Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

banquet OF the skies TO the brolllDg or
fish for his own breakfast on the banks
OF the lake. From cmblazOued Chariots
OF eterEity to the saddle of a mules
back. The homage oherubic, scraphic,
ar~chaDgelic, to the paying of 62t cents
Of tax TO Caesar. From the deathless
country to a tomb built to hide human
Il solution. The uplifted wave Of Cali.
lee was high, but he had TO come down,
before, with his feet, he could touch ii,
and the whirlwind that rose above the
billow was higher yet, but he had to
come down before, with his lip, he could
kiss it into quiet. Bethlehem a STOPPING
down. Nazareth q STOPPING dawn
Death between two burglars q STOPPING
down. Yes, it was in %consonance with
bumilia,ions that had gone before and
with self abnegations that came after,
Wien on that memorable day in Herod' 8
Temple he stopped down and wrote on
the ground.
Whether the words he was writing
were in Greek, in Latin, or Hebrew, |
cannot say, for he knew all those Ian
guages. But he still ia STOPPING down
and with his finger writiDgon the ground;
in the winter in letters OF crystals, IN the
spring in letters of flowers. in summer in
golden letters of harvest, In autumn in
letters of fire on fallen leaves. How it
would sweeten up and enrich and EN-
blazon this world could we see Christs
caligrapby all over 1t. This world
was not flung out into space thous'
ands OF years ago II then
left to look out for itself. 1t
is still under the divine care. Christ
never for q half second took his hand OF
Of it, or il would soon be a snip wrecked
world. a defunct world, an obsolete
world, an abandoned world, a dead world.
Let there be light was said at the be-
ginning. And Christ stands under the
wintry skies and says, Let there be Snow
fakes to enrich the earth; and under the
clouds Of spring and says, Come yc bios
soins and make redolent the orchards;
and in september. dips the branches into
the vat OF beautiful colors and swings
them ia the hazy air. No whim Of mine
is this. without him was not anything
made that was made" Christ writing
on tie ground. If we could see his hand
in all the passing seasons, how it would
iilumine the word! Ali vcrdurc and
foliage would be %allegoric, and again we
would hear him say as of old, Consider
the lilies Of the field, how they grow
and we would not hear the whistle Of a
quail or the cawipg Of a raven or the
roundelay of a .thresher, without
saying. Behold the fowls Of the all, they
gather not into barns, yet your Heavenly
Father feedeth them and a Dominic
hen of the barpyard could not cluck for
her brood, yet we would hear Christ say.
ing "a Of old, How often would have
gathered thy children together, even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings and through the redolent hedges
we would hear Christ saying, 81 am the
rose of Sharon" we could not dip the
seasoning from the salt cellar without
thinking of she divine suggestion, Eye
are the SALT OF the earth. but II the salt
have lost its SAVIOR. il is fit for nothing
but to be cast out and trodcen under foot
of men, Let us wake up from our stu
pidity and take the whole world az q par
able. Then il with your gun ant pack
of hounds We start OFF before daNn snd
see the morning coming down of tie
hills TO meet us, we would Try cut With
the evangelist, THE day spring from or
high hath visited u.s." or caughJ in a
snow storm, while struggling home, eye.
brows and beard and apparel all covei.l
with the whirling flakes, WE would cry
out with David, Wash me and / shall
ne whittier than snow" IN a picture
gallery Of Europe, there is on the ceiling
an exquisite frcsco, hut people having 10
look straight up, it wearied and dizzied
them, and bent their necks slmost be
yond endurance, SO q great LOOKING glass
was put near the floor, and pow visl-
4.,, NH. ,-.J &, lNpI aoy,ly ,rnrrn TYfn.
dis mirror and th y see the frcocO ~
their feet. And 80 IueA Of all the heaven
Of Gods truth i reflected in tbs world
as in q mirror, and the things tn. are
above are CoDicd by things al around
us. What ri.4. have we TO throw away
| one Of GODS Bibles, aye, the frs Blbtc
ne ever gave inc racer We taik about
the Old Testament 9nd the New Tesla
| mrpt. but the Oldest Testament contains
the lessons of the natural world. some
people hkc the New TcetlmeDt 80 well
they discard the Old Testament. Shall
we like toe New Testament and the Old
Testament 50 wei rs 10 deprcciale The
| oldest; namely, thnt which was written
before Moses was pat atioat on The boat
OF leaves which was calkcd with asphalt
mm; or reject the Genesis ana the Ravc-
la.i1n that were written centuries before
Adam lost a rib end Coined a wife? No,
no; when Deity stoops down and writes
on the ground, let us read ii. | wouli
have no less appreciation Of the Blb!e on
paper that comes out Of the paper Mill,
but | would urge appreciation OF The
Bible in the grass, the Bible IN the Sand
hill, the Bible in the %gcranium, the
Bible in the asphodel. the Bible in the
lust. Some one asked an ancient king
whether he had seen the eclipse Of the
sun. NO" said ne, Il bare 81 much to
do on earth, ! have no time TO look at
heaven" And if our faculties were all
awake in the study Of God, we would
not have time to go nuch farther than
the first grass blade. l have no fear that
natural religion will ever contradict
| what we call revealed religion. l have
no sympathy with the followers Of
| Aristotle, who after the telescope was
invented, would not look through it, lest
it contradict the theories Of their great
master. / shall be glad to put agaipst
| one lid of the Bible the microscope, and
against the other lid Of the Bible the
| telescope.
But when Christ stopped down and
wrote on the ground, what did he write
The Pharisees did not stop to examine.
The towards, whipped of their W con
| ao;o~noa AnI v>ol1 .,all Nnfhinv will flaw