11-29

~ Of the estate, - 80 100 4
~ ~ sax. aIf you had given me On rs fhis
would have brought sl Sc ou,y $500. and
other man n was worth while 70 use
! ha,uiS i bid h in o napkin, anu u. IrnSl
!, - result. It's because sa,Ities
NV asvs me enough But inser'oF,is say 10
q M excuse for Incidence. iseaa,fors by
~ man who has the lessf quthnS sI,past
me msa'l God he NAV be made pihH"s
ehe Eisant The merchant. RhOys
hluip fsnm every island OF the 5est ~.
- ~ one stroke ct the pen, ean ~ eat a.
shole face of American Hns g;od
VIZ III an,-er aa Won may have before =
nucl DOVE ami and continuous prayer.
II eain 10, have no faculty. Do you ny
10Y 80 IA tb,,f you might this aiternopn
- mn your place Of prayer, ~ so,,I
sso ~ Go2 and bring down upon YOU INST
apd the souls of others a ptest1s aomnute
~. H. !, srnuId take eternal ages 1o e'niPnstt
ibao ~ ~ ,, won say, II maven
~ ~ speech. a taih w"
aan,t inter what want oasa
NJ brother, can you nv tLst ono
nass,oe of scripture? Then, .aAes arory.
passi,ee of scripture; carry ~ VIZ ,ircum-
pra. cuote III under all proper eten
49,, with that one passage o. scrlptuIp
1 harvest a thousand Souls ior W..
sou ny ia chat the chief work OF the chufoh
!, this day Is Icing done by the insr - - ross
,alerf i. Once in a while, when u erta. nraat
IL tD be taken, boh nhi - a., hail nj
| eoLd niece and rake all with the nfl3 ast
Nv s,rtion But common muskets 90 hiosV
~ tba hard fighting. 10 took ohi5 ~
Ioshua. and the thousands OF mane
,,,oons under him 10 drive doWnt ne nta
eit;es and. under wrathfui strokes, ~ nc" ~
nations fly Ike sparks from Gn,napy, one
grj,ol;us for Switzerland, one Johb hhoA
~. centiand one Calvin for France, ana one
I'm Wesley for England. Dorcas as Ger
family has a mission TO serve az : 4
mission to preach. The two mites uropPsa
by the widow into the s.wnont
as mucI, applanded as the ehuo"o
- a college, which gets u mans hane
;ntn The newspaper. The man wiz
h;ndleJ The fire under the burnt ohtrhhS
in fhe ancient temple had n duty as lmpera.
five ns that of the high priest m nisehineeis
robes, walking into the hols " Ycs the
The cloud of Jehovah's presence I'r, ~
mon with one talent are to save the "otiu,
~ n will never be saved al all. ne hncn
iii, Ave or ten talents are temples 10 Ton
| chiefly for themselves, TO build up .neir "
GREAT name, and work for their own az
st;nn ofthe worlds woes. The cedar OF Le-
Ramon standing on the mountain seems 10
hand down the storms out of the heoVehs 10
,ba earth but it bears no fruit, while some
dwarf near tree has more fruit on us orulen
% than It can carry. Better 70 ha.e ~ ~
ent and put IL 10 iuh use
Nv subject teaches me that there Is gong
% coine n day of solemn settlement. when
tho old farmer of the text got home ne lmme,
diatcIy called all the servants aoou, MN an
seid: Here is the little account ! nave 9eth
keeping. l want TO see your aceona'' IN nav
will first compare them; ana IN pa!
Won what / owe you, and you'll pay me Snas
yyou ovn me. Let us have a settlement.
