Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04


aims; and the "Grand March" OF God IN
the storm.
But for the soul still higher adaptar
tion-a fountain in which it NAV wash; a
ladder by which it may climb; song Of
endless triumph that it NAV sing; a
crown OF upfading light that it may
wear. Christ came to save it-came
with cross on His back; came with
spikes in His feet; came when no one elsa
"ouid come to do work no one else
would 40. See how suited to mans con.
altlon is what God has done for him (!
man IS sinner: here is pardon. He has
!ost Gods image; Christ retraces it. He
IS helpless; Almighty grace lis preferred.
lie is lost wanderer; Jesus brings him
nome He is blind; and at the touch oil
Elm Who cured Bartimeus eternal glories
stream into his soul. Jesus, 1 sing Thy
grace! Cure of worst disease! Hammer
TO smite eff heaviest chain Light fol
thlckest darkness! Grace divine! Dew.
lis scott at it and men reject it. but
Heaven celebrates 1T!
l wish you good cheer for the Ma.
tlonal health. Pestilence, that in other
years has come to drive out it's thousand
hearses to Greenwood and Laurel Hill,
has not visited our nation. 1t is glor.
lous thinning to be we'll. How strange
that we should keep our health when
one breath from marsh, or the sting OF
an insect, or the sleeping of foot, or
the falling of tree branch might fatally
assault our life! Regularly the lungs
work, and their motion seems to be a
spirit within us painting after it's immori
tallty. Our sight fails not, though the
alr IS so full OF objects which by one
touch could break out the souls window.
what Ship after a years tossing on the
sea, could come in with so little dam.
age as ourselves, though we arrive after
years voyage to-day?
wish you good cheer for the National
harvest. Reaping machines never
swathed thicker rye, and corn husker's
peg never ripped out fuller ear, and NOV
poles never bent down under sweeter
hay, ana wndmill's hopper never shook
out larger wheat. Long trains of white
covered wagons have brought the wealth
down to the great throughfares. The
garners are full, the storehouses are
overcrowded, the canals are blocked with
freights pressing down to the markets.
The cars rumble all through the dark
ness and whistle up the flagnan at dead
OF night to let the western harvests
come down to feed the mouths of the
great cities. A race of kings has taken
possession of this land-King Cotton,
King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice,
King Grass, King Coal.
wish you good cheer for civil and re-
llgious liberty. No official spy watches
our entrance here nor does an armed
soldier interfere with the honest utter.
ance of truth. We stand here to-day
with our arms free TO work and our
tongues free to speak. This Bible-it is
all unclasped. This puIpit-there is nc
chain about it. There is no swapping OF
musketry in the streets Blessed be
God that to-day we are free men, with
the prospect and determination Of always
being free. No established religion
Jew and Gentle, Arminian and Calvinist,
Trinitarian and Unitarian, Protestant
and Roman Catholic on the same footing.
Ii persecution should come against
the most unpopular of all the sects, be.
lieve that all other denominations would
band together and arm themselves, and
hearts would be stout, and blood would
be free, and the right of men to worship
God according to the dictates of their
consciences would be contested at the
point of the bayonet and with blood
| flowing up to the bits of the horses
| brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual
let consccraJcd lives be offered. When.
ever Gods light shines and Gods rain de-
sends, and Gods mercy broods, let the
thanksgiving arise!