Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31
THE REIGN OF PEACE.
Eloquent Memorial Sermon OF Rev. I.
w. Falkenhnrg at Denlson
Yesterday.
Great Moral and Civil Upheavais wit
messed now Eternal Peace IS
Coming.

Special TO the Gazette,
DEHrsoN, Tx, May S0.-The FIrs
Methodist Episcopal church was crowded
to-day TO hear the Rev. Mr.. Falkenburt
preach memorial sermon. The vas
congregation was chained by his clio
quence and felt nearer 10 God and trutl
when the minister concluded The tex
was:
'And lie shall Judge among the na.
tons, and rebuke many people, And
they shall beat their swords into pruning.
hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation. Neither shall they learn
war any morer Isaiah H., 4.
Beyond a doubt that time has not yet
arrived Never perhaps In the worlds
history has there been such moral and
civil upheayals as are witnessed to-day.
The prophecy OF Jesus Christ has been
aud is literally fulnllcd; "Brother shall
rise against brother, father against his
son, aud mans foes shall be they OF his
own household"
10 many, the times seem ominous OF
dire calamity and disaster. Some see
the bit into which both state and indl.
viduals are to be plunged. Some picture
90 themselves a new earth and a
new order OF things, both OF
moral and civil conditions, which,
bringing forth new elements OF reform,
will produce better times when the strug-
gle has ended. Re that as II may, the
battle has been waged for 10 these many
centuries Judgment has passed upon
many people, nations have tottered 10 the
fall, and even ere the smoke ceases 10
ascend from their charred ruins, other
nations have builded upon their dlsas-
ters and downfall But after all, Is not
this the history Of ell human thingsY
Need we be alarmed at the black cloud
arising, though II be larger than mans
handf | think not. For such clouds
have overcast the heavens OF mans
thoughts always, and always Will.
until the angels OF God usher In the reign
OF universal peace. That time, fore
sgen by prophetic ken, has been given US
In the text; ''Natlon shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more
want your attailon to-day TO
The causes that have operated TO
bring about this desirable and expected
period.
2. The agencies employed.
3, The value Of these sgencies, and the |
obligation we are under TO remember not |
FAAI AhNhf Lbh w hHAA1 WI AuNiA EDbi- ]
begun work
a man has two educatIons that which
he gives himself and that which he oh.
tains from others The world has al
ways had men who scornod 10 follow In
the beaten ruts OF human thought. They
were iconoclasts, image breakers Ia the
tut and better sense Of that often badly
used term, not because they loved 10 de-
stroy, hut because their eye was brighter,
their heart beat quicker, their step was
frmer than the multitudes about them.
Such men were often called fanat.
ics, theorists, crazy .droamers, ETC.,
but after all they Impressed their critics
with two facts. | They were In great
earnest. 9. They were mmovable
Now, the world has never seen the time
when some such character as / have in.
dicated did not mingle with men. Noah
roproved tho antedlluvlan world Jonah
suddenly appeared In the streets of
Nineveh, and turned the city up side
down John the Baptistcame up from the
wilderness and changed the whole man. ,
ner OF HE Of the entire Jewish people,
the reign Of Christ, and so of
Luthehand John Knox, Hugh LatimeEand
John Wesley, and so through the worlds {
history. AS wicked as the world has l
been God has kept somebody right, as a /
Kind Of treasure-house, In which he /
might deposit his truth, and tell men !
what was wrong In their lives, SO not /
only in the judgments that have come /
upon the sons of men, hut Ia the pro.e i
Of their thought, and The development Of \
their Intellect, God has visible, un- !
'wervlng true agent TO declare the whole 1
counsel of Ills will. So that as a matter y
A fact AA ka Ia a
'ebuked many nations. And though men q
nave failed to recognize him as the Il
'onrce OF the truth, yet he has been !
Iteadily teaching humanity the great doc. y
rlne OF peace !.
Nor is this all. The mind has been so \
neated that 1t percelves and reels the 4
orce of superior thought or ability.
Im fully aware that this lis accounted for /
" some on the ground OF superstition b
'nd prejudice. | care not what the /
.Jntce OF this power, the fact remains the d
same. Mind Influences mind. Men in I
luence men. Among the causes most /
potent In the gigantic upheayals aud a
revolutions OF the world OF thought, this +
VIZ, the Influence and the leading OF a / b
mind surcharged with conviction OF the a
ruth. and believing itself sent to lend 1
n mental or civil revolution, Is c
me Of the greatest OF moral a
Orees. When Elijah, tho prophet r
u God, went on toplof Mount Carmel, he s
believed that God sent him. When, there. O
ore, the people bowed down before him :
le was not at all surprised When Mar 8
In Luther nailed his thesis to his church n
loor, he knew that he was infallibly right. O
tut, says one, this brings revolutions. Il
True, but II is also true that every ham. A
ner stroke that has aided Ia the breaking D
4 the manaclcs OF human thought and il
nman rights have been welded by rev. N
'iutlonary arm. No harm In rev |,
tuition, II II be bloodless al
ne, Those opochs OF human his NJ
DRY, marked by u deep uuderourrent b,
{ thought that takes hold Of the practical n
he OF the masses, Is the epoch OF human I'd
istory, out OF which comes real progress. n
believe that, Notwithstanding the varied II
nd seemingly utterly irreconcilable h
ionght OF The people, aud the deep-laid b.
uspieions OF Jealonsies of the human d,
esrt, sieadily 6ed Is leading this N
lorld 10 the realization OF a destIny. ID
lorious and righteous, and these canses a.
lmost intulliye, In the human mind. are
hose that Ito tx OgiD0 and will uo., ,.,,tta AZ,