Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-04
Unparalleled Scenes Of Religious Peryor
at the Tabernacle Services
Last Night,
The Contradictions in the Bible Without
Existence Save in the Imsgina-
ton Of 0ranks.
County Attorney BOwliD's War on the
Gamblers Receives Hearty Re-
lgious Endorsement.
An Ex-Alderman of Fort Worth Sends
Up an Earnest Prayer for the SAL
walton Of Its People.

Fort Worth turned out the largest
audience OF its history to hear the
great revivalist last night. The
immense tabernacle was per-
feet mass of dense humanity,
every inch OF space being
crowded to its utmost capacity, while
on the outside the jam was fully as in.
tense for forty feet in front. Patti
never created greater demand for
breathing space; personal comfort WIS
entire ly forgotten in the rush for favor
able seats and even the aisles were
tightly packed with people
ON THEIR KNEES.
Before the services began, q minister
appealed In behalf of collection for
the contingent expenses Of the meet.
ing, and the audience expressed it's
genuine interest In the work by yield
lug up hstful OF silver. In response
TO the request OF the evangelist the
choir sang:
Hold the tort for am coming,
Jesus signals still.
Wave the answer back to heaven,
BY thy grace we Will.
AS the echoes of this spirited verse
died away the vast congregation
caught the first flashes of an electric
shock that played with wonderful
power upon IL In tue after services
The sermon, quite unlike those usu-
ully preached by the evangelist, was
somewhat in the nature of defense of
the Bible. The first verses of the four
gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John, were taken as a text, and the
idea was TO show the unity and con-
cord of the scriptures. Some Chris.
tians are always trying to harmonic
the gospel, said he, but they don't
n ed any harmonizing. They are en-.
tirely consistent. People have taken
up an idea that Matthew wro o his Cos
pei, then Mark wrote what he forgot,
Luke what Mark forgot, and John
what Luke forgot. Because they tell
things differently, skeptics say they
contradict each other. The trouble Is
not with the evapgalists hut with the
misconceptiOn of the critics. Suppose
several parties undertake to write u
history of George Washington; one
takes him up as the first president,
another as the military chieftain, and
another as the old fashioned Virginia
farmer. The first would not have
anything to cay about Washington as
farmer. Neither would the last
treat him as q military character.
-Four men were inspired TO write the
life of Jesus Christ, aud to each one
WAS given a distinct phase of his
career. Each had intelligence
enough to call out those matters in
the life Of Jesus which belonged to
his part # the subject Looking at
| Cleopatra's needle in New York one
sees hieroglyphics on each aide which
are not visible from the others, while
standing of 1t presents a
sruPENDous AND MAGNIFICENT
WHOLE.
Just so 1t Is with the life Of Jesus. On
each side there are Intercollegiate, writ
ten by one OF the apostles, while taken
4 all together it presents well.rounded
and symmetrical whole.
| The object of Matthew in writing
was TO set forth Jesus Christ as the
King OF the Jews. The first thing that
strikes our attention in Matthew Ia
the geneology of Christ. He stops at
Abraham, while Luke goes back be-
yond this. The object was to show
the royal Hebrew ancestry of the
Saviour Matthew speaks OF Him as
the King of the Jews" while Luke
calls him the Saviour" In speaking
OF me TRANSPORTATION, Matthew says !:
! Ills race did shine as the sum- Civ.
ing the idea of royalty. Another Pc
cuiiarity about Matthew is his use of
the phrase, "kingdom OF heaven. -
winch is found there twenty four
times and nowhere else. Matthew
uses the word Immauueln which Ia
not found In the others. Matthew re.
CORDS the commission, ~ command
you, go preach my gospel impl, ing
Rlngly authority, which none OF the
others represent Him as assuming.
MARK wrote up Christ as the SER
want of God. He fails to give his
genealogy; you don't care ANYTHING
about the genealogies ofyour servants.
MARX doesn't give the sermon on the
mount, because servants are not sun
| posed TO be expounders of constitiI-
tlonal law. All through Mark the
ldea In connection with Christ ia
service. He says "deny myself and
take up the cross,n giving the idea
tnat there is no genuine true service OF
Christ without bearing his cross. III
not you have no idea Of true service.
| AgIeat many Christians are as much
AFRAID OF the cross as / am OF the small
pox. They want to dead. head their
baggage and go Through to Heaven
-, ON A PARLoR.CAR.
The genuine service OF Christ al.
ways brings persecution. some
christians says 1--WE never been per-
secuted. "Fhe Lord bless your lazy.
sickiy, triiling souls, what's the reason
I you maven been prosecuted? Haven't
we got an example OF it right here in
Fort Worth! read with much In.
terest yesterday morning the decIara.
tlon OF war made by your gallant
coanty attorney against the gamblers
ana saloon men, and this morning il
was ated that he was the most
aous' man In Fort Worth. am not
acqIain'ed with the county attorney,
put 1 am going to get acquainted with
a. Ann oeIofe 4 leave Fort Worth, and /
DO hope that all Christian and moral
| people will rally IN hIa sunnnr, YIo,,1