The Red Cloud chief., 1894-05-11

self not 20 Rad yOur Blblc:' SO the boy
explored tho bottom If his trunk and
brought ont the Bible, aud his mother
had marked q passage that just fitted
the dying sailors case. The blood Of
Jesus Christ, his son, cleanscth from all
sin. That helped the sailor to die in
peace, 50 N generation helps another,
and good things written or said or done
are reproduced long afterward.
The world For AN Audience.
During the passing of the last gencr.
alton some peculiar events have unfold.
ell. One day while resting at Sharon
Springs, n. Y, l think il was in 1870.
the year after my settlement in Brook.
Ign, and while walking in the park Of
that place, l found myself asking the
question: Il wonder if there is any spe.
cial mission for me to execute in this
world? If there is, may God show it to
me!' There soOn came upon me u great
desire to preach the gospel through the
secular printing press. l realized that
the vast majority Of people, eve in
Christian lands, never enter "a church,
and that it would bc al opportunity Of
usefulness infinite If that door Of pub
LEGATION Were opened.
And SO l recorded that prayer in a
blank book and offered the prayer day
in and day out until the answer came,
though in way different from that
which l had expected, for il came
through the misrepresentation and per.
secution of enemies, and / have To re-
cord it for the encouragement Of all
ministers Of the gospel who are misrep-
resented, that if the Misrepresentation
be virulent enough and bitter enough
and continuous enough there is moth
ing that SO widens ones field Of useful
ness as hostile attack, if you are really
doing the Lords work. The bigger the
lie told about me, the bigger tho dc.
mand to see and hear what l really was
doing. From one stage Of sormonic pub
LEGATION to another the work has gone
on until week by week, and for about
23 years, l have had the world for my
audience, as no man ever had, and to-
day more so than ut any other time.
The syndicates inform me that my ser.
mons 60 now to about 25, 900, 900 OF
people in all lands. / mention this not
III NtII DouSt, u ~ ~ ttStllituy W III
fact that God answers prayer. Would
God l had better occupied the field and
been more consccrated to the work
May God forgive me for lack Of service
in the past and double and quadruple
and quintuple my work in future.
In this my quarter century sermon
record the fact that sido by side with
the procession Of blessings has gone a
procession Of disasters. / am preaching
today in the fourth church building
since l began in this city. My first SER
mon vas i'll the old church on Scher-
merhorn street to an audience chiefly
Of empty seats, for the church was al.
most extinguished. That church filled
and overfiowing, we built q larger
church. which after two or three years
: disappeared in flame. Then we built
another church, which also in a line OF
fiery succession disappeared in the same
! way. Then we put up this building, ant
may it stand for many years, q fortress
Of righteousness and a Lighthouse fol
/ the storm tossed, its gates crowded will
vast assemblages long after w hav,
ceased to frequent them!
a Noble Work.
We have raised in this church oyel
8 81, 1880, 900 for church charitable pur
poses during the present pastorate, Will,
we have given, free Of all expense, tn,
, gospel to hundreds of thousands Of stran
gers, year by year. / record with graf
D itude to God that during this genera
ton Of 20 years I remember but TIVE
l SahhathS that I haya tniscn1 cav1,tc.
through anything like physical indis
s positions. Almost q fanatic on the sub
+. ject of physical exercise, I have mad
. the parks with which u city is bless
: ed the means of good physical condi
I ton. A daily walk and run in the opel
air have kept me ready for work and II
: good humor with all the world. ! sa,
3 to all young ministers of the gospel, j
is easier to keep good health than to re
s gain it when nee lost. The reason s
many good men think the world is &c
y ing to ruin is because their Owl physic
s al condition is Oh the down grade. N
Q man ought to preach who has n disease
y liver or an enlarged spleen. There ar
two things ahead of us that ought {
o keep us cheerful in our work-heave
and the millennium.
And now, having come up to tn
y twenty-fifth milestone in my paste,
o ate, / wonder how many more miles
am to travel? Your company has bee
exceedingly pleasant, o my dear people
and j would like to march by your sid
n until the generation with whom we a,
r now moving abreast and step to ste
shall have stacked arms after the la
Is battle. But the Lord knows best, an
we ought to be willing to stay or go.
II A Summer Outing.
It Most Of you are aware that ! propos
1t at this time, between the close of n
10 twenty.fifth year Of pastorate and b
t. fore the beginning of my twenty-sixt
l. year. to be absent for u few months
TO order to take a journey around Il
r world. ! expect to sail from San Fra
10 cisco in the steamer Alameda May 3
N My place here ON Sabbaths will be full
is occupied, while on Mondays and evel