Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-14

ouo Oh the MONDAY sky seeking it's prey
among the gibbets Rizpah rises, her long
,lalf nylng in the wind, and, swinging
n ,iel arms wildly about, Shoes. away the
plIo Oh prey until it retreats to it's eyric.
az III Sht She rests under the shadow of
ner tent and sometimes falls into O.
aroWslness or half sleep. But the step
VI lackal among the dry leaves or the
pahtlng hycna arouses her. and with the
Jury OF maniac she rushes out upon the
rock crying, ''Away! Away!" and then.
examining the gibbets to see that thew
stlll Keep their burden, returns again to
ner tent till some swooping wing from
the midnight Sky or some growing mon
ster on the rock again wakes her.
AND what are the political parties
OF THIS country doing for such cases?
ihey arc taking care not to hurt the
feelings of the jackals and blzzards that
foost on the shelves of the grog shops
ana boot above the dead. | am often
asked to what political party I belong,
and now declare my opinion of the
political parties to-day. Each one is
worse than the other, and the only con-
ISOLATION in regard to them is that thew
have putretied until they have no more
power to rot. Oh, that comparatively
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked!
she looked upon only seven of the slain.
American motherhood and American
wlfehood this moment are looking upon
seventy of the slain, upon seven hundred
OF the slain. upon seventy thousand of
the slain. Woe woe! woe!
MY only consolation OH this subject is
that foreign capitalists arc buying ND the
American brcwcries. The present own
ers see that the doom of that business is
coming as surely as that God is not dead.
They are unloading upon fofcign capital
ISIS, and when we can get these breweries
into the hands of tic people living on
the other side of the sea our political
parties will cease to be afraid of the
liquor traffic, and at their conventions
nominating presidential candidates will
put in their platform u plank as big as
the biggest plank of the biggest ocean
steamer saying: ''Rcsolvcd unani-
mously that we always have been and
always will be opposed to alcoholism
l bear down on you to-day with a
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph
said, ''Wherc is our Jesus?" and you
say, where is John? or where is
4 4ASiI VI WuCIc Is wen. J.
should not wonder if you found him after
! awhile. Where? In the same place
where Joseph and Mary found their
boy-n the temple. What do / mean
by that? ] mean. you do your duty
toward God and toward yourchild, and you
/ will find him after while in the kingdom
of Christ. Will you. say, 81 do not have
any way OF influencing my child?" Ian
| swer You have the most tremendous line
of influence open right before you. AS
you write u letter, and there are two or
three routes by which itmay go, bat you
want it to go the quickest route. and you
put on it, ''via Southampton or s.via
San Francisco" or s'via Marseilles," put
on your wishes about your child, 'svia
the throne of God" How long will such
good wish take to get to it's destina-
tion? Not quite so long as the millionth
part of a second. l will prove it. The
promise is, "Before they call | will an
swer" That means at your first mo-
tion toward such prayerfal exercise the
blessing will come, and if the prayer be
made at 10 o'clock at night, it will be
answered five minutes before 10, Be
| fOsn Fuiioy can L svitiqn., y
+ well, you say, am clear discouraged
Isabont my son, and l am getting on in
years, and fear will not live to see
him converted. Perhaps not. Ncvcrthe-
] less think you will find him in the tenn
pie, the heavenly temple. There has not
been an hour in heaven the last 100
wears when parents in glory had not had
announced to them the salvation of
! children whom they left in this world
profigltc. We often have to say, II
| forgot" but God has never yet once said,
1 1,f,
of thirty summers have grccned the top
of your grave that your son may be
found in the earthly temple. 1t may be
| ing the towers are chi'ning the mathis
of the gloriied in. heaven that you shall
lind him in the higher temple which has
mo need of candle or of sun, for the
4 Lord God and the Lamb are the light
thereof"
Cheer np, Christian father and mother!
Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary
! found their boy you will find yonrs-in
the temple. You see. God could not af-
ford to do otherwise. One of the things
He has positively promised in the Bible
| is that He will answer earnest and be-
| lieving prayer. Failing to do that He
would wreck His own throne, and the
i foundations of His palace would give
way, and the bank of heaven would sus-
pend payment, and the dark word of ''re-
pudiation'' would be written across the
Sky. and the eternal government would
be disbanded and God himself would be-
come an exile. Keep on with your
prayer, and you will yet find your child
| i'm hcltcmple, either the temple here or
the temple above.
Out on the Western prairics was a
happy but isolated home. Father,
mother and child. BY the sale of cattle
quite Ia large sum OF money was one
night in that cabin, and the father was
away A robber who had heard of the
money one night looked in at the win
dow, and the wife and mother of that
home saw him and she was helpless.
Her child by her side. She knelt down
and prayed among other things for all
prodgals who were wandering up and
| down the world. The robber heard her
prayer and was overwhelmed and en-
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