The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-01-08

than ever before. Why will they not
band together in a religious movement
which. before the Inauguration of the
next President, shall enthrone Christ
IN the hearts of this nation? They have
the brain, they have the seloquence,
they have the influence. God grant
them the grace sufficient! Who in Con-
gressional circles will establish. the
Capitoline prayer-meeting in 1897? Let
the evening of the last decade Of this
century be irradiated with such a re-
ligious s%plendor. There are the. oppor-
tunities for a national and information
al, CHARGE all bridled and saddled.
Where are the riders to mount them?
Here also are opportunities all ready
for those who would enter the kingdom
of God. Christ said that the Kingdom
of heaven was to be taken by violence.
By one flash you may enter. Quicker
than any equestrian ever dashed
through castle gate you may pass into
the pardon and hope of the Gospel.
AS quickly as you can think Eyes" or
"No," as quickly as you can make a
choice, so quickly may you decide the
question of eternal destiny. No one
was ever slowly converted. He may
have been thinking about it forty years,
but not one inch of progress did he make
until the moment of assent, the very
second in which he said II will" That
instant decided all. Bring out the
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earth, and here are. two thousand op-
portunities of immediate and eternal
salvation. II will deliver thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able to set
riders upon them"
Oh, my friends, if all right for the
next world, the years cannot gallop
past too rapidly. If it were possible
for the centuries to take the speed of
the years, n the years the speed of
the days, and the days the speed of the
hours, they could do us no harm. The
shorter our life the longer our heaven.
The sooner we get out of the perils of
this life, if our work be done, the bet
ter. No man is safe till he is dead.
Better men than we have been
wrecked, and at all ages. Lord and
Lady Napier were on horseback on a
road in India. Lord Napier suddenly
said to Lady Napier, ride on and
fetch assistance, and do not ask me
why" She sped on and was soon out
of sight. The fact vas a tigers eyes
glared on them from the thicket, and
he did not dare to tell her, lest, af-
frighted, she fall in the danger and
perhaps lose her life. From all sides
of us, on this road of life, there are
perils glazing on us, from tigers OF
temptation, and tigers of accident, and
tigers Of death, and the sooner we gel
out Of the perils Of this life the better
Let 1897 take the place of 1896, and
1898 the place of 1897, and u souls
will be landed where there shall be
nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods
holy mount" mo lipn shall be there
nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there, but
the redeemed shall walk there. And
the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with songs, and ever
lasting joy upon their heads; they shall
obtain joy and gladness.
The London bakers are permitted to
deliver bread on Sundays, but not buns
or cake.
The richest actor in the world is M.
Coquelin, who is said to be worth