Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

understand that. Have you not seen
people who are all made over again by
some wonderful infuenceY In other
words. they are just as different now
from what they used to be as possible.
The old Constellation was fitted up, n
though ii had been carrying gun powder
and bullets il took bread TO Ireland. You
remember the enthusiasm as the old Con
ISOLATION went out of u harbor, and
with what Joy it was greeted by the
furnishing nation on the other SIDE the
sea. That is regeneration y man
loaded up with sin and death loaded up
with life. Rented. Your observation
has been very small indeed if you have
not seen changes in character as radical
as that.
A man came into this church one night
and he was intoxicated, and at an utter.
ance Of the pulpit he said in a subdued
tone: That's a lie" An officer OF the
church tapped him on the shoulder and
said: You must be silent, or you must
go out" The next night that stranger
came and he was converted TO God. tie
was in the liquor business. He resigned
the business. The next day he sent back
the samples that had just been sent him.
He began to love that which be hated.
| baptized him by immersion in the bap-
tistry under this platform. A large sal
airy was offered him if ne would return to
his former business. He declined it. He
would rather suffer with Jesus Christ
than be prospered in the world. He wrote
home Il letter to his Christian mother.
The Christian mother wrote back con
graduating him, and said: If in the
change Of your business you have lack OF
means, come home; you are always wei
come home" He told of his conversion
10 a dissolute companion. The dissolute
companion said: well, if you have be-
come a Christian you had better go over
and talk TO that dying girl. She is dying
with quick consumption in that house.
The new convert went there. All the
surroundings were dissolute. He odd the
dying girl that Jesus would save her.
con" said she, that can't be, that cant
be, What makes you think cor 81
have it here IL a book in my pocket he
replied. He pulled out a new testament.
She said: SHOW it to me; If | can be
saved, show il TO me in that book He
said: II have neglected this book as you
have neglected it for many years, and |
don't know where to find 1t. but ! know
it is somewhere between these lids.
Then he began to turn over the leaves,
and strange and beautiful TO say. his eye
struck upon this passage: Neither do |
condemn the; 90 and sin nc more" She
said: 1t isn't possible that is there
Yes he said, that is there BE
held it up before her dying eyes, and She
said, "Ob, yes, | see il for myself, | ac-
cept the promise: neither do ! condemn
thee; go and sin no more In a few
hours her spirit sped away to the Lord
that gave il, and the new convert
preached the funeral sermon, The man
who a few days before had been a bias
phemer and a drunkaTd and a hatcr OF
all that was good, he preached the ser
mon. That is regeneration, that is regcn-
Grafton! If thera are any Cry husks Of
technicality in that, where are they? All
made over again by the power Of the
grace OF God
A few years sgO a ship captain came IN
here aud sat yonder under the gallery.
He came in with a contempt for tie
church of God and with an especial dis
like for Talmagc. When an opportunity
was given he arose for prayer, and as he
was more than six feet high, when he
arose for prayer no Il doubted that he
arose. That hour he became Christian.
lie went out and tod the ship owners
and the snip commanders what a great
change had been wrought in him, and
scores and scores have been brought to
God through his instrumen'ality.
A little while after his conversion he
was on ship off Cape Hattcras in a thick
and prolonged fog, and they were at their
wits ends, and knew not what 20 do, the
ship drifting about hither and thlthcr,
and they lost their bearings; and the con
verted sea captain went TO his room and
asked God for the salvation Of the ship,
aud God revealed IT to him while he was
on his knees that at q certain hour, only
a little way of. the fog would lift; and
the converted sea captain came out on
the deck and told how God heard his
PRAYERS. He said: 1T is all right, boys;
very soon now the fog will lift, men
tioning the hour. A man who stood
there laughed aloud in derision at the
idea that God would answer prayer, but
at Just the hour when God had assured
the captain the fog would lift. there came
a flash Of lightning through the fog, and
the nan who had jeered and laughed was
stunned and fell to the deck. The fog
lifted. Yonder was Cape Hatteras light.
house. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor OF
safety.
When in seaport the captain spends
most of his time in evangelical work. lie
kneels down by one who has been help
less in bed many months and the next day
she walks forth in the streets well. be
kneels beside one who has been decrepi'
and nc resigns the crutches. He knecli
beside one who had not seen Ell ough t
be able to read for ten years and sh(
reads the Bible that day. Consumption
go away and those whose diseases wer,
appalling to behold come up to rapid con
valescencc and TO complete health. i an
not telling you anything second handed.
| have had the story from the lips of the
patients in this very house, those who
were brought 10 health Of body while al
the same time brought to God. No sec
on1 hand story this. | have heard the
testimony from men and women who
have been cured. You may call il faith
cure or you may call it the power of Goo
coming down in answer to prayer; | &c
not care what you call it; il is a fact.
The soothing sea captain, his heart full Of
hatred for Christianity, now becomes &
follower OF the meek and lowly Jesus,
giving all the time to evangelical labors,