Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-26

the floods clap their hands, saying:
Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live for
ever" and the feet that were torn and
deep cut on the rock b~ridlepath OF sin
now come into a smooth place, and the
dry alders crackle as the painting hart
breaks through to the water brooks, and
the dark night Of the soul begins to
grow gray with the morning, yea to pur-
pie, yea to flame, from horizon 10 hori-
zon. The batteries Of temptation
silenced. Troubles that fought against
US captured and made to fight on our
side. Not as a result Of any toll or
trouble on our part, but as a result of
Looking unto Jesus" "But what do
you mes by Looking unto Jesus?'"
some one inquiries. ! mean faith. "What
do you mean by faith?" I mean believ-
ing. what do you mean by believ-
ing?" / mean this: Ii you promise to do
a certain thing for me, and I have conf
dence in your veracity-if you say you
will give me such a thing and i need il
very much, / come in confidence that
you are an honest man and will do what
you say. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ
says: ''You are in need of pardon and
life and heaven, you can have them IL
you come and get them" You say: II
can't come and ask first. 1 am afraid
you won't give it TO me-" Then you
are unbelieving. But you say: 81 will
come and ask. l know, Lord Jesus,
thou art in earnest about this matter.
i como asking for pardon. Thou hast
promised 10 give IL to me, thou wilt give
1t to me, thou hast given it to me-"
That is faith. Do you see il yet? ''0h,"
says some one, 81 can't understand it."
No man ever did without divine help.
Faith Is the gift of God. You say:
THAT throws the responsibility oil my
shoulders" No. Faith is the gift of
God, but 1t comes in answer to prayer.
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth If all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Him, too.
/ remark again, that we must look to
Jesus as an example. Now, o mere
copyist, you know, is always a failure.
IL a painter go 70 a portfolio or agallery
of art, however exquisite, to get his idea
Of the natural world from these pic
lures, he will not succeed as well as the
artist who starts out and dasles the dew
from the grass and sees the morning
just as God built it in the clouds, or
poured il upon the mountain, OIL kindled
IL upon the sea. People wondered why
Turner, the famous English painter,
succeeded so we'll in sketching q storm
upon the pecan. Ii remained a wonder
until 1t was found out that several times
he had been dashed TO the deck in the
midst of a tempest and then looked out
upon the wrath of the sea, and coming
home 10 his studio, he pictured the
tempest. 1t Is not the copyist who sue
ceeds, but the man who confronts the
natural world. So IL q man in literary
composition resolves that he will initiate
the smQothness of Addison, or the rugged
vigor OF Carlyle, or the w~eirdness OF
Spenser, or the epigrammatic style of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, he will not sue
ceed as well as that man who cultures his
own natural style. What is true in this
respect is true in respect to character.
There were men who were fascinated
with Lord Byron. He was lame and
wore a large collar. Then there were
tens of thousands OF men who resolved
that they would be just like Lord By
ron, and they limped and wore large
collars, but they did not have any of his
genius. You cannot successfully copy
a man whether he is bad or good. You
may take the very best man that ever
lived and try and live like him, and you
will make a failure. There never was q
better man than Edward Payson. Many
have read his biography, not under
standing that he was a sick man, and
they thought they were growing in
grace because they were growing like
him in depression Of spirit. There
were men TO copy Cowper, the poet, q
glorious man, but sometimes afflicted
with melancholy almost to insanity.
The copyists got Cowper's faults but
none of his virtues.
There never was but one Being fit to
copy. A few centuries ago he came out
through humble surroundings, and with
q gait and manne and Observation-Disclosures
from anything the world had seen.
Among all classes Of people he was
q perfect model. Among fishermen, he
showed how fisherman should act.
Among taxgatherers, he showed how
taxgathers should act. Among law
yers, he showed how lawyers should act.
Among farmers, he showed how farmers
should act. Among rulers, he showed
how rulers should act. Critics tried to
find in his conversation or sermons
something unwise or unkind or mac
curate; but they never found 1t. They
watched him, oh how they watched him!
He never went into q house but they
knew it, and they knew how long he
stayed, and when he came out, and
whether be had wine for dinner. SLAM
der twisted her whips and waged her
poisoned tongue and set her traps, but
could not catch him. Little children
rushed out TO get from him a kiss, and
old men tottered out to the street corner
to see him pass.
Do you want an illustration Of devo-
ton, behold him whole nights in
prayer. DO you want an example of
suffering, see his path across Palestine
tracked with blood. Do you want an
example Of patience, see him abused
and never giving one sharp retort- Do
you want an example Of industry, see
him without one Idle moment. Do you
want a specimen Of sacrifice, look at his
life Of self denial, his death of ignomy,
his sepulcher of humiliation. Oh what
an example! His feet wounded, yet he
submitted to the jcarney. His back
lacerated, and yet he carried the cross.
Struck, he never struck back again.
Condemned, yet he rose higher than his
calumniators, and with wounds in his
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