Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-13

La the cage Of improved health, you have
by your words given another impulse to-
wards The robust and the jocund; while
in the case of the falling health you have
! arrested the decline by your silence, by
which he concludes: If | were really
80 badly off, he would have said some
thing about it," We are all, especially
those Of a nervous temperament, sus-
ccptible to kind words and discouraglng
words. Form a conspiracy against us,
and let ten men meet us at certain points
on our way over to business, and let each
one say; How sick you look" though
we should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing Lis depressing
salute, we would begin TO examine
symptoms. After meeting the second
gloomy .ccosting, W. would conclude we
did D 0 feel quite as well as usual. After
meeting the third, our sensations would
be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth
unless we expected a conspiracy, we
would go home and 60 10 bed, and the
other six pessimists would be a
useless surplus Of encouragement.
My dear sir, mp dear madam,
what do you mean by gsing about this
world with disheartenments2 Is not the
supply Of gloom and trouble and misfor.
tune enough TO meet the demand without
your running q factory OF pins and spikes?
Why should you plaut black mt blue in
the world God SO seldom plants them
Plenty Of scarlet co!ore, plenty Of vel
low, plenty Of green, plenty Of pink, but
very seldom q plant black or blue. !
never saw a black fower, and there's
only here and there a blue bell Or a violet;
but the blue is for the most part reserved
! for the sky, and we have 10 look up to
see that, and when we look up no color
can do us harm. Why not plant along
the paths Of others the b~rightnesses in
stead Of the glooms? De not prophesy
misfortune. If You must be q prophet
at all be an Ezekiel, and not a jeremiah
In ancient times prophets who foretold
evil were doing right, for they were di-
vinely directed; bur the prophets Of evil
in our time are generally falsc prophets.
Some OF IL weather wise people are
prophesying we shE.l have a summer of
unparalleled scorch. It will not be that
at al. | think we are going to have Il
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate J know as much about
it az they do. Last fall all the weather
prophets agreed inSaying we should have
a winter Of extraordinary severity, biz.
zard on the heels OF blizzard, II was the
mlldest winter | ever remember TO have
passed. Indeed, the autumn and the
spring almost showed winter Oh. OF the
procession. Real troubles have no her
aids running ahead Of their somber
chariots, and no one has any authority in
our time 10 their coming. Load
yourself up with helpful words and
deeds. The hymn once sung in our
churches is unfit &c be sung, for il says:
We should suspect ONE danger near
Where we p sess delight.
In other worcs, manage 10 keep
miserable all the time. The old song
sung at the pianos a quarter OF q century
ago was right: 'nind words can never
die" Such kind words have their nests
in kind hearts, and when they are
Matched u and take wing they circle
round in flights that never cease, and
sportsman's gun cannot shoot them, and
storms cannot rufie their wings, and
when they cease flight in these lever
skies OF eartE they sweep around enid
the higher altitudcs Of heaven. AT
Baltlmore a few days ago ! talked into a
phonograph. The cylinder containing
the words was sent on 20 Washington
and the next day that cylinder, from aD-
other photographic Instrument, when
turned, gave back 20 Ge the very words
| had uttered the day before, and with
the an!c ~intOn2tiCns. SCCld into a
photograph, end il will scold back.
Pour mild words into a p~Aonograph, and
il will return the CcntIeness. Society and
the world. and to- church, are phono-
graphs, Give thom aCerbity and rough
treatment, and acerbity and rough treat.
ment you will get back. Give them
practical friendl.ncss and they viii give
back practical fr.onGliness. A father
asked his little daughter; Mary, WIZ is
It that everybody loves your She ans
wered; Il don't know, unless ii is because
: love everybody "a man that hath
i.riends must show himself friendly" We
want something Ike that splri, Of sacri-
fee for Others which was seen in the En-
SlIsh channel, where in the storm q boat
containing three Non WAS upset, and all
three were in the water struggling for
their lives. 4 DOGt cane TO their relief,
AZ | q rope WaG thrCTl 10 one Of theEl,
ami he refused 10 take it, saying: First
tiiGg it 10 Tom, he is lust ready TO s.
down. ! can last som time longer" A
maE Ike that, be lie sailor or landsmsD,
be le in uDpe IN Of society or lower
ranks, will always have plenty of friends.
Whst is true maGward is true Godward.
WeEust be the friends o. God # we want
Him 20 be our friend. We cannot treat
Chria badly al oar lives aud expect Him
TO treat US lovingly. l was reading Of a
sea fight. in whicA Lord Nelson captured
a Frex ch officer, and when the French
officer off cred Lord Nelson his hand, Mel.
/ son replied: "Firs: give me your sword,
and thei give me your hard" Surrcn.
der Of oxr resistance 60 God must precede
lGod's rsotrer Of pardon to rs. Repent
s9ce before forgiveness. TEu must give
! up your Mb.llious sword before you can
&c. a gras., 0 the divine hand.
@, what q glorious state CT things to
have the trie udship OF God Why, we
ccu,d afford to have al tie world sgairs,
us If we had God for us. Hc could in a
minuke blotasut this universe, AID in Az
other minute me Ike a better universe. l
{, have 10 idea thtt God tiled hard when
he MADE all Minlrs. The Wost brilliant
thing Known to AIS is light. and for the
creation Of thai he only usoS q word of
command. Asout OF a flint e. frOatiers-
man strikes a spark, SO OUT Of n word
God struck the monday SUN For the
making Of the present universe / DO not
read that God lifted 90 much az IA finger.
The Bible frequently speaks OF God's