Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-03

Il L ain now 10 tell you now hAnHlbal ma
scale the Alps and how the shackles ms
be unriveted and how the paths Of virtu
forsaken may be regained. First Of al
my brother, throw yourself on God. G
4 to him, frankly and earnestly, and tel
t HIM these habits you have, and ask HIN
t If there is any help in ali the resources o
omnipotent love, TO give il 10 yon. d,
net 60 with a lcng rigmarole people cal
prayer, made up OF 'ohs" and abs an
forever an forever amensN' Go 10 Coo
and cry for help help! help and if yol
cannot cry for help. just look and i've
| remember in the war | was ~ Antietam
and | went into the hospitals after tn,
battle. and | said TO q man, Where ar,
you hurt?" He made no answer, bu'
held up his arm swollen and splinttred
! saw where he was hurt. The simple
fact is, when a man has a wounded soal.
all he has to do is to hold il up before {
sympathetic Lord and &c! II healed. Ii
does not take any long prayer. Just hold
up the wound. Oh, IL is no small thing
when a mgn is nervous and weak and ex-
hausted, coming from his evil ways, to
feel that God puts two omnipotent arms
around about him and says, Young man,
| will stand by you The mountains may
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will never fail you" And then, as the
soul thinks the news is too good 10 be
true, and cannot believe il, and looks UP
in Gods face, God lifts his right hand
and takes an oath, an affidavit. saying.
las | live, saith the Lord God, | have no
pleasure in the death Of him that dic'h. =
Blessed be God for such a gospel as
thisl "Cut the slices thin" said the
wife to the husband, ''or there will not
be enough 10 go all around for the chill
dren; cut the slices thin" Blessed be
God, there is a full loaf for every one
that wants il; bread enough and to spare.
No thin slices 81 the Lords table. |
remember when the Master street hos
pital in Philadelphia was opened during
the war a telegram came saying, There
will be 300 wounded men tonight; be
ready 10 take care OF them and from
my church there went in some twenty or
thirty men and women TO look after
those poor wounded fellows. AS they
came. some from one part Of the land,
some from another, no one asked whether
this man was from Oregon, or Massachu-
sets, or from Minnesota, or from New
York. There was q wounded soldier and
the only question was how TO take off the
rags most gently, and put on the bandage
and administer the cordial. And when q
soul comes to God he does not ask where
you came from or what your ancestry |
was. Healing for all your wounds. Par
don for all your guilt. Comfort for al
Jour troubles.
Then, also, | counsel you, If you want
10 get back, to quit all your bad associa'
tons. One unholy intimacy will fill your
soul with moral dlstemper. II al the
ages Of the church there has not been an
instance where a man kept one evil asso-
ciate and was reformed. Among the
fourteen hundred million Of the race not
one instance. Go home today, open your
desk, take out letter paper, stamp and
envelope, and then write a letter some
thing like this:
MY old companions: start this day
for heaven. Until | an persuaded you
will join mt in this, farewell"
Then sign your name, and send the let
ter with the first post. Give up your bad
companions, or give up heaven. 1t is not
ten bad companions that destroy a man,
nor five bad companions. nor three bad
companions, but one. What chance is
there for that young man | saw along the
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hating in front Of a grog shop, urging
him to go in, he resisting, violently re-
sisting, until after a while they forced
him TO 90 in? 1t was a summer night,
and the door was left open, and | saw
the process. They held him fast, and
they put the cup TO his lips, and they
forced down the strong drink. What
chance is there for such a young man?
| counsel you also seek Christian adj
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help you. First of all, seek God; then
seek Christian counsel. Gather up ali
the energies of body, mind and soul, and,
appealing to God for success, declare this
day everlasting war against all drinking
habits, all gambling practices, ali houses
of sin. Half and half work will amount
to nothing; it must bea Waterloo. Shrink
back now and you are lost. Push on and
you are saved. A Spartan general fell a
the very moment Of victory, but he
dipped his finger in his W blood and
wrote on a rock near which he was dying,
Sparta has conquered" Though your
struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be
almost a death struggle, you can dip
your finger in your W blood and write
on the Rock of Ages Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ"
Oh, what glorious news it would be
for some Of these young men to send
home to their parents. They 60 to the
p~ostofice every day or two to see whether
there are any letters from you. How
anxious they are to hear.
Some one SAID to a Grecian general,
What was the proudest moment in your
lifeY' He thought q moment, and said
The proudest moment Of my life was
when | sent word home to my parents
that had gained the victory" And the
proLdest and most brilliant moment H.
your life will be the moment when you
can send word to your parents that you
have conquered your evil habits by the
grace Of God and become eternal victor.
On, despise not parental anxiety! The
time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will
go around the place where they used TO
watch you and find them gone from the
house. and gone from the field, and gone
from the neiShborhood. Cry IS loud for
forgiveness as you may over the mound
in the churchyard, they will not answer
Dead. Dead! And then you will take
out the white lock of hair that was cut
from your dear mothers brow
just before they buried her,
and you will take the cane with
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