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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1894)
I I .. . , f The Sioux Ccj unty VOLUME VIL HARKI80N, NEBBASE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 18&4. NU1IBEU 4. lOURNALo oauonos sxN30NOdsmoo xo ppxl cann 'patrol uzoi 0 Aiiq o; 'Annoo xtioj g ui putri cojoqo cj Gxp&rcq jo joqnmn ti oaxh 'Airas main COlCTTLreA. J0j8!Jd0Jd 'JGNNIHd 1 T ' A o iiu e q j uosm jo sirr j tit no aios fturvaxi pi60dea otnix no pred isojeiui urrg tvnouvn MIO "T8 TVgOUVtf aUTlg TSM Wfl 'aJo& mn 'lxrg TTMtmTN U. BIN3(IN0dSlHH(X ooo oc$ "iv ii jvo aaziHCHinv jorawso 'OTOMSmfO H -a 'i aaKsnevisi "HNW Tviomwoo no ipso tfnujcop mjfixod smis jo iC-ea PtTB STJO wbi TALMAGE'S 8ER1I01J. , HE SPEAKS OF THE MEN WHO REJECT RELIGION. Ba Ukw IkM ta tha Mm I Ma Wha Varo C AtU4 fa Faaat a "aa tar Baltaia aa4 la carter. Rev. Dr. Talmure, who 1 still tuilv nt on bU round .he world tour, 4 looted as the subject of hi serCM through the preM for hut siia-a i auKv 1 ' "Holy Compulsion," the test bc J i Luke sir, 23, "And compel the-: j come la." The plainest people In our day ajre luxuries which the klaf sad qata of oldea times neve imagined. I waC up and down the stairs of Hoi ft id palace -a palace that was conaiA "ii : one of the wonders of the world - stZJ I,' said, "Can It be possible that this trail there was of this reputed woade TU place?" And this is the case in ntjy other instances. There ara fruli"i M Westchester County and oa Li.2g Island (arms far better than the f grauates and apricots of Bible t Through all the ages there have I scenes of festivity, and the wet man of my text plans a great tt. talnment and Invites his friend one builds a beautiful hone, he w his acquaintances to come and it. If one buvs an exquisite plot na he want his fr.ends to come and ;"wp- m preciate it, and it was a laudable i aa Koaa k a aa a u 1 1 K f Man A w mo as kaau w 7a iwu iuwu wi tf T 9 happy himself, wanted to make of J people happy- And so the lavttaaJaf went out, but msjmmoi ,ir akmKamv.urMa.n . ant. nma mliA Kmm nwtft. viae s-ass aamu j v wi awaa j vuv v aav aewaw ara vided a grand feast when he finds out that the guest Invited do not Intend to come. Tb'.re is nothing that so provokes tho master of the feast as that FrWolnaa Eicihi. Well, these people invited to this great banquet made frivolous excuHes. The fact was, I Biippo.-te, that some of them were oitonded that tnis man had succeeded ho mucn better In the world than they had. There are people In all occupations and professions who consider it a wroiitf to them that any body else Is advunced. suppose thexc people invited to the feast ,-uid among themselvos "We are not going to ad minister to that man's vanity. He is proud enough now. We won't go Bo sides that we could ail give parties if we made our money the way that rnan makes his." So, when tho messengers went out with the invitations, there was a unanimous refusal. One man s:tid, "Oh, 1 have bought a farm, and I must go ami look at it!" He was a land seculator and had no business to buy land until he knew about it. A frivolous excuse. Another man said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen." The probability is he was a simulator In live stock. He ought to have known about the oxen before he bought them. Besides that if he had been sery anx ious to get to the feast, he could have hooked them up and driven thorn on the road there. Another frivolous ex cuse. A not tier roan said, "Oh, 1 have married a wife and can't come," when if he had said to his wife: "I have an invitation to a splendid din ner. It is highly complimentary to I me. I should very much like to go. Will you go along with me.-" she would have naid. "To be sure I will go." Another frivolous excuse. The fact was they did not want to go. "Now," said tho great man of the feast, "I will not be defeated in this matter. 