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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1894)
JBiLSloux County Iottrmat'1' VOLUME VII. HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894. NUMBEK 12. Tii ' mar -fat a. .aw ffanv n. b m. -w n r. .at m THE SMKERCIAL BANK. flTABLi8Mto ieea.) Harrison, Nebraska. a r. a . oaiswaLD, OMtw. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50 000. jncto a General Banking Business CORRISPONDF.NT& Xa1wal Baw. Hew Yrk, UT Statm Natjohal Bajh, Omaha, faaT Natiohal Bjn:, Chevdr TALLAGES SERMON. FINDS MANY LESSONS IN THE JOY OF COMING HOME. Interest Paid on Time Deposita. OLD ON ALL PARTS OF tUWOTZ. THE PIONEER harmacy, 1 1 PHINNEY, Proprietor. Pore Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. MATK&L4X jchool SuoDlies. rcriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. Simons & SMILEY, Harrison, Nebraska, ml Estate Agents, Have a number of bargains in !se land in Sioux county. Jic3 desiring to buy or cell real estate should not fail to call on them. School Lands lcacad, taxes paid for l-rccidontfl; farms rented, eta Respondents solicited. AM Word, lo the nom. Werd Horn. f (.hrtellu. Aagele o. ,h. Coayrr. Arn la Breofclrn. Rv. Dr. Talraage, having concluded 61a round the world toar, selected as the subject for last Bunny's discourse through the prees, -Home Again 'the teitben tmg Luke v, U, "Krlnir hither the fAtted 3alf Aud 1(111 it." In All aire. 0f the world it hAa been customary to celebrAte .oyful event by festivities -the singing of treaties, the proctAmatlon of pye, the ChrUUnae the marriAkre. However much on otnr day. of the year our table may have stinted tupply, on Th&okKiflvinir ay there munt be sotnetbine bount mua, and all the comfortable home of Lhrlnvendom have at some tims cele bratd joyful evenU by banquet and ftiylty. Th. jojfal feut. Something hag happened in the ola homeciewl greater than anything that ha ever dapnrd before. A favorite on, wnom the world supposed would b.onie a vaeabond and outlaw forever, ha got tircUof tti(fbteeinjrand haw re turned to his father house. The world oaid he never would come back. Now. haviiii' returned to h! fth.-- hon!, th father prorlaima celebra- . tlon. There is a ( alf In the paddock that ban Ix un kept up and fed to nt- i ni(t ( apai ity. so ax to tie ready for some occanum of ,oy that might come a;on(f. , Ah. there neverwlll be aerander day : on the old homestead than this day. Let thn biitchem do their work and the j houelcM!pcr bring In to the table the i smoking nieat. The musicians will take their place, and the gay groups I will move up and down the floor. All the fr.ends and neighbors are gathered In, ani extra supply is tent out to the table of the j-ervanw. The father re sides at the table and gays grace and I thanks d that his long alment son is . home again. Oh, how they miwed him How glad they are to have him ! ha- k' Oni brother imleed stands ! jo.iting at the back door and says: i "This is a great ado atxiut nothing. This ld Uiy should he e hastened In stead of greeted. eal is too good for j hltn!" Hi.t the fattier hays: "Nothing : is too good: nothing is good enough." j There- si's the young n.an, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of boi- , row tinting acro-s his brow at the ro- : membranre of the trouble he had seen. , All ready now. let the covers lilt. ; Muaic. lie whs deal and he is aiivo , again! lie wan lost, and be is found!! Hv such bold imagery does the Biblo , set forth the merry-making when a coul tomes home to God. Kir-tt of all, there is the new con vert's joy. It is no tame thing to be come a I hriatinn. The most tremend ous moment In a man's life is when he surrenders himself to God. The grand est time on the father's homestead is when the !oy comes back. Among the great throng who in tMo parlors of my church pro(cKed Christ one night was a yo mg man, who next morning rang mv disirliell and said: "Sir, I cannot contain myself with the .oy I feel. 1 came here this morning to express u. I have found more joy In five minutes in serving mh1 than in all the years of my prodleailty, and I eame to say so. Vuii has e seen perhaps a man run ning for his physical liberty and he oflli ers of the law after him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had pardoned him, and how great won the glee or that res cued manl Hut it i.