The Red Cloud chief., 1890-05-16

never wrote an OratortO. ana that
Phidias never chiseled q statue.
because We can not accomplish IL
ourselves. We are not to conclude hat
others may not. There are In immen.
sity great ranges Of ulists which have
proved. under closer telescope srrutiny.
to be- the >torchouse OF worlds. and I do
NOT know, but from that passage in
James, which. Ia some Of us. IL vet
misty and dim, there may roll out % sew
Heaven and q new earth. ''The prayer
Of faith shall ave the sick. The faith
curis,s nay IN this wal against disease,
be- only diminishing before = general
engagement. In which all the maladics
of earth shall ~ routed. SuSly allo-
pathy ant homeopathy and by iropa,hy
and eclecticism nssd reinforcement from
somewhere. Why M, from tir faith
and prayer 81 the consecrated, The
mightiest school ~, medicine may vet
be the school Of Christ do nos know
but that diseases. nov by all s,hools
pronounced incurabs,. may give wy un-
der gospel bombRrdmcnt. ! do not know
but that the day may cVme when faith
and prayer shall RAJ =, she dead. Strauss
aud Woolston and Sptnoxa and Hume
and Schlcicrmacher rejected the
miracles Of the fac past | do
not propose TO be like shem and reject
the miracles ~ the far fsture. This I
know. the Chris. Of Ascension day il
mightier than any natural laws. for on
the day Of which I speah lie trampled
the strongest Of them all Law Ia
mighty, but who lie made IL Is mighticr.
Drive out iatalism from your theology.
and give grace the throne.
Standing to-day on the Ascension peak
of Mount Olivet ] am also g1addcncd at
the closing gesture, the iast gesture
Christ ever made. 'IIc lifted up His
hands and blessed them" saws the in.
spired account Of our Lords departure.
am 50 glad H." lifted mp His hands.
GESTURES are often more significant
than words, attitudes thar arguments.
Christ had mad. a gesture OF con.
tempt when with Ills finger He wrote
ON th" ground; gesture Of rcpulsion
when lie said; Get thee behind me,
satan gesture OF condemnation when
Tie said: ''Woc INTO you. rharsccs and
hypocri,c,.' But his last gesture Is
gesture of bcncdiction. lie lifted up
his hands and blessed them. His arms
AR" extended and the palms Of His hands
turned ~downn and 80 lie dropped
bcncdiction HF6n Olivct. bcnediction
upon Palestine, bcncdic,ion upon all the
earth.
The cruel world took Him in at the
start IN a cradle Of straw. and AT last
thrust Him q u with the point
~ the spear: but bcncdiction. As
cNnding until beneath lie saw ON one
side the bethlehem. where they put
Him among the cattle. and Calvary ON
che other side. where they put Him
the thieves as far as the cxcited
and intensified vision Of the group On
GAiyct could see Him. and after lie was
~ far up they could no longer hear His
words they saw the gesture OF tho
ou,sprcad hands, the bcncdiction.
And that is His attitude to-day.
His bcnediction upon the worlds
climates, and they are changing and will
keep on changing until the atmosphere
shall he a commingling OF October and
Jane. lencdiction upon the deserts
till they whitcn with lily and blush
with ros" and yellow with cowslip and
emerald with grass. Icncd elton upon
governments till they become more Just
and humane. liencdiction upon nations
ull they kncel in prayer. lcncdiction
upon the whole earth until every
mountain il an Olivct 81 conservation
and every lake n Galilcc on whose mo
sale ~ crystal and opal and sapphire
divine splcndors shall walk. q, take
the bencdiction Of His pardon. sinners
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and sinners abandoned. Take the
bcncdic,ioh VI His comfort all 70
broken hearted under bcrcav ement,
and p~ri,a,ion. and myriad woes.
Take his bencdiction all yc sick
beds, whether under acute spasms
Of pain or In long protracted invalidism.
For orphanage, and childlcssness and
" idow hood . bcnediction. For cradles
and trundlc beds and rocking chairs of
o~,togcnarians . henediction. For life
and for death. for time and for eternity,
for earth and for HEAVIER = benedic,ion.
Sublimcst gesture ever made, the last
gesture of our ascending Lord. And
lie lifted up His hands and blrsaed
them"
l. our attitude the same l. /, wrath
W " Nahuu'SSs ~ ul0bbllsVt wv
Chris,i,m" God give US the grace os the
open palm. open upward to get the ben
~dic,ion. open downward Ia p%ronouncea
bcncdic,ion. A lady MAS passing al"ng
= street and suddenly ran against
\ ragged boy. and she said. II
beg your pardon. my bOy. did
not mean Ia run against you:
I am very sorry" And the hoy
,oos on the piece Of y cap he had
upon his head and said: "Hsu have my
parding, lady. and you may ran aRis mo
and knock me clear down: I voa't care"
And turning To q comrst~ he said:
THAT nearly took me Oh my feet No
body ever asked my padding before"
kinaness. Kindness. I'M the world
with H. There has always ts~n too
much disregard for othssN illustrated
In 1880. In England. shea ". M arr~s
Of marshes were drainrl for health and
for crop raising and sAc sps~,smcn de-