The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-15
OUR WI GENERATION.
d. Tatmage On the Duty Of CARING
For the Present
The Dsty q serving Oar Own Csosnsass
-Re0eabestng the Poor-rhe hattie
For Besad-The loportaaes q
D0iag night.

Dsiss night.
In q rscsnt sermon at Brooklyn DR.. Tai.
mage took for his subjec; Our Own Gen.
Grafton" and his text VA from Acts xiii
o: David, after he had served his own
generation BY the will Of God, fell On
eleep." He said:
That 10 Q text which for . long time has
been running through nv mind, but not
untiI nov has IL been iully revealed TO me
Sermons have . time to b born a. veil -
. tim to die, . cradle - well ~ . grave.
David. COW boy and stone slinger and
writer and prophet. did his best for the
people Of his time and then went and laid
down on the southern hill Of jerusalem in
that sound slumber which nothing but an
archangelic asst can s;artle. david,
after be had served his own generation BY
the will Of God. fell on sleep"
1t Was his own generation that he BAD
served; that is. the people living at the
time be lived. And have YOU ever thought
the people now walking abreast Of Us
.
The fact is that you and ! will ave 60
ONoAS WY " AoA ooA WIN vs. 80 ~
ironical and sarcastic for any one after
our exit TO say Of Us. as it was said Of
David, 'after be had served his wi gen..
GRAFTON by the will Of God. be fell OF
sleep"
Well. now. let us look around earnestly,
~prayerfully and in . common sense way
and see what We can do for our own gem
GRAFTON. First Of all let US see to it that,
- e.. -. ~Ar ek.~- h-.A 60 80
The human body - SO constituted that
three times a day the body needs food as
much ~ q lamp needs oil, IS much - .
locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want
God has girdled the earth with apple or.
'taards. orange groves, wheat fields n
Seeans full II fish and prairie s full Of cat
tle- And notwithstanding this, ! will un-
dertake TO say that the vast majority Of
the human family are suffering either
for lack Of food or the right kind u food.
Our civilization is all askew on this cub
ject and God can only set fright.
Many of the greatest estates Of to-day
have been built out Of the blood and bones
of the u~nrequited toiiers. In oldsn times.
for the building Of forts and tow ers. the
inhabitants Of lspahan had to contribute
10000 human skulls and Bagdad 5000
human skulls and that number Of people
were slain SO as to furnish the skulls. But
these " contributions added together
made only lG0, 900 skulls, while into the
tower Of the worlds wealth and pomp and
magnificence have been wrought the
skeletons Of uncounted numbers Of the
half fed populations Of the earth. millions
Of skulls
Done sit down ut your table with i've or
six courses Of abundant supply and think
nothing of that family in the next street
who would take any one OF those five
courses between soup and almond nuts
and feel they were in Heaven. The lack OF
the right kind of food IS the caus. of much
Of the drunkenness. After drinking what
many OF our grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many call sugar and eating
what many Of our butchers call meat. and
chew ing what many OF our bakers call
bread. many Of the laboring classes feel so
miserable they are tempted to put into
their nasty pipes what the tobhcconIst
calls tobacco. or 60 into the drinking
saloons for " What the rum sellers call beer.
Good coffee would do much in driving
out bad rum. Adultera,ion Of food has
got to be an evil against which all the
health officers and ali the doctors and
all the ministers and all the reformers aud
all the Christians need TO set themselves
in battle array. How can We serve our
generation with enough TO rat: b. sit
ting down in embroidered slippers and
~lounging bach in an arm chair, our mouth
puckered up around a havana o. the hes,
brand and through clouds of luxuriant
smoke reading about political economy
and the philosophy Of strikes: No! No!
BY finding out who in Brooklyn has been
living on gristle and sending them . ten
derloin beefstcak. Seek out some family
who through sickness or conjunction Of
misfortune have not enough % eat and do
for them what Christ did for the hungry
multi,udes Tor Asia Minor. multiplying
the loaves and fishes. Let US quit the sur.
feiting Of ourselves until We can not choke
down another crumb OF cake and begin
the supply Of Others necessities
We often see on . small scale . reckless.
ness about the welfare Of others which Q
great warrior expressed on . large scale.
when his officers were dIssusding him
from . certain campaign. saying: 1T
would cost two hundred thousand lives"
replying with . diabolism that can never
b. forgotten. What are two hundred
thousand lives to me-"
SO far from helping appease the worlds
hunger. there are those whom lssiah de.
scribes as grinding the faces VI the poor.
You have seen . farmer or . mechanic put
Q scythe or an axe on . grindstone, while
some one was turning it round n round.
and the man holding the axe bore On Il
harder while the water dropped from the
Erindstone, and the edge Of the axe from
being round and dull, got keener and
keensr. and this mechanic lifted the axe
glistening and sharp and with edge 90
keen be must cautiously run his finger
along lest while examining the implement
he cut his hand 70 the bono So I have
seen men who were put against the grind
stone of hardship, and while one turned
the crank smother would press the un.
Fortunate harder down and harder down
until hs was ground away thinner and
thinner and thinner, his comforts thinnse.
his prospects thinner and his face thinner.
And lsaiah shrieks ut: wv hat mean "
tbs ye grind the faces o. the poor" Il
10 an awful thing to b hungry. Il 10 IN
easy thing for n to Be in good humor
with all the world when ws have NO lack.
Bot let hunger take full po>session Of ~
and re would all turn into bArbarians and
cannibals and fenda
AN glad to know that the time 10 com.
Ing. God hasten il when every family in
the roand world will sit down ct Q full
tabla and is will b osly . Qusstioa BE-
tween lamb and venisoa. or between part
ridge and quail o. toast and out Of spoons
made out OF Nevada silver or CaiiforaiA
gold the pastry will drop on sosEues
shriling With thankfuinsss because they
have fall enough have No idea God 10
going 20 let the human race stay d e.
present predicaDent II the world Winds
| mn N n noH n IL Nill b. An aNfpl failprs