The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, May 11, 1894, Page 7, Image 7
THE RED CLOUD CHIEF, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1894. THEPASSIXCITHROXG GREAT DAY IN THE HISTORY THE TABERNACLE. OF She Twcnty-nnli Annlcinr.v or Kev. Ur. TaltnnRp". llrnoklyu 'ntomto An l'.lo. I qurnt, 4:riprlitto llcourr Preaching ' to Twcitj.Ho Million Souls. BnooKi.Y.v, May 0. This va n picat day in tho history of tlio Urooklyn Tab ernacle. Tlio figures in Mowers lck of tho ulatform 1SD nntl 1801 indicat ed Rev. Dr. Talmago's tiino of coining to Brooklyn and tho pivient celebration and wcro introductory to tho gioat meet ingx in honor of Dr. Tulningo'n iM-tor nto to tako nlaco on tho following Thurs day and Friday, presided over by tho mayor of tho city and.tho ex-secretary of tho navy, General Tracy, and to bo par ticipated in by senators mid governors and prominent men from north, south, cast and west. Tho subject of tho ser mon today was "Tho deuerations," tho text being Ecclesiastcs i, l.'Ono gen eration pnsscth nway, and another gener ation comoth." According to tho longevity of people in their particular century has n gener ation been called 100 years, or fiO years, or 80 years. By common consent in our nineteenth century n generation is fixed at 25 years. Tlio largest procession that oyer mov ed is tlio procession of years, and tho greatest army that over marched is tho army of generations. In eacli genera tion thcro nro about nino full regiments of duys. Theso (, 1 25 days in each gener ation march with wonderful precision. They nover .broak ranks. They novor ground arms. Thoy never pitch tents. They nover halt. They aro nover oft on furlough. They camo out of tlio eterni ty past, and they movo on toward tho eternity future. They oross rivers with out any bridgo or boats'. Tho 000 im mortals of tho Crimea dashing into them causo no confusion. They movo as rap idly at midnight as at miduoou. Their haversacks aro full of good bread and bitter aloes, clusters of richest vlntago and bottles of agonizing tears. With a regular tread that no order of "dou bio quick" can hasten or obstacle can Blacken, thoir tramp is on and on and on aud on while mountains crumble and pyramids die. "Ono generation passeth, and another generation com eth." A Generation. I This is my twenty-fifth anniversary Bormou 1809 and 1804. It is 25 yeura Biuco I assumed tho Brooklyn pastorate. A wholo generation has passed. Threo generations wo havo known that which preceded our own, that which is now at tho front, and tho ono coming on. Wo aro at tlio heels of our predecessors, and our successors aro at our heels. What a generation it was that preceded nsl Wo who aro now in tho front regiment aro tho only ones competent to tell tho new generation just now coming in sight who our predecessors were. Biography cHi ' toll it. Autobiography can not tell it. Biographies aro generally writton by special friends of tho depart ed porhaps by wifo or son or daughter and thoy only tell tlio goou tilings, mo blographors of ono of tho first presi dents of tho United States mako no rec ord of tho president's account books, now in tho nrchlves at tho capitol, which I have seen, telling how much ho lost or gained daily at tho gaming tabic. Tho biographers of ono of tho early secretaries of tho United States nover described tho sccuo that day wit nessed when tho secretary was carried doad drank from tho stato apartments to liis own homo. Autobiography is written by tho man1 himself, and no ono would record for fatnro times his own weaknesses and moral deficits. Thoso who kcop diaries put down only things that read well. No man or woman mat over lived would daro to mako full rec ord of all tho thoughts and words of a lifotimo. Wo who saw and heard much of tho generation marching just ahead of us aro far moro ablo than any book to describo accurately to our successors who our predecessors wcro. Very much liko oursolvos, thank you. Unman na ture in them very much liko human na turo in tis. At our tinio of lifo they wcro very much liko wo now nro. At tho tirao they wcro in thoir teens thoy wero vory much liko you aro in your teens, and at tho time thoy wero in their twen ties thoy wcro very much liko you aro in your twenties, Human nature got an awful twist under u fruit trco in Eden, Mid though tho graco of God does much to Btraighten things ovcry now gener ation lias tho samo twist, and tho same work of straightening out has to bo douo over again. 