The Red Cloud chief., 1894-05-11

spun 'C J"NN ~ lLNuNl ~ II INC mOO-
ern fashion plate. Twenty-Five years
yea, % ccnturics-have not changed
human nature "a particle. | say this for
the encouragement 4 those who think
that 4 times ~monopolize all the abom.
nations Of the ages.
One minute after Adam got outside
Of paradise he was Just like you. q
man! One step after Eve left the gate
she was just like you, o woman! All
the faults aud vices are many times cen.
tonarians. Yea. the cities Sodom. Go.
morrab, Pompcii, Herculaneum, He'll.
opolis and ancient Memphis were as
much worse than our modern cities as
you might expect from the fact that
the modern cities have somewhat yield
ed to the restraints of Christianity,
while those ancient cities were not linn.
tied in their denominations.
Great Works Accomplished.
Yea, that generation which passed of
within tho last % years had their be-
reavements, their temptations, their
struggles, their disappointments, their
successes, their failures, their gladness.
es and their griefs, like these two gen.
erations now in sight, that in advance
and that following. But the 20 years
between 1869 and 1S9l-how much
they saw! How much they discovered!
How much they felt Within that time
have been performed the miracles Of
the telephone and the monograph.
From the observatories other worlds
have been seen to heave in sight. Six
presidents of the United States have
been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage
abbreviated from 10 days to 51s. Chi
cago and New York, once three days
apart, now only "a hours by the vesti-
bule limited. Two additional railroads
have been built to the Pacific. France
has passed from monarchy to republic
anism. Many Of the cities have nearly
doubled their populations. During that
generation the chief surviving heroes
of the civil wal have gone into the en-
campment of the grave. The chief ply
sicians, attorneys, orators, merchants,
have passed off the earth or are in re
tirement waiting for transition. Othel
men in editorial chairs, i'll pulpits, IL
governors mansions, in legislative, sen
atorial and congressional halls.
There are not 10 men or ONE OIL
earth now prominent who were promi
nent 90 years ago. The crew Of this ole
ship Of o world is all changed. Others
at tho helm, others on the lookout, ,
others climbing the ratlines. Time is 9
doctor who, with potent anodyne, has
put an entire generation into sount
sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has
roughly prorogued parliament, and with
iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers
except one queen from their high places.
So far as I observed that generation,
for tho most part they did their best,
CHASTITY exceptions, but so far as l knew
them they did quite we'll, and many o.
them g~loriously well. They were born
at the right time, and they died at tn,
right time. They left the world bette,
than they found it. We are indebted L
them for the fact that they prepared tn
way for our coming. Eighteen hundre,
and ninety-four reverently and crate
fully saiutes 1869. lone generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh."
There are fathers and mothers her
whom I baptized in their infancy
There is not one person in this church
board Of session or trustees who wa
here when I came. Here and there il
this vast assembly is one person VIII,
heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn
but not more than one person in ever.
500 now present. OF the II persons VIII
gave me a unanimous call when / came
only three, ! believe, are living.
The Major Key.
But this sermon is not q dirge. 1t /
. an anthem. While this world is appro
S pirate as a temporary stay, as All eter
t nal residence it would be q dead fail
ure. 1t would be q dreadful sentence !
our race were doomed to remain here
thousand winters and a thousand sum
1 mers. God keeps us here just Ion
k enough to give us an appetite for heay
s ell. Had we been born in celestial realm
we would not have been able to appre
ciate tho bliss. 1t needs q good man
rough blasts in this world to qualify q
to properly estimate the superb climat
o Of that good land where it is never to
cold or too hot, too cloudy or too glal
!, ing. Heaven will be more to US than I
those supernal beings who were neve
o tempted or sick or bereaved or tried
IL disappointed. So you may well take IN
text out Of the minor key and set it
h some tune in the major key. Zone gel
= Grafton passeth away, and another gel
10 Grafton cometh."
Nothing can rob us Of the satisfactio
that %uncounted thousands Of the gene,
alton just past were converted, comfor
E ed and harvested for heaven by til
church, whether in the present buildir
Is or the three preceding buildings
which they worshiped. The two gre
Or organs of the previous churches WEI
down in the memorable fires, but Il
ii multitudinous songs they led year af
or or year were not recalled or Injuries
ut There is no power in earth or hell
10 kill a halleluiah. 1t is impossible to a
er rest q hosanna. What a satisfaction
H. know that there are many thousands
40 glory on whose eternal welfare tn