Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
The DAYS LIVED over
Glow Dear to My Heart Are
the Scenes Of My
Childhood"
DR.. Talmage Talks About
Recollections Of Past
History.
The Brooklyn Divine COrrects 9
Newspaper Correspondents
ErrOr-White ard Blacks
Should Not Mix.

"Other Days Lived Over" and made ref.
erence to the falsehood that he had nd.
v5'Eted miscegenation Of the white and
black races. The vast congregation sang
tn nymn beginning:
Our Col, our help IN ages past,
Our hope for years 10 come.
DR.. Talmage's text was Deut. viii, 9;
Thou shalt remember all the way
which the Lord Thy God led thee" lie
said:
Before entering on my subject | wish
to say that some newspaper correepon-
dents, referring TO a recent sermon in
which welcomed foreign ~pat;onaljlies
to this country, have said That / adva-
Gated as = desirable thing the intcrmag.
rage Of the white and hl ok races. |
never said so, | never thought so, and
any one who SO misreprcscnts that ser
nor is either a villain or q fool, perhaps
both.
But 10 open this mornings subject !
have to say God in the text advises the
people to look back upon their past his
tory. 1t will do us all good to rehearse
the scenes between this May morning
and our cradle, whether it was rocked in
country or town. A few days ago, with
my sister and brother, | visited the place
of my boyhood. 1t was one Of the most
emotional and absorbing days of my life.
There stands the old house, and as |
went through the rooms | said, Il could
find my way here with my eyes shut, a.
though ! have not been here in forty
years" There was the sitting room
where a large family group every even
ing gathered, the most of them GOV in q
better world. There was the old barn
where we hunted for Easter eggs, and
the place where the horses stood. There
is where the orchard was, only three or
four trees now left Of all the grove that
once bore apples, and such apples toe
There IS the brook down which
we rode to the watering of the
horses bare back and with q rope
halter. We also visited the Gene
terry where many Of our kindred are
waiting for the resurrection, the old
people side by side. after a Journey to-
gether of sixty years, only about three
years between the time of their going.
There also sleep the dear old ~neighbors
who used to tie their horses under the
shed Of he country meeting house and
sit at the end Of the pew, singing Duke
Street" and "Balerma," and Antioch"
Oh, they were a glorious race of men and
who did their work well, raised a splen-
did lot Of boys and girls, and are now as
to their bodies in silent neighborhood on
earth, but as To their souls in iubilant
~neighhorhood before the throue of God.
feel that my journey and visit last week
did me good and it would do you all
good, if not in person then in thought, TO
revisit the scenes of boybood or girlhood.
Thou shalt remember all the way which
the Lord thy God led thee"
Youth is apt too much 10 spend all its
time in looking forward. Old age is apt
too much to spend all its time in looking
backward. People in mid-life and on
the apex look both ways. 1t would be
well for us, | think. however. to spend
more time in "Reminiscences. By the CON
4 Va VA w va
the time looking forward and the vast
majority Of this audience live not 60
much in the present rs in the future. l
find that you mean to make a reputation,
you mean to establish yourself, and the
advantages that you expect to achieve
absorb a great deal of your time. But |
see no harm in this if it does not make
you disconnected with the present or dis
qualify Won for existing duties
1t is a useful thing sometimes to look
back, and to see the dangers we have
escaped, and to see the sorrows we have
suffered, and the trials and wanderings
of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up
our %enjoyments. | mean this morning,
30 far as God may help me, to stir up
your memory of the past, so that in he
review you may be encouraged, and
humbled, and urged to pray.
There is a chapel in Florence with a
fresc0 by Guido. 1t was covered up with
two inches of stucco until our American
and European artists went there, and
after long toll removed the covering and
retraced the fresco. And | am aware
that the memoir Of the past. with many
of YOU, is all covered up with ten thou
sand deliberations, and l propose this
morning, 30 far as the Lord may help me
to take away the covering, hal the old
picture may shine out again.
want to bind in one sheaf all your
past advantages, and | want to bind in
another shesf all your past universities,
1t is a precious harvest, and | must be
cautious how l swing the scythe.
Among the greatest advantages OF your
past life was an early home and its sur
roundings. The bad men OF the day,
for the most part, dip their heated pas
sions out of the boiling spring OF an un-
happy home. We are not surprised to
find that Byron's heart was a concentra-
ton Of sin, when we hear his mother was
abandoned, and that she made sport OF
his infrmity, and often called him the
lame brat" He who has vicious parents
has to fight every inch of his way II he
would maintain his integrity, and at last
reach the nome of the good in heaven.
Perhaps your early home was IN the
city. 1t may nave been in the days
when Canal street, New York, was far
up town AMI the site Of this present
church was an excursion into the coun'
try. That old house in the city may
have been demolished or changed into