Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-31

TRUTH \ clergyman OF our own denom-
nation said, al have lust been out cs.
tahlishng i've mission smuons.r tell
you, Christianity is ON the march, whiic
inAdeliiy is dwindling into inheclllty
that was demonstrated recently In one of
the American cities, whore after the
blowing OF the trumpcts and the gather
Ing oi all the clans there assembled
group OF semi-idiots To dcnouncc the
Christian religion aud culogge one of
! their dead Patrons lihertsne, ar
rested In New York and Boston
again aud again for scattering ob.
scene literature, that dead man the pat.
ron saint of the whole movement. While
intidclity Is thus dwindllng and droop-
ing down into mhecility and indeccncy,
the wheel of Christianity Is making abont
a thousand revolutions In a minute All
the copies of Shakespeare aud Tcnnyson
and Disraeli and of amy ten OF the most
popular writers OF the day, less IN num-
Der than the copies OF the Bible going out
from our printing presses. When the
revised edition was published In six
weeks more than two million copies OF
the New Testament purchased, not given
/ away, but purchased because the world
will have it.
More Christian mon in high official po-
sition to-day In Great Britain and In the
United States than ever before. Stop
thaN talsehood going through the
newspapers. have seen Il In twenty
| that the Judges of the supreme court of
the United States are all iundcls except
Judge Strong. BY personal acquaintance
| know three of them TO be old-fashionod
evangelical Christians, sitting at the holy
sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and suppose that the majority OF them
are staunch believers In our Christian re-
ligion. And then hear the diving words
OF Judge Black, Il man who had been at
torncy-general of the United States, and
who had been secretary of the United
States, no stronger lawyer of the century
than Judge Black, dying, his aged wife
/ neeling by his side, and he
uttering that sublime and tender prayer,
so, Lord God, from whom | derived my
existence and in whom ! have always
/ trusted, take my spirit to Thysclf and
| let Thy richest blessing come down upon
my Mary The most popular book to-
day is the Bible, and the mightiost insti.
tuition Is the church. and the greatest
name among the nations and more hon.
ored than any other, is the name of
Jesus.
| Wonders of scli-sacrihco: 4 CLERGY.
man told me in the Northwest that for
SIX years he was missionary at the cN-
treme north living 100 miles from post
office, and sometimes he slept out OF
doors in winter, the thermometer sixty
and siNty-flyc degrees below zero,
wrapped in mbbt-skins woven together.
! said, sis II possible? you do not mean
/ sixty and sixty-fve degrees below gero?n
! He said "a do, and was happy Al
for Christ Where is there any other
being that will rally such enthusiaSm9
Mothers sewing their fingers off to edu-
cate their boys for the gospel ministry
For nine years no luxury ON the table
until the course through grammar,
school and college and theological SEM
mary be completed Poor widow nut
ting her mite into the Lords treasury,
the face of emperor or president lm-
pressed upon the coin not so cOuspicu-
as the blood with which she earned H.
Millions of good men and women, but
more women than men, TO whom Christ
Is everything. Christ FIRST and Christ
last, and Christ forever.
Why, this age Is not SO characterized
by invention and scientific exploration as
il is by gospel proclamation. You can
get no idea of II unless you can ring
all the church bells in one chime, aud
sound all the organs In one diapaSon
and gather all the congregations of
Cmstcndom in one Gloria in ENcolsia,
mighty camp-mcctipgs, mighty ocean
groves, mighty chautauquas, mighty con
yentions OF Christian workers, mighty
general assemblies OF the Presbyterian
church, mighty conferences OF the Meth
odist church, mighty associations OF The
Baptist church. mighty conventions of
the Episcopal church. There may be
many years of hard work yet before the
contamination, but the signs are TO me
so encouraging that would not be un-
believing If saw the wing OF the upoc-
alyptc angel spread for its last