The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-31

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cli6 into deeper darkness? When the
Hudson rail train went through the bridge
1t Spuyten Duyvil did it alleviate the
matter as all that instead Of two or three
people being hurt there were ssventy.6ve
mangled and crushed? Because others
arc depraved, 10 that any excus for my
~depraviiy: Am I better than they: Per-
haps they had worse temptations than l
have had. Perhaps their surroundings
In life were more overpowsring. Per-
hapa o man. IL you had been under the
same stress Of temptation. instead Of be-
ing here to-day you would have been
looking through the bars Of apsnitentiary.
Perhaps, U woman. il you had bssu under
the Same power Of temptation. instead OF
sitting herst to-day you would be tramp
ing the street. the laughing stock Of mon
and theg grief Of the angels OF God. dun
geOnsd, body, mind and soul, in the black.
ness OF despair.
Some winter morning you 60 out and see
. snow bank in graceful drifts as though
BY some heavenly compass it had been
curved; n rs the sun glints it the luster
10 almost insufferable, and it seems as il
God had wrapped the earth in q shroud
with white plaits woven in looms celestial.
And you say: "Was there ever any thinx
so pure IS the nov so beautiful as the
uow But you brought q pail Of that
snow and put it upon the stove and melted
it; and you found that there was q sedi-
ment at the bottom. and every drop OF
hat snow water was riled; and you found
that the nov bank had gathered up the
impurity Of the field. and that after all it
was not ft to wash in. And so l say it
will be il you try to gather up these con-
trasts and comparisons with others, and
with he apologies attempt to wash out
the sins Of your heart and life. 1t will be
an unsuccessful ab!ution. Such snow
water will never wash away . single
stain Of an immortal soul.
But I hear some one say: II will try
something better than that Twill try the
force Of good resolution. That will be
more pungent, more caustic, more extir-
pating. more cleansing. The snow water
has failed and now l will try the alkali of
the good strong resolution" Ny lear
brother. have you any idea that . resolu.
iion about the future will liquidate the
pastf Suppose ! owed you 5000 and I
should come to you Tomorrow and say:
'Sir, ! will never run in debt to you again:
il ! should live thirty years l will never
q in debt to you again;" will you turn
to me and q ": "lf you will not run in
debt in the future l will give you the
5000" Will you do that? No! Nor will
God. We have been running up q long
score Of indebtedness with God. II for
the future We should abstain from sin
that would be no defrayment Of past in
debtednesa Though you should live from
this time forth pure As IN archangel be-
fore the throne that would not re.
deem the past. God, in the Bible.
distinctly declares that He twill
that which 10 past"-past op-
past neglects, past wicked
words, past impure imaginations. past ev-
cry thing. The past is . great cemetery.
and every day is buried in it. And here
dead days Of 1883. Here il q long row Of
SIS more graves. and they are the dead
days Of 1881. And here 10 . long row Of
365 more graves, and they are the dead
days Of 1880 1t 10 . vast cemetery Of the
past. But God will rouse them all up with
resurrectionsry blast and a. the prisoner
stands facs to facs with juror and judge.
50 you and I will have { como up and
look upon those Departed days face to
face, exulting in their smile or covering
in their frown.
Murder will out" is . proverb that
stops too short Every sin, however small.
rs well Is great. will out In hard times
in England years ago. 1t 10 automatically
that . manufacturer was on the
way with q bag Of money to Ny Oh hts
hands A man Infatuated with hunger
met him ON the road and took . rail with
. nail in it frs m . paling fence and struck
him down. and the nail entering the skull
instantly slow him. Thirty years after
that the murderer went back 10 that place.
He passed into the grave yard whore the
was digging . grave n while he
stood there the spods Of the sexton turned
up . skull, and. 10! the murder o. saw .
nail p~rotruding from the back part OF The
skull; it seemed with hollow eyes to glare
IN the murderer, and he, first petriiied
horror, stood In silence but oon cried
put ''Guilty! guilty! o God." Tho
mystery Of the crime was BOON over. The
man was tried and executed. Ny friends.
all the u~npardoned sins Of our ives hough
may think they are buried out of
light and gone into . mere skeleton Of
y , ~Hs - w ~ ~ SChn0S0Ay vi
he EAST and g ower upon Us with their
l say all Of our unpardoned
rs o, have you done the preposterous
Of supposing that good resolutions
the future will wipe out the past:
You see from tho last part Of this text
hat Jobs idea Of sin was very different |
from that OF Eugene Sue. or George Sand,
" NJ. J. Michelet or any Of the hundreds
u writer's who have done mp iniquity in
nezzotint and garisnded the wine cup
e~glantine and rosemary. and made
he path Of the libertine end in bowers Of |
,ase instead Of on he hot tagging of |
sternal torture. You zee that Job thinks |
hat sin is not a flOwery parterre; that it
. not . tableland Of fine prospects; that
{ is not music, du.cimer, v~iolOnceIlo !
:astanet and Pancesn pipes, all making
music together. No He says il il .
ditch. long. deep, loathsome. stenehful
and We are all plunged into il, and there
70 wallow and sink and struggle not
bile to get out. Our robes Of prOpriety
robes Of worldly profession are sat
rated in tho slime and a~bOminstion. and
ur soul, covered with TRANSPORTATION,
,ates its covering and the covering hates
soul until We are plunged into the
itch and cur own clothes abhor Us
I know that some modern religionists
aricature sorrow for sin. and b 10 make