Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-28

inc s~caNcngerS cart. Fine robes run
against tho pcddler's pack. Robus
health meets wan sickness. Honest,
confronts fraud. Every class OF peoplC
meets every other class. independence
and modesty, pride and humility, purity
and be~astlineSs. frankncss and bypoc.
risy, meeting on the same block, in the
Same street, in the same city. Oh! that
IS what Solomon meant when he said.
The rich and the poor meet together,
the Lord Is the Maker OF them all" /
ike this democratic principle of the
gospel of Jesus Christ which recognizes
the fact that we stand before God on
one and the same platform. Do not
take on any airs; whatever position YOU
have gained in society, you are nothing
but o man, born of the same parent, re-.
generated by the same spirit, cleansed
by the same blood, 10 lie down in tho
same dust, to get up in the same resur-
r%ection. 1t is high time that we all ac-
knowledge not only the fatherhood of
God, but the brotherhood Of man.
Again, tho street impresses me with
the TACT that IL Is a very hard thing for
a man to keep his heart right aud TO get
10 heaven. Infinite temptations spring
upon us from these places OF public con-
course. Amid so much a~fiuence how
temptation to covetousness, and
TO be disconnected with our humble
lot. Amid so many opportunities for
oVerreaching, what temptations TO ex-
t66ibtatroA rp6a van1ry.- amid so many
saloons of strong drink, what allure
ment to dissipation. In the maelstroms
of the street, how many make quick
and eternal shipwreck. II a man-of-
war comes back from a battle, and is
lowed into the navy yard, We 20 down
10 look OF the splintered spars and count
the bullet holes, and look with patri-
otto admiration on the flag that floated
in victory from the masthead. But
that man is more of a curiosity who has
gone through thirty years of the sharp
shooting OF business life, and yet sails
on, victor over the temptations of the
street. Oh! how raany have gone down
under the pressure, leaving not SO much
as the patch of cauvas to tell where
they persisted. They never had any
peace. Their dishonesties kept tolling
in their ears. III had an AK and could
split open the beams of that fine house,
perhaps | would find in the very heart
of it a skeleton. In his very best wine
there is a smack of the poor mans
sweat. OF is it strange that when a
man has devoured widows houses he Is
disturbed with indigestion? All the
forces of nature are against him. The
floods are ready to drown him, and the
earthquake to swallow him, and the fires
to consume him, and the lightnings to
smite him. But the children of God
are on every street, and in the day when
the crowns of heaven are distributed,
some of the brightest will be given TO
those men who were faithful 10 God and
faithful TO the souls Of others amid the
marts of business, proving themselves
the heroes Of the street. Mighty were
their temptations, mighty was their
deliverance, and mighty shall be their
triumph.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that life is full of p~retensions
and sham. What subterfuge, what dou-
BILE dealing, what tw~ofacedness! Do all
the people who wish you good morning
really hope for you a happy day? Do
all the people who shake hands love
each other? Are all these anxious
about your health who inquiries concern
ing it? Do all want to see you who ask
you to call? Does all the world know
half as much as 1T pretends to know? Is
there not many a wretched stock of
goods with a brilliant show window?
Passing UP and down these streets to
your business and your work, are you
not impressed with the fact hat much
of society is hollow, and that there are
subterfuges and pretensions? OH how
many there are who swagger n strut,
and how few people who are natural and
walk. While fops shipper, and fools
chuckle, and simpletons giggle, how
few people are natural and laugh. The
courtesan and the libertine go down the
street in beautiful apparel, while within
the heart there are volcanoes OF passion
consuming their life away. l say these
things not to create in you ~incredulity
and misanthropy, no do l forget there
are thousands of people a great deal
better than they seem; but / do not
think any man Is prepared for the con-
| fict Of this life until he knows this par
ticular peril. Ehud comes pretending
to pay his "a to King Eglon, and while
he stands in front Of the king, stabs
him through with a dagger until the
haft went In after the blade. Judas Is
CARROT kissed Christ
Again, the street impresses me with
blC law VIA ~ A. - kitot ACt0 ~
tan charity. There are hunger and
suffering, and want and wretchedness
in the country; but these evils chiefly
congregate in our great cities. On every
street crime prowls, and drunkenness
staggers, and shame winks, and pau
perism thrusts out its hand asking for
aims. Here want is most squalid and
hunger Is most lean. A Christian man,
going along q street in New York, saw
o poor lad, and he stopped and said:
"My boy, do you know how to read and
writer" The boy made no answer. The
man asked the question twice and
thrice, ''Can you read and writer" and
then the boy answered with . tear
FLASHING ON the back of his hand. He
said In defiance: mo, sir, I can't read
nor write, neither. God, sir, don't want
me to read and write. Didn't he take
away my father so long ago l never re
member to have seen him? and haven't
l had to 90 along the street to get some
thing to fetch home to eat for the folksi
and didn't l. as soon as l could carry q
basket. have to go out and pick up Gin
ders and never have no schooling, sir;
God don't want me to read, sir. / canr
read nor write neither" Oh, these pool
wanderersi They have no chance. Borr
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