Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-04

mometer and thrust It into Shadraeh's
| fnrnbce It would never 20 up over seven
fy-nVe degrees. is there not rest IN thisg
! II there not an eternal vacation ia thisl.
SON. Won say, .'here 4 q man who
asked God for a blessing upon d certain
enlefprisc aud he lost $4,000 IN IL. Explain
I that I will YondeT Is factory, and
one wneei is going north and the other
wheel Is going south, aud one wheel plays
laterslly and the other plays vertically
10 70 the manufacturer and ! say; 70,
manufacturer, your machinery T. a contra
diction. Why do you not make al the
wheels go one wayIN Well )" he SAYS,
IpI made them 70 90 10 opposite
directions on purpose, and they
produce the right result. You 90
down stairs and examine The carpets we
lare turning out in this establishment, and
/ you will see" 20 down on the other
/ moor and / see the carpets, and ! am
lobllged ~ confess that, though tbe wheels
! IN tnat factory 20 10 opposite directions.
they turn out beautiful result; aud
while am standing there looking AZ the
exquisite fabric, en- old scripture passage
comes into my mind: can things work
together for good 10 them VINO love God"
Is there not rest ia tlat2 IS there not
tonic IN thntl Is there not longevity IN
that3
Suppose a man is all the time worried
about his reputation? Oae man says he
lies, another says he y stupid, another
says he IS dishonest, aud hglf q dozen
printing establishments attack him, aud
he Is in d great state OF excitement and
worry aud fumc, and cannot sleep; but
religion comes 70 him and says; "Man,
God IL on your side; He will take
care of your reputation If God
be for you who can be against
you?n How much should that man
worry about his reputationI Not mnch.
II that broker who, few years ago 10
Won street, after he had lost money, sat
down and wrote farewell letter to mis-
wife before ne blew his braiu5 out--if In
stead OF taking ont OF hts pocket pistol
he had taken but well-read New Tesla
ment, there would have been one less
suicide. oh, nervous ard feycnsh peo-
pie Of the word try this Almighty srda-
tive; you viii 1--we twenty-five years
longer under It's soothing power 1t IS
not choral that you want, or more time
that you want, it is the Gospel OF Jesus
Christ
Again, practical religion is friend Of
long life, IN the fact that II removes all
corrodiug care about future existence.
Every man wants to know what is 70 be-
come of him. fyou get on board rail
train, you want TO know at what depot II
Is going TO stop; If you get on board
ship, you want to know into what harbor
1t is going 60 run aud Il yon should tell
me you have no interest IN what
is to be your future des-
tiny, would, IN as polite
| way as know how, tell you did not be.
| lieye you. Before | had this matter set
lied with reference to my future exist
eHce, the question almost worried me
into ruined health, The anxieties men
| hayc upon this subject, il put together,
would make q martyrdom, This is q state
OF awful uuhealthiaess. There are PEG
pie who fret themselves to death for fear
of dying. ! want this morning 70 take
the strain off your merry, and the depres.
! sion off your soul, and | make two or
1 three experiments.
Experiment the first: when you 20
out of the world It does not mike any
/ difference whether you have been good or
| bad, on whether you believed truth or err
4 ror, you viii 90 straight to glory. "lm-
| possible you say; "iuy common sense,
/ as wen as my religion, teaches that the
bad and the good cannot live together ior-
\ ever You give me no comfort in that
experiment.
Experiment the second: when
| You leave this world you win 90
! into an intermediate state, where
! you can get converted and prepared for
heaven "Impossiblel" you say; "as the
! tree falieth, so it must lie, and cannot
postpone TO an Intermediate state that re-
/ I rmatiOn which ought 10 have been ef-
/ fected IN this state.n
Experiment the third; There il no
| future world when man dies that Is the
! last Of him. DO not worry about what
| you are TO do In another state of being;
you will not do anything, impossible, +"
! you say; "the7e is something that tells
me that death Is not the appendix, but the
| preface; there is something that tells me
that on this side Of the grave | only get
started, and that | shall 20 on forever,
\ My power TO think says forever my af.
fections say forever my capacity to
| enjoy or suffer says forever"
Wei, you defeat me in my three expe-
rimerts. have only one more to make,
and II y0u defeat me In that am exhaust
ed. A Mighty One on knoll back OF Je-
rusalem one day, the skies hlled with
forked lightnings aud the earth filed with
volcanic disturbances, turned his pale
aud agonized face toward the heavens
and said; ~ take the sins and
) sorrows OF the ages into my own heart,
lam the eXpiation Witness earth and
heaven and hell, | am the expiation y
And the hammers struck Him, end the
: spears punctured Him, and heaven thun,
: dered; "1he wages OF sin Is death. .
; "The soul that sinneth 1t shall die;n 81
! win by no means clear the guiltyn Then