Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-11

and l will decide that, or help to decide
1t, by conscientious vote, by earnest
prayer, by maintenance of Christian in
stitutions, by support Of great philan-
thropies, by putting body, mind and soul
on the right side Of al moral, religious
and national movements.
An ii will not be long before it will not
make any difference to YOU or to me what
becomes Of this continent, so far as
earthly comfort il concerned. All we
| will want Of il IL be seven feet by
three, and that Will take in the largest,
and there will be room and to spare.
That is ali of this country we will need
very soon--the youngest of us. But we
have An anxiety about the welfare and
the happiness OF the generations that are
coming on, and it will be y grand thing,
If when the archangel's trusipet sounds,
We find that our sepulcher, like the me
Joseph o. Arimathea provided for Christ,
is in The midst of a garden.
One of the seven wonders Of the world
was the white marble watch tower of
Pharos OF Egypt. Sostratus, the archi-
tect and sculptor, after building that
watch tower cut his name on ii. Then
he covered it with plastering, ard to
please the king he put the monarch's
name on the outside of the plastering;
and the storms beat and the seas dashed
in their fury, and they washed of the
plastering, and they washed it out, and
they washed it down. but the name
Of S%ostrstus WIS deep cut in the imper-
ishable rock. SO across the face Of this
nation there have been "A great many
names written, across our d~nances, across
our religious names worthy of remem-
brapce. names written on the arcnitec-
ture Of oar churches and our schools and
our asylums and our homes OF mercy, bat
God is the architect Of this continent
and he was The sculptor of all It's
grandeurs, and long after through the
wash Of the ages and the tempests Of
centuries, all other names shall be oblit-
Grated, the divine signature and divine
nam will be brighter and brighter as the
inillenniums go by, and the world shall
see that the God who made this CONT
nent has redeemed ii by his grace from
all its sorrows and from all It's crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as thatf
After all the chariots have been un-
wheeled, and after all the war chargers
have been crippled, the chariots which
Elisha saw on the morning of his peril
will roll on in triumph, followed by all
the armies Of heaven on white horses.
Ged could do without us, but ne will not.
The weakest of us, the faintest of US, the
smallest Drained Of us, shall have a part
in the triumph. We may not have our
name, like the name of Sostratus, cut in
imperishable rock and conspicuous for
centuries, but we shall be remembered in
q better place han that, even in the heart
of Him who came to redeem us and re-
deem the world, and our names will be
seen close to the signature of his wound,
for as today He throws out His arms to-
ward us, He says: Behold, l have
craven thee on the palms OF my hand"
BY the mightiest of all agencies, the po-
tency of prayer, ! beg you seek our ma
tlonal welfare.
Some time ago there were 1900, 600
letters in the dead letter ~postotlice at
| Observation-Disclosures that lost their way
but not one prayer ever directed to the
heart of God miscarried. The way is all
clear for the ascent Of your supplications
h~eavenward in behalf of this nation.
Before the postal communication was so
easy, and long ago, on a rock 100 feet
high, on the coast of England, there was
a barrel fastened to a post, and in great
letters on the side of the rock, SO 1t
could be seen far out at sea, were the
words, Post Office and when ships
came by a boat put out to take and fetch
letters. And SO sacred were those de.
posts Of affection in that barrel that no
lock was ever put upon that barrel, al
though ii contained messages for America,
and Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and
all the islands Of the sea. Many a storm
tossed sailor, hOmesick, got messages OF
kindness by that rock, an many a home
stead heard good news from q boy long
gone. Would that all the heights of our
national prosperity were IN interchange
Of sympathies prayers going up, meet
ing blessings coming down; postal celes-
tial, not by q storm struck rock on a
wintry coast, but by the Rock Of a. 8.