Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-22
,'r AVN GENERATION.
,u.CE TELLS US HOW
: INV WE MAY SERVE III.

,p TAfsMAHE ~ W. '"
w. h'S MAY SERVE II.
....test Observation-Disclosures
he ,nf" and Assist in Appeasing
PEI worlds Hunger sel',"" De-
Nv In she Brooklyn aa"''"''e'
..o,r Own Generation" Tert:
ErlNc' W. Ind served his own generation
|a,id, ,I s1i. Of God, fell ON Sleep
'' !. text which has for long
lha - rnnninp through my mind,
PIE pee ,nt;l now has it been fully re-
ht ~,' wa Sermons have time TO
(alta ~ we veil as a time to die, a cradle
born q" crave. David, cowboy and
ven lI u, and fighter and czar and
one ~. and blank verse writer and
ama'.''a Aid his best for the people of
ophe'' ond then went and laid down
5 time snnthern hill of Jerusalem in
sounl slumber which nothing but
az s'rchangelic blast can startle. DAVID
'r NE had served his own generation
t. .ha w will of God, fell on sleep.
:. Tue s,s his own generation that he had
IL .o "r' that is, the people living ut the
r'e0 ha lived. And have you ever
pc IN n that our responsibilities are
o a. with the people now walking
ls snst With US? There are about four
le arot;ons to the century now, but in
ne.', time life was longer and there
gen ,srhaps, only one generation to
Ps ..prv Taking these facts into the
E ,es,,,,1at;on, l make rough guess and
lct .ha, there has been at least one
nd 1 and eighty generations of the
NUT an family. With reference to them
'h have no responsibility. We cannot
~ y" Them. we cannot correct their
a s,asss. we cannot soothe their sor-
sue w ve cannot heal their wounds.
W; !. ssnulchers are deaf and dumb to
, thing we might say to them. The
rsciment Of that great army has
sssd do out of sight. We might halloo
I'D nc we could, not one of them
ia avert his head to see what we
+ admit that I am in sympathy with
anil, Mild whose father had suddenly
"a snd who in her little evening
.orsr wanted to continue to pray for
n father, although he had gone into
aayeu andno more needed her prayers,
M looking up into her mothers face,
ID: 20. mother, l cannot leave him
out. Let me say, Thank God. that l
Ida good father once so can keep him
MY PRAYERS" But the one hundred
ID eighty generations have passed off.
psscd M. Passed down. Gone for
[er. Then there are generations to
kma after our earthly existence has
BASED, perhaps hundred and eighty
knerations more, perhaps thousand
knentions more. We shall not see
(em, we shall not hear any of their
bices. we will take no part in their
(nyocations, their elections, their
kyolutious. their catastrophes, their
umphs. We will in no wise affect the
pe hundred and eighty generations
me, or the one hundred and eighty
ueratious to come, except as from the
lleries of Heaven the former genera
Ons look down and rejoice at our VIC
res, or as we may by our behavior
art influences, good or bad, that shall
II on through the advancing ages.
hut our business is, like David, to serve
(n own generation, the people now
wing, those whose lungs now breathe
bid whose hearts now beat. And mark
Du. II Is Hot IL Sl1cut pIOCcooAOA, OuO
owing. 1t is forced march" at
enty -four miles day, each hour be-
6 annie. Going with that celebrity, it
IS got to be quick service on our
IT. or no service at all. We not only
mot teach the one hundred and eighty
nerations past and will not see the
e hundred generations to come, but
is generation on the stage will soon
off and We ourselves will be off with
EN-. The fact is that you and l will
We to start very soon for our work or
will be ironical and sarcastic for any
e after our exit to say of US, as it was
id of David, after he had served his
n generation by the will of God, he
on sleep"
Well. now, let us look around earn
F!y praye!fully and in common
fse way and see what we can do for
own generation. First of all let us
to 1t that. as far as we can, they have
oush to eat. The human body is SO
eStltuted that three times day the
py needs food as much as lamp needs
J, as much as a locomotive needs fuel.
meet this want God has girdled the
1n%lth apple orchards, orange groves,
eat fields, and oceans full of fish and
Aries full of cattle. And notwith-
halng this. | will undertake to say
Y The vast majority of the human
nllv are suffering either for lack of
"a or the right kind of food. Our
,ilZatlon is all askew on this subject
GOD only can set it right.
iahy OF the greatest estates of to-day
been built out of the blood and
les OF unrequited toll. In olden times,
'he building of forts and towers, the
s ~ aa OF lspahan had to contrib
,o ,"'vo human skulls, and Bagdad
w, ~, human skulls, and that number of
'Rie Were slain SO as to furnish the
iS s But these two contributions
; -, together made only 16O, 900 skulls,
~, ne INTO the tower of the worlds
't'n ana pomp and magniticence have
wrought the skeletons of un-
n.ea numbers of the half-fed popu-
ons or the earth, millions of skulls.
oa SIT down at your table with five
i, n courses of abundant supply and
N Il, nothing Of that family in the next
y. WHO would take any one of those
curses between soup and almond
a ~ 1eel they were in Heaven. The
VI the right kind of food is the
~ OF much of the drunkenness.
IL ao aFslnk'ng what many of our grocers
eonee, sweetened with what many
c SIagar' and eating what many of our
nels cal meat, and chewing what
oe VI our bakers call bread, many of
'aoorlng classes feel SO miserable
are tempted to put into their nasty
nat the tobacconist calls tobacco,
lhlo The drinking saloons for what