Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-26

drunkard in that way2 On, mo- Temp
tation comes aud says: "T0ke these bit.
tiers, take this nervine, take this aid to d.
gestion, take this night-csp." The vast
majority Of men and women who are de-
stroyed by opium aud by rum first take
them as medicines. In making up your
dish OF criticism in regard 10 .hen, take
from the castor the cruet of sweet oil
and not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Be
easy on them. Do you know how that
physician, that lawyer, that journalist be-
came the victim of dissipation? Why,
the physician was kept up night by night
on professional duty. Life and death
lowered in the balance. His nervous
system was exhausted. There came
time ofepidemic, and whole families were
Frustrated and his nervous strength
was gone. He was all worn out in the
service of the public. Now he must
brace himself up. Now be stimulates.
The life of this mother, the life of this
child, the life of this father, the life Of
this whole family must be saved, and of
all these families must be saved and be
stimulates, and he
DOES 1T AGAIN AND AGAIN.
You may criticise his Judgment, but re-
! member the process. 1t was not selnsh
process by which he went down. 1t was
magnificent generosity through which he
fell. That attorney at the bar for weeks
has been standing ia poorly ventilated
courtroom, listening to the testimony
and contestng in the dry technicslities of
the law, and now the time has come for
him to wind up, and he must plead for
the life OF his client, and his nervous
system is all gone. If he fails
in that speech his client
| perishes. If he have eloquence enough
| in that hour his client is saved. He
! stimulates. He must keep up He says:
al must keep up" Having large prac-
tice you see how he is CENTRALIZED. You
may criticise his judgment, butremember
the process. Do not be hard. That
| journalist has had exhausting midnight
work. He has had to report speeches and
oratons that keep him up till very Late
hour. lie has gone with much exposure
working up some case of crime in COM
pany with detective. He sits down at
midnight to write out his notes from a
memorandum scrawled on a pad under
unfavorablec circumstances. His strength
is gone. Fidelity to the public intel
ligence, fidelity to his own livelihood de-
msnd that he keep up. Hemust keep up,
He stimulates. Again and again he
does that, and he goes down,
You may criticss his judgment in
the matter, but have mercy. Re
|, member the process. Do not be hard
My friends this text will come to full
tillment In some cases in this world. The
huntsman in Farmsteen was shot by some
unknown person. Twenty years after the
son of the huntsman was in the same for.
! est, and he accidentally shot man, and
the man in dying said; "God is Just
shot your father Just here twenty years
ago." A bishop said to Louis NJ OF
! France; "Make an iron cage for all
those who do not think as we do-an iroI
] cage in which the captive can neither liz
J down nor stand straight up" 1t wat
fashioned--the awful instrument of pun
ishment. After awhile the bishop of
, Tended Louis NJ, and for fourteen year.
! he was in that same cage, and coulC
neither lie down nor stand up 1t is
i poor rule that will not work both ways
I "With what measure we mete it shall bt
! measured to you again"
3 oh, my friends, let US be resolved K
r scold less and pray more. That which il
/ the bible Is used as the symbol of al
I gracious influences is the dove, not tn,
/ porcupine. We may so unskilliulll
s manage the llfeboat that we shall rul
!. down those whom we wan to rescue
4 The first preparation for Christian use
I fulness is warm-heartsd common. sense
a practical sympathy for those whom W,
d want to save. What Roadway will w,
:. make in the judgment If in this world W,
4 have been hard on those who have gon,
o astrayI What Roadway will you and
o make in the last great judgment, wher
e we must have mercy or perish? TIL,
e bible says "They shall have iudgmen
n without mercy that showed no mercy. :
u see the scrihes of heaven ookinl
G up into the face of such man
}. saying What! you plead for mercy
a you, whom in all your life never had an,
J. mercy on your fellows! Don't you re
i member how hard you were in your opin
- ions OF those who were astray? Dom
r you remember when you ought to hay,
i given helping hand you employed har,
d heel? Mercy! You must misspeal
y yourself when you plead for mercy here
Q Mercy for others, but no mercy for you
- Look, say the scribes of heaven, iool
O at that inscription over the throne o
Q Judgment, the throne OF Gods iudg
ment. See II coming out letter by letter
word by word, sentence NV sentanca