Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-28
THE eAhErfNl runr WORM TEXAS MONDAY DECEMBER as.

sideration in this subject, and
that Is that 80 many have
made shipwrcck OF their opportunity who
had as good chances as we have. A man
takes good deal OF responsibility when
he says in regard to anyone who goes out
OF this world; "That man Is lost"
There Is a way Of calculating the ex-
tinction Of physical life. The physician
comes In, examines the eye, puts his
hand under the arm, feels the pulse, and
says "Life Is extinct; the man Is gone"
But there is no such accurate way OF de-
Gliding In this world In regard TO the
death of soul. But | will say this
That II you know a man who lives on
without any interest In Jesus Christ, and
Is careless in regard TO his immortal des-
tiny, and that man lives In that
carelessness all the way along UNI
til his last hour, and you never
hear him say one word of peni-
tence or give any expression OF faith or
say anything In regard to the eternal
world or his preparation for IL, II he dies
in silence IN reference TO all these SUD
jects--I will say in regard TO that man, IL
is warning TO you and me. Young peo-
Pile, where are those who entered school
with you four years agoY Graduates OF
colleges, whore are those who took the
diploma with you on the same com
mencement dayY Business men, where
are those who started in commercial life
with you twenty years ago? "Well,"I
yon say some Of them have passed off,
There Is a business man sitting here who
had partner who left the world, and
now he thinks over that case. lie says:
"Thet man lived on without any con-
Germ about the future world and
suddenly he died" Well, l come to you
to-day and | say: "What do sou suppose
was that mans destiny? Where do you
suppose he is ?" Wen, you are embar-
rassed. Yeu say: al wouldn't like 10
take the responsibility" "Well,"
say, "you are not bound TO
opinion as to where he Isl" and again
you resist the question You don't want
TO take the responsibility. o! / wonder
II when we are dead there win be any aw-
full guessing about where we have gone.
Those men sat under the same gospel.
They sang the same songs. They had the
same opportunities of salvation. They
rejected them. You sit under the same
advantages and you are going through
precisely the same process, and I
ask if it is not an arousng consideration
for you and me. The day will come
when you and will have to quit this life.
We may be stalwart to-day, we may not
have an ache or pain, we may be exuber-
ant In our physical health, but our COM
mon sense tells us that there will have to
come time when we will put our head
to the pillow and die. Oh, If in that hour
you hear the upbraldings of conscience,
and the reverberations of broken law, !
and the thunders of Gods anathemas,
you will wish you had never been born
Why not come out to .night and have this
matter gloriUusly settled II there be
anything in Christ, and n bright hope
OF heaven, why not come and get
ltf II Is yours If you
will have it. In the name
OF my Lord Jesus Christ, plainly offer
it, Pardon for all your sin. Comfort for
all your trouble. Help for all your bur
dens. The gospel that preach is not one
of distinctions but gospel of salvation |
PertnaX heard, one night, pounding at
his palace door, some messengers who |
wanted to get in. He said to himself |
"They have come TO take my life, T." and he !
trembled, and he refused to open the |
door. They kept on pounding and pound !
ing away until he almost tainted with !
fright; but after while, plucking up
courage and girding on his sword, aud
putting his hand on the hilt, he had the
door opened, when 10! the messengers
had come to offer him a crown. They said |
"The king died one hour ago of apoplexy, |
mud you have been chosen to be
his successor, and we have come to
offer you the crown" o. / thought
how much like that is our rejection of the !
gospel as though 1t were matter of over
throw, when it is matter of coronation.
Not to Stay but to enthrone. If, this mo-
mcnt, by giving up your sin fairly and
squarely--I do not take the responsibility
of saying what your sin is, do not
know-if you would honestly and before
God this moment give up your sin and
take Christ, the news would fly heaven
ward and would strike seraphic harps,
and angels bending in the sky, and min
istcring spirits flying on errands of saliva
ton, would join wing to wing, and wing
to wing, while they cried "Behold he
prayethl"