Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-06

Stop" said Christian philosophy, mo
quite 80 quick" The world has two
m%otions--one on its own axis, and thu
other around the sun. Il was not neces
sary in making them stand still that botl
motions should be stopped-only the ont
turning the world on its own axis. There
was no reason why the hating OF the
earth should have Jared and disarrarged
the whole universe. Joshua right and
God right; infidelity wrong every time.
! knew il would be wrong. l thank God
that the time has come when Christians
need not be scared at any scientific ex-
ploration. The fact is that religion and
science have struck hand in eternal
friendship, and the deeper down geology
can dig and the higher up astronomy can
soar all the better for us. The armies of
the Lord Jesus Christ has stormed the
observatoIies Of the worlds science, and
from the highest towers have flung out
the banner Of the cross, and Christianity
tonight, from the observatories of Albany
and Washington, stretches out its hand
toward the opposing scientific weapon
crying: There is none like that; give ii
mel | was reading this afternoon Of
Hsrschel, who was looking at a meteor
through a telescope, and when it came
over ne face OF q Telescope ii was SO
powerful he had to revert his eyes. And
it has been just so that many IN astron.
omer has gone into an observatory and
looked up into the midnight heavens, and
the Lord God has, through some swing
ing world, famed upon his vision, and
the learned man cried out: "Who am |?
UndOnel Uncleanl Have mercy, Lord
God!"
Again, l remark, that the travelling
disposition Of the world, which was
averse TO morals and religion, is to be
brought on our side. The man that went
down to Jericho and fell amidst thieves
was a type Of a great many travellers.
There is a man who is very honest at
home who, when he is abroad, has his
honor flched and his good habits stolen.
There are but very few men who can
stand the stress Of an expedition. Six
weeks at a watering place has damned
many a man. In the Clden times God
forbade the travelling Of men for the pur-
poses Of trade because Of the %corrupting
Influences attending il. A good many
men now cannot stand the transition
from one place to another. Some men
who seem to be very consistent at home
in the way of keeping W the Sabbath,
when they get into Spain, on the Lords
day always go out TO see the bull fights.
Plato eaid that no city ought TO be built
nearer to the sea than ten miles, lest il be
tempted to commerce. But this travel
ing disposition Of the world, which was
adverse to that which is good, is to be
brought IN our side. These rail trains,
why, they are to take our Bibles; these
steamships, they are to transport our
missionaries; these sailors rushing from
city to city oil around the world, are to
be converted into Christian heralds and
go out and preach Christ among the
heather nations. The gospels are infn-
ltely multiplied in beauty and power
since Robinson, and Thompson, and
Burckhardt have come back and talked
TO us about Sloan, ana Capernaum, and
Jerusalem, pointing out TO us he lilies
about which Jesus preached, the beach
upon which Paul was shipwrecked, the
fords at which Jordan was passed, the
Red Sea bank On which were tossed the
carcasses Of the drowned Egyptians. A
mar said: Il went 10 the Holy Land an
i"6L-i I--~ a "..;-.;"~ could
not help it,
| am not shocked at the idea Of build
ing a railroad to the Holy Land. | wish
that all the world might go and see Col
gotha ard Bethlehem. If VIZ cannot
afford to pay for muleteers now, perhaps
when the railtrain goes we can afford TO
buy a ticket from Constantinople TO
Joppa, and so we will get TO see the Holy
Land. Then let Christians travel. God
| speed the rail trains, and guide the steam
ships this night painting across the deep
in the phosphorescent wake OF the shin
ing feet Of Him who from wave cliff 10
wave cliff tired the stormed Tiberias. The
| Japanese come across the water and see
our civilization, and examine u Chris
tianity, and go back and tell the story
and keep that empire rocking until Jesus
sha.. reign
Where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the inf
del traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the iackals Of the desert,
have been surrendered to the church. and
we reach forth our hands, crying: There
is none like that; give it mel
SO il has also been with the learn
ing and the eloquence of the word.
People ssy: Religion is very good for
women, il is very good for children, but
for men" But we have in the roll o. not
Christ host Mozart and Handelin music;
Conova and Angelo in sculpture; Raphael
and Reynolds in painting; Harvey and
Bocrhsavc in medicine; Cowper and
Scott in poetry; Cortius and Burke in
craftsmanship; Boyle and Leibnitz in
philosophy; Thomas Chalmers and John
Mason in theology. The most brilliant
writings Of a worldly nature are al
aglow with s%criptural illusions. Through
senatorial speechh and through essayist's
discourse Sinai thunders and Calvary
pleads and Sloan sparkles.
Samuel l.. Southland was mighty in the
court loom and in the senate chamber.
but he reserved his strongest eloQuence
for that day when he stood before the
literary societies at Princeton commence
ment and pleaded for the grandeur Of our
Bible. Daniel Webster won not his chief
garlands while he was consuming Hayne,
nor when he opened the batteries of his
| eloquence on Bunker Hill, that rocking
Sinai OF the American revolution, but on
that day when, in the famous Girard will
case. he showed his affection for the
Christian religion and eulogized the Bible.
The eloquenCe and the learning that have
been on the other side came over to our
side. Where is Gibbons historical pen
Where is Robesp:erre's sword2 Cap,
tured for God. There is none like that.
give it mep'