The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-26

may depart and the hills be removed. hat
l will never fail you" And then. ~ the
soul thinks the news 10 too good TO b
true and can not believe IL and looks ND In
Gods face, God lifts His right hand and
takes an oath. an afidavit, saying: As
live saith the Lord God. I have no peas.
ure in the death Of him that disth. u
Blessed be God for such q Gospel a this
"Cut the slices thin" said the wife q
the husband. ''or there will no: bs enough
to 20 all around for the children; cut the
full loaf for every one that wants it;
1t tho Lords tablA remember when the
Master street hospital in Philadelphia.
was opened during the war. . telegram
came, saying: There will be three hum
dred wounded men tonight; b ready to
to take care OF them;" and from my
church there wsn in rome twenty OF
thirty mon and women to look after these
poor wounded follows. A. they came,
some from ono part Of the land, some from
another, NO one asked whether this man
was from Oregon, or from Massachusetts,,
or fromMinnssota or from New ork. There
was a wounded soldier, and the only ques-
ton was how to take of the rags most
gently. and put IN the bandage. and I'D.
minister the cordial And when q soul
comes to God He does not ask where you
came from o. what your ancestry was.
Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for
al! your guilt. Comfort for all your
troubles
Then, also. I counsel you. il you want
to got back, to quit all your bad associa.
tons. One unhOly intimacy will fll your
soul with moral distemper. In all ages Of
the Church there has not been an instance
whore q man kept one evil associate and
was reformed. Among the fourteen hun.
dred million Of the race not one instance.
Go home to-day, open your desk. take out
letter paper, stamp and envelope, and
then write . letter something like this:
my old companions: Istart this day for
Heaven. Until / am persuaded you will
join M In this. farewell"
Then sign your name and send the let.
ter with the frst post Give up your bad
companions, Of give up Heaven. 1t il not
ten bad companions that destroyed .
man, nor i've bad companions, nor three
bad companions. but one What chance
is there for that young man ! saw along
the street. -four Or five men with him,
hating in front Of . grog shop, urging
him 70 70 in, he resisting. until after .
while they forced him to 60 in: It was .
summer night and the doors were left
him fast, M they put the cup to his lips
mi THAI H~sNAA A~,>> Ak> .-~-- A>s-A
What chance is there for such . young
I counsel you also seek Christian ad.
vice. Every Christian man II bound to
help you. First of all seek God; then
seek Christian counsel. Gather up al the
energies Of body. mind and SOUL and. ap-
pealing to God for success. declare this
day everlasting war against all drinking
habits, all gambling practices all houses
Of sin. Half.and-half work will amount
to nothing: It must be Q Waterloo. Shrink
back now and you are lost Push on and
you are saved. A Spartan General fell at
the very moment Of victory, but he dipped
his finger in his own blood and wrote on .
rock rear which he was dying: "Sparta
conquered" Though your struggle
to got rid OF sin may seem to DO almost .
death struggle you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write ON the Rock Of
Ages: "victory through our Lord, Jesus
Christ"
o. what glorious news it would be for
some Of these young mon to send homs to
their parents. They go to tho post.Onice
every day or two to see il there are any
from you. How anxious they are
to hear.
Some ono said to Grecian General,
"What wal the proudest moment in your
He thought q moment and said:
The proudest moment in my life was
when I sent word home to my parents
that l had gained the victory" And the
proudest and most brilliant moment in
your life will be the moment whom You
can send word to your parents that you
nave conquered your evil habits by tho
grace of God and become eternal victor.
O, despise not parental anxiety! Tho
time will como when you will have neither
father nor mother, and you will 20 around
he place where they used to watch you
and find them gone from the field. and
gone from the neighbour ooi. Cry a.
loud for forgiveness as you may over
mound in the churchyard, they |
will not answer Dead! Dead!
And then you will take out the
lock Of hair that was cut from
your mothers brow just before they |
buried her, and you will take the cane
which your father used to walk, and
vou will think and think and wish that
Tou had done just as they wanted you to. !
would give the world II you had never
thrust . pang through their dear old
hearts. God pity the poor young man
who has brought disgrace on his fathers
name! God pity the poor young man who
broken his mothers heart! Better il |
he had never been born-better il in the
arst hour of his life instead Of being
aid against the warm bosom Of maternal
tenderness he had been coffined |
md sepulchered. There Ii NO balm power.
lui enough to heal the heart Of ono who |
brought parents to a sorrowful grave
who wanders about through the dis.
nal cemetery, rending the hair and wiring.
ing ths hands and crying: "Motherl
mo,der" q. that to-day by all the MON.
prizes Of the past and by all the hopes Of
the future, you would yield your heart to
God. Nav your fathers God and your
mothers God Be your God forevsr"