1 have, with an honest pur pose, provided a banquet, and there are scores of people who would like to como if they were only invited. Here, my man, here: you go out, and when you find a blind man give him your arm and letch him in, and when you 11 nd a lame man give him a crutch and fetch him in, am when you find a poor man tell him that there is a plate for him in my mansion, and when you find some one who is so ragged and wretch ed that he has never been invited anywhere then, by the kindest ten derness and the most loving Inv.tatlon any one ever had, compel him to come in." Moral of the ParaMa. Oh, my friends, it requires no acute noss on my part or on your part to see In all this allalr that religion is a ban quet. The table was set in Palestine a good many years ago, and tho disciples gathered around It, and they thought they would ha e a good time all by themselves, but while they sat by this table the leaves began to grow and spread, and one leaf went to the east, and another leaf went to the weat.untll the whole earth was covered up with them, and the clusters from the heav enly vineyards were plied upon the board, and the trumpets and harps of eternity made up the orchestra, and as this win of God Is pressed to the Hps of a sinning, bleeding, suffering, dy ing, groaning world, voice breaks from tho heavens, say lag: "Drink. O (V. DI WITT TAUUttC B. D. -V' friends! Yea, drink, O beto ed!" O Massed Lord Jesus, the best frlead I e er bad, was there ever such a table? Wm there ever such a banquet? ran UM araM aattfud bifh. Wkara tb ftavlor 4a (U u dim, . What Bakvttoa auoa)a I baar BanUag aa tka ravl(a4 rar I aataa's faaaandt work is doaa. Com, aa4 aalaon. rfooar. coram. mf t Mallelaa. Religion la a joyous thing. I do not want to hear aaybody talk about re ligion as though it were a funeral. I do not want anybody to whine in the prayer meeting about the kingdom of God. I do not want any man to roll up hia eyes, riving in that way evidence o. his seootitv. The men and women God whom I hap; en to know lor tea wmnMt wxm-t KwiA mUntt ( ilw Ik lsexhllaratiaa to the body. ltd In vigoratloa to the micd. It is rapture to the snuL It la balm for all wounds. It is light for all darkness. It is har bor from nil storms, and though Uod knows that tome of them have trouble enough now they rejoice because they are on the way to the congratulations eternal. Oh, the Lord Ood has many fair and beautliul daughter, but the fairest of them all is she whose ways are pleas- anteet and whose paths are peace! Now, my brothers and sinters -tr 1 1 nave a right to call you atl ao-i Know some people look back on their an- i cestrel line and they jm they are de scended rroca tne run tans or Hugue nnU antfl thaw 9t'-ntA In thai. Imt T look back on my ancestral line, and I y. see therein t nch a mingling and mix u ture of the blood of all nationalities that I feel akin to all the world, and by the blood of the Son of God, who died for all people, I address you in the bonds of universal brotherhood. I come out as only a servant, bringing an invitation to a party, and I put into your hands, saying, "Come, for all things are now ready," and 1 urge it upon yoj and continue to urge it, and before I get through, 1 hope, by the blessing of God, to compel you to come In. We must take care how we give the Invitation. My Christian friends, 1 think sometimes we have just gone opposite to Christ' command, ana we have compelled people to stay out. Sometimes oar elaborated instructions have betn the, hindrance. We gradu ate from our theological seminaries on stilts, and It takes five or six years before we i an come down and stand right beside the great masses o. the people, learning their joys, sorrows, victories, defeats, Uvvrmmh Tnanloay. We get our heads so brimful of the ological wisdom that we have to stand very straight lest they spill o . er. Now, hat do the great masses of the people earn about the technicalities of relig- U7k- J. tV. .Imt , t. TT WW uv iu, vara mm -WOD tween suo(a'Narian ana sepraiapear- ian What do they cure for your pro found explanations, clear as a London fogy When a man lis drowning, he does not want you to stand by the dock and describe the nature of the water into which he has fallen, and teli him there are two Dirts hydrogen gas and one of oxygea gas, with a common density of 3d b'.. turning to steam under a com mon atmospheric pressure of 21-. He does not want a chemical lecture on water. He wants a rope. Oh, my friends, the curse of God on the church, it seems to me, in this day is metaphysics. We speak in an un known tongue in our Sabbath schools, and in our religious assemblages, and in our pulpits, and how can people be saved