Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-16

ana wealth, nave usVfi their strength in
Ubiquitous purposes. lt Is not lho small
weak men oi Che day who do lAc damauc
Those small mon who go swearing ana
loailng ABOUT your stores and shops and
banking hetoullue tho arr
with their breath, aud Insulting your
uuor VITA their UBIQUITOUS saliva
assaiilng Christ and The hihlc and the
church, thcy do not 90 thc damage They
have no influence, But tis
rnE GIANTS or rlr DAY,
ihe misguided giants, giants ga physiral
power or giants in monial acumcn or
giants 10 social position, OF giants IN
wealth, who do the damage, the men
with sharp pen that stab religion, or who
tarnw their poison all through our ltcra-
turc; the men who uso the power OF
wealth To sanction nlQuity, aud h1ha
Justice aud make truth aud honor bow TO
their golden scpptpr Misguided giants
Look out for them In the Middle of the
latter pant OF the last century no doubt
there were thousands OF men m Paris aud
Edinburgh and London who hated God
and blaSphemcd the n0me oi The Almighty.
But they did but ltilc mischief They
were small mem But there were giants
IN those days. WHO can calculate
The soul-havut of Rousseau going an with
a very enthusiasm ct iuiquity. with nely
Imagination soiHlng upon all the impul
siNe natures ol hi, day or David liumo,
who employed mis- lilp as a spider cmpoy,
his summer la spinning uUt s.lken Webs
TO trap the uuwary or Noltaire, marshall
Ing a great host OF sceplicS and lcading
them out In The dan, land " mGdpliy; or
Gibbon, who showed am uncomfortable
grudgc against rcliglon la his history oi
d f.f tt al.
worlds existence, "lhc Decline and ltall
OF the Roman Empirc,N hook In which
( with MI the splcndors OF his genius ne MAJ.
nlticd the errors OF Chrstluu disciples.
] while with sparencss uf voice
+ that never can be forgiven, hc treated oi
/ the Christian heroes OF whom the world
was not worthy. q, men of stout phy-
[ steal health, men OF giant mental stature,
men of high social position, men Of great
strength of any sort, | want you
10 UNDERSTAND YotR ruwER
and ! want you go know that that power
devoted TO God will be u crown ON earth
TO you typical of crown in hcaVenl But
misguided, bcdrngglcd in sin, administu-
tive of evil, God win thunder against you
with his condemnation in the day when
millionaire and paupUr master aud Slave,
king and subject, shall stand side by side
In the Judgment, and mouey-bag- and
judicial crime and royal robes shall be-
riycu with lightnmgs
Behold also huw giant may be slain OF
a sorceresS, Delilah started the train of
circumstances that pulled down the tcm-
pie of Dagon about Samsons ears And
tens of thousands OF giants have gone
down 20 death and hell through the same
Impure destinations, 1t seems to me that
it is high tire that pulpit aud plat
form and prntingpess speak out
against the impurities OF modern society.
fasudiopsness and pudery says "Beitu
not speak--yuu will rouse up adverse
criticism; you will make worse what YOU
, waut TO make better; better deal in gilt.
tcrng genemlltics the subject Il toe
delicate for polite ears But there
. comes voice from Heaven uyerpowerng
the mncing sentmcntalitics OF the day,
saying; 'CY aloud, spare not, lit up
e thy voice like u trumpet and show my
people their transgrcssiOnS aud the house
of Jacob their slnsn The trouble Is
that when the people write or speak upon
this theme they ARE apt 10 cover It az
: with the grRces Of the bollcs-letlrcs, 81
that the crime is made attractive instead
of rcpulsNc Lord Byron in "Don juan
adorns this crime until IL smiles like a
May queen. Michelet the great
French writer, covers IL ur
with bcwitching rhetoric until Il
glows like the rising sun, when IL ought
TO be made loathsome
As SMALLPOX HOSPITAL.
There are to-day influences abroad which,
II unreslsted by the pulpit and the print
ing press, will turn New York and Brook
Ign into Sodom and Gomorrah, III only
for the storm OF fire aud birthstone that
whelmed the cities OF the plain You who
are seated in your Christian homes, com.
passed by moral and religious restraints,
do not realize the gull of iniquity that
bounds You on the north and the south
aud the east and the west. While !
speak there are tens OF thousands OF men
and women going over the awful plunge
of an impure life; and while | cry TO God
for mercy upon their souls, | call upon
you TO marshal in the defense OF your
homes, your church and your nation.
There Is n banquetlng hall that you have
never heard described. Yon know all
about the feast of Ahasucrus, where u
thousand lords sat. lou know all
about Belshazzar's cafousal, where
the blood OF the murdered King
spnrted into the faces OF the
banqueters. You may know Of the scene
OF riot and wassai when there was set
before Esopus one dish Of food that cost
100000. But speak now Of a different
banquetlng-hall It's roof Is frcttcd with
fire. Its floor il tesselated with Gre,
It's cbaliccs are chased with fire. It's
song is song of fire. It's walls are but
trcsscs Of fire. Solomon refers 10 IL
when he says "iier guests are in the
depths OF hell"
our American communities are suffer
Ing from the
GOSPEL or FREE LoyEisM,
which, fifteen or twenty years ago, was
preached on the platform and IN some Of
the churches of this country. ! charge
upon free loyesm that II has blightcd
innumepblc homes and that II has
sent innumerable souls to ruin. Free
loycism Is bestlal; 1t Is worse--lt Is
internal. II has furnished this land with
about one thousand divorces annually, In
one county IN the state of Indiana II fur.
nished eleven divorces Ia one day before
dinner Ii has reused uU rloDrmenls