1 Twcntj'-flvo Year Hark. I A mother in tho country districts, ex pecting tho neighbors at her tablo on Bomo gala night, hud with her own hands arranged ovcrything in taste, and as sho was about to turn from it to rccolvo her guests saw her littlo child by accident upset a pitcher all over tho whito cloth and soil ovcrything, und tho mother lifted her hand to slap tho child, but Bho suddenly remembered tho tiino when a littlo child herself, in her fathor's hoiwo. where they had al- f ways boforo been used to candles on tho purchaso of a lamp, whjeii was a mat ter of rarity and pride, sho took it in her hands and dronned it, crashing into pieces, and looking up in her father's fnco, expecting chastisement, heard only tho words, "It is a sad loss, but nover mind; you did not mean to do it." History rojH'atu itself. Generations wonderfully alike., .Among that gener ation that is past, as in our own, and as it will bo in tho generation follow ing us, thoso who succeeded beeamo tho target, shot at by those who did not succeed. In thoso times, as in ours, a man's bitterest enomies wero thoso whom ho linrt befriended and helped. Hates, jealousies aud revenges wero just rs lively in 1800 as in 1801. Hypocrisy Biilfllcd and looked solemn then us now. Thcro was just as much avarice among (ho upplo barrels na nowamoug tho cot mu bales aud among tho wheelbarrows as among tho locomotives. Tlio tallow candle. raw tho nmts sins that aro now found under the c 1 trie lights. Home Fpnnvas jut as proud as is tho mod ern fashion pl.tto. Twuity.five years yea, 2.i centuries hnvo not human natme a particle. 1 ay this for thtMuiC'vinw Mieiit f thoo who think tint our times in mnpolioall tho nbotn iuatious of tho ages. Ono nimuto nfur Adam cot outfldo of pnruili'.o ho was just liko you, O maul Ono strp after Kvo left tho gate eho was just liko you, O woman i All the faults and vices aro many times cen tenarians. Yia. tho cities Sodom, Go morrah, l'oniiK-ii, Hercnlaneuni, Hell opolis and ancient Memphis wero as much wor.-o than our modern cities as you might expect from tho fact that tho modern eitiis have somewhat yield ed to tho iWr.iints of Christianity, whilo thoo ancient cities wero not lim ited in their abominations. Orcnt Work AtcoinplNliril, Yea, that generation which passed off within tho lat 25 years had their bo reavehients, their temptations, their struggles, their disapiwlntnients, their succeses, their failures, their gladness es and their giiefs, liko theso two gen erations' now in sight, that in advance and that following. But tho 25 years between lSOO and ISO 1 how much they saw I I low much they discovered I How much they felt! Within that tinio havo been perfoimed tho miracles of tho telephone and tho phonograph. From tho observatories other worlds havo been seen to heavo in sight. Six presidents of tho United States havo been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage abbreviated from 10 days to G1. Chi cago aud Now York, onco thrco days apart, now only 2 1 hours by tho vesti bule limited. Two additional railroads havo been built to tlio Pacific. Franco has passed from monarchy to republic anism. Many of the cities havo nearly doubled their populations. During that generation tho chief surviving heroes of tho civil war havo gono into tho en campment of tho grave Tho chief phy- Mid 'YcVbnt ho could not find it, and the living s dlor sodded him and said, "Ain't you nh.tmi d of your self n-1 to n ad your Bibli?" So thebov oxpluml tho bottom of his trnnk and changed brought t-rit tho Bible, aid his mother had marked a parage that just lit ted the dying sailor's ease, "Tlio Mood oi Jesti". Chriit, his con, clean-etli from all sin." That helped tho sailor to die in exactly ern politics n in tho Hnht of tho gos pel of Jesus Chrit. which has trans formed them, a i' I Samoa, and thoso at nalms of New Ziw'.md, and Aus tralia and Ceylon and India. I want to sco what Christianity h.s accomplished. I want to sto how the missionaries havo been lied about as living in luxury aud idleness I want to know whether the heathen peace. ' So one g. m ration helps another, ' religions aro really as tolerable and as slciaus,, attorneys, orators, merchants, havo passed oft' tho earth or nro in re tirement waiting for transition. Other men in editorial chairs, in pulpits, in governors' mansions, in legislative, sen atorial and congressional halls. There aro not 10 men or women on earth now prominent who wero promi nent 25 years ago. Tlio crow of this old ship of n world is all changed. Others at tho holm, others on tho "lookout," others climbing tho ratlines. Tinio is n doctor who, with potent anodyne, has put an entire generation into sound sleep. Time, liko another Cromwell, has roughly prorogued parliament, and with iconoclasm driven nearly nil tho rulers except ono cjueen from their high places. So far ns I observed that generation, for tho most part they did their best. Ghastly exceptions, but so faros I know them they did qnito well, nnd many of them gloriously well. They wero born at tho right time, and they died at tho right time. They left tho world better than they fouud it. Wo nro indebted to them for tho fact that they prepared the way for our coming. Eighteen hundred and ninety-four reverently and grato- fully salutes 1S09. "Ono generation passeth