The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-22

no. 1ney ar 0ralnUic trccS'
they are willows, alwas mourning; OF
wild cherry trees, yielding only the
bitter; or crab apple gees, producing
only the sour, wh-e God would
have US all flourish like the palm
tree. Planted in the Bible that tree
always means u~setulress.
-Notsce that it Fasja beautiful and
lawful robbery tree that
helped make up Qrist's triumph on the
road to Jerusale4 that Palm Sunday.
The long, broad, green leaves that were
strewn under tht feet Of the colt and in
the way of Chr$t were torn of from
the trees. Whit apity, some one might
say. that the$ stately and graceful
trees should y despoiled. The glorJ
of the palm trA vas appropriately sad
riAced for the Estiour's triumphal pro
cession. So Railways was, so 1t Away
will be in tits 'world-nO worthy trt
umph OF any sort without the t~earin(
down o. something else. The greate4
pictures of he world had in their ricf
est c~oloringthe blood Of the artists WI
made them American independenSe
was triumohant, but it moved on ovt
the lifeless forms of tens of THOUSAND $
of forms Of men who fell at Bunl$ b
Hill and Yorktown and the battH 5
between. which were the hemorrhad
of the nation. The kingdom 1
God advances in all the earth, butt i;
must bebrer the lives of missionafi lies
who diect malaria in the junglesg u
Christih workers who preach and Pray
and tot and die in the service. THE
Saviopf triumphs in all directions Plat
beauty md strength must be torn down
from fe palm trees of Christian bro
ism and conservation and thrown IN bis
pathway. To what better use ctuid
those balm trees on the southern 81 oal
der dMount Olivet and clear DOWN nto
the Wiley of Gethsemane put il
bra,ehes than surrender them forf
maihg Of Christ's journey towar&e fe-
ruSjem the more picturesque, the tre
maoorable and the more triumphh mt:
Ard to what better use could we pu,
out lives than into the sacrifice joa
Cifist and his cause and the happiness
dtour fellow creatures? Shall wa moi
! willing to be torn down that right
eousness shall have triumphant tay:
Christ was torn down for us. Cab we
lot afford to be torn down for HirS /,
Christ could suffer so much for US car
we not suffer q little for Christ?
The process is going on every moepen'
In all directions. What makes thai
have such hard work to find thu
hymn to-day? He puts on his spect scle:
md holds the book close up, and her
holds it far off, and is not quitd' SUR
whether the number Of the hymn y Isl
,r 100, and the fingers with which HI
surns the leaves are very clumsy H.
q good deal, although once
as an arrow and his eyeS were
keen as a hawks, and the hand ie of
tered to his bride on the marriaks day
was of goodly shape and as God miDde it
[ will tell you what is the natter
Forty years ago he resolved his family
should have no need, and his dfildrer
should be well educated and suf4 X none
Of the disadvantages of laeko Sd collins
from which he had suffered for q life
time and that the wolf of hunger SHOULD
never put its paw on his door sill, ant
for forty or fifty years he Ms beer
off from the palm fee OF
his physical strength and manly
form branches to throw in the : athwa.
Of his household. 1t has . st hin
and brain and health snd eye
and there have been tn sted of
more years from his life than sny maj
in the crowd on the famous Helml Sun
day twisted off branches fromfhe palm
trees on the road from Bet page t.
What makes tina. mothe,
look so much older than she really is
You say she ought not yet to have on,
gray line in her hair. The t<uth is thu
was not always so well off a
now. The married pair Had . har'
struggle at the start. Exanninet the tip
of the forefinger and thumbpi her RICH
hand, and they will tell ybr the stor.
of the needle that was piled Gay In an,
Yea, look at both hds hands, ant
they will tell the story Of the time whel
she did her W work, her " mend
ing and scrubbing and wal ing. Yea
look into the face and read the story O
fevers and groups AID midnigh
when none but ed md her
self in that house were awa2se and thel
the burials and the LONELINESS after
ward, which was more exhessting thai
the preceding watching HID been, an
one now to put in bed. Y
How fair she once was and IS grace
full as the palm tree, but all the branche
of her strength and beauty were Ion!
ago torn off and thrown into the path
way of her household. AS. that son
and daughters, themselveS 50 straigh
and graceful and educated should eve
that they are wa2xing tO-da.
over the fallen strength of Al industri
GUS and honored parentyte- A littl
are you, at their fngranmat
ical u~tterance? It was Trough thei
sacrifices that You learney9 accuracy o
sPeecn. De+xnn>l0se Y1sience wit
them because they r Q little querulou
and complaining? 1 guess You hav
how querulous and complain
ing you were when you were gettin;
over that w%hooping cough or that in
fever. A little annoyed, ar
you, because her hearing is poor an
you have to tell her something twice
She was not always hard of hearing
When you were two years old your frs
call for a drink ut midnight woke he