Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-21

planted, those fortresses are fully built
they may all do their work in twenty
four hours. The world sometimes de
rides the church for slowness of move
ment. Is science any quicker? Did i
not take science $3.50 years to find ou'
10 simple a thing as the circulation o.
the human blood? With the earth anc
the sky full of electricity, science tool
8, SEQ years before it even guessed tha'
there was any practical use that might
be made Of this subtle and mighty ele'
ment. When good men take possession
fall these scientific forces, and all these
agencies of invention, ! do not know
that the redemption of the world viii
be more than the work of hall a day.
Do we not read the queens speech al
the proroguing of parliament the day
before in London? IL that be so, Is ii
anything mar lOus to believe that in
twenty-four hours a divine communica-
ton can reach the whole earth? sup
pose Christ should descend on the ma.
tions-many expect that Christ viii
come among the nations personally
suppose that tomorrow morning the
Son of God from q lowering cloud
should descend upon these cities. Would
not that tact be known all the world
over in twenty-four hours? Suppose he
should present his Gospel in a few words
saying: II am the Son of God: 1 came
to pardon all your sins and to heal all
your sor~ow; 10 prove that | am a super
natural icing, | have just descended
from the clouds; do you believe me, and
do you believe me now?" Why, all the
telegraph stations Of the earth would bc
crowded as none of them were ever
crowded just after a shipwreck. | tell
you all these things TO show you it is
lot among the impossibilities or even
the improbabilities that Christ will con-
quer the whole earth, and do il in
~stanter, when the time comes. There
arc foretokenings in the air. Some
thing great Is going TO happen. / do no,
think that Jupiter is going TO run US
down or that the axle Of the world is
going to break; but i mean something
great for the worlds blessing and not
for the worlds damage is going TO hap
pen. | think the world has had it hard
enough. Enough, the London plaques.
Enough, the Asiatic choleras. Enough,
the wars. Enough the shipwrecks.
Enough, the conflagrations.
think our world could stand
right well a procession of pros
p~erities and triumphs. Better be on
the lookout. Better have your observa-
tories open toward the heavens, and tho
lenses of your most powerful telescopes
well polished. Better have all your
Leyden jars ready for some new pulsa-
ton Of mighty influence. Better have
new fonnts of type in your printing
pfEaaS To Gnt nm anVnn aEfnnn1inr GOOD
news. Better have some new banner
that has never been carried, ready for
sudden professions. Better have the
bells in your church towers we'll hung,
and rope within reach, that you may
ring out the marriage Of the Kings Son.
Cleanse all your court houses, for the
Judge Of all the earth may appear. Let
all your legislative halls be gilded, for
the great Lawgiver may be about TO
come. Drive of the thrones OF despot-
ism all the occupants, for the King of
heaven and earth may be about 70 reign.
The darkness OF the night is blooming
and whitening into the lilies of morning
cloId, and the lilies r~eddening into the
roses OF stronger day-tit garlands,
whether white or red, for him on whose
head are many crowns. THE day is at
hand!'
One more ray of the dawn ! see in
facts chronological and mathematical.
Come, now, do not let us do another
stroke of work until we have settled
n matter. What is going 10 be the
final issue Of this great contest between
sin and righteousness? Which is going
10 prove himself the stronger, God or
Diaooiu' I'D rnipn. tn he all
That matter settled. If we believe
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea, and
Micah and Malachi, and John and
Peter, and Paul and Christ, we believe
that it is going TO be all garden. But
let US have it settled. Let US know
whether We are working on toward a
success or toward a dead failure. If
there is a child in your house sick, and
you are sure he is going Ito get
we'll, you s~ympathize with present
pains, but all the foreboding Is gone.
If you are in a cyclone off the
Florida coast, and the captain as
sures you the vessel is staunch and
the winds are changing for a better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patiently
submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival. Now ! want to
know whether we are coming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat, OF OF to-
ward light and blessedness. You and
believe the latter, and if SO, every year
we spend is one year subtracted from
the worlds woe, and every event that
passes, whether bright or dark, brings
US one event nearer a happy consumma-
ton, and by all that is memorable in
chronology and mathematics | commend
you to good cheer and courage. Ii there
is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three, then
by every rolling sun we are coming on
toward a magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every sum
mer gone by brings US nearer unfading
a~rborescence. Put your algebra down
on the top Of your Bible and rejoice.
II it is nearer morning at 8 o'clock
than it is at 2; If it is nearer morning st
4 o'clock than it is at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn Of the worlds deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to go very
slowly, but the pendulum swings and the
bands move, and it will yet strike noon.
The sun and the moon stood stih once;
they will never stand still again until
they stop forever. III you believe arith-
-r<t, n uuo1l a a vnnr Rfhla you must