Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-05
SIN like UNTO A BOIL
DR.. Talmage Discourses on
the Efficacy Of
Prayer.
Timid and Cowardly Chris
tians Who Fear Rid
icule.
A Great Obstacle to the Pro-
gress Of the Cos
pei.
Instances Where Prayer Has Been
Answercd-A Personal
Experience.
THE KINGS BOIL.

IHE hlNG > BOIL.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 23.-At the 'Taber-
nacle today the Rev. Il. Witt Talmage,
ID. d., read and ~expounded a chapter
about the multiplication Of loaves and
fishes. The opening hymn was:
"The morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears"
DR.. Talmage took az the subject of his
sermon, "A Bad Boil Cured" The text
was;
heal thee. And Isaiah said Take a lump OF
figs. And they took and laid 1t on the boil,
and he recovered. - Kings Xxx, D, Z.
Luxurious living is rot healthy. The
second generation of kings and queens
and lords Is apt to be brainless and in
valid. The second crop Of grass is
almost always short. Royal blood is gen
orally scrofulous. You will not be sur
prised, then, to hear that King Hezekiah
had disorders which broke out in a car
buncle, virulent and dcathful. The Lord
told him he must die; he did not want TO
die. lie turned his face to the wall, SO
that his prayer would not be interrupted,
and cried to God for his life. God heard
the prayer and answered il, saying; BE.
tid, 4 WI htd1 t1iCt. ioL NhNit NhC
human inst~rumentality to be employed.
This carbuncle needed a '~'cataplasm. -
This is a tough word to use TO show how
much we know. If in the pulpit We
always used words the people understood,
we never should have any reputation for
learning. Wen, this carbunclc needed a
cataplasm, which is a poultice. Your
old mother, who doct0red her own chill.
L.. g. A., H,.,, .SL,xN ~ ,rCtnyHta v.r
not as plenty as they are now, will tell
you that the very best poultice is a tig,
and that was what was used upon the
carbuncle of King Hezekiph. The power
Of God, accompanied by this human in
strumentality, cured the king.
THE WIsDOM OF MEN.
In this age of discovery. when men
know so much it almost kills them, and
write SO wisely it almost kills us, it has
been found out that prayer to God is a
dead failure. All things are arranged &C
cording to memorable law. There is no
use in praying TO God for rain in time Of
drought. The weather probabilities
in the morning papers Will decide the
question, rain or no rain, and the whole
nation in prayer before God would not
bring down a single drop. | an not now
speaking of an imaginary theory, but of
that which is believed by O,O0O times
10, 600 men.
If sickness comes TO your household, il
will depend entirely upon ventilation,
good diet, and the skill of the doctors, as
to whether your child gets well. The
father might pray all day and the mother
might pray ali night-it would not have
any effect upon the case. II squllls, bel
~ ..,.,r,, n,l ry,n1 do tho work
your child will get well; if not, not.
There is cast-iron God seated at the
head of the universe, holding in the cold
grasp of His metal fingers a band of law
from which nothing can break away.
Men and women of God, at this point
the great battle of Christianity is to be
fought. The great foe of Christianity to-
dav is rationalism, that comes out from
our schools, and universities, and maya
zines and newspapers, to scott at Bible
truth and caricature the old religion Of
Jesus. 1t says Jesus is not God, for 1t is
impossible to explain how he can be di-
vine and human at the same time.
The Bible is not inspired, for
there are things IN it that they
don't like. Regeneration is a farce;
there is good enough in us, and the only
tUlUR Is W DilDE II ~
the word-development. The Garden
of Eden is a fairy story, and no more to
b. believed than the Aribian Nights, or
Gulliver's Travels, or Robinson Crusoe.
We all started as balloons, and are blood
relations to that monkey squirmng about
ON the top of that hand organ. Lazarus
was not dead when Christ pretended to
raise him; he was only playing dead.
The water was not changed into wine at
the wedding, but Christ brought in some
wine that he had found elsewhere to
make up the deficiency. Christ did no
walk on the sea, but or the shore, so
near that it seemed as if he really were
on the water,
CowARDLY CHRISTIANS.
What is still more alarming is, tina,
Christian men dare nc uIeet this ridicule.
There is not one Cerist'rn man in five
that an, unhlArcned, stand in the pres
ence of all tt, raillery, saying: Il be-
lieve in the whole Bible, and in every
single statemeL. lia. i makes" Christian
men try to soften the Bible down to sui
the skeptics. The skeptics sheer at the
dividing of the Red sea; and the Christian
goes to explain that the wind blew a hur
ricane from one direction a good while
until all the water piled up; and besides
that it was low water anyhow, and 81
the Israelities went through without any
trouble. Why not be frank and say: 6.
believe the Lord God Almighty came t
the brink of the Red Sea, and with BIZ
right arm swung back the pillows on TIT
right side, and with his left arm swung
back the pillows on the left side, and thu
abashed water stood up hundreds of fee
high, while through their CLASSY wall thu
sea monsters gazed with affrighted eye
on the passing lsrselitesy' The ration
alist came to you saying: How abeu
Jonah and the whaleY Do you really be
lieve that fish storyr' There were neve
30 many Nantucket fishermen after ON
whale as there have been nationalist
finging harpoons at the Mediterraneai
sea monster, and from that n whal'
they have got enough oil to light 1000
souls to pcrdition. A skeptic tells yo'
that Jonah would have been killed in tn
process OF swallowing. and that he coult
=. orvhnu have lived three dRya In