Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-07

OF herrlment and OF Joke, when II denides
so much for this world and tho World NJ
come. do not put the case too s,ron.t,
when say, that when man marries IA
marries for Heaven or for hrll nv
bnlld not your h0inc on earth NM, ~
sparkle OF o bright eve or The color "a !
iair cheek. The time Will conn m yo,,r
history when you viii want In vonr bo,nes
not pet or toy, but heroine. and von
VIII ma uiat HE Is not gay romance
PUT tremendous reality; aud coming
nome from your store, or office. or shnn
oralc'ofY, or studio, most OF all yon viii
heeu some one w your home with a face
cheertui but sympathetic.
lhere Is an aged man who looks back
70 CRISIS IN HE when bis fortune went
away ana reason almost left the throne.
lie knew not what TO do. lie rrnem.
bers particular evening when he came
nome IRON the store. He hardly dared
break the news TO his wife. He could nat
bear 10 tell he had suspended in business
that he had stopped payment that hls
fortune had gone. lie went into the
house, he closed the door upon the world
aud In domestic peace found foretastc
Of that Heaven
H'fAhf iANiNN NEWER COME.
An, II IT had not been for that help that
you had, what would have been the re-
suit when you told her Of your financial
embarrassment and misfortune? She was
cneerlul, she was sympathetic, she was
helpful, she helped you all through
those dark days of trial, and after
the piano went, she could sing without
the accompaniment just as well as she
ever sung with the accompaniment. There
have been Christian women who have SO
had their domestic troubles sanctIned
that they could get more music out of a
Wheeler Wilson sewing machine than
ever In the days of theft prosperity they
got out OF Il Chickerlng grand or Stein.
way
A Christian minister In England called
upon home OF great dcsttution. There
were the husband, the wife, aud there
were the children. No comfort I'm the
household. Everything Indicative of
want and struggle. The minister OF the
gospel said to this young man: "Your
mistake was in marrying so early. Do
you not think that was the mis,ake?n
The man had been told that that had been
the mistake OF his life before. The min
lster said: at would have been a great
deal BE- tier for you to have gone on and
got something OF a property before you
entered into the married state Don't
you think ii would have been better?n
And then the young man looked around,
and his eyes filed with tears, and he
looked to his poorly clad wife aud said {,
'No, sir she's been the same TO me all
through!n
All, there are some Of you who would
never have known what your homes were
worth II trouble had not come Perhaps
your companion In life may have been too
fond OF the world and its gayeties; but
one touch of misfortune turned her into
a Miriam shouting the triumph ON the
banks OF the Red sea. II you have spoken
of frivollty and foudness of display as the
chief characteristics OF woman, you may
have TO correct your mistake in some
BITTER PASS on LIFE,
when, all other resources having failed
you are upheld 10y & wife's hand, sud-
denly armed Of the Lord God Almighty
for that emergency, On in this tremend-
Gus pass OF your earthly existence, cry
unto God and ask His direction Make
a mistake here aud you make IL forever
Walter Scott wrote something, hall OF
which do not like, for 1t is sarcastic,
but the other half do like, for 1t is so
true;
90 woman In our hours Of case,
Uncertain, COY, and hard to please;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
mlnisttiinB angel thou
Blessed that home Ia which the newly
married couple dedicate their souls to
Christ. Blessed the family bible In which
their names have just been written,
Blessed the hour of morning and evening
prayer. Blessed the angels Of God who
Join wing-tlp TO wlng-tip, over that home,
making II canopy OF light and love and
blessedness. III may be only yesterday
that they clasped hands forever. The
orange blossoms may fail and their frag-
rance may die on the air, but they who
marry in Christ shall walk together on
that day when the Church, which Is the
Lambs wife, shall take the hand of her
Lord and King amid the swinging of the
golden censers.
Again, remark; II is u tremendous
pass in life when man comes 10
his FIRST GREAT SUCCESS
You get in the cars some evening
Everybody that looks at you knows there
has something glad happened. You sit
down In the car, your face Illuminated,
and a lady comes in There Is no place
for her TO sit, and You get up in great
cheer aud insist on her taking your place,
aud with great courtesy she says "Thank
you,n and sits down. You say nothing
to anybody, but II is evident from your
manner aud appearance that great good
fortune has happened unto you. Now,
that Is crisis In your life. AT such
a time the question will arisc
'ln what enterprise shall M
yest2 What shall be the house | Will
live in2 What shall be the library?
What shall be my wardrobe? What shall
| do. with my money!"
At that point hundreds OF men make q
fatal Elistake. Some 20 into dissipation.
Some TAKE on great ariogancc,u thy 10 make
everybody feel how small they are, whole
caravans OF camels going through the
needles eye Of their meanness They
walk through the street with an air as
much as to say; sect out of the way
Here comes three hundred thousand dol
larsrn That is the crisis In life where so
many fail, because they have no God to
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