Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-02

that story gets down into the
southern part of Arabia Felix aud the
queen OF Shcha hears Il, II must be a
tremendous story. And vet this queen
declares IN regard to II, although she had
heard SO much and had her authorizations
raised SO high, the half--the half was not
told her. So religion is always a surprise
to anyone that gets Il. The story OF
grace--an old story. Apostles preached
u with rattle of chain, martyrs declared
II with arm of 1rc; dcath-heds have nj.
tirmed II WITH visions OF glory, and min
listers of religion have sounded IL through
the lanes and the highways and the chap.
els and the cathrcdals. IL has been cut
into stone with chisel, and spread on the
canvas with pencil; and IL has been re.
cited IN the doxology Of great congrega-
tons. And yet when man first comes
TO look on the palace Of Gods mercy and
10 see the royalty of Christ and the wealth
OF this banquet, and the luxuriance of
His attendants, and the loneliness OF His
face, and the JOY OF Ills service, he cx-
claims with prayers, with tears, with
songs, with trlumphs; "The half--thc
hall was not told metz appeal TO those
In this house who are Christians. Com
pare the idea you had OF the JOY of the
Christian lie before YOU became Christ.
ian with the appreciation OF that 10Y you
have now since you have become n Christ
Ian, and you are willing 10 attest before
angels aud men that YOU never in the
days of your spiritual bondage had any
appreciation Of what was To come You
are ready to-day 10 answer, and Ii gave
you an opportunity In the midst of this
assemblagc, you would speak out and say
in regard to the diScoverlea YOU have
made OF the mercy and the grace and the
goodness OF God: "The half-.the
half was not told meln Well, we
hear great deal about the good time
that is coming to this world, when II Is
to be girded with salvation Holiness on
the bells OF the horses, The llon's name
pattcd by the hand of babe. Ships of
rarshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, and
the hard, dry, barren, wlnter-blcachcd,
storm-scarred, thundeT-Spllt rock, break
ing into floods of bright water Deserts
into which dromodarics thrust their nos
trils, because they were afraid OF the
simeon; deserts blooming information
roses and silver-tippcd lilies II is the
old story, Everybody tells It, Isaiah
told IL, John told u, Paul told Il, Ezekiel
told H. Luther told It, Calvin told H.,
John Milton told 1t, everybody tells it;
and yet and yer when the midnight shah
| fly the hills, aud Christ shall marshal
his great army, and rhina dashlng her
| idols into the dust SHAFT hear the voice
I ot God aud wheel into line; and india,
! destroying her iuggcrnuut and snatchiug
lup hGr little children from the Gauges,
! shall hear the voice of God and wheel
| into line; aud Vino &C lyerod Italy and
| whoatcroWucd Russia, and all the ma
| lions of the earth shah hear the voice Ot
| God and fall Into line; then the church,
which has been toiling and STRUGGLING
through the centuries, ROBBED and gar
! landed Hike bride adorned for her huS-
band, shall put aside her veil and look
| up into the face 81 her Lord and KING
aud say; "IhC hali-the half was MOI
] told met"
Wen, there is coming groatcr surprise
| TO every Christian greater surprise
than anything have depicted Heaven
! is an old story. Everybody talks ahuu,
/ IT, There is hardly hymn IN the hymn
| book that does not refer 60 IT, Children
! read about Il in their habbalh-scbool
book Aged men pnt on thcir
! spectacles to study 10. We say
/ it IL harbol from the storm.
We call II our home, We sny N Is the
house Of many mansions. We weave
| together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, OK
hilarant words; we weave thom into
letters, and then we spell 1t out In rose
aud lily and umaranth And yet that
| place Is going 10 be n surprise TO the
most intelligent Christian. Like the
| queen of Sheba the report has come to
MS from the far country, and many of us
! hn.ra AZ 81 ~
we urge on the eamels What though
our feet be hlistcrcd by the wayp We are
hnstening TO the palace. We take all our
loves aud hopes and Christian ambitions,
as frankincensc and myrrh and cassin, to
the great King We must not rest. We
must not halt. The night Is coming on,
and 1t Is not safe out here in the desert.
Urge on the camels. see the dome
against the sky, and the houses OF Leb.
anon, and the temples, and the gardens.
See the fountains dance In the sun, and
the gates flash as they open 10 let In the
poor pilgrims. Send the word up 10 the
| palace that we are coming and that we
are weary Of the march of the desert.
The King will come out and say "Wel-
come TO the palace, battle In these waters,
recline on these banks. Take this CHINA
mon aud frankincense and myTrh and put
1t upon censor and swing IL before the
altar" And yet, my friends, when
heaven bursts upon us IL win be a
greater surprise than that--Jcsus on the
throne and we made like him! All our
Christian friends surrounding as In
glory! All our SORROWS and tears and
Sins gone by foreyerl The thousands OF
thousands, the one hundred aud forty and
four thousand, the great multitudcs that
no man can number, will cry world with
ont end; "The half thc hall was not
told u.s.
Tho Conl-Niinsrs' STRIKE,
PITTsBuRG, Pa, Nov. l.--Oalcer
Mcclure Of the coal and iron police has
arrived here, having made a tour 81 the
river coal mines. lie says the backbone