unless they can understand us'i We put on our otlicia gowns, and we think tho two silk bal'oons Tapping at the elbows of aprea her gi e him groat sanctity. The rhcr of God's truth flows down before us pure and clear as crystal, but we take our the ological stick and stir it up and stir it up until you cannot see bottom. Oh, for the simplicity of Christ in all our instructions-the simplicity He pnw ticed when, standing among the peo ple, He took a lily and said: "There is a lesson of tne manner I will clothe you, and, oointing to a raven, said: "There is a lesson of the way I will feed you. Consider the lilies - behold the fowls." I ttiink often in our religious in structions we compel the people to stay out by our church architecture. People come in and they tind things angular and co'd and stilt, and they go away never again to come, when the church ought to be a great home cir cle, everybody having a hymn!ook, giving half of it to the one next him, every one who has a hand to shake hands shaking hands, the church ar chitecture and the church surround ings saying to tho people: "Come in and be at home." instead of that, 1 think all those surroundings often com pel tho people to stay out. Loving ontuliilon. Now, let us all repent of our sins and beg n on the other track, and by our heartiness of affection and warmth of manner an 1 imploration of the spirit of God compel the people to come in How shall we lead sinrers to acce t tho Lord's Invitation? I think we must certainly begin by a holy lile. Wc must be better men, better women, be fore we can compel the people to come into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Tbere are fine essays being written in this day about science and religion. I tell you the best argument In behalf of our holy Cht ist'anity it is a good man, a good woman, a life all consecrated to Christ. No Infidel can answer It. Oh, let us by a holy example compel the people to come In! 1 read of a minister of tho gospel who was very fond of climbing among the (Swiss mountains. One day he was climbing among very dangerous places and thought himself ail alone when he heard a voice beneath him say, "r ather, look out for the safe path. I am following," and he looked back. and he saw he was climbing not only for himself, but climbing for bis boy. Oh, let us be sure and take the safe path! Our children are following; our part ners In business are following; our neighbors are following, a great mul titude stepping right on in o.ir steps. Oh, bo sure and take tho right path! Exhibit a Christian example, and so by your godly walk compel the people to come in. I think there is work also In the way of kindly admonition. I do not believe tbere is a i erson in this houe who, if ap. reached in a kindly and brotherly manner, would refuse to listen. If yon are rebuffed, it is tecauae you lack la tact and common sense. But, oh, bow much effective work tbere is in the way of kindly admonition! Tbere are thousands of men all around about yon who have never bad one j ersooal in vitation to the cross. Give that one invitation, and you would be surprised at the alacrity with which they would accept It , I have friend, a Christian physi cian, who one day became very anxious about the salvation of a brother physi cian, and so he left his office, went down to this man's office and said, "Is the doctor in?" '"No." replied the young man waiting: "the doctor is not in." "Well," said this physician, "when he comes In, tell him I called and give him my Christian love." This worldly doctor came home after awhile, and the message was given to him, and he aaid within himself, "What does he mean by leaving his Cnrlstian love for me?" And he be- came very much awakened and stirred in spiru, am ne sua aiier awnue, "Why, that man must mean my soul," and be went into his back office, knelt down and began to pray. Then he took his hat and went out to the office of this Christian physician and said, "What can 1 do to be saved?" and the two doctors knelt in the o tice and com mended their souls to God. All the means used in that case was only the voice of one good man saying, ''Give my Christian love to the doctor." The voice of kindly admonition. Have you uttered it to-day? vVill yoa utter it to morrow? Will you utter it now? Com pel them