Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-20
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Begun by the Boy Preacher at the
Tabernacle Under Most Fa-
yorsble Auspices,
People Flock From Every Quarter Of the
City to Hear the open
ing Sermon.
A Gospel Warning -" Whatsoever a
Man sows That Shall Ee
Also Reap

Last night was uhrk ana cloudy, the
moon stole out Just after dusk and
hen, dismayed at her own timidity
In Drawing the threatening elements,
herself in the drapery of
cloud and passed away from view
Streets and sidewalks were all slush
and mud, and hardly ray of gaslight
Ut up the dismal scene. But, not.
withdrawing all this, the people
passed into the tabernacle near the
foot OF Main street, coming on foot, in
street-cars and carriages, eiugly, In
pairs and by the dozen, until the place
fairly rivaled In activity the busy
commercial life of which II has so OF.
ten been the scene. Fully 500 people
found shelter under the expansive
roof OF the great tabernacle, while
many curious spectators remained
standing outside.
The services commenced by giving
out that grand old hymn;
There Is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that floOd
Lose all their guilty stains.
The congregation took up the time-
iNAiOAtN AiSAVN1 hiNN ANA VIZ
voices of the choir in n hearty old
fashioned strain which echoed far
around, bringing startled denl2ens OF
the Third ward TO their doors and re-
leasing many an unwept tear.
A SLENDER LITTLE MAN
attired in q big overcoat stepped upon
the stand, and all eyes gaged in mute
interest upon the "boy preacher
What youthful.looking facet was
whispered about and when the fret
tones OF a shrill feminine voice reached
the audience the establishment in
creased.
81 am glad to see 20 many here to-
night,u he remarked; Texas people
are said to Toe very much afraid " rain
aud mud, but IL don't look that way
Tonight Then he announced his
text, AZ follows.
Galatians VII Z; BE not deceived;
God IL not Knocked, for whatsoever u
man soweth that shall he also reap
ut " a very easy thing 10 be de-
| ceived: mans nature III deceptive, but
however much you may deceive your
| self or your fellow-man, you cannot
deceive God. Whatsoever a man
eoweth that shall he also reap. From
the cradle 10 the grave Is the seed
| time Of eternity
Analysing his text, the preacher
then announced three propositions:
! Reaping Ia as certain as sowing; reap
ing Is OF the same quality ~ sowing;
reaping IL In eN ceas of sowing
A man may not desire to reap that
which he sows, but II is the basis OF
the moral government OF the uni
verse, the
FIAT or ALMIGHTY dOD.
The murderer may flee from Justice,
but nowhere Ii there any escape from
! this universal law. Whether the
| profane and blasphemous sinner, the
Cody man, the butterfly OF q woman,
philosopher or fool, saint or sinner,
man or devil, Whatsoever they SOW
/ that shall they also reap. Ignorance
Is no palliation OF sin. In ignorance
the Jews crucifed the Savior, but
they were held TO terrible account for
II. Why Because they might have
known the trutb. Sins of ignorance
must be atoned for just the same ss
willful sins. Many OF you
are proud. Has IL ever occurred
10 you that In the sight Of
God pride Is Just AZ offensive AZ lying
or stealing. Inc Bible says So Itis
| lust az great sin 10 disbelieve AZ u
was 10 nail Chrlsps body 10 the cross
But you say did not know that. All,
my friend, that makes no difference.
| You 20 over TO u drugstore, buy some
| strychnine under the Impression that
II Is quinine and take II, and the fact
that you were ignorant OF It's deadly
qualities Will not save you. II you
don't believe IL, try 1t. Just 30 with
sin. Neither does pardon prevent the
offender from reaping the conse-
quences OF sin. ! know many man
who Is now physical wreck because
OF sin committed In the flesh before
! he was converted People
may talk about evolution and all that
sort OF thing, but from the
| time that Adam first walked
| the streets OF Eden, like has
produced like. Some people think they
can 20 on living IN sin, and by some
sort OF moral fuD1igRtion not yet ex-
planned they can reap q harvest Of
salvation. Thisis folly. 1'odeny that
life OF sin will not result In spirit
ual disaster IL NJ Illogical, unscientifie
and unscrlptural rs To deny that corn
produces corn, and acorn produces
acorn. From the day that Jacob first
sowed deception In the bosom OF his
father until death he reaped the same
harry sst. Tweed, the great New York
criminal, died In foreign lands after
hal testing the fruit OF his vicious ca
reer. We had noted desperate IN
Texas short time ago. who had killed
his mama dozen, believe-and he
finally met the same fate reaping
AZ he had sown. An ola
man Ia a Deighb0ring city
told me that he bad watched the cA-
reer Of sRloon.keepers, and found thai,
nine out Of ten Of them. they reaped a
fearful harvest Of intoxicalion, their
children generally becoming drunk
ards, and they themselves filling
drunksrd's graves, Gamblers gem
orally die p0or. The treatment ~
children OF their parents comes home
late In life
A msn never sows unless he expects
10 reap
A oREATER HAHvKtI
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