The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-23

Telling the world how badly he feefA
and describing the rheumatism that he
got in prison. the rheumatism inhicting
his limbs, or the neuralgia piercing BIS
TEMPLES, or the thirst that fevers MS
tongue? O., no. His last words are the
battle shout for C~hristendom: Il am
now ready to be offered, and the time
of nv departure is at hand; l have
fought the good fight" And so his
diving hand clave unto the sword.
I preach this sermon as a tonic. 1
want you TO hold the truth with in
eradicable grip. and 1 want you 10
strike so hard for God that it will react,
and while you take the sword the
sword will take you.
You noticed that the officers of the
northern army a few years ago assem-
bled at Denver, and you noticed that the
officers of the southern army had as
sembled at Lexington. Soldiers com.
ing together are very apt 10
their experiences and TO show their
scars. Here is a soldier who pulls up
his sleeve and says: There, / was
wounded in that arm and shows the
scar. And another soldier pulls down
his collar and says: There, / was
wounded in the neck" And another
soldier says: II have had no use Of
that limb since the gunshot fracture"
O. my friends, when the battle OF
life Is over, and the resurrection has
come, and our bodies rise from the
dead, will we have on us any scars of
bravery for God? Christ will be there
all covered with scars. Sears on In
brow, scars on the hand, scars on the
feet, sears all over the heart won in the
battle of redemption. And all Heaven
will sob aloud with emotion as they
look at those sears. Ignatius will be
there, and he will point out the place
where the tooth and the paw of the
lion seized him in the Coliseum,
and John IIuss will tc there, and he
will show where the coal first scorchcd
the foot on that day when his spirit
took wing of flame from Constance.
Mcmillan and Campbell and freeman,
American missionaries i'm India, will be
there.-the men who with their wives
and children went down in the awful
massacre at Cawnpore, and they will
show where the daggers Of the Sepoys
struck them. The Waldenses will bo
there, and they will show where
their bones We're broken on that day
when the Piedmontese soldiery
pitched them over the rocks Aud
there will be those there who
took care of the sick and who looked
after the poor, and they will have evil
dences of earthly exhaustion. And
Christ, with Ills SCARED hand waving
owe the SCARED multitude, will say:
You suffered with Me on earth; now
be glorified with Ne in Heaven" And
then the great organs of eternity will
take up the chant, and ST. John will
play: These are they who came out
Of great tribulation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood Of
of the lamb"
But what will your chagrin and mine
be if it shall be told that day on the
streevs of Heaven that on earth we
shrank back from ali toll and sacrifice
and hardship. No sears to show the
heavenly soldiery. Not so much as one
ridge on the palm of the hand to show
that, in the battle for God and the
truth. we just once graspcd the sword
! SO firmly. and struck SO hard hat the
word and the hand stuck together, and
be hand clave to the sword. q, my
ord Jesus. rouse us to Thy service.
Thy saints in all tni' glorious war
Shall conquer though they die;
They see the triumph from afar.
And seize II with the eye
When that iIlustrious day shall rise.
4 n al Thy armies shine
= In robes of victory through the skies,
Tho rnrY shall be Thinc.