to come in. Faith and Prayar. I I think there is a great work also to be done in the way of prayer. If we ' had faith enough to-d y, we could go before God and ask for the salvation of all the peot le in our churches, and they would all be saved, there and then, without a single exception. . .There might be professional men there, political men there, worldly I men there, men who had not heard the gospel for twenty years, men who are pre.udiced against the preachers, men who arc pre.udiced against the music, men who are prejudiced against I tha Ahum K mA wk kM 'twi load against God -I do not care - they might be brought in by fervent prayer you would compel them to come in. Oh, for such an earnest prayer People of God, lay hold of the horns ot the altar now and supplicate the salva tion of all those who sit in the same pew with you yea, the redemption of 'SHVl'4H4M4swmi6lSaw9Mva 1 tell you to-day, my friends, of a great salvation. - Do -you understand what it is to have a Saviour? He took your place. He bore your sins. He wept vour sorrows He is here now to save your soul. A soldier, worn out In bis country's service, took to the violin as a mode of earning his living. He was round in the streets of Vienna playing his violin, but after awhile his hand Decame feeble and tremulous, and he could no more make music. One day, whi;e he sat there wee, ing, a man rassed along and said, "My friend, you are too old and too feeble. Give me your violin," and he took the man's violin and began to discourse most exquisite music, and the people gathered around in larger and larger multitudes, and the aged man held his hat, and the coin poured in and poured in until the hat was full. "Now," said the man who was playing the violin, "put that coin in your pockets." The coin was 4.ut in the old man's pockets. Then he held his hat again, and the violinist played more sweetly than ever and played until some of tho peo ple wept and some shouted. And again the hat was tiled with coin. Then the violinist dropped the instrument and passed of, and the vhispor went: "Who is it? Who in It?" and some one just entering the crowd, said: "Why, that is Uucher, the great vio linist, known ail through the realm. Yes, that is the great violinist." Chrlnt Uaars Ont Hnrdani. The fact was, he had just taken that man s place, and assumed his poverty, and borne his burden, and played his music and earned his livl.hood, and made sacrifice for the poor old man. So the Lord Jesus Christ comes down, aud he fim s us in our si ritual i enury, and across the strings of his own bro ken heart he strikes a strain of infinite music, which wins the attention of earth and Heaven He takos our pov erty. He plays our music He weeps our sorrows. He dies our death, A sacrifice lor you. A sacrifice for me. Oh, will you accept this sacrifice now.' l do not single out mis and tbat I man and this and that woman But I suy all may tome. The sacritico is so great, all may be saved. Does it not seem to you as if Heaven was very near' f can foci Its breath on my check. God is near. Christ is near. Ministering angels are near, your glorified kindred in Heaven near, your Christian father near, your glorified mother near, your departed children near, 'i o,:r redemption is near. AHNiatnd by Noise. Deaf persons, as a rule, bear bet ter In the midst of a modern din than when it Is quiet around them. The noise of the cars in travel or the whii of machinery In mills helps to make up the volume of sound necessary to reach their impaired organs. An amusing Illustration appears In the j case of a very vcneiaMe deaf gentle . man wbo lived quite alone. On the i very rare occasions when he had a ! visitor be used to busy himself shsk , ing down the ashes in hia coal stove, I so that by the dint of the supple I meniary cla i or ho might catch what his visitor had to say. . . Discouragement If, often pride wounded, though it resembles hit. mlllty. GEN. LEE'S CHARGE r ais Few people in this bread not know tbat toe laie uoa. i obart K. Lee's war bona, Traveler, gained almost as much fame as did twa tol ehraied Co federate eo .j scanner him self, any the St Louis BepoWlo. Af ter tbe war an artist wrote to Gen Lea asking for a deacrlptlon of Trav eler, which Goo. Lee wrote to him. A copy of this deaerfpt oa wm