-i very tame thmir that compared with the running fur one's everlasting life, the terrors of the law after him. and Christ coming in to pardon and oleas and rescue and save. You remember John Hunyan, in h,s great story, tell how tho pilgrim u t his linger In hisears and ran, cry ing, "LI'e, life, eternal life!" A poor cur driver, after having had to strug gle to suDii-Tt. his fumiiy lor years, sud denly was informed that a large In heritance was his, and there was )y amounting to licwilderment. but that is a small thing compared with the ex perience of one when b has put In his bands tho title do-d to the ,oys, tho ruptures, the splendors of heaven, and ho can truly say, "it mansions ure mine: tut temples are mine.; 1U songs are mine: its ! is mine;" n. it ni tAinn thinir to becorno a christian. It Is a merrymaking. It Is the killing of tho fatteo calf. It is j lubilee. ou Know wiu iuuiu conipares it to a funeral, but always compares it to something bright. Jt H more apt to 1 compared to a banquet t ban an .'! hing else. It Is compare 1 in tho Bible to the water - brk'ht, llash e water-to the morning, roseate, Ire aoikod, mountain transfigured morning. 1 wish I rou'd to day take all the Bible expressions about pardon i and lifo and con fort and hotie and Heaven, ami iwisi uim , garland, and put It on the brow of the humblest child of t od In a tills land and cry: "Wear It, wear It now, wH forever, on of God dsughter ,7f thVUrd God Almighty! oh, the 1 of the new convert! . ;h. the glad- e,s of the Christian service. hU rl' TniiBosy. Vou have seen sometimes a man In a religious as-cmbly get up ami Civo his ., ' -rlence. Wefl, i'aul gave his ex e ten e. He rose In the presence of churches the church on earth 8"d ho church in Heaven-and he "Now, this Is y experience. rrowf ul, yet alayt rejoicing: poor, rman rich; havlDjrnotflng vet possossintf " things." tT who read this scruioD knewthe Z " "of i. hnstian reUgion. they il M il pas. over into the kingdom i i the next moment. W hen Lu ituwdantsald, "tfAv. you mucft rln?'" "Oh," he replied, "ginc I found the Lord 1 nave never had any psUner(ptBin. Then they said to him. "Would you like to send a mea to your Mends? " " Yea, 1 would. Tell them that only last night the lo.e of Jeeus came rushing into my aoul like the turves of the sea, and I had to cry out: ' Stop, Lord It is enough! Btop, Lord -enough!"' Oh, the joys of tin Christian religion! Oh, It U a great religion to live by, And It Is a ffreat religion to die by. There Is only one heart throb between you and that religion 'this moment. Just look into the face of your pardon ing God and surrender yourself for time and for eternity, and lie Is yours, and heaven is yours', and all is yours. Some of you, like the young man of toe text, nave gone far astray. know not the history, but you know It you know it. When a young man went forth into life, the legend says, bis guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him Into a field the guardian Angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. It was A circle of vir tue and honor, and he must not step be yond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt At the circle. They could not pass, but one day a temptress, with diamonded hand, stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took It, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this dav, by the grac of God, to step back. This. I say to you. is your hour of sal vation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow, In help less sickness, she could not move her head or tnoye her hand. She was wait ing for the hour when the ministers of State should gather in angry contest, And worried and worn out oy the com ing hour, and in momentary absence of the nurse, in the power strange powsr which delirum sometimes gives one bhe arose and stood in front of tbe clock, and stood there watching the clock, when the nurse returned. The nurse said, "Io you see anything pecu liar alxmt that clock?" She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every history. If some of you would rise from the bed of leth argy and come out of vour delirium of sin ana look on the clock of your des tiny this moment, you would see and hear something you have not seen or heard before, and every tick of the minute, and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say, "Now, now, now, now!" Oh, come home to vour Father's house! Come, oh, prodigal, from the wilderness! Come home, como home: ou remember reading the story of a king who on some great day of festiv ity scattered silver and gold among the people, who sent valuable presents to his courtiers, but methinks when a soul comes back God is so glad that to express his joy he flings out new world's into space, kindles up new suns and rolls among the white robod anthems of tho redeemed a greater halleluiah, while witn a voice that re verberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gateB he cries, "This, my son, was dead and ia alive again!" At the opening of the exixwition in New Orleans I saw a Mexican flutist, and he played tbe solo, and then after wurd the eight or ten bands of music, accomuanied by the great organ, came in. But the sound of that ono flute as compared with all the orchestra was greater thun all the combined joy of the universe when comuared with the resounding heart ol Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to tho depot. His son went off In aggravating lreumstunces, but the fat her said, "He will como bark." