Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-11

the publishers swear allegiance - the
Lord God Of truth. All, my FRIEND, that
day must come, and II the great cody OF
Christian men have not the fait' i, or the
courage, or the consecratiorI to do II,
then let some Jonathan on his busy
hands and on his praying kr.ees, climb up
on the Rock of Hlndrance, and in the
name Of the Lord God Of Israel slash TO
pieces those literary Ph.listines. II these
men viii not be converted TO God then
they must be overthrow.
2. Again; learn from this subject
what large amount OF the church's re-
sources is actually hidden, and buried,
and undeveloped. The bible intimstes
that that was a very rich land,
this lard of Israel. IL says; "The
stones are iron, and out Of
the hills thou shalt dig BRASS" and yet
hundreds and thousands OF dollars worth
Of this metal was kept under the hills,
Well that is the difficulty with the
church Of God at this day. It's talent is
not developed. II one-half Of its energy
could be brought out It might take the
public iniquities Of the day by the throat
and make them bite the dust. II human
eloquence were consecrated to the Lord
Jesus Christ 1t would In few years per-
buNut lulb WUOit tdTNu u blEEtuutI "
God. There is enough undeyeloped en-
ergy in this one church to bring all Brook
Ign TO Christ-enough undeveloped Chris
tian energy In the city of Brooklyn TO
bring all the United States TO Christ
enough Of undeyeloped Christian energy
in the United States to bring the whole
world to Christ; but II Is buried under
strata Of indifference and under whole
mountasns Of sloth. Now Is 1t not time
for the mining to begin, and
THE PIcKAxEs TO PLUNGE,
and for this buried metal TO be brought
out and put into the furnaces and be
turned into howitzers and carbines for
the Lords hostT The vast majority OF
Christians In this day are useless. rThe
most of the Lords battalion belong to
the reserve corps. The most of the crew
are asleep In the hammocks. The most
of the metal is under the hills. Oh, is IL
not time for the church of God to rouse
up and understand that we want ell the
energies, all the talent and all the wealth
enlisted for Christ's sake. / like the
nickname that the English soldiers gave
to Butcher, the commander. They called
him "Old Forwards" We have had
enough retreats in the church of Christ;
let us have glorious advance. And
say to you as the general said when his
troops were frightened; rising up in his
stirrups,Ihis hair flying in the wind, he |
lifted up his voice until twenty thousand !
troops heard him, crying out: Forward, |
the whole linel"
We want all the laymen enlisted. Min
listers are numerically too small They |
do the best they can, They are the most |
oye-worked class on earth. Many of them |
die OF dyspepsia because they cannot get |
the right kind Of food to eat, or, getting |
the right kind, are so worried that they |
take II down in chunks. They die from |
consumption coming from early and late |
exposure. II novelist or a historian
publishes one book year he is consid- |
cred industrious. But every faithful pas
tor must originate enough thought for
three or four volumes year. Ministers
receive enough calls In year from men
who have maps, and medicines, and light
ming rods and pictures to sell to exhaust
their vitality. They are bored with agents
oil all sorts. They are set in draughts at
AND POISONED
by the unventilated rooms of invalids,
and waited upon by committees who
want addresses made, until life becomes
q burden to bear. II is not hard study
that makes ministers look pale. 1t is the
infnity OF Interruptions and deliberations
to which they are subjected. II die be-
fore my time, 1t will be at the hand of
committees that want an address or a
lecture. man called on me to live q
lecture by which he might pay the ex-
penses OF his wedding trip. II there
were nifty hours to each day of the year,
ana worked forty OF them, could not
DO the WORK OF this one parish; and am
not behind most clergymen In the dlspo-
sltlon to toll. Numerically too small. II
is no more the work Of the pulpit to CON
vert and save men than it Is the work of
The pew IL men go to ruin
there will be as much blood
on your shirts as on mine Let us uuit
this grand farce iof trying to save the
world by q few clergymen, and let all
hands lay hold OF the work. Give us in
all our churches two or three aroused aud
qualified men and women to help. In
most churches to-day, Ave or ten men are
compelled to do all the work. vast
majority OF churches are at their wits,
end how to carry on prayer meeting II
the minister Is not there, when there
ought to be enough pent-up energy and
IellBious force 10 make a meeting 90 on
With such power that the minister would
never be missed. The church stands
WORKING THE PUMPS
OF few ministerial cisterns until the
buckets are dry and choked, while there
are thousands of fountains from which
might be dipped up the waters of eternal
life! Before you and | have the sod
pressing our eyelids, we will, under God,
decide whether our children shall grow
up amid the accursed surroundings of
vice and shame, or come to an inner
lance OF righteousness. Long, loud.
bitter will be the curse that scorches our
grave II, holding within the church TODAY
enough men and women to save the CITY.
We act the coward or the drone. | wish !.
could put enough moral explosives un- .
Ter the oonventiongllties and majestic
'tupidities OF the day to blow them to |.
atoms, and that then with so 600 men and
women from all the churches knowing ..
Nothing but Christ aud desire 20 bring !
III the world to Him, we might move
lpon the enemy's works. For a little .
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