Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09


she was laughing you saw the tears stil
on her face? And perhaps you stoppe
her In the very midst of her resume.
glee and wiped of those delayed tears
So, i think, after the heavenly rapture
have come upon US, there may be tn
mark OF some earthly grief, and Will
those tears are glittering in the light 0
the jasper sea, God will wipe then
away. How well he can do that.
Jesus had enough trial TO make hin
sympathetic with all trial. The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story
"Jesus wept." The scar on the back o.
either hand, the scar on the arch o.
either foot, the row Of scars along the
liae Of the hair, will keep all heaven
thinking. Oh, that great weeper is
just the one to silence all earthly
trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly
grief. Gentlel Why, his step is softer
than the step of the dew. It will not
be a tyrant bidding you to hush up your
crying. 1t will be a father who will
take you on his left arm, his face CLEAN
ing into yours, while with the soft tips
Of the fingers of the right hand be shall
wipe away all tears from your eyes. |
noticed when the children got hurt, and
their mother is away from home, they
always come to me for comfort and sym
patty; but / have noticed when the
children get hurt and their mother is at
home, they go right past ne and TO her;
l am of no ccou
SO, when the soul comes up into
heaven out of the wounds Of this life,
it will not stop TO look for Paul, or
Moses, or David, or John. These did
very we'll once, but now the soul shall
rush past, crying: Where is Jesus?
Where is Jesus?" Dear Lord, what q
magnificent thing to die If thou shalt
thus wipe away our tears. Methink il
will take US some time 70 got used 70
heaven; the fruits OF God without one
speck; the fresh pastures without n
n~ettle; the orchestra without n
snapped string; the river of gladness
without one torn bank; the solferinos
and the saffron of sunrise and sunset
swallowed up in the eternal day that
beams from Gods c-euntenance!
Why should / wish 10 lingsr in the wild,
When thou art waiting, Father, to receive
thy cAildt
Since if we could get any appreciation
OF what God has in reserve for US, il
would make as so homesick we would be
unfit for our every day work. Professor
Leonard, formerly Of Iowa university,
put IN my hands a meteoric stone, a
stone thrown OF from some other world
TO this. How suggestive il was 70 me.
And Ihave 10 tell you the best repre-
sensations we have of heaven are only
aerolites flung OF from that world which
rolls on, bearing the multitudes OF re-
deemed. We aAalyze these aeroutes,
and find them crystsllizations of tears.
No wonder, flung OF from heaven.
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes"
Have you any appreciation OF the good
and glorious times your friends are hay-
ing in heaven? How different il is
when they get news there OF a Chris
tians death from what il is here. 1t is
the difference between embarkation and
coming into port. Everything depends
upon which side Of the river yea stand
when you hear of a Christians death.
If you stand on this side Of the river
you mourn that they go. II you stand
on the other side Of he river you re-
joice that they come. Oh, the
difference between a funeral on
earth and a jubilee in heaven-between
requiem here and triumphal march
there-parting here and reunion there.
Together Have you thought OF it?
They are together. Not one of your de-
lrted friends in one land and another
in another land; but together, in differ
ent rooms of the same house-the house
of many mansions. Together!
! never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her slurn-
bers my sister Sarah. Standing there
in the village cemetery, | looked around
and said: There is father, there is
mother, there is grandfather, there is
grandmother, there are whole circles Of
kindred" and / thought 10 myself,
Together in the grave-together in
glory" | am so impressed with the
thought that / do not think it is any
fanatieism when some one is going from
this world to the next If you make them
the bearer of dispatches to your friends
who are gone, saying: ''Give my love TO
my parents, give my love TO my chill
dren, give my love to my old comrades
who are in glory, and tell them ! am
trying to fight the good fight of faith,
and l will join them after q while"
1 believe the message will be deliv-
cred; and 1 believe il will increase
the gladness of those who are before
the throne, Together are they, all their
tears gone. No trouble getting good
society for them. All kings, queens,
princes and p~rincesses. In 1851 there
was . bill offered In the English parlia-
nent proposing to change the almanac
70 that the LIST Of March should come
Immediately after the 18th of February.
But, oh, what . glorious change in the
calendar when all the years Of your
earthly existence are swallowed up in
the eternal year of Godl
<Ay friends, take this good cheer
homo with yeu. These tears OF be-
rsavement that course your cheek, and
of persecution, and OF trial, are not al
ways TO be there. The m~otherly hand
Of God viii wipe them all away. What
II the use, on the way 20 uch . con
summation-what is the use Of fretting
about anything? Oh, what an exhilara-
ton 1t ought 70 be in Christian work!
Sec you the ~pinnacles against the
sky? It Is the city of our God,
and we arc approaching it Oh.
let us be busy in the few days that shall
remain for Va The Saxons and the
Britons went ont to battle. The Saxons
were all armed The Britons had no
weapons ut all; and yet history tells as
how the Britons got the victory. Why?
They went into battle shouting three
times, .Hallelujahl" and at the third