Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-02

'A'h. " Nfti iIipII.ltIS, i.Jl tue tItfltTl'
ltshed UP in fury, clapped their hunc
over a drowned world, then Noah in h.
ark rcjoiced in his ~ safety and in til
safety of mis- family, and looked out 0
The wreck Of Il ruined earth.
H DAY OF REWARD
Christ. bounded of prosecutors. denied
pillow, worse maltreatcd than the thieve
on either side of the cross, human hat
smacking It's lips in satisfaction after
had been draining His last drop of blood
the shected dead bursting from tn
sepulchres at His crucitixion. Tell me
Hethsemane and Golgotha were ther,
ever darker times than those? Like tn,
booming OF the midnight sea against th,
rock, the surges OF Christ's anguish hea
against the gates of eternity. to be echoed
BACK by all the thrones of heaven and al
the dungeons OF hell. But the day o
reward comes for Christ, all the POM
and dominion OF this world are to hc
hjlng ON Ills throne, uncrowncd heads are
TO bow before Him on whose head are
many crowns, and all the celestial wor
ship is to come up at His feet, like The
humming Of The forest, like the rushing
Of the waters, like TIE laundering Of III,
seas, while al heayc0, rising ON THEN
thrones, beat time with their sceptres.
"Ilallelujah, for the Lord. God omni.
potent rcigncth, Haiielujah. the king.
donls Of th.3 world have bccometae king
dome OF our Lord Jesus Christi
THAT song of love. ROW low and far.
Ere long sGall vel from star L. star:
That light, the breaking day which TIPS
Inc goiden-spired Apocalypse"
TIE IEsIGNIFGCANT MAY BE MoMENTOUs.
~. Again: | learned from my subject
that events which seem 10 be most in
SIG ii!cant may bG'mOmcntous. Can Won
Imagine anything more unimportant than
thc coming OF a poor woman from Moab
to Judah? Can you imagine anything
more trivitl than the fact that this Ruth
just happened 70 alight-as they say
just happened to alight on tina, field Of
BOaIE ct all ages. all generations. have
an interest in the fact that she was 10 be
an ancestor of heI.ord Jesus Christ,
and all nations and Kingdoms must look
that one little incident with a thrill Of
and eternal satisfaction. So
IS IN your history and in mine events
YOU thought OF no importance at al!
been OF very great moment. That
casual cor yers ttion, that accidental meet
lng-you did not think of it again for a
long while; but how il changed ali the
phase Of your life.
| seemed to be Of no importance that
invented the rude instruments Of
music, calling them harp and organ, but
were the introduction Of al the
world S minstre'sy, and as you hear the
Of a stringed instrument, even
after the fingers have been taken away
it, SO all music now of lutte and
irum and cOrnet is only the long contin-
led slralni OF Jubars harp and Jubals
organ. 1t seemed to be a matter of very
little importance that Tubal Cain learned
he uses OF copper and iron, but that
'udc foundry Of ancient DAYS has its echo
n the rattle Of Birmingham machinery.
ma the roar and bang Of factories on the
'lerrimac.
1t seemed to be a matter of no import
nee that Luther found a bible in a mon
but as he opened that bible and
he brass bound lids fell back. they Jared
yerything from the ,
VATICAN
o the furtllest convent IN Gotrnanv, and
he rustlinr Of the wormcd leaves was
he sounu OF the wings of the angel Of
he reformation. II seemed to be q mat
er Of no importance that a
name has been forgotten, dropped
tract in the way of "A very bad man by
he name Of Richard Baxter. He picked
=, ti., sr,a. ord yaol - ,,rl - ,,,c ~,
lcans Of his salvation. In after-days
hat man wrote a book called: The Call
0 the Uncovered. that vas the means
/ bringing n multitude Ia God. among
theirs Phillip Doddridge. Phillip Dold
wrote a book called The Rise and
of Religion which has broaght
thousands and tens Of thousands into the
ingdom of God, and among others the
rcat WilberfOrce. Wilbcrforcc wrote q
ook called: "A Practical View of Chris
which was the means Of bring
NJ a great multitude to Christ, mon
theirs Leigh Richmond. Leigh Rich
lond wrote a tract called:
The Dairyman's daughter" which
as been the means Of the salvation Of
.nconvertcd multitudes. And that tide
f influence started from the fact that one
'hristian woman dropped a Christian
ract in the way of Richard BaXter-the
de of influence rolling on through Rich.
rd Baxter, through Phillip Doddridge,
the great Wilberforce, through
Richmond, on, on, N, forever, for
yer, forever. So the insignificant events
f this world seem, after all, to be most
lomentous. The fact that you came up
hat street or this street seemed to be of
o importance to you and the fact that
on went inside some church nav seem
. be a matter OF very great insigniticance
you. But you will find it the turning
oint in your history.
V. Again: | see in my subject an H.
Istration Of the beauty of
FEMALE INDUSTRY.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest
cid under the hot sun, or ut noon taking
lain bread with the rcapcrs, or eating
he parched com which Boaz handed 10
or. The customs Of society, Of course,
ave changed, and without the hardships
III exposure 10 which Ruth was sub
every intelligent woman will find
omething 10 do.
! know there is a sickly se~ntimentality
n this subject. In some families there
re persons of M practical service to he
ousclold or community; and though
here are so many woes all around about
hem in the world, they spend their time