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a clay the father went. In the early morn ing he watched the train - its arrival, the stepping out of the paf-ncngors and then the departure of the train, watch ing the advance ot the train, watch ing tho departure. At night there aijain, watching tho coming, watching the iroing. for ton years. Ho was suro his con woulu como back. God has been watching and waiting for some of you, in v brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years, waiting, waiting, watching, watching, and if this morn ing the prodigal should come home what a scene, of gladness and festivity, and how tho great Father's heart would ro olee at your coming home! You will'come, some ot you, will you not? You will: You will! Jod's Mlnlntrrs Kcjolce. I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is tbe joy of the ministers ol religion. un,n lsagrauu thing to preach this trospol! I know there has been a great deal said alxiut tho trials and hardships of the Chris tian ministry. 1 wish someliody would write a good, rousing book about tho ,oys of the Christian ministry. Since I entered tho profession I have seen more of tho goodness of God than 1 will bo able toceb.brate In all eternity. I know some boast about their equilib rium, but they do not breakdown with emotion. Hut I confess to you plainly that, when I see a man coming to God and giving up his sin I toel in body, mind, and soul a transport. vVheni see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated, I rejoice ovor It as though It wero my own emancipation. hen in our com munion service such throngs of young and old stood up at the Altars, and in the presence of Heaven and earth and boll attested their allegiance to Jesus Christ. I felt a,oy something akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: 'Whether in the body I can not tell, or out of tho body 1 cannot tell. God knoweth." Have not ministers a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes home? Thoy blew the trumpet, And ought they not to be glad of the gAthering of the hostr They pointed to the full supply, And ought they not lo rejoice when souls pant a tho hart for water brooks? tIaj came forth MTlng, "All thlngi m now MAdy." Oug kt they not to re.'oice when the prodigal sits down At the banquet? ' Value of a Vtdm Iliad. Life insurance men will All tell you that ministers of religion, as a cIass. live lonrer than any other. It is con firmed by the statistics of all those wbo calculate upon human longevity. Why is It? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in Any other pro fession, and their toil is most exhaust ing. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations, who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the men Of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood Anl had not enough nutritious food to keep any tire in their temperament. No fuel, no Ore. I have sometimes seen tbe inside of the life of many of the American clergymen never accepting their hos pitAjity, because they cannot afford it but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of $500 and tout) a year, the Average less than that. their strug gle well depicted by the western mis sionary wbo says in a letter: "Thank you lor your last remittance. Until it came we had not Any meat in our bouse lor one yeAr, and all last winter, Although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find in dif ferent parts of the lsnd struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable, some of them week after 1 week entertaining agents who have maps to sell An 1 submitting themselves j to All styles ' of Annoyance, and yet , without complaint and- cheerful of soul. How do you account for tbe fact that these lifo "insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of the har vest field, the joy of greeting proaigals home to their Father's house. Jijolce 111 All lnnovem-t. We are in