Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-11
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OF peace had in the Roman empire
that boosted OF the number Of people
1t had mastered, that prided itself on
the number Of the slain, that rejoiced
at the trembling provinces. Sicily
and Corsica and Sardinia and Mace
donna and Egypt had bowed to her
sword and crouched ut the cry
OF her war eagles. She gave her
chief honor TO Scipio and Rabius
and Cesar-all men of blood. Whas
contempt they must have had there
for he penniless, unarmed Christ in
the garb Of . Nazsrene, starting out
to conquer all nations. There never
was a place on earth where that word
peace sounded 50 Extensively TO tho
empire. They did not want peace,
The greatest music they ever heard
was the clanking chains Of their cap
tives. II all the blood that has been
shed in battle could be gathered to-
'gether it would upbear a navy. The
club that struck Abel TO the earth has
its echo In the butcheries Of all ages.
Edmund Burke, who gave no wild
statistics, said that there had been
spent in slaughter S35, 000, DOC, 600, or
wha: would be equal 10 that; but he
EOb btth INV ia bAh4'nf WYNN 80
III own day, in America, we expended
So, 600, 0O0, 600 in civil war.
oh, IL we could now take our position
on some high point and see the worlds
armies march past. What a spectacle 10
would be! There go the hosts of Israel
through a score of Red seas-one OF
water, the rest Of blood. There Cyrus
and his army, with infuriate yell rejoice
furr nv,a Tho foll 90 shn rrofaa ~ nahu-
Ion. There goes Alexander, leading
forth his hosts and co~nquering all the
world but himself, the earth reeling
with the battle cash OF Arbela and Per-
sepolis. There goes Ferdinand Cortes,
leaving his butchered enemies on the
table lands once fragrant with vanilla
and covered over with groves of DOVER
ing cacao. There goes the great French
man, leading his army down through
Egg pt like one OF its plaques, and up
mp through Russia like one Of its own
icy blasts. Yonder is the grave trench
under the shadow of S~ebastopol. There
are the ruins Of Delhi and Allahabad,
and yonder are the inhuman Sepoys and
the brave regiments undef Havelock
avenging the insulted flag of Britain;
while cut right through the neart of my
ldlAfS anu 10 a bItuCu II "ulCu buoIo Alu
l 1000, 900 northern and southern dead.
On, the tears! Oh, the bloodl Oh,
the long marchesl oh, the hospital
wounds! Oh, the martyrdom! Oh, the
dead! But brighter than the light that
flashed on all these swords and shields
and musketry is the light tina; fell on,
Bethlehem, and louder than the bray OF
the trumpets, and the neighing Of the
chargers, and the crash of the walls.
and the groaning OF the dying armies,
is the song that unrolls this moment
from the sky, sweet as though all the
bells of heaven rung a jubilee, Peace
on earth, good will toward men" On,
when will the day come-God hasten itt
the sword shall be turned into
pillow shares, and the fortresses shall be-
into churches, and the men
blood battling for renown shall be-
good soldiers or Jesus Christ, and
the annon now striking down whole
columns of death shall thunder the
victories OF the truth.
When we think OF the whole world
saved we are apt TO think of the few
people that now inhabit it. Only q
very few compared with the population
TO come. And what a small part culsi-
waited. DO you know that IL has been
automatically estimated that three
fourths of Europe is yet all barren
ness, and that nine hundred and
ninety-one one-thousAnath part OF
the entire globe is uncultivated? This
is all 70 be cultivated, ali INHABITED
and all gospelized. oh, what tears Of
repentance when nations begin TO weepl
Oh, what applications when continents
begin to pray. Oh, what rejoicing
when hemispheres begin to singi
Churches will worship on the places
where this very hour smokes the blood
of human sacrifice, md wandering
through the snake-infested jungles Of
Africa Christ's heel will bruise the SER
pent's head, oh, when the trumpet OF
salvation shall be sounded every
where and the nations are redeemed .
light will fall upon every town brighter
than that which fell upon bethlehem.
and more overwhelming than the song
that fell on the pasture fields where the
fiocks fed, there will be a song louder
than the storm-lifted oceans, GLORY to
God in the highest" and from all
nations and kindred and people and
tongues will come the response, s'And
on earth peace. good will toward msn."
On this Christmas eve | bring you good
tidings OF great Joy. Pardon for all
sins, comfort for all trouble and life for
the dead. Shall we now take this
Christ into our hearts? The time is
now passing. This is the closing OF the
year. How the time speeds by. Put
your hand on your heart-one, two.
three. Three times less it will heat
Life is passing like gazeiiss
over the plain Sorrows hover
like petrels over the sea. Death swoops
like a vulture from the mountains.
Misery rolls up to our ears like waves.
Heavenly songs fall to us like stars.
L wish you q merry Christmas, not
with worldly designations, but merry
with Gospel gladness, merry with par
doned sin, merry with hope OF reuniou
In the skies with all yoa loped ones
who have preceded You. In that grand
est and best sense a merry Christmas.
And God grant that in our final mo-
ment We may have as bright a vision az
die the dying girl when she said:
''Mo-her"-pointing with her thin
white hand through she window
Mother. what is that beautiful land
out yonder beyond the mountains, the
high mountains" s'Oh." said the
mother, my darling, there are no
mountains within sight OF our home 70