Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-06-09

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am here and expect to be here until
my work on earth Is done.
Why should / want to go away from
Brooklyn? I have no sympathy with
the popular sentiment which defames
u loved city. Some people make
1t a part OF their religion to excoriate
and belittle the place Of their resi-
dence, and their has been more damage
financial and moral, done to our city
by this hypocriticlsm than can ever be
estimated. The course Of our city has
been onward and upward. We have
q citizenship made up Of hundreds Of
thousands Of rs good men and women
as inhabit the earth, Ind I feel honored
In being q citizen of Brooklyn and pro-
pose to stay here until I join the pOpu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder,
now all abloQm with spring flowers
sweet types OF resurrection.
My THANKS must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and chill
dren who have helped and sometimes
helped with self-sacritices that I know
must have won the applause Of the
heavens. If you could only read with
ME u few of the thousands Of letters
that have come to my desk In the Chris
tian Herald Office, you would know how
deep their sympathy, how large their
sacrifice has been. II have sold my
bicycle and now send you the money"
is the language Of one noble young
man who wrote to the Christian Her
aid. This is my dead sons gife to me.
and l have been led to send 1t to you,"
writes n mother in Rhode Island.
A blind O~ct0genarian invalid in York,
Pa. sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks to all the newspaper press.
Have you noticed how kind and SYM
pathetic all the secular newspapers
have been, and of course al the re.
ligious newspapers. with two or three
nasty exceptions? You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong.
If you want to find Il man who has
never made a mistake, do not waste
your time by looking in this pulpit.
Thanks to the editors and reporters
and publishers. Gentlemen of the
Brooklyn and New York printing press.
II you never report anything else that
l say. please to report that. Yes, 1
see you arc getting 1t all down.
As a church we from this day make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer more
faithful prayers. We will do better
work in ali departments. We will in
the autumn resume u lay college. We
will fill all the rooms of this magnifi-
cent pile with work for God and suf-
ferlng humanity. More prayers have
been offered for this church and on
both sides the sen than for any church
that has ever existed, and all those
prayers will be answered. Clear the
track for the Brooklyn tabernacle!
Sing We to the Lord. for he hath tri-
umphed %gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea-"
Do not thank God for the money you
made to-day, for tomorrow you might
lose it all and more. Do not be too
grateful for your good health to-day,
for tomorrow you may get the grip.
Do not be too glad about you con-
version. for you might fall from grace.
Do not rejoice too soon over /: cllurc1l's
deliverunce. because there might be
disasters yet to come. oh. let us have
no more adjourned gratitude! The time
to thank God for a rescue from temp
tation is the moment you have broken
the wine flask.
The time t thank God for your sal
vdllOn IS llC llOillCNl uIleE tlS ilISG
flash of pardon. The time to be CRATE
full for the comfort of your bereft soul
is the first moment of Christ's appear
ance ut the mausoleum of Lazarus.
The time for Mirfam's tambourine to
moment the last ~Israelite puts his foot
ON the sand Of the parted inland ocean.
Alas! that when Gods mercies have
c,,nh, e,r,3Ft ,>,fn,rS 0I,s npOfaoc chnr1d
have such leaden feet.
expect to have q good laugh with
you In heaven, for the Bible says in
Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-first verse,
BLESSED are We that weep now, for
We shall laugh" We shall not spend
all eternity psalm singing. but some
times in review of the past. as Christ
a = We shall laugh. There is nothing
wrong in laughter. 1t all depends on
what you laugh at. and when you
laugh and how you laugh. Nothing. it
seems. will more thoroughly kindle
our heavenly hilarities after we have
got inside the pcarly gate than to see
how in this world we got scared at
things which ought not to have fright
ened us at all. How often we work
ourselves up into a great stew about
nothing!
The Rcd sea before may be deep,
and the Egyptian cavalry behind US
may be well mounted. but II we trust
the Lord we will go through no more
hurt by the water than when in boy.
hood we rolled I'LL garments to the
knee and barefoot crossed the meadow
brook on the old homestead. The odds
may seem to be all right against you,
hut 1 guess 1t will be all right with you
If you have God on your side and all
the angelic. cherubic, sernphic and
archangelic Kingdoms. IF God be for
you. who can be against you?"
Lay hold of the Lord in prayer, and
you will go free, as did Richard Cecil
with { 20 Of missionary money in his
saddle bags, and the highwaymen
grabbed his horse by the bride and
told him to deliver, and he prayed God.
for safety. and suddenly one Of the
robbers said: "Mr. Cecil. I once heard
you preach. Boys, let the gentleman
go"
But let me critlcise Miriam a little
for the instrument of music she en-
ployed in the divine service on the
sandy beach. Why not take some
other instrument? Why did she not
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