sympathy with all inno cent hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with the merriest, but those of us who have toilod in the service are ready to testi fy that all these joys are tame com pared with the satisfaction of seeing mon enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the out) ourings of the Holy Ghost, and I thank God I have seen twenty of them. Thank God, thank God! 1 notice also when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on a promontory, and there was a huricane at sea, ana it was blow ing toward the shore,-and you saw peo ple get ashore in the lifeboats, and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control your oy. And it is a glad t me when the church of God sees men who are tossed on tho ocean of their Bins plant their feet in the rock Christ .lesus. No Long- Prayers Needed. vVhen prodigals come home, just hear those Christians sing, it is not a dull tone you hear at such times. Just hear those Christians pray! it is not a stereotyped supplication we have heard over aud over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the bands of God with an importunate pleading. Men never pray at great length unless thoy have nothing to say, and their hourts are hard and cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were an swored were short prayers: "God, be merciful to me, a sinner;" "Lord, that 1 may receive my sight;" "Lord, save mo, or I perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, loss than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear thein pray now that the prodigals are cominsr home! Just see them shako hands! No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heartsoem to clinch the lingers of one hand aro.ind the other hana. And then see those Chris tian faces, how illumined they are! And see that old man get up and with the same voice that he sang lifty years ago in the old country meeting house say, "Now, Lord, lettest thou thy so'rvarit depart In peace, for mine eyes have teen thy salvation." There was a man of Keith who was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and ono day ho got off his shackles, and he came and stood by the prison door. ar,d w hen the jailer was opening tho door with one stroke he struck down the man who had incarcerated him. Pass ing along the streets ot London, he j wondered whore his family was. He j did not dare to ask lest he excite sua- j plcion but, passinir along a little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tank ard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation - ho saw , it in a window. His family, hoping that some day ho would get clear, came and lived as near as thoy could to tho prison house, and they set that Keith tankurd in the window, hoping he would see it. And ho came along and saw it and knocked at the door and went in, and the long absent family were all together again. Oh, if you would start for the kingdom of I God to-day, I think some of you would find nearly all your families around the ! holy tankard of the holy communion - ', fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters around that sacrod tankard which commemorates tho love of JesusChrist, , our Itrd. Oh, it will be a great com- , m nlon dav when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth, one in Hoaven. j The H?vinlv Festival. Once more I remark that when the I prodigal gets back the inhabitants of Heaven keep festival. I am very cer- tain of it. If you have never seen a toloirraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are connected to- j gether and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem reticulated, and news flies from city to city, And from continent to con- , tinot, but more rapidly go the tidings from earth to Heaven, And when a prodigAl returns it is Announced before i tbe throne of God, And If these souls to-dAy should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the Heavenly kingdom to sAy: "That's my father," "That's my mother," "1 hat's my' on," "That my dAugbter," ''That's my friend," "TbAt's the one I used let proy for.