Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31

RING or ADOPTION
Dr.. Talmage st Kansas CITY.
Mo. Yesterday.
The Insignia Of Christian Eel.
lowship in tho Church.
Ihr Glory OF Units oftho SUI WIZ.
Christ.

~ i"''liI idiHldgp, -, ~. OF the
Brooklyn, \. s., tabernacle, preached
here this evening to "A crowded cougrc.
CATION. lie took for his subject, The
Decoration Of the Soul" and his text
was Luke Xy., %:
'Put "a ring on his hand
He said:
! will not rchearsc the familiar story Of
The fast young man Of the parable. You
know What ~ splendid home he left;
you know wLat a Lard time he had, and
yea remember bov after that season OF
vagabondage and prodigality hc received
TO 20 and weep out his sorrows On the
bosom of parental forgiveness. Wei.
there is great excitement one dav in front
o. thc door Of The old farm house. The
servants come rushing W and say.
NV hats the natter what the mattcr:'
But before they quite arrive he old man
erios out, Put a ring on his hand.
Villa; a seeming absurdityl What can
such q wrctchcd mcudjcan; as this fellow
MAJ is trampiug on toward the Lousc
want with q ring Oh, tie is The prcdi
ga son. No more tending Of the swine
trough No more ~lonring for tho mods
a. the carcb tree. No more bl;storr5
feet. OF with the rags' On with the
rebe. On with the ring! Even so does
God rcra;yc every ono of us whom we
come hack There are cold r;nre md
pearl rings. and carnelian ripg, and dia.
s,ond RINGS but the richest rino tbot ever
aashcd ON the vision il that which our
Father puts upon q forgiven soul.
WRONG IMPRESSION.
know that the IMPRESSION is abroad
anong some pcople that religion he.
means and belittles Il man; that IL takes
I'll the sparl c out of his soul: that he
has to EXCHANGE a roy.icring ;ndepcnd
ence for an ecclesiastical straight Jacket.
Not SO. When a man bccomes a Christ.
nan he does not 90 down, he starts no.
ward Religion multiplies one by ten
thousand. Nav, the multiplicr ia in in.
fnity. 1t is not ablotting out, it is a pol
isking, il is an efflorcscence tits an irradi-
alton. When u man comes into the
kingdom of God he is not sent into q
mental service, but the Lord God Al
mighty, from the palaces Of heaven. calls
upon the messenger angels that wait upon
the throne To tly and put a ring on his
hand" In Christ are the largest liberty,
and brightest JOY, and highest honor.
and riches. R~dornment. Put a ring ON
his hand"
remark, IN the frs; place. that when
Christ receives a SOU into his love he
puts upon him the ring Of adoption. In
my church in Philadelphia there came
the representatives. q benevolent society
Ia New York. He brought with him
eight or ten children of the street that
he had picked up, and be was trying 70
end for them Christian homes; and as the
little ones stood on the pulpit and sung
our hearts melted within us. AT the
close Of the services a grcat-heartod.
wealthy man came up and said: IN
take this little bright eyed girl and I'll
adopt her as one Of my " Children
and he took her by the hand, lifted her
into his carriage and went away.
The next day while we were in the
church gathering up the garments for the
poor Of New York, this little child came
back with a bundle undo her arm, anu
said: There's my old dress; perhaps
some Of The poor children would like 70
have it, while she herself was in bright
and beautiful, and those who more i'm
mediatcly examined her said that she had
q ring on her hand. II was
RING or AporrioN'
There are a great mnny persons who
uride themselves ON their ancestry, and
,,ou o,orv ovor tho rova, blood hat no,rs
my s,o'y .-r-.n-
'hrough thelr arteries III 'heli ilhe'neie
was a lord, or a duke, or a prime minister,
ar q king But when the Lord. our
e., ,ho r;,c ~ biS odon
Iathe'' pu's "p"" 20 r
tjOn. we become the cDllurCn OF tue fulef