Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-09-25
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smitten with self-disapproval Job-like
meaning eye seeth thee.
Enter dark room-air apparently clean
Turn shutter slat-through sunshine
path innumerable infinitesimal notes mr.
wrestling. Once st. Paul shook hand
with himself, remarking, 81 suppose
was not one whit behind the very chiefes
apostles God turned his window slat
sent trials victories, mightier BAPTISM
then Paul wrote, Unto me who am les,
than the least Of all saints" Gradual,
nm into sainthood and on edge of para
disc he subscribes himself, SINNERS, Of
whom | am chief"
| follow Caesars march over western
Europe, Pompey's around the Mediterra
mean, Crassus' into Parthia, by desolatior
lnficted. Follow our texts soldiers-and
may yours thus be traced-by the mercies
he bestowed, the flowers he set a.bloom.
ing, the good he sowed unto a harvest
where the field is human lives. the seed
Is words and deeds, the garnering our
epoch's end the reapers angels De-
scend pit a mile of depth, next cYawl
crevice hours below that. afterward
ceave crater of subgterranean volcano
ana beneath that inferno bury the Sa-
tamc suggestion that magnificent oppor-
tunltles to serve fellow-mankind are past
none left for you in your humdrum exist
ence, over-weighted with disadvantages.
1enlus to love and look for humanita-
ran roads eternity-long can blaze. "Your
Chance' golden on doors all over our
cities and country. Before you die and
ule, Tor Gods sake, for mans sake. let's
DO something to diminish our shame when
we greet unknown captain from Galilee
greet Savonarola, Florentine communities
benefactor who wore the red hat of mar
tyrdom into the celestial glory: Columbia
rescuer of Scots and Picts and Irish: An
schar, deliverer of Sweden from barboric
bondage; Luther and Lincoln, Whittier.
tne poet emancipation; Garrison, the jour
haist emancipation; Wendell Phillips, the
orator emancipation; John Brown, the
emancipation forcing the issue to crisis;
howard, prison purifier; Nightingale.
sweet angel of the hospitals; Grace Darl-
ing, inspiration Of ife-savers; Horace
Mann, benediction of the schools; Cough
and Frances Willard, knightly defenders
OF our firesides against alcoholism's rs
saults.
Shall you be peoples favorite? Verify,
verify, verify, when their lover, serving
their highest interests and appropriatinc
the Christ. Remember you Christ's pin
nacling faith with this captains? az
have not found so great faith: no. not in
Israel"
AS the Magians ever studying stars
tracked the meteor to Bethlehem; as the
shepherds saw the bediamoned finger OF |
the sky point down at Jesus manger
cradle; as Galilean fisher folk met the
master via boats and nets, each finding
ing him along his line of work; thus the |
accustomed to camp and com
mands and absolute obedience, conceived
Of Jesus generalissimo above the uni
verse and disease and health and mortal
kind all subject to his word al also am
man set under authority, having under
me soldiers; and l say unto one, Go. and
he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
Say in word, and my servant |
shall be healed.
No matter who, or where, or what you |
are, something akin to Gcd still STAYS
and signs for him. Uncanny and vet en-
dcing, sounds the sailors legend telling
how of Brittany's coast, underneath the
waves, an ancient village lies overwhelm-
I'd, its church spires standing, and ever
Ind anon the mariner may hear bells ring
ng far down the water abyss. Oh! to
strike bell peal in your beings depths,
he long-hidden sanctuary within calling
you to better self, to best self's God.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true,
Ring in the valiant man and free
Ring in the Christ that is IN ho