The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-02

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words to job calls me to look at the path
Of foam in the wake Of that ship, and l
tell You 1t is all a-gleain with splendors
Of kindness done, and rolling with IL.
lumined tears that were wiped away,
and a-dash with congratulations, and
clear out to the horizon in all directions
is the sparkling, flashing, b~illowing phos-
phorescence Of a Christian life. "He
maketh a path to shine after him."
And here l correct one Of the mean no.
tions which at some time takes possess
sion Of all Of us, and that is AZ to the
brevity of human life. When l bury
some very useful man. clerical or lay, in
his thirtieth or fortieth year, l say:
"What q waste Of energies! II was
hardly worth while for him to get ready
for Christian work, for he had so soon
to quit it," But the fact is that I may
insure any man or woman who does any
good on a large or small scale for q life
on earth as long as the world lasts. Sick
ness, trolley car accidents, death itself,
can no more destroy his life than they
can tear down one of the rings Of Sat
urn. You can start one good word, one
kind act, one cheerful smile, on q mis-
sion that will last until the world be-
comes q bonfire, and out of that blaze it
will pass into the heavens, never to halt
as long as God lives.
WHAT ORDINARY PERSONS cAN DO.
There were In the seventeenth century
men and women whose names you never
heard Of who are today influencing
schools, colleges, churches, nations. You
can no more measure tho gracious re-
suits Of their lifetime than you could
measure the length and breadth and
depth Of the phosphorescence last night
following the ship of the White Star line
1900 miles out at sea. How the courage
and conservation of others inspire us to
follow, as a general in tho American
army, cool amid the flying bullets, in
spired a trembling soldier, who said aft
erward, II was nearly scared to death,
but l saw the old mans white mustache
over his shoulder and went on" Aye,
we are all following somebody either In
right or wrong directions.
A few days ago ! stood beside the gar.
landed casket Of q gospel minister, and
In my remarks had occasion to recall a
snowy night in o farmhouse when / was
; a boy and an evangelist spending a
night at my fathers house, who said
something so tender and beautiful and
, impressive that it led me into the king.
dom Of God and decided my destiny for
.. this world and the next. You will, be-
fore "a hours go by, meet some man or
woman with a big pack Of care and trou.
; bic, and you may say something to him
. or her that will endure until this world
!. shall have been so far lost in the past
' that nothing but the stretch of angelic
memory will be able to realize that II
I ever existed at all.
am not talking of remarkable mer
and women, but Of what ordinary folks
. can do. am not speaking Of the phos
phorescence in the wake Of u Campania
!. but Of the phosphorescence in the tracl
|. of a Newfoundland fishing smack. Coo
: makes thunderbolts out Of sparks, ani
: out Of the small words and deed. -
= small life he can launch n mower tba
will flash and burn and thunder throur
= the eternitics.
81 How do you like this prolongation @
your earthly LIE by deathless influence
Many a babe that died at 9 months Q
"a age by the anxiety created in the parent
4 heart to meet that child in realms sc
raphio Is living yet in the TRANSFORMS
4 heart and life Of those parents and Wi
live on forever in the history Of tina
family. If this be the opportunity Of OF
y binary souls, what is the opportunity q
- those who have especial intellectual O
social or monetary equipment?
a Have you any arithmetic capable of es
vi rimating the influence Of our good an
= ;~racious friend who a few days ago wen
- Up to rest-George w. Childs Of Phils
vi elpbia? From q newspaper that wa
i tinted for 80 years without one word @
famation or scurrility or scandal, an
ittiug chief emphasis on virtue an
-, arity and clean intelligence, no reape
=. 'oytune for himself and then distrit
ID a vast amount Of it among the poo
inn Il struggling, putting his invalid an
ri ed reporters on pensions, until hi
mo stands everywhere for large heart
ness and sympathy and help and high
=; I style Of Christian gentleman.
g. III w gro WuiSu hou M lax CuoA0 7
- $ journalism a Horace Greeley. and
.onry j. Raymond, and q James Gordo
! }~annctt, and an Erastus Brooks. and
Gorge William Curtis, and an henaev
NJ. rime, none Of them will 30 longer n
lcmberea than George w. Childs. Sta!
sSi away from tho unwilling Of the moi
- ment no had reared at large expense |
IT Greenwood in memory of Professt
= roctor. the astronomer, lest ! shout
y something in praise of the man wi
ID paid for the monument. py all a
nc nowledged representative Of tho his|
It AWrrtean Journalism.
"a. If you would calculate his infiuen,
or good, you must count how mar
accts of his newspapers have been pu'
~ aied in the last quarter Of a centur
nd how many people have read thsl
N the effect, not only upon those rea
%, but upop all whoa they shall inf
~ lcc for al time, while you add to {
" 1t the work Of the churches no help
'N aid and of the institutions Of mercy
l,oJ found Rattar rive mn before ",