Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-02

relied, every paragraph Is like an OLD
banyan tree With = hundred roots and a
hundred branches. 1t Is a great arch
pull out one stone and Il
ALL COMES DOWN.
There has never been pearl diver who
could gather up one-half Of the treasures
In any verse. John Halssbach OF Vienna
for twenty-oDe years every Sabbath ex-
pounded 10 his congregation the FIRST
chapter OF the Book OF Isaiah, and yet did
not get through with IL. Nne.tenths Of
all the good literature OF this age is mere
ly the bible diluted.
Goethe, the admired OF all skeptics,
had the wall OF his house at Weimar COW
cred with religious maps and pictures.
Millions Paradise Lost Is part OF the bible
IN blank verse Tasso's Jerusalem De-
livored Is borrowed from the bible.
! SpeDcer's writings are limitations Of the
parallels John Bupyan sawin dream only
what Saint John had seen before In
apocalyptlc vision. Macaulay crowns
his most gigantic sentences with script
ural quotations Through Addison's
Spectator there glances in and out the
stream that broke from the throne of God,
clear as crystal. Walter SCOTS best
characters are bible men and women under
different names, as Meg Merrilles, the
witch OF Endor. Shakspere's Lady Mac
beth was Jezebel. Hobbies stole from
this castle OF truth the weapons with
which he afterwards assaulted IT, Lord
Byron caught the ruggedness and majesty
of his style from the prophecies The
writings of Pope are saturated
with Isaiah, and he linGs his most sue
cessful theme In the Messiah.
The poets Thomson and Johnson
dipped their pens In the style Of
the inspired Orientals. Thomas
Carlyle is only a splendid distortion of
Ezekieli and wandering through the
lanes and parks OF this Imperial domain
Of bible truth, ] lind all the great Ameri-
can, English, German, Spanish, Italian
poets painters, orators aud rhetoriclans.
Where Is there in the world OF poetic
description anything like Jobs champing,
neighlng, paving, lightnlng-footed,
thunder-necked war horse? Dryden's,
Milton's, Cowper's tempests are very
tame compared with David's storm that
wrecks the mountains OF Lebanon and
shivers the wilderness of Cadish. Why,
1t seems as II TO the feet of these bible
writer's mountains
BROUGHT ALL THEIR GEMS,
and the seas all their pearls, and the gar
dens all their frankincense, and the spring
their wealth, and heaven all its grandeur,
and eternity all its stupendous realities;
and that since then poets, and orators,
and rhetoricians have been drinking from
exhausted fountains, and searching for
diamonds in realm utterly rined and
ransacked.
This book Is the hive of all sweetness.
| 1t is the armOry OF all well-tempered
weapons. II Is the tower containing the
crown Jewels OF the universe. II is the
lamp that kindles all other lights. 1t is
the home OF all maiestles and splendors
| 1t Is the marriage ring that unites the CO.
lestlal and terrestrial, while all the clus-
tering white-robed denizens of the sky
lowering around rejoice at the nuptials
This book, II is the wreath into which are
twisted all garlands; 1t is the song into
which are struck all harmonies 1t is the
river into which are poured all the
great tides of hallelujah; 1t is
the armament In which suns
and moons, and stars and consultations
and universe and eternities wheel and
blaze and triumph Where is the young
mans soul with any music In it that Is
not stirred with Jacobs lament, or Ma
huns dirge, or Habakkuk's Githyrambic,
or Paul's march of the resurrection, or
ology on their faces respond TO the trum-
pet blast of the archangel as he stands
with one foot on the sea and the other
foot on the land, swearing by him that
livoth forever and ever that time shall be
no longer2
am also amazed at the variety of this
book. Mind you, not contradiction or
collision, but variety. Just as in the
song, you have the basso and alto AND
| soprano and tenor--they are not In coils
lon with each other, but come in to
make up the hRTmony--so IL Is in this
book there are different parts of this
great song OF redemption. The prophet
comes and
TAKES ONE FART,
and the patriarch another part, and the
evangelist another part, and the apostles
another part, and yet they all come into
the grand harmony--"the song of Moses
and the Lamb II God had inspired
men of the same temperament to write
this book II might have been monoto.
nous; but David, and Isaiah, and Peter,
and Job, and Ezekiel, and Paul, and
John were men of different tempera-
ments, and so, when God inspired them
to write, they wrote in their own style.
! God prepared the book for all classes
IVA INpliNs VI lhobduNtt llbllG CnllUren
would read the bible, and God knew that
so he allows Matthew and Luke TO write
sweet stories about Christ with the doc
tors of the law, and Christ ut the well,
and Christ at the cross, so that any little |
child can understand them. Then God |
knew that the aged people would want to |
read the book, so he allows solomon 10 |
compact world OF wisdom In that book |
OF Proverbs God knew that the historian /
would want to read II, and so he allows |
Moses TO give the plain statement OF the |
Pentateuch. God knew that the poe
would want TO read 1t, ana so he allows |
Job 10 picture the heavens as curtain, !
aud Isaiah the mountains as weighed In a |
balance, and the waters as held |
In the hollow OF the Om- |
uipotent hand; and God touched ia.
yld UNTIL In the latter part of the psalms,
he gathers great choir standing In gal |
leries above each other-beasts and men