away, aud another generation comet h." There nro fathers and mothers hero whom I baptized in their infancy. Thcro is not ono person in this church's board of session or trustees who was hero when I came. Hero aud thero in this vast assembly is ono person who heard liiv oiH.uiug sermon in Brooklyn, but not moro than ono person in every COO now present. Of tho 17 persous who gave mo n unanimous call when I came, only three, I believe, aro living. Tim Mi0r Key. But this sermon is not n dirge. It is on anthem. Whilo this world is appro priate as n temporary stay, as an cter ual residenco it would bo a dead fail ure. It would bo a dreadful sentenco if our raco wcro doomed to remain hero a thousand winters nnd n thousand sum mers. God keeps us hero just long enough to givo us nn nppetito for heav en, ilad wo been born in celestial realms wo would not havo been ablo to appre ciate tho bliss. It needs n good many rough blasts In this world to qualify us to properly estimate tho superb climate of that good land whero it is nover too cold or too hot, too cloudy or too glar ing. Heaven will lo moro to us than to thoso supernal beings who wcro nover tempted or sick or bereaved or tried or disappointed. So you may well tako my text out of tho minor koy aud set it to Bomo tuno in tho major key. "Ono gen eration passeth nyiay, mid nuothcr gen eration comoth." Nothing can rob us of tho satisfaction that uncounted thousands of tho gener ation just past wero converted, comfort ed nnd harvested for heaven by this church, whether in tho present building or tho thrco preceding buildings in which they worshiped. Tho two great organs of tho previous churches went down in tho momorablo fires, but tho multitudinous songs they led year aft er yoarwero not recalled or injured. Thero is no power in earth or lioll to kill a halloluiah. It is imposslblo to ar rest a hosantia. What n satisfaction to know that thcro aio many thousands in glory on whoso etomal wolfaro this church wrought mightily! Nothing can undo that work. Thoy havo ascended, tho multitudes who served God iu that generation. That chapter is gloriously mded. Hut that generation lias leu us impression upon this generation. A sailor was dying on shipboard, and ho said to his mates: "My lads, I can only think of ono passage of Scripture, 'Tho soul thatsinueth, it shall die,1 and that keeps ringing in my ears. 'Tho soul (hat sinneth, it shall dio.' Can't you think of something elsoiu thoBiblo to cheer mo upV" Well, sailors aro kind, mid they tried to think pf soino othor passage of Se-ipturo with which to con solo their dying comrade, but they could not. Ono of them Bald: "uct us can up tho cabin boy. His mother was a Chris tian, and I guess ho has a Blblo. " Tho cabin boy was called up, aud tho dying Bailor asked him if ho had a Bible He nnd good things written or said or done aro reproduced long afterward. Tho Wnrlil Tor hii AiiilU-uro. During the pa-ing of tho last gener ation some peculiar events havo unfold ed. One day while re.-ting at Sharon Springs, N. Y., I think it was in 1ST0, the year after my settlement iu Brook lyn, and whilo walking iu tho park of that place, 1 found inyvjlf asking tlio quest ion: "I wonder if thero is any spe cial mission for mo to execute in this world? If theio is, may God show it to niol" Thero soon camo upon mo a great desito to preach tho gospel through tho secular printing press. I realized that tho vast majority of people, even in Christian lands, never enter a church, and that it would bo an opportunity of usefulness, infinite if that door of pub lication wero opened. And so I recorded that prayer in a blank book and offered tho nraver dav iu and day out until tho answer came, is in though in a way different from that light, wnieu i una exacted, lor it camo through tho misrepresentation and per secution of enemies, and I havo to re cord it for tho encouragement of all ministers of the gospel who aro misrep resented, that if tho misrepresentation bo virulent enough nnd bitter enough and continuous enough thero is noth ing that so widens one's field of useful ness ns hostilo attack, if you aro really doing tho Lord's work. Tho bigger tho lie told about me, tho bigger tho do maud to seo and hear what I really was doing. From ono stage of sennonio pub lication to another tho work has gono on until week by week, and for about 23 years, I havo had tho world for my audience, as no man over had, aud to day moro so than at any othor time. Tlio syndicates inform mo that my ser mons go now to about 25,000,000 of people in all lauds. I mention this not iu vain boast, but an n testimony to tho fact that God answers prayer. Would God I had bctterocoupied tho field and been moro consecrated to tho woikl May God forgivo mo for lack of service in tho past and doublo aud quadruplo and quintuplo my work iu future. In this my quarter century sermon I record tho fact that side by