Tho dav will come when the Lord Jesus thirst
will appear. and VIII say to you: NhasnaFe
Won been doing with my property! mhat
have YOU been doing with my iaeuiteS. "na
have you been doing with what gave you
Tor accumuIutiye purposes?" There viii beno
oscane from that settlement. Sometimesyo you
cannot pet a settlement with a mar, especially
if he owes you. He postpones ana pfocrastt
mates, and says: "I1l see yonnext week, or,
.IJI see Won next month" The fact IS, he
doas NOT want to settle. But when the great
day comes OF which | am speaking, there VIII
no no eseape. We will have to face all the
hills have sometimes been amazed to see
how an accountant will run up or Town long
line of figures. II ] see 10 or ID figures IN a
line, and | attempt to them up, and l
add them two or three times, 1 make them
different each time. But [ have admired the
yays an accountant will take a long line OF
figures. and without a single mistake, and
with great CELEBRITY, announce me aggregate
Now. in the last settlement. there VIII DE a
4 EnTTpft HCfOUUI tItEtilSEls W. heo ~ -
long line Of sins, q long line of broken Sab
baths. a long line of profane words, q 1ong
line of discarded sacremeHfS, a long line oil
misimproved privileges. They viii all be
added up, and before angels, and devils, anu
men, the aggregate will be announced On:
that will be the great day Of settlement. L
have to ask the question; Am ready Tor
it," 1t is Of more Importance to me TO an
swer that question in regard to myself than
in regard to YOU; and it is of more impor-
tance for you to answer it in regard TO your
self than in regard to me. Every MAI Tor
himself in that day. "If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself; If thou scornest,
thou alone shalt bear IL" We are apt 70
sneak OF the last day as an occasion of yOeif-
eration-a great demonstration Of power and
pomp. but there wiil be on that day, ] think,
a few moments of entire silence. think q
tremendous. an overwhelming silence. i
think it will be such a silence as the earth
never heard. 1t will be at the moment khen
all nations are listening for their doom.
learn also from this parable of the text
that cur degrees of happiness in heaven will
be graduated according to cur degrees of
usefulness on earth. Several OF the commen-
tators agree in making this parable the
same one as in Luke. where one man was
made ruler over five cities and another over
two cities. Would it be fair and right that
the PROGRESSED Christian man who has lived
very near the line between the world and the
n fHuTtn"Ht man WHO GNs utNfn fDInVfbIlfNtf
his CHRISTIAN eharaeter-the mau who has
never spoken out for God-tne man who has
ever been known as n Christian only on COM
muBion day-the man whose great struggle
las been to see how mueh of the world he
could get and yet win heavens it right to
suppose that that man viii have as grand
and glorious n seat in heaven as the man
who gave all his energies of body. mind and
soul to the service OF God! The dying thief
entered heaven. but not with the same
startling acclaim as that which greeted
Paul, who had gone under scorchings, and
across dungeons, and through maltreat-
ments i:lto the kingdom of Glory, One star
differs from another star in glory. and they
who toll nightly for Christ on earth shall
have "A far greater reward than those who
pave rendered only half n service.
Some OF you are Fastening on toward the
reward of the righteous. | want to cheer YOU
up at the thought that there will be some
kind Of a reward waiting for you. There are
Christian people in this house who are very
near Heaven. This week some of you may
pass out into the light Of the unsetting sun.
saw a blind man going along the road with
hrs staff, and he kept pounding the earth
and then stamping with his foot, | said to
him: What do you do that ior?'. '0h,"
he said, Il can tell by the sound of the
ground when ! am near a dwelling" And
some of yoa can tell by the sound Of your
earthiy pathway that you are coming nearto
= hOhf0s NOlSf dAutilP YOU. On.
weather-beaten voyagers, the storms arc
driving you into tho harbor. Just as when
you were looking for a friend, YOU came
up the gate Of his house, and Won
were talking with your servant. when
Your friend hoisted the window and shouted.
Tome ini' come inn Just so, when You
come to the gate of the future world. and
You are taken with death, tho black porter
at the gate, methinks Christ will hoist the
WlhdoH ana say: Come ini come I'M | will
make thee ruler over 10 cities" In an.
ticipatlon OF that land | do not wonder that
Augustus Toplady, the author of "Rock OF
Ages declared in his last moment. Il have
nothing more to pray for; God has given me
everything, Surely no man can live on
earth after the glories / have witnessed y
oh, my brothers and sisters, how sweet II
viii be, after the long wilderness march, TO
get home. That was a bright moment for
.he eilen doNe IN the time of the deluge when
ark. " 'ne
Mind Your Business.