The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-24

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Yards Of tho great city who shall say:
you helped mo onc You encouraged
me when 1 was in earthly struggle. |
10 not know that | would have reached
this shining place had it not been Cor
you" And we will laugh with heavenly
glce and say: ala! hal Do you really
remember that talkp Do you remember
that warning? Do you remember that
Christian invitation? What n memory
you havei Why, that must have been
down there in Brooklyn and New Or
leans at least ten thousand million years
ago" And the answer will be. YES. it
was as long IA that, but l remember it
as well IA though it were yesterday"
Oh, this character buildingl The struc-
turc lasting independent of passing CEN
turtles, independent of crumbling IL
leums, independent of the whole plane
tary system. Aye, If the material uni
verse, which seems all bound together
like II piece of machinery, should ON
day meet with an accident that should
send worlds crashing into each other like
telescoped railway trains, and all the
wheels of consultations md galaxies
should stop, and down into the chasim of
immcnsity all the suns and moons and
stars should tumble like the midnight cx-
press at Ashtabula, that would not touch
us and would not hurt God, for God il u
spirit, and character and memory areim-
mortal, and over that graveof q wrecked
material universe might ~truthfully DO
written. THE righteous shall be held in
everlasting remembrance"
. Time, we defy thee! o Death, we
stamp thee in the dust of thine own
sepulchers! q Eternity, roll on till the
last star has stopped rotating, and the
last sun is ex~tinguished on the sapphire
pathway, and tho last moon has il
lumined the last night, and as many
years have passed as all tho scribes that
ever took pen could describe by as many
figures az they could write in all the cen
turtles of nil time, but thou shalt haveno
power to efface from any soul in glory
the memory Of anything we have done
to bring it to God and heaven!
FRowN FOLLOWED BY A KISS.
There is another and u moro complete
defeat for oblivion, and that IL in the
heart of God himself. You have seen q
sailor roll uphis sleeve and show you his
arm tattoocd with tho figure Of q favor.
lite ship-perhaps the first ono in which
he ever sailed. You have seen u soldier
roll up his sleeve and show you his arm
tattooed with the picture Of n fortress
where he was garrisoned, or the face of q
rr,.a,N .rn,nral ,,n1ar x..1,,,, Lao T,,,.hs
You have seen many a hand tattooed
with the face Of u loved one before or
after marriage.
This ~tattooing is almost as old as tho
world. 1t is some colored liquid pune
tured into the flesh SO indclibly that
nothing can wash it out. 1t may have
been there 80 years, but when the man
goes into his coffin that puncture will go
with him on hand or arm. Now, God
says that he has tattooed liz upon his
hands. There IA be no other meaning
in the forty-ninth chapter Of Isaiah,
where God says, "Behold, / have craven
thee on the palms Of my hands"
1t was rs much rs to say: II cannot
| open my hand to help, but I think Of
you. Icannot spread abroad my hands
to bless, but l think of you. Wherever
] go up and down the heavens l take
these two pictures Of you with me. They
are so ~inwrought into my being that l
cannot lose them. AS long as my hands
last the memory Of you will last. Not
OH tho backs Of my hands, as though to
announce you TO others, but on the
,,1,.a, 90 ,,x, hands Zoo ,,x,gn1c 81 Ina1
at and study and love. Not on the
| palm Of ono hand alone, but on the
| palms of both hands, for while ]
am looking upon one hand and thinking
| of you, / must have the other free to pro,
tect you, free to strike back your enemy
free to lift if you fall. Palms of my hand,
indelibly tattooed. And though ] hold
the winds in my fist no cyclone shall up
root the inscription Of your name and
your face, and though l hold the ocean
in the hollow of my hand its billowina
shall not wash ont tho record of my re
membrance. Behold, l have craven thee
on the palms Of my hands,"
What JOY, what honor can there bt
comparable to that Of being remembered
Wy tiic iHiShticot anu hilQcsI Huu love
lest and tenderest and most affectionatt
being in the universe. Think of it-tc
hold an everlasting place in the heart Of
God. The heart of God! The most beau
tiful palace in the universe. Let til,
a~rchangel build some palace as grand al
that il he can. Let him crumble up al
the stars Of yesternight and tomorrow
night and put them together as mosaict
for such a palace floor. Let him take al
the sunrises and sunsets Of all the days
and the auroras Of all the nights ant
hang them as upholstery at Its windows
Let him take all the rivers, and all tn,
lakes, and all the oceans, and toss then
into the fountains Of this palace court
Let him take all the gold OF all the hills
and hang it in its chandeliers, and al
the pearls Of all the seas and all tho dia
monds Of all the fields, and with then
arch the doorways Of that palace, ant
then invite into it all the glories tina,
Esther over saw at a Persian banquet
or Daniel ever walked among in Baby,
lonian castles, or Joseph ever witnessed
in Pharaoh's throneroom, and then your,