Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-09

The prisons IN Babylonf There we're PEG
pie there that would like ~ have died.
suppose there we're men and women IN
torture IN that city who would have vel.
coined death But he comes ~ The
palace, but Just ~ the time the mirth n
dashina ~ the tip.iop pitch Death breaks
In ~ Tho banquet, We have often seen
The Same thing illustrated. Here "a a
young man inst come from college. lie
Ia kind. he IA loving. lie IL eniheaIae.
tic. lie Ii eloquent. IIy one spring he
may bound 70 heights toward which many
men have beer
gfnp0DLigG ron WARS.
A profession opens before him. lie Is
established IN The law. fills friends cheer
him. Eminent men encourage him. After
awhile You may see him standing in the
American senate, or moving popular
assemblaRe by his cloquonce ~ trees are
moved In whiflwind, Some night he
rotifes early. A fever IL on him, Dellrium
Ike reckless cbariOtser seized the reinn
~ his intellect Father and mother stand
by and sec the tides III life going out 20
tho great ocean The banquet Is coming
10 an end. The lights Of thought and
mlrth and elOqueDcc are being eXtin.
Rnlkhod. The Raflnnds arc snatched from
the brow. The vision ~ gone. Death AZ
the banqu0ti
We raw the same thing on larger
scale illustrated at tho last war IN this
country our whole nation had
been sitting al a national banquet
north, south, oastand west What grain was
there but Ne grew u on our allsf what |
invention waa there but our rivers must |
turn the new wheel and rattlo the strange /
shutter What warm iura but our traders |
must bring from tho ArctlcY What fish |
but our nets must sweep them Tor tho
marketsf What music but II must Sing
In our hallaY What eloquence but II
must speak 10 our s0nntes2 Hot 10 Tho
national banquet rouching from mountain
10 mountain and from sea 10 Aea 10
prepare that banquet the gheopiolda A.
tho aylaIi0H OF the country sent their bust
This orchards piled np on The |,
table tboir AWeGt6Ht fruits. The presses
burst out with new who's. 70 ut no that
table came the yoemaDry OF New Iiamp.
shire, and the lumbotmon OF Name,
and the tanned Carolninn from tho flc1
iWamps, and the h0ry0At0rs OF Wisconsin,
md tho Western omlgrant from tho pines
II oregon, and We were all brothers
BnOTifEHs AZ 4 BANQUET.
Suddenly tho innst cndod Whnt mennt
h0ad mounds thrown UP al Chlcka.
l0mlnY SHILOH Atlanta, Gottysburp,
'outh Mountain What meant those
,oldon grain iloldH turned into pastur.
ny ground for cavalry horsesY What "
meant the corn olds quilted with the !
.heolH OF Tho heavy supply tralui Why -
hose rivers OF tears, those lakes Of boodI :,
i0d waH angry. Justice must come. A
on the WALT The nation
nH been weighed and found wanting. :,
'afkncaal DafkndHsl Woe 20 tho 7,
.orth! Woe 10 the South Woe TO the :,
astI Woe TO the WoHtl Death Mt the !,
anquntl .
T. ! have also to Learn from the sub 4
'ot lhht the destruction OF tho vicious Il
no ol those who doApiso God will bo "
cry sudden Tho wave ot mirlh had
hshcd to tho hlghost point when that
Hhyflah army broke through II was
inspected Suddenly, almost always.
lmtB the doom OF those who dcaplao God
~ DEFY The laws Of men, How was 10 at the W
llugci Do you suppose 1t came through ~
long northeast storm 40 that people 20
II days before were sure II was cumlnny ~
% suppose the morning was bright. vi
nv eamnosA htoOd0d ON tho watarsi that
iauty snt cnthronod on the hills, when N
lddonly the heavens burat, aud Tho W
sank Hike anchors Into tho son,
lat dashed clear over tho Andes aud the
imalayAs
Iho llod sea was divided, The Epyp. II
aus tried To cross H. There could BIO NJ
, danger The lsraoltcs had lust gone 10
fnuRhi where they had gone WHY not
70 EgyptlnnsY q, II was such boautI.
u walking placel A pavement OF ttnped n,
'ells aud pearls, and on either side two 81
cat walls " water, solid, There can y,
no danger, Forward, great hust of il,
q Egyptians Clap tho cymbals and o.
ow the trumpets OF victory After q,
en- We win catch them vet and thew ~,
all be destroyed, hut tho walls OF solid NJ
cd water ca
nnGiN no rRENmLE, =,
Icy rock, They fall. The ruahinu IN
'torsl Tho shrlok OF drowning men "
ip swimming Of the warehouses In vain ~
lho shorol Tho strewlug of the great ,io
~ ON tho bottom Of the sen, or pitched 10
the anRry wave ON tho beaeh.~a bat. ~
red, bruised and loathsome wrookl Nr
lddeuly destruction came, Ono hnlt Nc
'ur before they could not have believed
Destroyed aud without remedy.
J am Just setting forth a fact which ~
u have noticed ~ we'll asI, Ananlaa A. A.
h'N' w WV hPVNtlNs inc apostle AnVal Al
Did YOU sell the land Tor 40 muchPi nu
. says "Nos,n II was lie. Dead nna
quick as that Sapphira, his wife, liz,
mes In "Dld you sell tho land ior so n,
uoht" "Ycs" 1t was a llo, and 10
lick as that she was dcadl Gods iudg. iiS
nnts are upon those who despise aud VA
~ Him, They como suddenly. 10
Tho destroying angel went through tiIIl
ypt' DO you suppose that any OF the Ca
oplo knew that he was oominrP did W.
" hear tho Hap OF hs great wingsp an
y No Suddenly, unexpectedly, no ~
me. br
skilled spprsmen do not like TO shoot m,
bird stsnding on sprig near nv. II nH
" are skilled they pride themselves on pa
dng II ON the wing, aud they wait TN w
starts Death is an old sportsman, W,
he loves 20 take men dying undor the fo
~ Enu lilo loves TO take them ON tho 81,
ny IN
Are thoro any hero who arc unprepared GFi
the eternal wordp Arc there any an
10 who have been living without God Gw
q without hopoy Lot me say To you Ga