Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-26

the influences have been Dao &no tnefe
has been coming down over
MORAL DEcI1vTTY,
Il the man surrender TO the influences he
will 20 down under the oyermastering
gravitatlon unless some supernatural aid
be Afforded him. Now, such person
deserves not your excoriation put your
pity. DO not sit with the lip curied IN
scorn, and with an assumed air oil angelic
innocence looking down upon such moral
precipitation. You had better get down
on your knees and first pray Almighty
God for their rescue, and next thank the
Lord that You have not been thrown
under the wheels Of that Juggernaut.
In Great Britain and in the United
States, in every generation, there are tens
of thousands Of persons who are fully de-
veloped criminals and incarcerated.
say ia every generation. Then,
suppose, there are tens of thousands OF
persons not found out In their cnminali-
ty. In addition to these there are tens OF
thousands Of persons who, not positively
becoming criminals, nevertheless have
criminal tendency. Any one OF ell those
thousands by the grace Of God may be-
come Christians and resist the ancestral
influence, and open new chapter OF be-
havior; but the vast majority OF them
will not, and IL becomes all men, profes-
sional, unprofessional, ministers OF rellg-
ion, judges Of courts, philanthropists ana
Christian workers, to recognize the iact
that there are these Atlantic and racine
surges Of hereditary evil rolling
OK THROUGH CENTURIES.
! say, of course, man can resist this
tendency, Just as in the ancestral line
mentioned 10 the FIRST chapter OF Matthew.
You see in the same line in which there
was wicked Rehoboam and desperate
Manassas, there afterward came a pious
Joseph and a glorious Christ. But, my
friends, you must recognize the fact that
these influences 90 on from generation TO
generation. | am glad to kDaGY, how
ever, that river which has produced
nothing but miasms for a hundred miles,
may, after q while, turn the wheels Of
factories and help support industrious
and virtuous populations; and there are
family lines which were poisoned that are
u benedlctiOn now. At the last day 1t
will be found out that there are men who
have gone clear over into all forms Of
iniquity and plunged into other abandon
ment, who, before they yielded to the
first temptation, resisted more.eyil than
many man who has been moral and up
right all his life. Bat, supposing now,
that IN this age, when there are 80 many
good people, that come down into this
audience and select the very best man in
II, do not mean the man who would
style himself the best, Tor probably he Is
a nypocrite, but mean the man who, be-
fore God, is really the best. ! will take
you out from all your Christian sur.
roundings. ! will take you back to boy
hood. / will put you in depraved home.
will put you in a cradle Of lniquity.
Who is that bending over that GRADER
An intoxicated mother, Who is that
swearing in the next room2 Your
father. The neighbors 0me in TO talk,
and their Jokes are unclean. There is
not In the house a bible or moral
treatise, but only few scraps of an old
pictorial. After a while you are old
enough 10 get out of the cradle, and you
are struck across the head for naughti-
ness, but never In any kindly manner
reprimanded. After while you are old
enough to go abroad, and you are sent
out with basket to steal II you come
home without any spoil you are
WHIPPED UNTIL THE BLOOD COMES.
At fifteen years of age you 20 out tC
| fight your own battles IN this world
which seems to care no more for you
than the dog that has died of a fit undel
the fence. You are kicked and cuffed auC
buffeted. Some day, rallying your cour
age, you resent some wrong. mar
says; "Who are youy | know who yor
are. Your father had free lodgings a
Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up fol
drunkennessIat the criminal court. &c
out of my way, you low-lived wretch =
My brother, suppose that had been tn,
history OF your advent, and the history o
your early surroundings, would you haV,
been the Christian man you are to-day
seated in this Christian assembly, | tel
you nay. You would have been a vaga
bond, an outlaw, murderer oil
the scaffold atoning for you
crime. All these considerations ough
to make us merciful In our dealings witt
the wandering and the lost.
. Again have TO remark, that in our es
innate Of the mlsdoing Of people VIII
I have fallen from high responsibility an,
usefulness, we must take into considera
ton the conf auction OF circumstances. L
, nine cases out OF ten man who goes as
, tray does not intend any positive wrong
! He has trust funds. lie risks part {
, these funds In investment He SAYS
. %Nb"t - a eAAohlN lbHO lhhA luNNnllltHb
/ have OF my own property five tunes a
much, and II this investment should Q
wrong could easily make 1t up; | coul
| Ave times make IL up" With that wron
reasoning he goes on and makes the IL
? vestment, and IL does not turn OF
quite as well as he expected, and h
makes another investment, and strange [
/ say at the same time all his other affair
get Gstangled, and all his other resource
fail, and his hands are tied. Now, h
/ wants to extricate himself. He goes
+ little further on In the wrong inyestmen
, He takes
A PLUNGE FARTHER AHEAD,
. for he wants to save his wife and chi
a dren, he wants his home, ne wants I
A save his membership In the church. II
1 takes one more plunge and all is los
/, Some morning at 10 O'Clock the ban
! door is not opened, and there is car
' on the door signed by an officer of III
I bank, indicating there is trouble, and III
i. name OF the deiaulter or the defraude
S heads the newspaper column, and hun