Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-23

sion of the clergy, on bishops and JUST
t~ication, and the theory of good works
and verbal inspiration, and the efficacy o.
sacraments; but, during all these thirty
wonderful years, never n that cal
recollect on common honesty"
Now. that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but am very
certain that in all parts of the earth We
need to preach the moralities of the
Gospel right along beside the faith of the
Gospel.
My hearer' What are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your pocket
My other hearer! How are you getting
along with that wicked scheme you have
now on foot? Is that a pool ticket" you
have in your pocket? Why, o young
man. were you last night practicing in
copying your employers signature Z!
Where were you last night? Are your
habits as good as when you left your
fathers house? You had a Christian
ancestry, perhaps, and you have had too
many prayers spent on you TO go over
board.
DR.. Livingston, the famous explorer.
was descended from the Highlanders, and
he said that one Of his ancestors, one of
TIE Highlanders, n day called his fam
lily around him. The Highlander was
dying; he had his children around his
death bed. He said: Now. my lads, ]
have looked all through our history as fal
back as | can find it. and | have never
found "A dishonest man in all the line, and
l want you to understand you inheri,
good blood. You have no excuse for do
ing wrong. My lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God
be honest before your fellow men, bt
honest before your soul. If there be
those here who have wandered away,
come back. come home, come now, one
and ali, not one exception in all the as
semblage, come into the kingdom of God.
Come back or the right track. The door
OF mercy is open and the infinite heart Of
God is full Of compassion. Come home,
Come home! Oh, | would be well salts
fed if / could save some young man this
morning, some young man that has been
going astray and would like to get back.
] am glad some one has set TO music
that scene in August of 1881. when a
young girl saved from death a whole rail
train OF passengers. Some of you remem-
Der that out west, in that year on q
stormy night, a hurricane blew down
part of a railroad bridge. A freight train
came along and it crashed into the ruin,
and the engineer and conductor persisted.
There was a girl living in her father 9
cabin near the disaster, and she heard the
crash of the freight train, and she knew
that in a few moments an express train
was due. She lighted a lantern and
clambered up on the n beam of the
wrecked bridge on to the main bridge,
which was trcstle work, and started TO
Cross mid the thunder and the lightning
of the tempest and the raging of the tor
rent beneath. One misstep and ii would
have been death. Amid all that horror
the lantern went out. Crawling some
times and sometimes walking over the
slippery rails and over the trestle work,
she came TO the other side of the river.
She wanted to get to the telegraph sta
ton, where the express did not stop, 80
that the danger might be telegraphed to
the station where the train did stop. The
train was due in five minutes. She was
n mile off from the telegraph station,
but fortunately the train was late. With
cut and bruised feet she flew like the
"'hH' Coi''pS W w tht tNiNSiNBh c'o
ton, painting with almost deathly exhaus-
ton, she had only strength to shout, "the
bridge is down." when she dropped un-
conscious and could hardly be %resusci-
tated. The message was sen from that
station to the next station and the train
halted, and that night that brave girl
saved the lives of hundreds of passengers
and saved many homes from desolatiOn.
But every street is a track, and every
style of business is a track, and every
day is a track, and every night is a track,
and multitudes under the power of temp
tation come sweeping on and sweeping
down toward perils raging and terrific.
God help us TO go out and stop the train.
Let Us throw the signal. Let US give
some warning. BY the throne Of God let
Us fash some influence to stop the down
ward progress. Beware! Beware! The
bridge is down, the chasm is deep and
the l~ightnings Of God set all the night of
sin on fire with this warning: "He, that
being often reproved. hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that
without remedy"