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

in The morning. You Telegraph to NV
York and the message gets here at q
O'Clock in the same morning, In other
words, it seems TO arrive here tiv1 hours
bcfur. it started. Like tina IL prayer.
God says; Before they call | viii hear"
To Ovortake Il loved one on The road, YOU
may spur UP a lathcrcd steed until he
shall OUTRAGE the one that brought the
news to Client; but a prayer shall catch
it at n galiop. \ boy running away
from home may take the midnight train
from the country village aud reach the
seaport in time to gain the snip that sails
81 the morrow; but a mothers prayer
Will be on the deck to meet him and in
the hammock before he swings into il,
and at the capstan before he winds the
rope around it, and on the sea, against
the sky, as The vessel ploughs on toward
it. There is "a
MIGIIrINEsS ~ PRAYER.
George Muller prayed "a company Of poor
boys together and then he prayed up an
asylum in which they might be sheltered
He turned his face toward Edinburgh
and prayed, and there came a thousand
pounds. He turned his face toward Lon
don and prayed, and there came "A thou
sand pounds. He turned his face toward
Dublin and prayed. and there came a
thousand pounds. The breathof Elijahs
prayer blew all tho clouds of the sky, and
it was dry weather. The breath of Elijah's
prayer blew all the clouds together, and
it was wet weather. Prayer, in Daniels
time, walked the cave ~ IA lion tanner.
1t reached up and tool the sun by It's
golden bit and stopped it. We have all
yet TO try the full power Of prayer. The
time will come when the Amerl-
can church will pray with its face
toward the west, and all the prairies and
inland cities viii Surrender to God; and
will pray with face toward the sea, and
all the islands and ships will become
Christian. Parents who have wavward
sons will get down on their knees and
say: Lord. send my boy home, and
the boy in Canton shall get right mp from
the gaming table, and 20 down TO the
wharf TO find out which ship starts first
for America.
Not one of us yet knows how TO pray.
All we have done rs vet has only been
pottering, and guessing, and experiment.
ing. A boy gets hold Of his father saw
snd hammer, and tries TO make some
thing, but it is q poor affair that he
makes. The father comes and takes the
saw and hammer, and builds the house or
the ship. In the childhood of our Chris.
tian faith, We make but poor work with
these weapons Of prayer, but when we
como to the stature OF men in Christ
Jcsua, then, under these implements, the
temple of God will rise. and the world 5
redemption will be launched. God cares
not for the length OF Our prayers, or the
number of IN prayers. or the beauty Of
our prayers, or the place of Our prayers;
but it is the faith in them that tells. Be
lieving prayer scars higher than the lark
ever sang; pluDgcs deeper than diving
bell ever sank; darts quicker than light
ming ever flashed. Though we have used
oaly the back Of this weapon instead OF
OF tho edge, what marvcls have been
wrought! If saved we are all the cap.
tivrs Of some earnest prayer. Would God
that, in desire for the rescue Of souls, We
might in PRAYER lay hold Of the resources
Of the Lord Omnipotent.
CHRISTIAN AU%MoNITIOy.
We may turn many to righteousness by
Christian ~adnOniticn. Dc not wait until
YOU can make a formal speech. Address
the one next TO you. You will not go
homo alone today. Between this and
Npbi !'IsANt Vi ospHDIIG " Ah'' ''s'''A~
the eternal destiny of an Immortal spirit.
Just one sentence may do the work. Just
one question. just one look. The formal
tax tina, begins with "a Sigh, and ends
with q canting shuttle is not what is
wanted, but the heart throb OF a man in
dead earnest. There is not a soul or
earth that you may not bring TO God if
you 90 rightly at it. They said Gibraltar
could not 10 taken. 1t is "A rock sixteen
hundred feet high and three miles long.
Bat the English and Dutch did take il.
Artillery, aud sappcrs, and miners, and
fleets pouring out vollcys OF death, and
thousands d; "lcn, reckless OF danger, can
DO anything. The stoutcs. heart Of sin,
thongh it be rock, and surrounded by All
ocean Of transgressiOn, under Christian
bombardmcnt may be made 10 hoist the
flag Of redemption.
But is all this admouitiOn, and prayer,
and Christian work for nothing? My
text promises to al the faithful eternal
@lustre, They that turn many TO right
cousnoss shall shine as tho stars for
ever
As stars. the redeemed have q borrowed
light. Wat makes Mars, and Venus.
and Jupiter SO luminous? When the sun
lIIOWs GOWN MS tOr%h III VIC htdNtHo,
the stars pick up the scattered brands.
and hold them in procession "a the queen
oi the night advances; So all Christian
workers, standing around the throne, viii
shine in the light borrowed from the Sun
OF Righteousness Jesus in their faces,
Jesus in their songs. Jesus in their sri
umph. Christ left heaven once fora
TOUR OF R~gpENPTToN
on earth. yet The e%Iorifed ones know he
would come back again. But let Him
abdicate His throne, snd 90 away 10
stay for ever, the music would stop. thc
congregation dispcrsc; the temples of God
be darken.d: the rivers of light s%tasnate;
and every chariot would become 8
hcnrse. and every bell would toll,
and there would not be room on thr
hillsides 10 bury the dead Of the great
metropolis, for there would be pcstlencr
in heaven. But Jesus lives, and SO all
the redeemed live with him. He shall
recognize them "a his COmradcsi in earthly
toll. and remember what they did for the
honor Of his name. and for the spread Of
his kingdom. All their prayers and tears,
and work viii rise before him rs he looks
int their faces, and he will divide his
kingdom with them, his pracc-their
peace. his holincsS-theic holiness; his
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