The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-24

| couch of some loved one (whoss strength
is going away and we shake our heads
fO~rebOdingly. they cry: II am glad he is
worse; he has been down there long
enough. There. he is dead! Come home!
| Come homew o. if we could only get
our ideas about that future world untwist.
ed our thought of transfer from here to
there would be as pleasant to US as it was
to q little child that was dying. She said:
Papa, when will I go homer" And he
said: To-day, Florence" To-day. So
soon: l am so glad"
wish l could stimulate you with these
thoughts, q, Christian man, to the highest
possible e~xhilaration. The day of your
deliverance is coming. is coming. 1t is
rolling on with the shining wheels of the
day and the jet wheels of the night.
Every thump of the heart is only a ham.
mer stroke striking OFF another chain of
clay. Better scour the deck and coil the
rope. the harbor is only six miles away.
Jesus will coms down in the 'Narrows"
to meet you. Now is your salvation nearer
than when YOU believed.
Unforg,ven man, unpardoned man, will
you not make a choice between these two
portions, tetween the ''south land" of
this world. which slopes TO the desert, and
this glorious land which thy Father offers
thee, running with eternal water cOurses?
Why let your tongue be consumed with
thirst when there are the neither springs
and the upper springs, comfor: here aud
glory hereafter:
Let me tell you, my lear brother, that
tie ~silisest and wickedest thing a man
ever does is TO Tt jet Jesus Christ. The
loss of he soul is u mistake that can not
l. A.
no alleviation; it is a ruin that is remedi-
less; it is a sickness that has no medical
ment; it is a grave into which n man goes
but never comes cut. Therefore, putting
my hand OH your shoulder as a iroth.r
puts his hand on the shoulder of a bIO;her,
l say this day: Be manly and surrender
your heart to Christ You nave he en- long
enough serving the world; now begin to
serve the Lord who bought you. You
have tried long enough TO carry these
und n your lurden.
Do l hear any one in the audience say:
Il mean to attend to that after awhile;
it is not Just the time:" Il is the time for
the simple reason. that you are sure of no
other; and God sends you here this morn
ing, and He sent me here to comfort you
~ thiS HuCSSd 80 ~ yOu must ucaI
now that Christ died to save your soul,
and that if you want to be saved you may
Ie saved. "W hosoever will, let him
come" You will never find any more
convenient season than this. Some of
you have been waiting ten, twenty. thirty.
forty, fifty and sixty years. On some Of
you the snow has fallen. l see it on your
brow, and yet you have not attended to
those duties which belong to the very
springtime OF life. II is September with
yOu now, it is October with you, it is De-
CT mber with you. l am no alarmist. ]
simply know this: if a mansdoes not re-
pent in this world he never repents at all,
and that now is the day of salvation. q.
Tut Off this matter NJ. longer. Do not .urn
your batk on Jesu, Christ, who comes to
save you. lest you should lose your soul.
On Monday morning a friend Of mine
started from New York to celebrate her
birthday with her daughter in Virginia
On Saturday of the same week. just after
sunrise. ! TODD at the gate Of Greenwood
waiting for her silent form to come in. 1t
is a long Journey to a in one week
from New York to Philadelphia, from
Philadelphia to Baltimore, from Baltimore
to Washington. from Washington to
Virginia, from Virginia to the gre at eter-
nifty. =.
'What thy hand fndeth to do, do it."