undo Jtiy Miss Mildred Loo, daughter of that General, for a . t Louts f lead, who gave It to tbe Gleaner., This la what the General wrote about hia faauoiu bono: 'If I was an artist like you I could draw s One picture of Traveler, representing bis fne proponiona muncular figure, deep cheat, abort back, strong haunches, flat legs, small be -id, broad forehead, del cate ears, quick eyes, small ieeL and black mane and talL bocd a pietore would inspire i pet whose igenloa could then depict hia worth nod de scribe the endurance of to 1, hunger, tb rst, beat and cid, the dangers and sufferings thiough which be baa paased. He could dilate upon hia tagacity and affection and his invari able response to any with of his rider. He might even imagine hie thought) through fats long night marches and days of battle though which be has pasasd. But 1 am no artist aod can tberefoie only any that he was a Confederate gray. "I purchased bim In the autumn of ifbl In tbe mountains of Virginia, and be baa been my patient follower ever since- to Georgia, the Carol lane, and back to Virginia. He carried me through the even lays battle around ulchmood, tbe aeoood Man asaas, at Miarpsbunxh, r'redericfcs burgb, the last day at Chancellors vllle, to Pennsylvania, at Gettysburg, and back to the Kappabannock. From tbe cemmencement of tbe lainpaign In -bi)J, at Orange, till It close around 1'etersburgh, the saddle was scarcely oil' his back as be paased through the fire of tbe Wilderness, 6pottsylvanla,Oold Harbor and ac tMi the James Hlver. He was in almost dally re.ulsltlou in the winter of .11- . onjbe long line of defense? from the Ch'ckabomlny north of i iebmond, to Hatcher's bun south of the Appomattox. In tbe campaign of l sod he bore me from Petersburg to tbe final day at Aneesawos Court floa-sv : You h-wt t tlremeut He s well supplied with equipment. Two sets have been sent to bim from England, and one from tbe city of Kichmond, bat X think bis favorite is tbe American- saddle from bt Louis. "Of all bis companions in toil Richmond, Brown, ..owan, Ajax,uud quiet Lucy ong he Is the only one that retained h s vigor to tbe last. The first two expired under tbeii onerous burdens and tbe last two fulled. You can, I am sure, from wbat 1 have said, paint b s portrait" This ends tbe description, signed with the name of the famous Gen. liooert. E. Lee, Lexington, Va., the snmmer before be died. K word a of Damascus. To tbe love s of strange goods tbe bazars oi Damascus are far more al luring thau those of Cairo or Constan tinople the capacious chests of the merchants contain much tbat we would buy were our purses 1 nger. Old embroideries of wonderful colors, delicate China silk of many hues, swords of cunning workmanship, all these lie piled beside us on tbe floor. It is but seldom that a really good specimen of the Damascus sword can be obtained, tor the art of working and engraving steel Is dead. The words were made of alte nate laven of Iron and stee , so finely tempered thai tbe blade would bend to the hilt without breaking, with an edge so keen that no coat of mall could res.f-L it, . nd a surface so high. pol ished that when a Moslem wisl.cd c rearrange bis turban be used his sword for a looking glass. Chi cage Inter tcean. The Pin Story Improved. A prominent banker in Sydney was holding forth on bis early life. "How did I get my first start c life?" he exclaimed. "Why, one da) I picked up a p n." " h, that game's played out," wm the cry. "1 picked up a pin," the bankei continued, "a diamond pin, which 1 pawned for uU, and after giving 1C 'bob to charity to change my Iuck 1 began my ca eer as a nioney-lendei with the other ids. To-day, after thirty years' hard labor, I am i mil lonalre, aod to celebrate the event 1 have ust given .Cs, more U charity." Keeping Nilver Bright. The jewelers' method of keeping silver bright is simple and effective. .Smooth silver Is never touched with a brush for fear of scratching lb Fine French whiting Is moistened with a little water, applied with I chamois rag and a dry chamois rag U used for polishing. Tbere are briubei with chamois tips almost as One camel's hair brushes to clean Hated and cut silver, and much or VSm liver is cleaned by applying with a flne brush awd ruK titS chamois skia. , laK i) -.. ar 4 ' f i r i I J'