Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-11
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| IN Otner WORDS, let Us einPioJ 'n~
worlds grindstone. We viii listen 70
their music, and we will watch their acu-
men, and we will use their grindstones
and win borrow their philosophical apps-
ratus to make our experiments, and we
will borrow their printing presses TO
publish our bibles, and we will borrow
their rail trains TO carry our Christian
literature, and we will borrow their ships
to transport our missionaries. That was
what made Paul such a master In his
day. lie not only got all the learning he
could get OF DR.. Gamaliel, but afterward,
standing on Mars Hill, aud In crowded
thoroughfare, quoted their poetry, and
grasped their logic, and welded their
eloquence, andemployed their mythology,
until Dionysius the Arcopagite, learned
in the schools Of Athens and Heliopolis,
went down under his tremendous powers.
Tha. was what gave Thomas Chalmers his
power In his day. He conquered the
worlds astronomy and compelled 1t to
ring out the wisdom and greatness of the
Lord, until for the second time, the morn
ing stars sang together and all the sons
OF God shouted for Joy. That YVES what
gave TO Jonathan Edwards his influence
in his day. he conquered the worlds
metaphysics, and forced it into the SER
vice OF God, until not only the old meet
| ing-house at Northampton, Mass, but all
Christendom felt thrilled bv his Christian
( power. Well, now, my friends, we all
have tools OF Christian power. Do not
let them lose their edges. We want
NO RUSTY BLADE
in this fight. We want no coulter that
cannot rip up the glebe. We want no
axe that cannot fell the trees. We want
no goad that cannot start the lazy team.
Let us get the very best grindstones we
can find, though they be in possession of
the Philistines, compelling them TO turn
the crank while we bear down with ell
our might on the swift revolving wheel,
until all our energies aud faculties shall
be brought up to 3 bright, keen, sharp,
glittering edge.
4. Again: My subject teaches us on
what small allowance Philistine infquity
puts man. Yes these Phiistines shut
up the mines, and then they took the
spears and the swords; then they took
the blacksmiths, then they took the grind
stones, and they took everything but
file. Oh, that is the way sin works; il
grabs everything 1t begins with rob-
berry, and ends with robbery. 1t despoils
this faculty, and that faculty, and keeps
on until the whole nature is gone. Was
the man eloquent before, 1t gener-
ally thickens his tongue. Was he
fine in personal appearance, 1t mars his
visage. Was he afiluent, it sends the
sheriff to sell him out. Was he influential, |
1t destroys his popularity. Was he placid, |
and genial and loving, it makes him |
splenetic and cross; and so utterly is he |
changed that you can see he is sarcastic |
and rasping, and that the Phillstlnes have
left him nothing but file.
Oh, "the way of the transgressor is
hard" His cup is bitter. HIS night is
dark. His pangs are deep. His end is |
terrific. Phillstine iniquity says to that |
man; "Now, surrender to me, and |
will give you all you want-music for the |
dance, swift steeds for the race, imperial |
couch to slumber on, and you shall be re-
freshed with the rarest fruits in baskets |
of golden tiligree." He lies. The music |
turns out to be groan. The fruits burst |
the rind with rank poison. The filigree |
Is made up of
TWISTED REPTILES.
The couch Is q grave. Small allowance
OF rest, small allowance of peace, small |
allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough |
nothing but a file. So it was with Vol |
taire, the most applauded man OF his day:
THE scripture was his textbook, whence he
drew
Bonmots to gall the Christian ana the jew.
An infdel when well, but what when sick 2,
On then text would touch him to the quick %
Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs in
Paris, where he had gone to be crowned
as the Idol of all France, he sends a
messenger to get priest that he may be
reconciled to the church before he dies.
great terror falls upon him. He makes
the place all round about him SO dismal
that the nurse declared that she would
not for all the wealth of Europe see an
other intldel die. Phlllstine iniquity had
promised him all the worlds garlapds,
but In the last hour Of his life, when
he needed a solacing, sent tearing across
his conscience and his nerves file, file.
so 1t was with Lord Byron, his unclean-
ness In England was only surpassed by
MS uncleanness in Venice, then going on
10 end his brilliant misery at Mlssolonghi,
irettlng at his nurse Fletcher, fretting at
tretting at the world, fretting at
God; and he who gave the world "Childe
harold and "Saroanapalus," and "The
PRISONER OF Chillon," and "The Siege of
Corlnth," reduced to nothing but file.
oh, sin has great facility for making
for breaking them!
Christian life Is the only cheerful life,
while life of wicked surrender is re-
morse, ruin, and death. It's painted elee
IS sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest
Gays OF the Mexican empire, Montezuma
SAID ne felt gnawing at his heart some |
thing Ike oanker, Sin, like monster !
wild beast OF the forest, sometimes ticks {
All over its victim in order that the vic I
Tim may be
MORE EASILY SWALLOWED, I
but generally sin rasps, and gals, and '
ears, and upbraids, and files. Is it not c
70, Herod? Is It not so, Hildebrand? Is '
! not so, Robespierre2 Aye; aye! 1t is c
30, 1t is so. "The way Of the wicked He S
'urneth upside down" History tells as I
hat when Rome was founded, on that 7
lay there were twelve vultures flying }
through the air. but when transgressor q
lies the sky is black with whole fiocks of S
mem. Vultures, yultures, vultures. When b
see SIN roobing so many OF my hearers, I
ma see them going down day by day b
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