Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-10
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Wy Yesterday Morning
Neutrality-suspicious.

.,,urRI AID fktNbf 'ih'+NN'
fiHa' audience assembled at the cum
VII prc.bytcrian church Yesterday al
p,'S .,t IN spite OF the hot weather.
'' rs Introductory services and a solo
.,,,n, sung by Mrs. Rogers, Mr..
'''" ,ook for his text part OF the
ri 49, AZ the eleventh chapter of
4 .,ror the earth shall he full of the
~ ,.,e ot the Lord as the waters
4 = the sea-
h AZ - said the preacher, ages
"AArd away and men are beginning
~ I0g Erhste Is the sign of the fulfill
80 ,,iis promises' .ilrcady ii is
NJ y MAN n simply u poets dream y
4 ~ "a mere had been . constant con
a S s0Sseen the spirit OF hurting and The
"a selping. The two that have d.
'as'~nnlres have been the god Of hate
te'1 Idod NJ love. Nations have risen
y .nsn empires had gone 10 glory
n N MN 10 ruin, and the great
\ sWherc is the sign of the
''yT neacegn "Whcn will the earth
n KIM NH the knowledge of the LOrdt"
&v1tsd allow does the spirit of love
y. m tbe human race compare with
A rs,,l, Of love in any other ageg And
4 .,.wer 10 this question, he thought II
4 acsed simply AT the outward mani
a ',;ons the answer would be despair;
,oouinr deeper and remembering
Io Wkinrdom of God comcthn not
4, oh.er,atlon,n he thought the spirit
no age worked sympathy, beucvo-
loye The law of business, poll
4 and sometimes even OF religion, was
Elashness. self-Secking; still, ever and
4 sn onat events and cpochs arose that
XVII Enthusiastically 10 the fulillmeni OF
n nroniIse Of the text. One such event.
sd,hi SEEKER has t1kcn p.ac in the last
n. ds,s and found its elimination
.,Ieriay. when the whole civilizcdworld
.,a,djts head H. sorrow around the bier
Gen, Grant
'lThen the speaker read from the ac-
lmi Of Gen. Grants funeral the passage
,hhgt6 the pail bearers, in which
dsn,tOn and Sherman, Buckner and
Strilan were placed together.
Row many years ago is it, said the
.aker since these men were leaders of
lopposing armies of this great nation!
= long Is II since the whole South was
! globe aud blaze of fire tn rcpcl the in-
ksua Of Grant? And who was Grant:
Il 81 the states along the southern
/, MIR line what their feelings towards
n we're twenty years ago. Ask Viz
.rh. Almost the breath of life did he
|atcut Of her valiant body. ASK Ken.
w and Tennessee, lying bleeding AT
kirei Ask Georgia, severed in twain
lhc sword of the man who yesterday
NJ By JOlnston'S side in that solemn
setSi0n. The answer would have
IN one of the most intense hatred.
hwt, not a quarter OF century has
Used, and these great leaders mmglc
'rlr tears AT the tomb of Grant. and in
doing are representing, as fully as ever
|lorr, the hearts Cf their people. Who
be- not see in this the bright harbinger
hefulilllment OF the promise of God;
y preacher spoke of the uniting and
nalng power of grief; how it made all
'lIons and tongues akin, and brought
I ministers of the Protestant church
y the priests of the church of Rome to
lnsIc prayers and tears in the sanctuary
mourning. He saw in this the coming
yoi the text, and the beginning of
\ time when the brotherhood Of man
cnd pass from phrase to fact, when the
prla should be crowned by the love of
M and the summer of Heaven appear.