Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-19


nature could hear But to me u seems
different; am Of the opinion that ~
there Is any virtue in church doctrines
such Is the place to promulgate them
with the most fruitful results. VINO
could need religious training worse
thnn these men whu were worse than
brenklng the Sabbath? There y too
much OF preach ng TO people VINO 90
moi ,iced IL. The church should not
rest content, with being rAssivELf
t,oop. II must be anactlvc agency ior
disseminating truth; aud To do the
most good must try to exert It's iniiu-
ence where good needs to be done. 1t
must not remain idle, and wait Tor
those who need help 10 come to 1t. US
short, 'to leave behind II foot prints
on tile sands of time" the clluich,
like individuals, must not only be
good, but good for something
People point 10 the fastnc-s of our
BOYS, To the gambling propcnsities OF
nearly all classes, and the easy morals
of large share OF the people; to the
fact that only Il small share are
church.goIng, aud to the fact that mus.
cle calls forth more admiration than
brains, etc, etc. 10 all these tenden-
cies they point, and use them In sup
port of their arguments that the world
IA not so good as IL was half century
ago, aud tina; it Is rapidly progressing
In the wrong direction, but have
known such persons, who btmoaned
the existing state of society, the gam.
bling propen ,ties OF the boys, YET
those very persons were members OF
the Chicago Board OF Trade, the most
prolific
oANtBLiNG HOT BED
In the west. Not only of gambling
but OF vices the worst of every sort
Thus II Is that people are forever look
ing for something wrong In somebody
else. and falling to make any home
application. The common evidences
presented In proof of the worlds wick
edness are not evidence of that fact To
me. The world moves, and IL does not
move all In any one direction. Our
qualities intensity, and while those
who are disposed 70 be bad, nre able to
be ~ in greaterdcgree than formerly,
so with Those who are interested in the
general welfare aud highest good OF
humanity; their quality OF goodness
| intenslfies, and their usefulness in
! creases as il takes on more practical
( and tangible forms. Does anybody
! that thinks about II believe that good
4 could 20 right on increasing, without
/ bad making any growth In It's direc-
! ton?
The great mass of humanity does
not feel i'll disposed to and like revers-
ing the golden rule. The fact that
people do not feel as much disposed TO
cramp themselves to fit narrow church
doctrines as they once did is no evil
dence of anything but greater thought
fitness on The part of the people. The
only tro BILE Is that the church Is try
iug to iustill seuseless doctrines of past
ages into the minds of the present;
aud instead of leading the van, is
dragging its cumbersome methods In
| the rear, and only ministering TO those
who are unable 10 keep step with the
march of progress.
MISCELLANEOUS JoTTiNGs.
This IL a thinking age. People are
not accepting the thoughts of anybody
without weighing and measuring
them, and seeing how they compare
with their thoughts on the same sub
iects. A hundred men who do not
think, are easily manag d, but hun
dred that do think-they all want To
boss
A member OF the Photographers
brotherhood Sid the other day that
the strike was premature. 1t would
| seem so.
| Cold weather has continued in this
| region for some time and people are
| much cooler here than Mt the seaside,
The Theodore Thomas concerts
came To an end Saturday. The season
WAS II very profitable one to him and
to those who patronized the high elias;
/ concerts by the superb orchestra, II tn,
t daily attendance, which was abou
= three thousand on an average. Is to b.
n taken as evidence. On "Wednesday
/ night of the last week, n ball room
/ programme was presented, and IL
!. hardly necessary to say to the larges
, audience of the season.
q Apollo Commandery X. Il. Is U
: present doing London and vicinity
a The sir knights arc on their annu,
pilgrimage To York, the Masol,i
Mecca One of the sir knights /
making an address ut reception q
York, addressed the lord mayor a
MIR. Mayor much to the anus,
, , mpnt of some of the company.
Perhaps the ''only right whale
humbug did not reach Texas.
reached Chicago, as most all humhug
a
do. II was an immense whale skin
stretched over kegs, increasing in si2
: from the tail forward, till nj the hea,
!, hogshends were used The hide WI
= creased to resemble oil oozing from h
> whaleship. The thing occupied tw
flat cars and Was upon the whole
:, fraud that would have been worthy
:. class with Barnum's bogus giraffe
~ Thousands of Chicago people went
:, see the thing and paid out good han
~ quarters TO gaze upon the menstrol
- clever fraud, a great many dignitie
- Instructors went there TO give pract
cal lessons in natural history to classe
and now there ate n great many pc ~
4" who would like 10 choke the smoot
y tongued rascal who stood and deli
" cred short lectures on whales in ge
W eral.-and this one in particular. III
- fraud was carted pretty mitch all OK
= the northwest, and WAS finally broug
= back 10 Chicago and abandoned, aft
= the fraud had been discovered, III
9 whaleship was declared nuisanC
y and IA the owners mad themselv
! scarce, lac was reduced to ashes, key
barrels, hogsheads aud all.