sido with tho procession of blessings has gono n procession of disasters. I am preaching today iu tho fourth church building sinco I began in this city. My first ser mon was iu tho old church on Seller merhorn street to im audience chiefly of empty seats, for tho church was al most extinguished. That church filled and overflowing, wo built n larger church, which after two or threo years disappeared iu flame. Then wo built another church, which nlso iu a lino of fiery succession disappeared in the samo wny. Then wo put up this building, and may it stand for many years, n fortress of righteousness and a lighthouso for tho storm tossed, its gates crowded with vast assemblages long after wo havo ceased to freqnent them I A Noliln Wrk Wo hnvo raised iu this church over $1,030,000 for church charltablo pur poses during tho present pastorate, whilo wo havo given, free of all expense, tho gospel to hundreds of thousands of stran gers, year by year. I record with grat itude to God that during this genera tion of 25 years I remember but two Sabbaths that I havo missed service through anything liko physical indis positions. Almost a fanatio on tho sub ject of physical exercise, I havo made tho parks with which our city io bless ed tlio means of good physical condi tion. A daily walk and run iu tho open nir havo kept mo ready for work nnd in good humor with all tho world. I say to all young ministers of tho gospel, it is easier to keep good health than to ro gaiu it when onco lost. Tho reason so many good men think tho world is go ing to ruin is becau6o their own physic al condition is on tho down grade. No man ought to preach who has n diseased liver or an enlarged spleen. Thero aro two things nhead of its that ought to keep us cheerful in our work heaven and tho millennium. And now, having como up to tho twenty-fifth milestone iu my pastor ate, I wonder how many moro miles I nm to travel? Your company has been exceedingly pleasant, O my dear people, and I would liko to march by your sido until tho generation with whom wo are now moving nbrcast and step to step shall havo stacked nrms after tho last battle. But tho Lord knows best, and wo ought to bo willing to stay or go. A Summer Out lug. Most of you nro nwaro that I proposo at this time, bctweeu tho close of my twenty-fifth year of pastorate nnd bo foro tho beginning of my twenty-sixth year, to bo absent for n fow months in order to tako a journey around the world. I expect to sail from San Fran cisco iu the steamer Alameda May S1. My placo hero on Sabbaths will lie fully occupied, whilo on Mondays nnd every Monday I will continue to speak through the printing press iu this and othor lands ns heretofore. Why do I go? To mako pastoral visitation among pcoplo whom I hnvo nover seen, but to whom I havo been permitted a long whilo to Administer. I want to see them iu their own cities, towns and neighborhoods. I waut to know what aro their prosperi ties, what their adversities und what thoir opportunities, and so en largo my work and get moro ndnptedncss. Why do I go? For educational purposes. I want to freshen my mind nnd heart by now scenes, now faces, now man ner nnd customs. I want better to un derstand what nro tho wrongs to bo riglited and tho wnsto places to bo ro olaiiiied. I will put nil I learn iu scr n.oiis to bo preached to you when I re turn. I want to bco tho Hanuwicu is commetidnblo as they were represented by their adherents in the parliament of religious at Chicago. I want to seo whether Mohammedanism aud Bud dhism would bo good things for trans plantation in America, as it hasagaiu and again been argued. I want to hear tho Brahmans pray. I want to test whether tho l'.icitlr ocean treats its gmvts any better than does tho Atlantic. 1 want to seo tho wondrous architecture of In dia, and tho Delhi nudC.iwnporo whero Christ was crucified in tin mas-aero of his modern di-ciples, and the di-ablcd. Juggernaut unwhceled by Christianity, and to seo if tho Taj which tho Kinporor Sha Jehnn built in honor of his empress really means nny more than tho plain slab wo put nbovo our dear departed. I waut to seo tho fields whero Havelex-k and Sir Colin Campbell won tho day against tho sepoys. I want to seo the, world fruni nil sides. How much of it darkness, how much of it is iu what tho Bible means by the "ends .of tho earth," anil get my-elf ready to appreciate the extent of the present to be made to Christ as spoken of in tho IValius "Ask of me, and I shall glvo thee the heathen for thine in heritance ttnd tho utternioit parts of the earth for thy po-sesslon," and so 1 shall bo ready to celebrate in heaven tlio victories of Christ in ' more raptur.