The Red Cloud chief., 1890-05-09

with the skin Of theis teeth"
There src men who have been cap
sized ofevil psssionA and eapsised ID mid.
ocean. and they are . thousand milcs
away from any shore of help. They
have for years beea tryins to die their
way out. They have been digging
away. snd digging away. but they can
never b. delivered unless they will
hoist some signal Of distress. However
weak and feeble u may be Christ will
see II and bear down upon the helpless
craft and take them on board.
There arc others who In attempting
to come to God must run between .
great many business p~erplexities. II
man 90 over ~ business at ton o'clock
In the morning and omcs away at three
IN the afternoon he has some time for
religion; but how shalt you find time for
religious contemplation when you are
driven from sunrise ~ sunset, and have
h'cn for i've years going behind In busi.
ness. and are frequently dunned BY
creditors whom you can not pay, and
when, from Monday morn NJ until Satur.
dsy night. you are dodging bills that
You not meet?
You walk day by day in uncertainties
that have kept your brain on iire for the
past three years. Some With less bust.
ncss troubles than you have gone crazy.
The clerk has heard q noise In the back
counting o and gone In. and found
the chief man 81 the nrm o raving ma.
Mac; or the wife has heard the hang Of
q pistol In the back parlor, and gone In.
stumbling over the dead body OF her
husbands suicide. There are In this
house to-day three hundred mon pur-
sued. harassed, trUidcn down. and
scalpcd Of business perplexitics. and
which way ~ turn next they d. not
know. Now God Will not be hard on
You. lie knows what obstacles arc in
the why Of your being q Christian. and
your first effort In the rightdircction lie
will crown with success DO not let Satan,
with cotton bales and kegs and hOgsheads
and counters and stocks Of unusual goods
block up your way TO Heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the
girdles about your lOins. Take an agon.
izing look into the face Of God. and then
say: Here goes one grand effort for
life eternal and then bound away for
Heaven. escaping a. with tho skin Of
your teeth"
In tho last day II will Dc found that
Hugh Latimcr and John Knox and Huss
and Ridley were not the greatest mar
tyrs, but Christian men who went up In.
corrupt from the COMMUNICATIONS and
~perplexi;ics Of Wall street. Water street.
Pearl street. Broad street. State street
and Third street. On earth they wcre
called brokers, or stock jobbors. or m.
tailcrs. or Importers; but In licavcn,
Christian heroes.
find In the community . large class
Of men who have been No cheated. 20
lied about, W Outrageously wronged,
that they have lost their faith in evcry
thing. In . word where every thing
seems ~topsy.turvcy. they do not sec how
there can bc any God. They are con.
founded and frcnzicd and misanthropio
Elaborate arguments 10 prove to them
the truth Of Christianity, or the truth Of
any thing else. touch them nowhere.
Hear me. all such mon. I preach IN
you no rounded periods, no ornamental
discourse: but put my hand on your
shoulder and invite you into the peace
Of the Gospel. Here Is u rock on which
you may stand hrm. though the waves
lash against IL harder than the Atlantic,
pitching It's surf clear above Eddystonc
lighthouse. DO not charge upon God
all thcs" troubles of the world. AZ long
rs the world stuck to God. God stuck To
the world; but the earth seeded from
His government, and hence all these
outragcs and all these woes. tod In
good.
Try this Cod. W who have had the
blood hounds after you, and who had
thought that God had forgotten you.
Try Him. and see II lie will not help.
Try Him. and see II He will not pardon.
Try Him. and scc II lie will not save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom ~
sweet rs the Towering Of Christ's aisoc-
tons. Tho sun has no warmth com.
pared with the glow Of His heart. The
waters have ~ refreshment like tho
fountains thAs will slake the thirst oi
thy soul. Al the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrus, In
the cool mountain torrent the hunter
may b. coming through the thickes.
NiVuouN 'TwckiuK " stiVk u MS 1901,
he comes CLOSE by the stag. aims his gun,
draws the trigger, ana the poor thing
rears In it's death agony and falls back,
ward, its aNtlcrs crashing on the rockS
but tho painting heart that drinks from
III" ~a&er brNoks III Gods promise shalt
never 1 fatally wounded. and shall
never die.
This world IL . poor portion for your
soul. Oh business man! An Eastern
King had craven on his tomb two nm.
gers, represented As sounding upon each
other with = snap, and under them the
motts; IAN l. not worth that" Apioius
C1lius hanged himself because his
stewart informed him that he had only
eighty thousand pounds sterling left
All Of this worlds riches make but Q
small inheritance for . ssul.
Rseespisrr attempted TAI win the ap-
plAs~e III the world; but when hc vas
dytae . mn came rushing through
the crowd crying Ia HIN: "MurAsecr u
my Kindred. descend Ia hell. covered
with the curses Of every mother In
France" Many who have expected the