Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-21
"THE SUNRISE"
The Subject Of Dr.. ~TaImage's
Sunday Morning Discourse.
The Brooklyn Divine Is at Home
After q Profitable Lecture
Trip Throughout tho
Northwest.

sAc hymn otRinHlHB,
Welcome, sweet day Of rest.
That saw the Lord arise,
was sung with finel effect. nr. Tai
IMAGES subject was: 'The Sunrise"
and his text; 1.-THE day is at hand"
Romans xiii, 12. He said:
Back from the mountains and the
seaside, and the springs, and the farm
house, your check bronzed and your
spirits lighted, | hail you home again
with the words Of Gehazi to the Shu-
nammite; "Is it we'll with thee? is it
well with thy husband? is it well with
the child?' On some faces / see the
mark of recent grief, but all along the
track Of tears / see the story Of resur-
rection and reunion when all tears are
done; the deep blowing Of the keel, fol-
lowed by the fash of the phosphores-
ence.
Now that I have asked you In regard
to your welfare, you naturally ask how
I am. Very we'll, thank you. Whether
It was the bracing air of the Colorado
MOUNTAINS A-sNbb lttl dDONp JIG 1tNtl "a
the sea, or the tonic atmosphere of the
Pacific coast, or a bath in the surf OF
Long Island beach, or whether it is the
Joy of standing in this great group Of
warm hearted friends, or whether 1t is
Q new appreciation Of the goodness Of
God, ] canno tell simply know am
grandly and g~loriously and inexpressi-
bly, happy. 1t was said that John Moi
fatt, the great Methodist preacher, oc-
casiopally got fast in his ermon and
20 eXtricate himself would cry, HAL
lelujah!' ] am in no such predicament
today, but / am full OF the same
rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this
morning on a new ecclesiastical year, /
wantto give you the key note of my
next twelve months ministry. / want
20 set it to the tune of Antioch, Ariel
and ~Coronati~1. Some time ago We had
q new stop put in this organ-a new
trumpet stop-and / want to put a new
trumpet stop into my mons
In all our Christian work you and !
want more of the element of gladness.
That man has no right TO say that
Christ never laughed. Do you suppose
bAah hp was gum ~ AN NbbdSl1 III
Cana or Galilee? Do you suppose Christ
was unresponsive when the children
clambered over his knee and shoulder
at his W invitation? Do you suppose
that the evangelist meant nothing when
he said of Christ: HE rejoiced in
spirit?" Do you believe that the divine
Christ who pours all the water over the
rocks at Nernal falls, Yosemite, does
not believe in h sparkle and gallop
and tumultous JOY and rushing raptures
of human life? i believe not only that
che morning laughs, and that the noun
tains laugh, and that the seas laugh,
and that the cascades laugh, but that
Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh
and q tear into an alembic, and assay
them, and test them, and analyze them
and you will often find as much of the
pure gold OF religion in a laugh as in a
tear. Deep spiritual JOY always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wes-
aey said he was sure Of a good religious
Impression being produced because Of
what he calls the great laughter he saw
among the people. Goddess merriment
as blasphemy anywhere, but expression
of Christian JOY is appropriate every
where.
Moreover. the outlook of the world
ought TO stir us TO gladness, Astrono-
mers recently disturbed many people by
telling them that there is danger of
stellar collision. We have been told
through the papers by these astronomers
that there are worlds coming very near
together, and tina we shall have plaques
and wars and tumults and perhaps the
worlds destruction. Dc not be scared.
If you.haye ever stood at a railroad cen
ter, where ten or twenty or thirty rail
tracks cross each other, and seen that
by the movement Of the switch one or
two Inches the train shoots this way or
that, without colliding, then you may
understand how fifty worlds may come
within an inch of disaster, and that inch
he as good as q million miles. IL a hu-
IMAM switch tender can shoot the trains
this way and that, cannot the hand that
for thousands of years has upheld the
universe keep our little world out of
harms way? Christian biologists tell
us that this world was millions Of years
in building. Well, now, / do not think
God would take millions of years 10
build q house which was to last only
5000 years. There is nothing in the
world or outside the world, terrestrial or
astronomical, to excite dismay. l wish
that some stout Gospel breeze might
scatter all tho malaria of human fore
iboding. The sun rose this morning at
about half hast 5, n think that Is
Just about tho hour in the worlds his
story. 1.-THE day is at hand"
The first ray Of the dawn / see in the
gradual substitution of diplomatic skill
for human butchery. Within the last
TWENTY-FIVE years there have been inter
national differences which would have
brought q shock of arm In any other
day, but which were peacefully adjusted,
the pen taking the place at the sword.
That Alabama question in any other
age OF the world would have caused war
between United States and England.
How was It settled? BY men-of-war of
the Narrows, or of the Mersey? BY the
Gulf stream Of the ocean crossed by a
gulf stream of human blood? BY the
pathway OF nations i~ncarnadined? No.
IA few wise men 60 into o quiet room at
Geneva. talk the matter over; telegraph
Ito Washington and to London: GAN
settled" Peace. Peace. England
pays to the United States the amount