Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

wantt 90 be looking through tho gates
ajar forever. | want them to swing
wide open. There are ten thousand
things I want explained-about you,
about myself, about the government OF
this world, about God, about every
thing. We start in a plain path of
what we know, and in a minute come
up against q high wall Of what We do
not know. wonder how it looks over
there. Somebody tells me it is like a
other man tells me it Is like \
fountain, and it is like a tree, and
IL is like q triumphal procession; and
the next man | meet tells me IL is all
figuratiye. | really want to know,
after tho body Is rcsurrected, what they
wear and what they eat, and | have an
unreasonable curiosity 20 know what il
is, and how 1t is, and whore it Is. CO.
lumbus risked his life 10 find the Amer
lean continent, and shall we shudder to
go out on a voyage Of discovery which
shall reveal n yaster and more brilliant
country? John Franklin risked his
life to find a passage between icebergs,
and shall we dread to find a passage to
eternal summer? Men in Switzerland
travel up the heights Of the Mattcrhorn
with alpenstock and guides and rockets
and ropes, and getting half way up,
stumble and fall down ia a horrible
massacre. They just wanted TO say
they had been on the tops of those high
peaks. And shall we fear to 90 out for
the ascent of the eternal hills which
start a thou sand miles beyond whore
stop tho high peaks OF the Alps, and
! whom In tn. ascent th2re is no peril?
A man doomed to die stopped On the
scahold, and said in JOY; Now, in ten
minutes l ~iil know tho great secret
One minute after the vital functions
ceased. the little child that diei last
night knew more than Paul him ssll be.
fore no died. Friends, the exit from
this world, or death, IL you please 70
call il, to the Christian is glorious eX-
/ PLANTATION. It. is demonstration. 1t IS
illumination. 1t is sunburst. 1t is the
opening of all the windows. 1t Is shut
ting up the catechism OF doubt, and the
unrOllilg OF all the scrolls Of positive
and accurate information. Instead
of standing at the foot OF
the ladder and looking up,
it is standing at the foot of the ladder
and looking down. 1t is the last mys-
terry taken out OF botany and geology
and astronomy and theology. Oh, will
it not be- grand TO have all questions
answered? The p~erpetually recurring
interrogation point changed for the
mark OF exclamation. All riddles
solved. Who will fear to go out on that
discovery, when all the questions are 10
be decided which we have been discuss
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his hands in the anticipation Of that
blessed country, II it BE- no better than
through holy curiosity? As this Paul
of my text did not suppress his curl,
osity, we need not suppress ours. Yes,
/ have an unlimited curiosity about all
religious things, and as this city oi
Rome was so intimately connected with
apostolic times, the incidents OF which
emphasize and explain and augment the
Christian religion, you will not take i,
as au evidence Of q prying spirit, but as
the outbursting of a Christian curiosity
when / say ! must also see Rome.
Our desire 10 visit this city Is also in
tensiied by the TACT that we var TO bC
confirmed ia the feeling that humal
turtles, indeed forever. Therefore,
SilON ur tho hhtAibhdLto VI plo lAOtAlDi
about which we have been reading for
lifetime, but never seen. In our be
loved America, we have no antiquities
A church so years old overawes US with
its age. We have in America som
cathedrals hundreds and thousands O
years old. but they are in Yellowstone
park, Or Californian canon, and their
architecture and masonry were by thf
LN1 a
buildings, or ruins of old buildings thaI
were erected hundreds and thousands ol
years ago by human hands. They lived
forty or seventy years, out the arches
they lifted, the paintings they penciled,
the sculpture they chiseled, the road:
they laid out, / understand, are yet to
be seen and we want you TO show them
to US. I can hardly wait until Monday
morning. ! must also see Rome. We
want to be impressed with the fact that
what men do on q small scale or large
scale lasts a thousand years, lasts for
ever, that we build for eternity and
that we do so in a very short space Of
time. God is the only old living pres
cree. But 1T is an old age without any
intirmities OF limitations OF old age,
There Is o passage Of scripture which
speaks Of the birth Of the mountains, fol-
there was a time when the Andes were
born, and the Pyrenees were born, and
the Sierra Nevadas were bora, but be.
fore the birth of those mountains the
Bible tolls US, God was born, aye wa:
never born at all, because he always ex.
listed. Psalm xc, 2: ''Before the noun
tains were brought forth, or eyer thou
hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting.
thou art God" How short is human
life, what antiquity attaches TO its
worth! How everlasting is God! SHOW
US the antiquities, the things hat were
old when America was discovered, old
when Paul went up and down these
streets sight seeing, old when Christ
was born. / must, l must also sec
Romei
Another reason for our visit to this
city Is that we want to see the places
where the mightiest intellects and the
greatest natures wrought for our Chris
tian religion. We have been told Ia
America by some Psople OF swoller
heads that the Christian religion il q
pusillanimous thing, good for children
under z years Of age and small Drained
people. but not fer the intelligent and
swarthy minded. We have heard oil
Constantine the mighty, who pointed
his army 10 the cross. saying: by this
conquer" II there be anything here
connected with his reign or his military
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