Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-09

does their hand touch the raised letter
than they gather a prayer. Without
eyes, they look off upon tue kingdoms OF
Gol love. Without hearing, they catch
.he minstrelsy of the skies. Dumb, yet
with pencil or with irradiated counte-
nance, they declare the glory of God.
A large audience assembled in New
ork al the anniversary of the deaf and
dumb asylum, and one of the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote this
question 10 the pupils; DO YOU not find
1t very hard TO be deaf and dumb" And
one of the pupils took the chalk and
wrote on the blackboard this sublime
sentence in nsw when the song Of
the angels shall burst upon our enrap-
turcd ear, We will scarce regret that III
ears were never married with earthly
sounds. OH the brightest eyes in
Heaven will be those that never saw on
earth. The ears most alert in Heaven
Will be those that in this world hear nci-
Their voice of friend, nor thrum Of harp,
nor carol Of bird, nor d~OXology OF con
gregatiOEs.
4 lad who had been blind from infancy
was cared. The oculist operated upon
upon the lad, and then put "A very heavy
bandHge o7er the eyes, and after a few
weeks had gone 10y, the bandagc was re
moved, and the mother said TO her child:
willie, can you seer He said: "OA.
Mamma, is this NolvenI' The contrast
between the darkness before and the
brightness aftcrward was overwhelming.
And ! tell You the glories Of Heaven Will
be a thousandfold brighter for those who
never saw anything on earth. While
many with good vision closed their eyes
in night, and many who had a good, arts
TIC, and cultured ear went down into dis
cord, these afflicted ones cried unto the
Lord in their trouble, and He made their
sorrows their advantage, and SO the lame
took the prey"
In the seventh century there was a
legend Of It. Modobert. 1t was said that
his mother was blind, and one day while
looking at his mother he felt SO sympa-
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
forward and kissed her blind eyes, and,
the legend says, her vision came immedi-
ately. That was only a legend, but it Is
a truth. a g.orious truth, that "A kiss of
God eternal love has brought to many
a blind eye eternal illumination.
A step further. There are those in
all communities who toll nightly for a
livelihood. They have scant wages.
Perhaps they are diseased, or have
physical infirmitics, SO they are hindercd
from doing a continuous days work. A
city missionary finds them up the dark
alley, with no fire, with thin clothing,
with very coarse bread. They never ride
in the street car, they cannot afford the
five cents. They never see any pictures
save those in the show window on the
street, from which they are often jostled,
and looked at by some one who seem TO
say in the look Move on what are you
doing here looking at %pictures?'
Yet many Of them live on mountains Of
transformation. At their rough table He
who fed the five thousand breaks the
bread. They talk often Of the good times
that are coming. This world has no
charm for them, but Heaven entrances
their spirit. They often divide their scant
crust with some forlorn wretch who
knocks at their door at night. and on the
blast of the night wind, as the door opens
TO let them in, is heard the voice of Him
who said: II was hungry and We fed me-
No cohort of Heaven will be too bright to
transport them. BY God help they have
vanquishcd the Assy rian host. They have
divided among them the spoils. Lame,
lame, yet they TOOK the prey.
was riding along the country road one
day, and | saw a man On crutchcs. |
overlook him. He was very old. He
was going very slowly. At that rate, it
would have taken him two hours to 90 a
mile. ] said: "Wouldn't you like TO
ride He said: Thank YOU, | would.
God bless YOU" When he sat beside me,
he said: You see. | am very lame and
very old, but the Lord has been "A good
Lord to me. | have buried all my chill
dren. The Lord gave them, and the
Lord had a right 10 take them away.
Blessed be His name. | was very sick,
and | bad no money, and my ncighbors
came in and tOok care Of me, and ! want
cd nothing. | suffer a great deal with
pain, but then | have so many mcrcies
left. The Lord h0s been a good Lord TO
me" And before we hfd got far. | was
in doubt whether was giving him a ride
or he was giving ne" a ride! ne SAID:
Now, if you please, I'll get out here.
Just help M down on my clutches, if
you please. God bless you. Thank you.
sir. Good Morning. Good morning. "
You have been feet 10 the lame, sir, you
have. Good morning" Swarthy men
had gone the road that day, ! do not
know where they came out, but every
hobble of that old man was toward the
shining gate. With his Old crutch he had
struck down many aSennacherib Of temp
tation which has mastered you and me.
Lame, SO fearfully lame, SO awfully lame;
but he took the prey.
A step further: There are in all com
munities many orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately follow
ing, how many children we heard say:
ooh, my father was killed in the war"
Have you ever noticed fear you have
not-how well those children have turned
out? Starting under the greatest disad-
vantage, no orphan asylum could do for
them what their father would have done
had he lived. The skirmisher sat enc
night, by the light of faggots, in the
swamp, writing a letter home, when the
sharpsheoter's bullet ended the letter,
which was never folded, never posted and
never read.
Those children came up under great
disadvantage. No father To fight their
way for them. Perhaps there was in the
old family Bible an old yellow letter
pasted fast, which told the story of that
fathers long march, and how he suffered
in the hospitals; but they looked still
further on in the Bible, and they came to
tho otnry, ,f hnuy EoJ ;c tho fatbnr nf tho