The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-23

yrInT comes rlIcS rn~lIm add Keep %"
svcepinr our hand around the book
until the tips of the fingers clutch at
the words: 'In the beginning COO
created the heavens and he earth.
like an infidel a great deal better than
I do one of these namby-pamhy Chris
tian,w who hold "A part Of the truth and
let the rest 20. Iy miracle tod pre-
served this Bible just a, IT II, and 1t h
a Damascus blade. The S"vcrcnt test
10 (which a sword can bc put an a sword
factory i, To wind the blade around a gun
barrel lik. a ribbon, and then when the
sword is let loose it flies back 10 its own
shane. 80 the sword of Gods truth has
been fully tested, and it j. bent this
WAY and that way. and wound this
way and that way, but it always comes
back TO its own shape. Think of 1T. "A
book written eighteen centuries ago,
and some of IL thousands OF years ago,
and vet in our time the sale of this
Book * more than 20. 900 copies every
week and more than a million copies IA
year. | SAY now that a boob which Is
divincly inspired and divincly kepta and
diyincly scattered il "a weapon worth
holding a tight grip of. You give up
the Bible, you give up any part of 1t,
and you give mp pardon and peace, ami
life and Heaven. ia not Toe ashamed.
Young man, to have the world know
that Won are "A friend of the Bible. This
book is the friend of ali that is good,
and is the sworn enemy of all that is
bad. o, hold on 10 ii. DO not take
part. of r-t throw the rest away.
Hold on to I'll of it,
There are so many people now who
do not know. Iou ask them if the soul
is immortal, and they say: II guess it
is, / don't know; perhaps it is, perhaps
it isn't" Is the Bible true? well,
perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't; per-
haps it may bc iigurativcly, and per-
haps it may lie partly, and perhaps it
may not he at all" They deSpise what
they call the apostolic creed; but if
their own creed were written ont it
would read like this: al believe in
nothing, the maker of Heaven and earth,
and in nothing which it hath sent,
which nothing was born OF nothing.
and which nothing was dead and
buried and descended into nothing, and
arose from nothing, and assembled II
nothing, and now sitteth ut the right
hand of nothing. l believe in the holy
~agnostic church and in the communion
of nothingarianS, and in the forgiveness
OF nothing, and the resurrection nj
nothing. and in the life that never shall
bc. Amen
That is the creed of tcnso of thousands
of people in this day. If You have 4
mind 10 adopt such 4 theory | will not.
IL believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of Heaven and earth, and il
Jesus Christ. and in the holy catholi,
church, and in the communion of saints
and in the life everlasting. Amen" O.
when | see Eleazar taking such a Stou,
grip of the sword in the battle agains,
sin and for righteousness, come to the
conclusion that we ought TO take a
stouter grip OF Gods eternal truth, the
sword OF righteousness
As | look nj Elcazar's hand I also
notice his spirit of sad f~orgetfulncss
lie did not notice that fe hilt of the
sword was eating through the palm of
his hand. lie did rot know il hurt
him. As he went on into the conflict
he was So anxious or the victory tha,
he forgot himself nj that hilt nigh,
go never so decpl into the pain of his
hand it could NJ disturb him. His
hand clavc unit the swora." 4. my
brothers and ssers, let us 81 into the
Christian con ct with the spirit of alb
ncration. yto cares whether the
world praiscus or denounces us? What
do We c~ar.for misrepresentation or
abuse or ~.rSecution in a conflict
like this?Let us forget ourselves.
That man no is afraid of getting his
hand hurpill never kill a Phili~tine.
Who carewhcther You get hurt or not
IL YOU ge.he victory? oh. how many
Christian there are who are all the
time woSing about the way the world
treats sm. They are So tired and
they 2, 81 abused and they are SO
temr:c,whcn Eleazar did not think
whcthche hal 4 hand " an arm or n
foot. Il he wanted was victory.
We q how men forget themselves in
world achievement We have often
seen ncn who in order to achieve
worry success will forget all physical
fatiie and all annoyance aud all OBJ
stae. Just after the battle of York
toa, in the American revolution, n
xauNian, wounded. was told he must
Ee his limbs a~mputated, and they
y.cr, about to faSten him 10 the sur
table-for it was long before
.hc mcrciful discovery of an1stheticS
lie said: NO; don't fasten me to that
get me n violin" A violin vas
brought to him, and he said: Now go to
work as | begin to play" and for forty
during the awful pangs of am
putation, he moved not a muscle nor
dropped 4 note, while he played some
sweet tune.
Oh, is il not strange that with the
music of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and
with this grand march of the church
militant on the way to become the
triumphant, we cannot forget
ourselves and forget all pang and all
sorrow and all persecution and all per-
We know what men &C
complish under worldly opposition.
Men do not shrink back for antagonism (
for hardships o, how much men