Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

I want to follow, "a far as We can trace
it, the track OF this great intellect OF
my text who wanted TO see Rome also.
He was a logician, he was a metaphy-
stefan. he was an all conquering orator,
he was a poet of the highest
type. He had q nature that could
swamp the leading men OF his own day,
and, hurlc' against the sanhcdrim, he
made il t;emble. lie learned all he
/ could get in the school of his native vii.
lage, then he had gone to a higher
school, and there had mastered the
Greek and the Hebrew and perfected
himself in bellies ~lettres, until, in after
years, he astonished the Cretans. and
the Corinthians, and the Atheniaus, by
Quotations from their own authors. ]
have never found anything in Carlyle,
or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer shat
could compare in strength or beauty
with paul's cpistles. / do not think
there is anything in the writings OF Sir
William Hamilton that shows such
mental discipline as YOU find in Paul's
argument about Justification and resur.
rection. I have not found anything in
Milton finer in the way of imoginatlons
than | can find in Paul's illustrations
drawn from the amphithoater. Therc
was nothing in Robert Emmett pleading
for his life, or in Edmund Burke ar
ranging Warren Hastings in Westmius-
ter han, thai compared with TIC scene
in the court room when. before robe1
officials, Paal bowed and began his
speech, saying: IL think myself happy,
King Agrippa, because ] shall answer
for myself this day" / repeat.
2 NI.A .aFs-sA. It, 49,
man like that must have some poWer
in ~. ~ II time wfseacres stopped
talking a. though all the brain Of the
world were opposed 10 Christianity.
Where Paul leads, we can afford TO fol.
low. / am clad 20 know that Christ
has, in the different ages Of tho world.
had in his docipleship a Mozart and D
Handel in music; q Raphael and q Rey-
holds in painting; al Angelo and a
Canova In sculpture: a Rush and q Har-
vey in medicine; . Grotius and a Wash
ington in sta,esmanship; a blackstone,
a Marshall and a Kent in the law; and
the time viii come when tho religion Of
Christ win conquer all tho o~bscryatories
and universities. and philosophy viii,
through her telescope, behold the morn
ing star Of Jesus, and in her laboratory
see that ''all things work together for
good" and with her geological hammer
discern the Rock OF Ages" Oh, in
stead of covering and shiyering when
the skeptic stands before Us, and talks
Of religion as though IL were a pusillan-
imous thing--inste ad OF that, let us take
out our New Testament and read the
story of Paul at Rome, or come and see
this city for ourselves, and learn that
it could have been no weak Gospel that
actuated such a man, but that it is an
all conquering Gospel. Aye. for all
ages the power OF God and the wisdom
Of God unto salvation.
Men. brethren and fathersl ! thank
you for this opportunity of preaching
the gospel TO you that are at Rome also.
The churches of America salute you.
! Upon You who are, like us, strangers in
Rome, | pray the protecting and jour
neying care Of God. Upon you who are
resident here, | pray grace, mercy and
peace from God our Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ. After tarrying here
a few DAYS we resume our jou pey for
Palestine, and we shall never meet
again, either in Italy, or America. or
what is called the Holy Land, bat there
Is a holier land, and there we may meet,
saved by the grace that in the same way
savas Italian and Araarfosn. assd th~rc
IN that supernal cline, after embracing
him who, by his sutIerings on the hill
back of Jerusalem, made our heaven
possible, and given salutaticn TO our
ewn kindred whose departure broke our
hearts on earth, we shall, l think. seek
OUT the travelling preacher and mighty
hero of the text who marked out his
journey through Macedonia and Achaia
to Jerusalem, saying: after / have
been there, / must also see Rome"