Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-09

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their wings ont" As the Plcladcs were
the sweet eyangels Of the spring, orlon
was ...,,..r,,,,
rng wARSiSG PROPHET or THE WINTER;
o, now get the best view ol
| God ever had There are lMo
kinds Of sermons never wants
/ 10 preach.-the one that presents
! God so kind, so indulgent, 80 lenieh', So SO
/ lnbccile, that mcn-nlay do what they WIZ
against him and fracture his every law
and put the cry Of their impertnence and
rebellion under His throne, and WINE
they are splitting IN his face aud stabblng
nj his heart, He takes them up III ms
arms and kisses their inluriated brow ana
check, saying, "Oi such Is the kingdom
/ of heaven" The other kind OF sermon
never want 70 preach is the one that rep,
/ resents God as all fire and torture ana
/ thunder-cloud, and with red-hot pitch
/ fork tossing the human race into paroN-
| ysms Of Infinite agony. The sermon thal
! / am now preaching believes ina Cod OF
| loving, kindly warning, the God OF spring
aud winter, the God OF the Plciades ana
| orion. You must remember That the
winter Is just US important as the spring
| Let one winter pass without frost 10 XII
vegetation aud Ice TO bind the rivers ana
snow TO enrich our fields, and
| then you will have TO enlarge your
hospitals and your cemeteries. ~ green
| Christmas makes fat graveyard" was
the old proverb. storms TO purity the
air Thermometer Mt ten degrees above
zero to tone up the system. December
and January Just as Important as May
and June. tell you we need the storms
OF life as much as we do the sunshine
| There are more men ruined by prosperity
than by adversely. II We had our own
way in life before this we would have
been representations OF selhshness and
wordlincss and disgusting sin, aud
puffcd up until we should have been like
Julius Caesar, who was made ny
sycophants to believe that he was divine
and the frecklcs on his face were as the
stars of the armament. one of the
swiltcst transatlantic voyages made last
summer by the Etruria was because she
had stormy wind abaft chasing her
from New York to Liverpool. But to
those going in opposite direction the
storm was
a BuFFErlNG AND IuNpRANCE,
II is u bad thing to have storm ahead
pushing us back, but If we are
Gods children and aiming toward heaven,
the storms OF life will only chase us The
sooner into the harbor. am so glad to
believe that the monsoons aud typhoons
und mlstrals and sroccos Of land and sea
are not unclaimed mnniacs let loose upon
the earth, but under divine superyisionl
| am so glad that the God OF the Seven
| Stars is also the God OF orion 1t was
out Of Dantc's suffering came the sub
lime Diyina Cnmmcdil, and out OF John
Milton's blindness came Paradise Lost,
and out of miserable inhdel attack came
the Bridgewatgr treatise In favor OF
Christianity and out OF Dayid's exile
came She songs of consolation, aud out OF
the suncrlugs of Christ came the POSSE
bllity OF the worlds redemption, and out
OF your bereavement, your persecution,
your poyertics, your misfortunes may
yet come m eternal heaven.
o what u mercy il is that in the text and
all up and down the bible God induces Us
| To look out toward other worlds! Bible
astronomy In Genesis, In Joshua, in job,
IN the psalms, in the prophets, major and
minor In st. Johns Apocalypse, practi-
cally saying "Words worlds worlds
/ Get ready Tor thcln.n We have a nice lii.
| tie world here that we stick toas though
| losing that we lose all. We are afraid o,
| falling of this little raft Of II world. ",
arc afraid that some mCtcoric iconoClas
/ VIII some night smash It, aud we want
everything to rcyolvC around II, aud art
disappointed when we fnd that It reyolvcs
around the sun instead OF the sun rcyoly
Int around IL. What q fuss we max,
about this little bit Of world, Its exist
cnce only u short time between two
Spasms, the paroXysm by which IL wa,
hurled from chaos into order and
TuE PARoXYsM or hrs DEMOLITION!
And am glad that so many texts call N
TO look off to other worlds, many Of then
larger and costlier and more Respondent
"Louk there says job "at Ma2zarotl
aud Arcturus and his sons :" "Iool
thcrc,N says st. John, "at the moon unde
| ChrlstS fcet!h "Look there saw
Joshua, Eat the sun standing still ahoy,
Gibeou!" "Look there, ;" says Moses, "a
the sparkling nrmamCnt!n Look there,
says Amos, the hcrdsmau, "at the Sever
Stars and Oriop!n Don't let us be s.,
sad about those who shove of from th
world under Christly pilotage. Don
let us be so agitated about our own goinj
of this little barge or sloop or canal boa
OF world 10 get on some Great Easter
OF the heavens Don't let US persist II
wanting TO stay in this barn, this shed
this clubhouse of world when all tn
Kings palaces, already occupied by man
of our best friends, are swinging wild
open their gates to let us In. Whel
read, "ln my Fathers hous
are many mansions do no
know but that Caah world /
! a room and Ms many rooms rs there at
worlds stellar sttirs, stellar galleries
stellar Railways, stellar windows, stella
domes, How our departed friends mus
pity us, shut up in these crampcd apart
mcnts, tired II we walk fifteen mile,
when they, some morning by one strok
of wing, eau make circuit of the Who'll
strcllar system aud he back in time TO
matins!, Perhaps yondcr twinkllng cor
E stellauon Is the home Of the martyrs
that group of twelve luninarles is tn
celestial home of the apostles. pcrhan
! that steep OF light Is the dwelling-plac
of angels chcrubic, seraphic, arChaugeli,
A mansion with rs many r. omS as world
and MI their windows illuminated 70