Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-08

interfered. and the way is clear, and ]
am here and expect to be here unul
my work on earth Is done.
Why should I want 10 go away from
Brooklyn: / have no sympathy with
| the popular sentiment which defames
our loved city. Some people make
it a part of their religion TO excor1ate
and belittle the place OF their resi-
dence. and their has been more damage
financial and moral, done ito our city
by this hypocriticism than a ever be
estimated. The course OF our city has
been onward and upward. We have
a citizenship made up of hundreds OF
thousands of as good men and women
rs inhabit the earth, and | feel honored
in being a citizen of Brooklyn and pro-
pose to stay here until / join the popu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder,
now all abloom 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 s~elf-sacriices that / know
must have won the applause OF the
heavens. If you could only read with
me a 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. Il have sold my
bicycle and now send you the money"
is the language of n noble young
man who wrote to the Christian Her.
aid. This is my dead sons gife to me,
and I have been led TO send it to you,'
writes a mother in Rhode Island.
A blind oc~togenarian 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 ell the re-
tgious newspapers, with two or three
nasty exceptions? You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong.
If you want 10 find a man who has
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.
if you never report anything else that
/ say, please TO report that. Yes, /
SIT Nbu are SttAluI II IA ucSh-
AS a church we from this day make
new departure. We viii preach more
instructive sermons We will offer more
faithful prayers. We viii do better
work in all departments. We will in
the autumn our lay college. We
will fill all the rooms of this magnifi-
cent pile with work for God and suf-
fering humanity. More prayers have
been offered for this church and on
both sides the sea 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 g~lOriously; 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 il 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 oyer & church's
deliyerance. because there might be
disasters yet to come. Oh. let us have
more adjourned gratitude. The time
10 thank God for a rescue from temp
tation is the moment You have broken
the wine flask.
The tine TO thank God for your sal
walton is the moment after the first
flash of pardon. The time 10 be crate
full for the comfort of your bereft soul
is the first moment Of Christ's appear
ance at the mausoleum of Lazarus
The time for Miriam's tambourine to
sound its most jubilant note Is the
moment the last lsraelite puts his foot
the sand of the parted inland ocean.
Alas, that when Gods mercies have
such swift wings. praises should
such leaden feet.
i expect TO have a good laugh with
you in heaven. for the Bible saws in
Luke. sixth chapter, twentyfirst 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
says we shall laugh. There is nothing
wrong in laughter. 1t all depends on
what @ laugh at, and when YOU
laugh and how You laugh. Nothing. il
seems. will more thoroughly kindle
our heavenly hilarities after we have
got inside the pearly 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 Red sea before ma be deep.
and the Egyptian cavalry behind US
may be well mounted. but IL we trust
the Lord we win go through no more
hurt by the water than when in boy
hood we rolled garments to the
and barefoot crossed the meadow !
brook on the old homestead. The odds
may TO be all right against Won.
/ guess ii win be ali right with YOU
if you have God on your side and all
the angelic, cherubic. seraphic and
archangelic kingdoms. IF God be for
YOU. who can be against your
Lay hold of the Lord in PRAYER and
you viii 20 free, as did Richard Cecil
with t 20 Of missionary money i'm his
saddle bags, and the highwaymcn
grabbed his horse by the bride and
told him TO deliver. and he prayed God
for safety, and suddenly one of he
robbers said: Mr.. Cecil, / once heard
you preach. Boys, let the gentleman
go,
But let me criticise Miriam a little
for the instrument of music She em-