Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-16

/ whether Christ is God. have uouVeeu
whether the bible was true. nave
doubted the Immortality Of the soul.
have doubted my own existence, ! nave
doubted eveiythingi and yet, out Of t1at
hot desert Of doubt, have come
into the broad, luxurlant, sunsniny
land Of Gospel hope, and peace, and com
tort; so have confidence Ia preaching
TO you and asking you TO come In. HOW
ever often you may have spoken against
the bible, or however much you may nave
caricatured religion, step ashore from
that
| ROCKING AND TUMULTUous SKA.
II you 90 away adherlng to your infideli-
ties you will not sleep one wink tonight.
You do not want your children to come
up with your skepticism. You cannot
afford to die In that midnight darkness,
can your II you do not believe 10 any
thing else You believe In love-a fathers
! love, mothers love, wife's love,
child's love. Then let me tell you that
God loves you more than them all. ON
you must come in. You will come In.
The great heart of Christ aches to have
you come in, and Jesus this very moment
whether you sit or stand-looks into
your eyes and says; "Other sheep
haveiwhich are not Of this fold"
3. Again ! remark, that the heavenly
shepherd is going to find great many
sheep among those who have been flung
OF evil habit. 1t makes me mad to see
Christian people give up prodlgal as
lost. There are those who talk as
though the grace Of God were a chain of
forty OF fifty links, and after they had run
out there was nothing 10 touch very
bad case. II they were hunting and lost
the track OF the deer, they would look
longer among the banks and the bushes
for the lost game than they have been |
looking for their lost soul. People tell us
that II man has delirlum .remens twice,
he cannot be reclaimed, that after wo-
man has fallen from her integrity she can
not be restored. The bible has distinctly |
intimated that the Lord Almighty is ready |
to pardon four hundred and ninety times
that Is seventy times seven. There are
men before the throne Of God who have
wallowed in every kind of sin; but saved
BY the grace OF Jesus and washed
IN His blood, they stand there radiant
low. There are those who plunged In
he very lowest hell of abomination, who
or the tenth time have been lifted up,
md finally, by the grace of God, they
'tand in heaven, glorlously rescued by
he grace promised to the chief of sim
lers. want to tell you that god loves
o take hold Of
VERY BAD CASE.
When the church casts you off, and when
he club-room casts you off, and when so.
iety casts you off, and when business
associates cast you off, and when father
asts you Off and when mother casts you
III, and when everybody casts y0l off, /
our first cry for help Will send the Eter.
al God clean down into the ditch OF ,
our suffering and shame. The Good :
'emplars cannot save you, although they :
re grand institution. The Sons OF TEN. :
erance cannot save you, although they are :
Mighty for good. Signing the temperance =
ledge cannot save you, although be- !
eve In 1t. Nothing but the grace of the !
.ternal God can save you, and that will :
you Will throw yourself on it. A man ]
aid to me; "Unless God, helps me | :
annot be delivered. have tried every- !
hing, sir; but now l have got into the :
abit OF prayer, and when | come to q
rinking saloon pray that God will take {
he safely past, and l pray until am ,
asst. lie does help me-" For every =
ian given to strong drink there are !
cores OF traps set, and no one but the :
yerywhere present God can see that man !
through. Oh! they talk about the cata- !
ombs OF Naples, aud the cata6nmbs of ,
Tome, and the catacombs OF Egypt-the !,
urial places under the city where the !
ust OF great multitude lie; but tell
GU New York has its catacombs Nash
lille has its catacombs, and New Orleans J
IS catacombs, and Boston its catacombs, b
nd Philadelphia its catacombs, and :
very town and city neighbor- :,
God Its catacombs They are the y
Underground restaurants, full of dead y
ems bones and all uncleanness. Young y
IAN, you know It, God help you! There
no need OF going into the art gallery to n
'e in skillful sculpture that wonderful a
presentation OF man and his sons y
ound around with serpents. There are %
miles represented in this audience that :,
e wrapped In the martyrdom OF fang :
Id scale and venom-a living LAGOON h
GHAsrLINEss AND HORROR. \
What are you to dol Do not put your Il
ust in bromide of potassium, or in ia "
aica ginger, or anything else that apoth- "
aries can mix. Put your trust only in a
10 eternal God, and He will see YOU II
rough. Some OF you do not have temp fc
lion every day. 1t is periodic temp. NJ
ton that comes every six weeks, or Il
cry three months, when 1t seems as if in
70 powers of darkness klndle around IN
'out your tongue the fires of "
10 pit. 1t is well enough Il
such time, as some of you do, TO
eek medical COUNSEL; but your first and h
ost importunate cry must be to God. G,
the friends will drag you to the Il
aughter, make them do it on Your knees. Ia
b, God! now that the paroxysm of thirst d
coming again upon that man, help him.
ing back into the pit Of hell the flend Z,
at assaults his soul this moment, on. d,
y heart aches to see men go on in this Il
arful struggle without Christ. There W
Q here those whose hands so tremble a,
ON dissipation that they can hardly tc
Nd book; and yet have 10 tell YOU n
at they will yet preach the gospel. and h,
communion day carry around the con. as
Grated bread, acceptable to everybody. 81
cause Of their holy life aud their con W
Grated behavior. The Lord is eoinu TO O.
We you. Your home has got to be re. OF
ut. Your physical health has cot TO be nj
stored, Ioar worldly business has oot ~