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

who ordered them built? No; the plair
wOrklnen who added stone after stone
and stone after stone. Who built The
bikes of Holland The government tina
ordered the enterprise No; the plain
wOrkmcn who carried the euIth and runs
their trowel Oh the wall. Who are those
who have built these vast cities? The
capitalists No; the carpenters. thC
masons, the plumbers, the plasterers, tn,
timers, the ~rooiers, dependent on a day
wages for "a livelihood. And SO in the
great work of assuaging human suffering
and enlightening human ignorance ano
hating human lniquity. In that great
work, the chief part is To he done 10y
ordinary men, with ordinary speech, III
an. ordinary manner, and by ordinary
means. The trouble is that liz the army
OF Christ we all want TO be captains and
colonels and brigadier-generals. We are
not willing to march with the rank and
file and TO do duty with the private sol
der. W want to belong TO the reserve
corps, and read about the sbattle while
warming ourselves at the camp-tircs, OF
Oh t|urlOugn at home, our feet upon an
ottoman, We sagging back into an arm
chair.
As your go down the street, YOU see an
excavation and four or five men are work
ing. and perhaps twenty or thirty leanlug
on the rail looking over at them. That
is the way il is in the church of God to-
day where you find one Christian hard
at work, there are fifty men watching the
job.
Oh my friends, why do you not go t.
work and preach this Gospel? You say
Il have no pulpit You have, II may
be the carpenter bench, il may be the
mason's wall. The robe in which you
are to proclaim this Gospel may be q
shoemakcr's apron. But woe unto YOU
if YOU preach not this gospel somewhere,
some how, If this world is ever brought
to Christ, il will be through the unani-
nous and long continued efforts Of men
who, waiting for no special endowment.
consecratc to God what they have.
Among the most useless people in the
world are men with talents,
while many a one with only two talents,
or no talents at all, is doinga great work,
and SO the lame take the prey
There are thousands of ministers of
whom you have never heard-in log
cabins at the west, in mission chapcls at
the east-who are warning against the
legiOns Of darkness, successfully waring.
Observation-Disclosures, month by month un-
dcrmining the citadels of sin. You do
not know their going OF their coming;
but the footballs Of their ministry are
heard in the places Of heaven. Who are
the workers in our Sabbath schools
throughout this land today? Men cele-
brated, men brilliant, men Of vast estate?
For tho p,nSt mort nnt that at al have
noticed that the chief characteristic of
the most Of those who are successful in
the work is that they know their Bibles,
are earnest in prayer, are anxious for the
salvation OF the Young; and Sabbath by
Sabbath are willing to sit down unobsery-
ed and tell of Christ and the resurrection
These are the humble workers who are
recruiting the great army of Christian
youth-not by might, not by power, not
by profound argument, nOl by brilliant
antithcsis, but by the blessing Of God on
plain talk, and humble story, and silent
tear, and anxious look. The lame take
the prey.
On! this work Of saving the youth Of
our country-how few appreciate what ii
iS This generation tramping on 10 the
grave--we will soon all be gone. What
neXtr
An engineer on n locomotive going
across the western prairies day after day.
saw a little child come out in front of a
cabin and wave TO him; SO he got in the
habit Of waving back TO the little child,
and it was the days JOY TO him to see this
little one come out in front Of the cabin
door and wave to him, while he answered
back.
One day the train was belatcd and it
came on to the dusk of ne evening. AS
the engineer stood at his post he saw by
the headlight that little girl on the track,
wondering why the train did not come,
looking for the train, knowing nothing of
its peril. A great horror seized upon the
engineer. He reversed the engine. He
gave it in charge of the other man on
board, and then he climbed over the
| engine, and be came down on the COW
catcher. He said, though he had re-
vcrscd the engine, it seemed as though
1t were going at lightning speed, faster
and faster. though it was really slowing
| up. and with almost supernatural clutch
he caught that child by the hair and
lifted it up, and when the train stopped
and the passengers gathered around to see
what was the matter, there the old engi-
necr lay, tainted dead away, the little
child alive and in his swarthy arms.
OH you say, that was well done. y
But | want YOU to exercise some kind
ness and some appreciation toward those
in community who are snatching the lit
tie ones from under the wheels of tempta-
ton and sin natching them from under
laundering rail trains Of eternal disaster,
bring them up into responsibility in this
world and into glory for the world to
come. You appreciate whatth engineer
did; why can you not appreciate the
grander work done by every Sabbath
school teacher this afternoon.
Oh, my friends, l want to impress
upon myself and upon yourselves that it
is not the number of talents WI possess,
but the use we make of them.
God has "A royal family in the world.
Now, if | should ask, WHO are the royal
families of history" y0p would say,
House Of H%apsburg, House of Stuarts,
House of Bourbons.' They lived in pal
aces and had great equipage. But who
are the Lords royal family? Some of
them may serve you in the household,
some of them are in unlighted garrets,
some of them will walk this afternoon
down the street, on their arm "A basket of
broken food. some of them are in the
~almshouse dpspiscd and rejected of men.