- "That's tbe one for whom I wept so manv teAi-s," And one aoul would say "RoeannA!" and another soul would say "HAlleJuiah? FlMMd with the newf, the ralnts baiow Id eonfe tbrir tonjfur employ. Be ood tee sklei tbe tidiat go. And heaven i. tilled wllb jojr. Kor ugle emu their joy ecntelB, Bat kind e wta new fi re, Tbe (Inner lot H foiud, they lng, Awl atrike tbe ooodlng lyre. , At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cle ero, the orator. At the Macedonian festival sAt Phillip, the conqueror. At the Grecian ban uet sat Socrates, the philosopher, but at our Father's table sit ail tbe returned prodigals, more than con uerors, .The table Is so wide its leaves reach across seas and acroas lands. Its guests are the redeemed ot earth And tbe glorified of heaven. Tbe ring of God's forgiveness on every hand; the robe of a Saviour's right eousness ad r cop from every shoulder. Tbe wine that glows in tbe cope ia from tbe bowls of lo,000 sacraments, l et all the redeemed of earth and all the glorified of Heaven rise, anu witb gleaming chalice drink to tbe return of a thousand prodigals. Sing, sing, sing' i "Worthy i the lAmb that was slain to receive blessing and richest and honor and glory and power, world without end:-' OOD GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE. Some Interesting Statistics Gulled from a, Itrttlih Blue Book. The British Government has issued a blue book on tbe subject of mar riage and divorce, giving the laws of various countries, collected by British consuls and intended obviously as a basis for an international agreement on these momentous transactions, -says the San Francisco Argonaut. The countries in which divorce laws are in force are France, Great Britain, Germany, havaila, Leigiura, L'eo mark, Greece, Kussia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, and the Austra lasian colonies. In most of these countries, as in most of our ; tates, the usual grounds for divorce are adultery, desertion, imprison mentfor felony, cruelty, and incurable incom patibility of temper. Hut the latter ground lor divorce may not be pleaded in Belgium wheie the parties have lived together twenty-five years, or where the wife Is over -i5. In France a woman may get a divorce from ber husband if he calls her a canaille be fore her children, or it he maltreats her mother, or it he refuses to sup plement the civil ceremony with a religious ceremony when requested to oblige ber to that extent in Ger many a divorce may be granted if one of rhe parties goes mad, but not if he or she becomes an idiot In Greece a man may di voice his wile 'if she stays out all night," or, with out bis consent, "attends theaters, or sports, or dinners, or places where men bathe." It is good ground tor di. orcein Greece that one of the pirties to the ma; riage turns out to be a Jew. In S .xony a divorce may be ur..nted on tbe ground of cb nge of religion, and iu Spain a wife may get a divorce od the ground that her husband is trying to force her to ch nge her religim. In Sweden it would appetr that a divorce would be granted on proof that one of tbe parties had not been vaccinated be fore m rri ge. Jn New South Wake and ictoria a husband may get a divor e from his wi e on the ground that she has negle ted ber domestic duties for three years. The Blue Book gives these figures, wbi h show that the United States, which leads the world In ruo.st things, leads also in divorce: In 1885 the number of divorces was, in the United States, i;f, 472; in Switzerland, H20; in Denmark, (Klu; in France, c, 240; in Germany, 6, 161; in Kou mania, ,041; in Holland, 330; In Austria, 1,178; in Belgium, 290; in Norway arid Sweden, 207; in Au stralasia, H5; in Kussia, 1,789; in Italy, 550; in Gre.it Britain and Ire land, ."i0K, and in Canada, 12. The Lwit First. Guild ish simplicity sometimes looka like dcceitfulness without being it. It was a perfectly honest little girl who was asked by her father: "Well, Emily, have - you got along nicely with your knitting wbi e I've been away? Which stocking are you on now?" "On the second, papa." "Well, where's the other?" "Oh, I should have told you, papa, I begun on the second one!" Youth's Com panion. Large Krnlts the Beet. The Board of Agriculture is still studying tbe question of tbe most de sirable standard for a scale of point in judging at the agricultural fairs. The question of fruits presents some peculiar dlilicultlcs because in tbt case of most fruits size is an impor tant consideration, and as a rule tbe larger they are the better, while wtth vegetables a large overgrown article is usually of Inferior quality. Grange Home. An Unfailing ttt&jn. "I tell yon said Mrs. Hunkles, at she let the illustrated paper drop in her lap, "our Senator is gettln' to be bigger an' bigger in national affairs." "What makes you think so?" "These here comic pictures are makln' bin uglier and uglier." Washln ton Star. As soon as It does no good, a ma is willing to take care of himself. ' Mkn seem to be too much one waj, and women not enough aaoUjitr. , I '- t ' V t-n. r a f H H T-. 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