The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-29

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. all ivory ~keyboards, all organ diapasons
and God will gather up these swee
sounds after awhile and he will mingl
them In N great harmony, and tn,
Memberships and the B%eethovans an,
the Mozarts Of the earth will join thei
voices and their musical instruments
and soft south wind and loud lunge,
curoclydon will sweep the great organ
pipes, and you shall see Gods hant
striking the keys and Gods foot tramp
ing the pedals In the great oratorio O
the ages.
So all artistic and literary advantage,
arc In the Christians right. / do MOI
care on whose wall the picture hang,
or on whose pedestal the sculpturS
stands IL belongs TO Christians. The
Bierstadts and the churches are all
working for us. "All are yours" Tn,
Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gal.
lerics OF Naples, and Rome, and Venice
they are all to come into the posses.
sion of the church Of Jesus Christ. We
may not now have them on our walls,
but the time will come when the writ
of ejcctmcnt will be served and the
church possess everything. All parks.
oil fish-ponds, all %colors, all h~arvests-
all, ''all are yours"
Secondly, 1 remark that the right To
full temporal support is In the Chris
tian's name. IL Is n great affair to feed
the world. just think of the fact that,
this morning, 1000, 900, 900 of our race
breakfastcd at Gods table! The com
missary department of 100. 900 men in
an army will engage scores of people:
but just think Of n commissary depart
ment of a world! Think of the gather
ing up from the rice swamps, and the
tea fields and the orchards and the Gsh-
cries! No one but God could tell how
many bushels IL would take TO feed five
continents.
Then to clothc all these people how
many furs must be captured, and how
much flax broken and how much cotton
picked. just think Of the infinite ward
robe where 1000, 900, 900 people get their
clothes. God spreads the table first Of
all for His " children. OF course that
would be n very selfish man who would
not allow other people 10 come and sit
at his table sometimes; but, first of all,
the right is given to Christian people,
and therefore 1t Is extreme folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of
whose hand did the cormorant
pick its food? Whose loom
wove the buttcrfly's wing? Who
hears the hawks cry? II God takes
care of a walrus, and a Siberian dog.
and wasp, will He not take care of you?
Will a father have more regard for rep
tiles than for his sons and daughters?
II God clothes the grizzly bear, and the
panther, and the hyena, will He not
clothe His WI children? Come, then,
this morning and get the key of the in.
finite s%torehousc. Come and get the
key Of the infinite wardrobe. Here
they arc-all the keys. "All are
yours" So all the vicissitudes of this
life, so far rs they have any relig-
ious profit, are in the right of the Chris
tian. IL you should stand along the
Allegheny mountains, especially near
what is called the Horseshoe" you
would have u train of cars almost
doubling on itself, and sitting in the
back car you see u locomotive coming
as you look out Of the window, and you
think 1t is another train when it is only
the front Of the train In which you are
riding; and sometimes you can hardly
tell whether the train is going toward
Pittsburgh or toward Philadelphia, but
1t is on the track, and IL will reach the
depot for which II started, and all the
passengers will be discharged ut the
right place.
Now, there are a great many sharp
curves in life. Sometimes we seem to
be going this way, and sometimes we
seem to be going that way; but IL we
are Christians we are on the right track
and we are going to come out ut the
right place. DO not get worried, then,
about the sharp curve.
A sailing vessel starts from New York
for Glasgow. Does it go in n straight
line? o, no. II changes its track every
little while. Now, you say: This YES.
sci, instead of going to Glasgow, must
be going to Havrc, or it is going to
Hamburg, or 1t is going to Marseilles."
No, no. 1t Is going to Glasgow. And
in this voyage Of life we often have To
change II track. One storm blows us
this way, and another storm blows us
that way; but lie who holds the winds
in his fist will bring us into n haven of
everlasting rest just at the right time.
DO not worry, then, II you have TO
change tack.
One Of the best things that ever hap.
pened to Paul was being thrown off his
horse. One Of the best things that ever
happened to Joseph was being thrown
into the pit. The losing of his physical
eyesight helped John Milton to see the
battle OF the angels. One of the best
things that ever happened to Ignatius
was being thrown 10 the wild beasts in
the Coliseum, and while 80, 900 people
were jeering at his religion he walked
up to the fiercest of all the lions and
looked him in the eye, as much as to
say: Here ! am, ready to be devoured
for Christ's sake" All things work to-
gether for your good. II you walk
the desert the mama will fall and the
sea will part. II the feverish torch of
sickness is kindled over your pillow by
its light you can read the promises. IL