- ous song than I could have rendered, had, I never seen the heathen tilKNiiiiint'iems before they were conquered. Aiul so I hope to como back refreshed, re-enforced and better equipped, and to do in 10 years more eiTectual woik than I havo done iu the la-t 25. A fliirliiml und 11 I'iiIiii. And now, in this twenty-fifth anni versary sermon, 1 proposo to do two things first, to put n garland on tho grave of tlio generation that hu,s just passed oft" and, then to put a palm branch. in the liaild of the generation just now coming on tlio field of action, for my text is tnu, "Ono generation passeth away, 'and another generation cometh'." Oh, how many wo revered and honored und loved iu the last gen eration that quit tho earth 1 Tears fell nt tho time of their going, and dirges wero sounded, and signals of mournijig wero put on, but neither,tears nor dirge uor somber veil told the half wo felt. Their going left a vacancy in our souls that has uover lieen filled up. Wo never get used to their absence. Thero aro times when tlio sight of something with which they were ns-oemted a pietuie, or a book, or n garment, or a stall' breaks us dowu with emotion, but we bear it simply because wo have to bear it. Oh, how snowy whito their hair got, and how tho wrinkles multiplied, and the sight gruw more dim, and thqhcnriug less alert, and tho step moro frail, and ono day thoy wero gone out of tho chair by tho fireside, and from tho plato at tho meal, and from the end of tho church pew, whero they worshiped with us. Oh, my soul, how wo miss them! But let us con-olo each other with tho thought that wo shall meet thorn again in the laud of salutation aud reunion. And now I twist a garland for that departed generation. It need not bo cost ly porhaps, just a handful of clover blossoms from tho field through which thoy used to wnlk, or as many violets as you could hold between tho thumb and tho forefinger, plucked out of the garden whero thoy used to walk in the cool of tho day. Put theso old fashion ed flowers right down over the heart that never ngain will ache, and tho feet that will never again bo "weary, aud tho arm that has forover ceased to toil. Peace, father! Peace, mother! Everlast ing peace! All that for tlio generation gone. Tlio Mining Throng. But what shall wo do with tho palm branch? That wo will put in tho hand of tho generation coming on. Yours is to bo tho generation for victories. Tho last and tlio present generation havo been perfecting tho steam power, and the electric light, nndthoelectiio forces. To theso will bo added transportation. It will be your mission to uhj all theso forces. Everything is ready now for you to march right tip and tako this world for God and heaven. Get your heart right by repentance and tho pardoning graco of tlio Lord Jesus, and your mind right by elevating books and pictures, nnd your body right by gymnasium aud field exercise, nnd plenty of oono and by looking ns often as you can upon tho face of mountain and of sea. Then start I In God's name, start! And hero is tho palm branch. From conquest to con quest, move right on and right up. You will soon havo tho whole field for your self. Before another 25 years havo gone, wo will bo out of tho pulpits, nnd tho offices, and tho stores, and the factories, and the benevolent institutions, and you will bo at tho front. Forward into tho battlo! If God Iki for you, who can bo ngainstyou? "Ho that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall ho not with him also freely givo us ntl things?" And, as for us who are now at tho front, having put tho garland on tho grave of tho last generation, and having put tho palm branch iu tho hand of tho coining generation, wo will cheer each other in tlio remaining onsets and go in to tho fihiuiuggatosomowlicro about tho amo time, and greeted by tho gener ation that has preceded us wo will havo towaitoulyn littlo whilo togreot'tho generation that will come after us. And will not that bo glorious? Threo genera tions iu heaven together tho grandfa ther, tho sou nnd tho grandson; tlio grandmother, the daughter nnd tho granddaughter. And so with wider rango aud keener faculty wo shall real izo tho full significance of tho text, "Ono (feneration nassoth away, and another I - .. . 13 AS SAFE AND HARMLESS AS j9l Fletzs: Se lb la applied right to tho parts. It euros nil dlsoaaoa of woman. Anj lady can uso it horsclf. Sold by ALL DIUJOQISTa Mailed to My odelrcsa on receipt of $1. Dr. J. A. McGill & Co., 3 and 4 Panorama Flaoe. Ohlotco, SL tale hy C Ij Cotting. :: .1. L. MlKI'.K, President. Hl'OU MlXEH, Asst. Cashier. AV. A. Sherwood i Gartner Peoples Bank of Red Cloud, Red Cloud, Nebraska, IYansact a General Banking Business, Special attention given to Collections.' Banking Office in Minor Bros Store Igd Cloiid Stgati'i Ladqdry. -P. a. HANSEN. Proprietor. ririt cIiim work guareiitecd In every particular. if- N. E. ROBINSON, PAINTER & PAPER HANGER IMrsI fins work u upei'lulty. Pricci rcmonnble. , OllUe 11 rut door south of Chief wlta W. r. lall Sec iilui before Kvlri(r j;our order tu it will be to year Imterect Jno. B. 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