Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-21

provldences do bot always mean retro
gresslon.
Children Of God, get up out Of your
despondency. The Lord never had so
many ravens as he has this morning.
Fling your fret aud worry to the winds.
Sometimes under the vexations OF lie
You feel like my little girl OF four years,
who said under some childish veNatlon.
HOh, wish could 90 to heaven and see
God and pick flowers" lie will let you
90 when the right time comes to pick
flowers. Until then, Whatever you want,
pray for. | suppose Elijah prayed
pretty much all the time. Tremendous
work behind him. Tremendous work be-
fore him. God has no spare ravens for
idlers or for people who are prayerless.
pnt It In the boldest shape possible, and
am willing to risk my eternity on it; ask
God In the right way for what you want,
aud you shall have 1t II II Is best for you.
Mrs. Jane Pithey Of Chicago, o we'll
known Christian woman, was left by her
husband widow with one half dollar
and a cottage. She was palsied
and had a mother ninety years OF age to
support. The widowed soul every day
asked God for all that was needed in the
household, and the servant even was as
tonlshed at the precision with which God
answered the prayers OF that woman,
item by item, item by item. One day
rising from the family altar the servant
said: ''You have not asked for coal and
the GOALS out" Then they stood and
prayed for the coal. One hour after thai
the servant threw open the door and said
1.-THE coal has come" generous man,
whose name could give you, had sent
as never before and never since-a sup.
ply of coal. You cannot understand It,
l do. Ravensl ravens.
My friend, you have a right to argue
from precedent that God is going to take
care Of you. Has ne not done it two or
three times every day2 That Is most
look back and l wonder
that God has given me food three times a
day regularly all my lifetime, never miss
ing but once and then / was lost in the
but that very morning and
that very night met the ravens.
o, the Lord is so good that wish all
this people would trust Him with the two
lives-the life you are now living and that
which every tick of the watch and every
stroke Of the clock inform you is ap.
preaching. Bread for your immortal
the platform. They alight on the backs
of all the pews. They swing among the
arches. Ravensl Rayens "Blessed
are they that hunger after rghteousnes IS
for they shall be filed" To all the SHINING
and the sorrowing and the tempted deliv-
erance comes this hour. Look down and
you see nothing but your spiritual defor-
mites. Look back and you see moth
ing but wasted opportunity. Cast your
eye forward and you have fearful look
ing for of judgment and fiery indignation
which shall devour the adversary. But
look up and you behold the whipped
shoulders of an interceding Christ, and
the face of pardoning God, and the
irradiation of an opening heaven. hear
the whirr of their wings Do you not
feel the rush Of the air on your cheek?
Ravens! Ravens
There is only one question want to
ask: How many of this audience are will
ing to trust God for the supply of their
bodies, and trust the Lord Jesus Christ
for the redemption OF their immortal souls?
Amid the clatter of the boots and the
clang of the wheels of the Judgment char
lot, the whole matter will be demon
strated.