The Red Cloud chief., 1889-01-25

blasted yours. You 20 about we.pinu
sihidst the desolation Of your once happy
home, thinking Of the bright ewes clo.ed
and the noble heart stopped aud the
gentle hands folded, and you weep until
in ashes!
A gentleman went to a friend OF mine in
the city OF Washington and asked tina.
through MIN he might get q consulsbip to
some foreign port. Ny friend said to him:
nat 10 you want to go away from your
Deautiiul home for, into q foreign port ~
", ne replied. my home is gone! Ny
SIX children are dead! I must get away,
s'r. can't stand it in this country any
longer" Ziklag in ashes!
why these long shadows OF bereavement
across this audience: Why is it that in
almost every assembiage black Is the pre-.
dominant color Of the apparel: Is il be-
cause you do not like saffron or brown or
violet: U, no: You say: 1.-THE world Is
not SO bright to Us As it once was;" and
there is a story Of silent voices. and Of
still feet. and OF loved ones gone, and
when you look over the hills, expecting
oniy beauty and loneliness, you find only
devastation and Woe. Ziklag in ashes!
In Ulster County. n. V. the village
church was decorated until the fragrance
Of the iowc-s was almost bewildering.
The maidens Of the village had cmptied
the place OF flowers upOu one marriage
altar. One OF their own number was afIi-
anced to a minister of Christ. who lad
come to take her TO his hom.. With hands
joined, amids. IA congratulatory audience.
the VOWS were TAKEN. In three days from
that time one Of those who stood at the
/ altar exchanged earth for Heaven. The
wedding march broke down into the fu-
neral dirge. There were no: enough flow
ers now for the coffin lid, because they
had all been taken for the bridal hour.
The dead minister Of Christ is brought TO
another village. He had gone from them
less than a week before i'm his strength;
now he comes home lifeless. The whole
church bewailed him. The solemn pro-
cession moved around to look upon
the still face that once had beamei
with messages of salvation. Little chill
iien were lifted up TO look at him. And
| some of those whom he had comforted in
days Of sorrow, when they passed that
silent form. made the place dreadful with
their weeping. Another village emptied
of its fipwer,-some of them put in the
sUSlc q. IL NIoS, ~ - EtDctlIt haN b'I'.
others put in the shape Of a crownt To SYM
holize his triumph. 4 hundred lights
down out in one sironG gust the open
door of "A sepulchre. Zis!ag in ashes.
| preach this sermon TODAY. because l
want t. rally you as David rallied his men.
for the recovery of the loved and the lost.
! want not only to win Heaven, hut l want
al this congregation 10 go along with me.
q
in your arriving nj that great city. l have
on other Sabbaths used other inducements.
mean to-day, for the sake Of variety.
hoping TO reach Your hea :, to try another
kind of inducem-nt. DO you really want
TO join the companionship OF your loved
ones who have gone: Are you as ANXIOUS
to join them as David and his men were to
Join their families! Then I am here, in
the name If God. to say that you may, and
to tell you how.
remark. in the first place. IL you want
10 JOIN your loved one in glory. YOU must
travel the same way they went No
sooner had the half dead Egyptian been
resuscitat.d than he pointed the way the
captors and the captives had gone. and
David and his men followed after. Sc
our Christian friends have gone into an.
other country, and il we want to reach
their companionship we must take the
same road. They repents-i: we must repent.
They prayed; we mus: They trusted
i'm Christ: we must trust in Christ They
lived "a religious life; we must live a re-
ligious life. They were in some thing
like ourselves. l know. now that they
are gone, there is a halo around their
names; but they had iheir faults They
IL .nl 4 4 ,L,,,.c st., .art.lf psvar q,
have said or done. They were sometimes
rebellious, sometimes cast down. They
were far from be ng perfect. So suppose
tina: when we have gone. some things in
us that are now ouIy tolerab!e NAV be al
most Respondent. But as they We're like
us ia Deficiencies, " ought 10 h- like them
in taking n supernal Christ 10 make up for
the deficits. Had II not been for Jesus,
they would hav. all perished; but Christ
confronted them. and said: Il am the
waV." and they took II.
have MISC 10 say To YOU :ha: the path
that these captiv.S trod Vas a Troubles
path and that David and his men had 10
go over the same dticul; way. While
these captives were being taken of they
said: 80. we are so tired: We are 81 sick:
We are So hungry" But the men who
had charge Of them said: "Stop this cry
ing. Go on" David and his men also
found il n hard way. They had To travel
il. Our friends have gone into glory. and
il is through much trihu alton tina; We are
To enter INTO The kingdom. How cur loved
ones used Ia lave 10 struggle. how their
| old hearts ached. how sometimes they had
"A .ussl- for bread. In our childhood We
wondered why there Mere so many
wrinkles on their faces. We dill not know
that what were called GROWS feet" on
their faces were iha marks Of the black
raven Of trouble. Did You never hear the
cd PEOPLE, seated by the evening
stand, talk over their early trials, iheir
hardships, the accidents, the huriaiS. the
di.appoin;ments. the empty -four barrel
when there We're So many hungry ones to
feed, the sickness almost unto death.
where the next dos Of morphine decided
between CHASTITY ber' av 'ment and an un-
broken home circle: U, yes. il WAS trouble
that whitenei their lar. Ii was trouble
that washed the iusie- from their ewes
with the rain of tears until they neede :
spectacles. 1t WAS trouble that made the
cane a necessity for their journey. IDo
Won never remember seeing your Old
mother sitting. on some rainy dav. looking
out Of the window. her elbow on the win.
dow-sili. her hand 10 her brow-look,ne
out. not seeing the falling shower at all
(vou we'll know she MAS looking into thu
distant pastl, until the apron came up to
her ewes. because the memory MAS toe
much for herr
.Ofr the h,r. untidden tear.
Stealing down the furrowed cheek.
Told. IN elolucnce sincere.
Tales OF woe they could not speak
..Ru,. this scene o: weeping Ger.
Past this scenc OF toll and pail.
They shall feel distress no mccc.