Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-21

shreds. ! wonder if the surgeons anC
the doctors cannot compound a mlXtur,
by which this body and soul can all III,
time be kept together? Is there no escape
from this separation?' None; absolutely
none. So | look over this audience to
day-thc vast majority Of you seeming IN
good health and spirits-and yet ! realize
that IN a short time all Of us will be gone
gone from earth, and gone forever. \
great many men tumble through the gates
Of the future, as ii were, and we do not
know where they have gone, and they
only add gloom and mystery 10 the pass
age; but
JESUS CHRIST
SO nightly stormcd the gates of that fu-
ture world that they have never since
been closely shut. Christ knows what il
is TO leave this world, of the beauty of
which He was more appreciative than we
ever could be. He knows the eXquisiteness
Of the phosphoresence OF the sea; He trod
il. He knows the giOries of the midnight
heavens; for they were the spangled
canopy of His wilderness pillow. He
knows about the lilies He twisted them
into His ermo He knows about the
fowls of the air; they whirred their way
through his discourse. He knows about
the sorrow Of leaving this beautiful
world. Not q taper was kindlcd in the
darkness. He died phyGicianlcss. He
died in cold sweat. and dizziness. and
hcmo'rhage, and agony, that have pat
Him in sympathy with all the dying. lie
goes through Christendom, and lie gath
crs up the stings ont OF al the death
pillows, and lie putsthcm under His own
neck and head. He gathers on His own
tongue the burning thirsts Of many gen
crations. The sponge is soaked in the
sOrrows of all those who have died IN
their beds rs well as soaked in the sor-
rows Of all those who have persisted in
icy or fiery martyrdom. While heaven
Was plying. and earth was hooking, and
hell was deriding. He took the vinegar,
THE SYMPATHY OF CHRIST.
TO all those in this audience to whom
life has been an accrbity-a dose they
could not swallow, u draught that set
their teeth on edge and rasping-l
peach the omnipotent sympathy Of Jesus
Christ. The sister Of lleTsChcl, the as
tronomcr. used to help him in his work.
He got all the credit, she got none She
used to spend much Of her time polishing
the telescope through which he brought
the distant worlds nigh, and it is my ambi-
ton now, this hour, TO clear the lens of
your spiritual vision, SO that looking
through the dark night Of your earthly
troubles you may behold the glorious
constellation OF a Sayiour's mercy and a
Saviour's love. o, my friends, do not
try to carry all your ills alone. Do not
put your poor shoulder under the Apen-
innes when the Almighty Christ is ready
TO lift up all your burdens, When you
have a trouble of any kind you rush this
way and that way, and YOU wonder what
this man will say about il and what that
man will say about it, and you try this
prescription and that prescription and
the other prescription, O, why do you
not 20 straight TO the heart of Christ,
knowing that for our own SHINING and
suffering race He took the vinegar.
There was a vessel that had been tossed
ON the seas for "A great many weeks and
been disabled. and the supply Of water
thirst. After many days they saw a sail
against the sky.
TIE sIGNALLED IT.
When The vessel came nearer the poo-
pie on the suffering ship cried 10 the cap
tain of the other vessel: Send us sone
water. We are dying for lack OF water
And the captain on the vessel that was
hailed responded: Dip your buckets
whore You are. You are in the mouth of
the Amazon and there are scores OF miles
Of fresh water all around about you, and
hundreds OF feet deep" And then they
dropped their buckets over the side OF
the vessel, and brought up the clear.
bright, fresh water, amt put out the tire
of their thirst. SO | hail You today, after
a long and p~Cri,0us voyage, thirsting as
O are for pardon, and thirsting for com
Fort and thirsting Cor eternal lire, and !
ask YOU what is the use Of you going in
that dcath-struck state, while ali around
vou is the deep, clear, wife, sparkling
hood of Gods sympathetic mercy. O.,
dip your buckets and drink. and live for
ever. "Whosoever will, let him come
aud take Of the water Of life freely
WILL REFUSE DIVINE SYMPATHY.
Yet my utterance is almost choked at
the thought that there are people here
who will refuse this Divine sympathy;
and they will try to fight their own bat
ties. and drink their own vinegar, and
carry their own burdens; and their life.
instead of being %triumrhal march from
victory 10 victory. will he a hobbling on
from defeat 10 defeat. until they make
final surrender TO retributivc disaster. o,
/ wish | could today gather up in mine
arms al the woes of men and women
their heartaches-all their disappoint-
mcnts-all their chargins-and just take
them right TO the feet of "A synpathizing
Jesus. He took the vinegar.
Mana Sah;b. after he had lost his last
battle in India, fell back into the inngles
Of Iheri ~-iunglcs so full of malaria that
no mortal can live there. He carried
with him also a ruby of great lustre and
of great value. He died ia those ~jungles;
his body was never found and the ruby
has never yet been recovered. And |
fear that today there are some who will
fall back from this subject into the sick
cning, killing iunglcs of their sin, carry
ing a u gem of infinite vslue-a priceless
soul-to he lost forever. q, that that
ruby might flash in the eternal corona
ton. But no. There are sone ]
fear. IN this audience who turn
away ON this offered mercy, and com
fort, and divinesympathy notwithstand-
Ing that Christ. for all who would accept
His grace. trudged the long way, and suf-
fcrcd the decorating thongs, and received
in His face the approximations Of the
filthy mob. and for the guilty, and the