Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09
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ceded by heralds swinging swords u
clear the way. No. But a father will
ing, at our call, TO stand by us in ever
crisis and ~predicament Of life.
tell you what some of you business
! men make me think OF. A young mar
goes oil from home TO earn his fortune
He goes with his mothers consent ant
benediction. She has large wealth bI'
he wants TO make his own fortune. HI
goes far away, falls sick, gets out o.
money. He sends for the hotel keeper
where he is staying, asking for lenience,
and the nswer he gets Is: 'If you don't
pay up Saturday night you'll be re.
moved to the hospital" The young
man sends TO q cOmrade in the same
building. No help. He writes TO a
banker who was a friend Of his deceased
father. No relief. He writes TO an old
schoolmate, but gets nc help. Satur-
day night comes, and he Is moved to the
hospital.
Getting there, he Is frenzied with
grief; and he borrows a sheet Of paper
and q postage stamp, and he sits down,
and writes home, saying: Dear mother,
l am sick unto death. Come" II is ten
minutes Of 10 o'clock when she gets the
letter. At 10 o'clock the train starts.
She is Ave minutes from the depot. She
gets there in time TO have five minutes
TO spare. She wonders why q train that
can go thirty miles an hour cannot go
sixty miles an hour. She rushes into
the hospital. She says: my son, what
does all this mean? Why didn't you
send for me? You sent 70 everybody
but me. You knew l could and would
help you. Is this the reward I get for
my kindness to you always?" She bun
dies him up, takes him home, and gets
him well very o
Now, some Of you treat God just as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into a financial perlexity,
you call on the banker, you call on the
broker, you call on your creditors, you
call on your lawyer for legal counsel;
you call upon everybody, and when you
cannot get any help, then you go 70
God. You say; 20 Lord, / come to
Thee. Help me now but Of my perplex-
ity." And the Lord comes, though IL is
the eleventh hour. He says: "Why
did you o send for me before? AS one
whom his mother comforteth, so will i
comfort you" 1t is to throw US back
upon an all comforting God that we
have this ministry Of tears.
Again, it is the use OF trouble to
capacitate US for the Office Of sympathy.
The priests, under the old dispensation,
were set apart by having water sprinkled
IN their hands, feet and head; aRd By
the sprinkling Of tears people are now
set apart 10 the Office sympathy. When
We are in prosperity we like TO have a
great many young people around us, and
we laugh when they laugh, and we romp
when they romp, and We sing when they
sing; but when we have trouble we like
plenty of old folks around. Way? They
know how TO talk. Take an aged
mother, 20 years Of age, and she is al
most omnipotent in comfort. Why?
She has been through it all. At Z
o'clock in the morning she goes over to
comfort a young mother who has just
lost her babe.
Grandmother knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At
IL o'clock of that day she goes over to
comfort a widowed soul. She knows all
about that. She has been walking in
that dark valley twenty years. At 4
o'clock in the afternoon some one
knocks at the door wanting bread. She
knows all about that. Two or three
times in her life she came TO her last
loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she goes
over 10 sit up with some n severely
sick. She knows all about it. She
knows all about feyers and pleu.
risies and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plas-
tiers, and pouring out bitter drops, and
shaking up hot pillows. and contriving
things to tempt a poor appetite. Doctors
Abernethy and Rush and Hosack and
Harvey were great doctors, but the
greatest doctor the world ever saw
is an old Christian women. Dear me,
Do we not remember her about the room
when we were sick in u boyhood?
| Was there any one who could ave SO
touch a sore without hurting it?
And when she lifted her spectacles
against her wrinkled forehead, so she
could look closer at the wound, it was
three-fourths healed. And when the
Lord took her home, although you may
have been men and 30, 40, sc
years of age, you lay on the coffin lid
and sobbed a. though you were only 5
or 10 years of age. y man, praise God
IL you hare in your memory he picture
OF an honest, sympathetic, kind, self
sacrificing, Christ-like mother. Oh ii
takes these people who have had trouble
to comfort others in trouble. Where did
Paul get thu ink with which To write
his comforting epistle? Where did
David get the ink 70 write his comforting
psalms? Where did John get the ink Il
write his comforting revelation? They
! got IL out Of their own tears When
man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken a course Of dungeons
and im~prisonments and shipwrscks, he
Is qualified for the work Of sympathy.
When / begin to preach, my sermons
ON the subject of trouble were all poetic
and IN ssmi-blank verse; hut God
knocked the blank verse out of me long
70, and I have found gut hat I cannos
comfort people exccptvs ] myself have
been troubled. God make me the son
Of consolation - the people. j would
f, rather be the means Of soothing one
p~erturbed spirl. today. than to play a
suna that woslS set all the sons 81
! wirth reeling in the dance. IN IN
nerb doctor. I put into the caldron the
Root out of dry ground without form OF
comelfnesc- Then ! put in the Roae OF
| Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.
Then / put into the caldron some of the
leaves from the tree of life. and the
Branch that a thrown into the wilder