The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-16

serves, human iue 70 PfoionSON Des
do you realize what after all. is the
brevity OF our earthly state? In the
times when people lived seven hundred
and eight hundred years, the patriarch
Jacob said his years were few. Look
ing at the life Of the youngest person
in this assembly and %supposinR he lived
to be q n~onagenarian, how short the
time and soon gone, while banked up
in front of us is an eternity SO vast
that arithmetic has not figures
enough to- express its length. or
breadth, or depth, Or height For .
happy eternity you we're born unless
you run yourself.against the divine in.
tentions. II standing in your presence.
my eve should fall-uPon the feebleat
soul here as that soul will appear when
the world lets it up and Heaven en-
frances il, I suppose that / should be
50 orerpowered that I should drop
down as one dead Youihave examined
the family Bible and explored tho
family records and You. may have da-
guerrotypes of some OF the kindred Of
previous generations, you have had
photographs taken Of what you were
in boyhood or girlhood, and what you
were ten years later. and IL is very in
teresting To anyone 70 be able to look
back upon pictures of what he was ten,
or twenty or thirty ycarr ago; but have
you ever had a picture taken of what
you may be and what you will be IL
you seek after God and feel the Spirits
regcnerating power?
There is your soul, 10 pure hat all
the forces of diabolism could not spot
it with an inperfcction. There Is your
being. so mighty and so swift that
fight from Heaven TO Mercury or Man
or Jupiter and back again to Heaven
would not weary you. and a world on
each shoulder would not crush you An
eye that shall never shed a tear. An
energy that shall never feel a fatigue.
A brow hat shall never throb with
pain. You are young again, though
you died of decrepitude. You are we'll
again, though you coughed or shiversd
yourself into the tomb. Your every
day associates are the apostles aud
prophets and martyrs, and most exalt
ed souls. masculine and. feminine.
of all the centuries. The arch
angel to you no embarrassment God
Himself your present and everlasting
by. That is an instantaneous picture
what you may be. and what l am
ure some of you will be. II you re-
Alize that it is an imperfect picture. my
hpOlogy is what the apostle John snid:
I"lt doth not yet appear what we shall
|bc." ITO this end was born" II !
did not think so l would DC over
whclmed with melancholy.
The world does very well for a little
while. eighty. or 100 or $50 years, and I
think that human longevity may yet 10
improved up to that prolongatiOn, for
now there is SO little room between
cradle and our grave we cannot &C
complish much, but who would want
to dwell in this world for all eternityi
Some think this earth will finally he
turned into "A Heaven. Perhaps it
may, but it would have To undergo
radical repairs and thorough elimina-
tons and cvolutions, and revolutions
and transformations infinite, To make
it desirable for eternal residence. All
the east winds would have To become
west winds, and all the winters
changed To springtidcs, and the vol
canoes extingnishcd, and the e
changed to their beds. and the cpl
DENIES forbidden entrance. and tho
world SD fixed mp that think it would
take more TO repair the old world than
to make an cnircly new one. But l
must say that | do not care where
Heaven is if we can only get there,
whether a gardenizcd America, or an
emparadised Europe, or n world central
to the whole universe.
"ro this end was | born" II each
one of us could say that we would go
with faces shining and hopes exhilar-
ant amid earth's worst misfortunes and
trials. Only a little while and then the
rapture. Only a little while and then
the reunion. Only a little while and
then the TRANSPORTATION.
In the seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asiatic
barbarism and Vienna was especially
besieged. The king and his court had
fled and nothing could save the city
from being overwhelmed unless the
king of Poland. John Sobieski. to whom
they had sent for help, should with his
army come down for the relief. and
from every roof and tower the inhab-
itants of Vienna watched and waited
and hoped. until on the morning Of
September II the rising u threw an
unusual and unparalleled brilliancy.
IL was the reflection on the swords and
shields and helmets of John SObieski
and his army coming down over the
hills to the rescue. and that day, not
only Vienna, hut Europe was saved.
And see you not, We souls. besieged
with sin and sorrow. that light breaks
IN, the swords and the shields and the
helmets of divine rescue bathed in the
Using sun of heavenly deliverance?
ct everything else 60 rather than let
Ieaven 20. What a strange thing II
must be { feel ones self born to an
Earthly crown, but you have been born
10 a throne on which you may reign
after the last monarch of all the earth
shall have gone to lust l invite you
10 start now for your own corona
ion, to come In and take the
title deeds to your everlasting in
(critance. Through an impassioued
|rayer take Heaven and all its rap
burcs. What a poor farthing is all that
his world can offer you compared with
|ardon here and life immortal beyond
he stars, unless this side Of them. there
bc n place large enough and beautiful
nough and grand enough for all the
(ansomcd. Wherever il be, in what
World. whether near by or far away.
h this or some other constellation. hail
home of light and love and blcssedness!
Through the atoniug mercy Of Christ
e may all get there!
4 Useful Little Creature.
People are not always well-informed
pncernins the usefulness OF the toad.
he does not carry n jewel in his head
ne is quite as valuable rs il he did, for
he does a work no gardener can do in
clearing n garden of its insect pests.
MANY a gardener builds this little