Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-29

" uS Heho solemn agreement 70 meet |
each other week from now In
chicago on important business, and
one goes by the New York Central
raliIoad, another Dy the Erie railroad,
anotner by the Pennsylvania railroad.
another by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
One goes this way, because the mountains |
are granderi another takes this, because
the cars are more luxurious; another
that, because the speed Is greater;
another tskes the other, because ne has |
long been accustomed te that route and |
all the employees are familiar. SO far as |
our engagement 70 meet is concerned II |
makes no difference II we only get there. |
Now, any one of tho innumerable |
evangelical denominations, IL you
practice its teaching although some OF
their trains run
ON BROAD GAUGE,
and some on narrow gauge-Sill bring
you out at the city Of the New Jerusalem.
II being evident that you will be safe In
aly OF the evangelical denominations, / /
proceed 10 remark. First, II one OF the
married couple be Christian, and the
other not, the one Christian is bound to
60 anywhere to church where the un-
converted companion is willing to 20, III.
he or she will go to no other. You Of
the connubial partnership are Christian,
you are safe for the skies. Then 1t is
your fret duty to secure the eternal
safety of your lifetime associate,
Is not the everlasting welfare
OF your wife impenitent or
YOUR HUSBAND ntPENITRNT,
OF more Importance than your church re-
Ilationshlp2 Is not the residence OF your
lcompanion for the next quadrilllon OF
years mightler consideration TO you
than the qualification of your eccleslas.
tical taste for forty or fifty years2 A
man or woman that would stop half
minute to weigh preferences as TO whether
he or she had better 90 with the nncon-
lverted companion 10 this or that church
or denomination, has no religion at all
and never has had, and | fear never win
have. You are loaded up with what you
suppose to be religion, but You are like
Capt. Frobisher, who brought back from
his voyage OF discovery ship load Of
what he supposed TO be valuable min
erals; yet, instead Of being silver and
gold, We're nothing but common stones OF
the deld, to be hurled out fiually as use.
less. Mighty God In all Thy realm Il
there one man or woman protesting re.
ligion, yet 80 stolid, so untitled, so ial
: gone unto death that there would be any
besitancy In surrendering all preferences
before such an opportunity OF salvation
, and heavenly reunion? II you, Chris
tian wife, ore an attendant upon thl;
, Brooklyn tabernacle, and your uncon
! verted husband does not come here be
. cause he doeslnot
LIKE THE PREACHER,
, or its music, or its architecture, or it,
uncomfortable crowding, and goes not e
! any house Of worship, but would 90
= you would accompany him somewher,
: else, change your church relations. TAX
: your hymn. book home with you to-day
= Say goodbye to your friends in tn,
= neighboring pews, and 20 with him t,
any one of hundred churches, until hi
>, soul is saved aud ht joins you In tn
: march to heaven More important thai
: that ring on the third finger of your lief
7 hand, it is, that your Heavenly Fathe
:, command the angel of mercy coucernin
/. your husband at his conversion, as in tn
: parable of old: "Put Il ring on his hand.
No letter of more Importance eve
y came to the great city Of Corinth, sitr
- ated on what was called the "Bridge G
- the Sea- and glistening with sculpture
and gated with style OF brass The mag
niflcence OF which the following age
= have not been able successfully to i'm
= tate, and overshadowed by the Acre
Corinthus, fortress of rock 1000 fee
= high say no letter ever came to the
. great city of more Importance than tina
!, letter in which Paul puts the
: TWO STARTLING QUESTIONS:
IS "What knowest thou, o wife, whethe
1t thou shalt save thy husband7 Or, hoV
1t knowest thou, 0 man, whether tho
q shalt save thy wife?" The dearest sacri
l. flee on the part Of one is cheap II 1t res
1t cue the other. Better go to the smallest
II weakest, most insignificant church Of
s. earth, and be co partners In eternal bliss
D. than pass your earthly membership
e. most gorgeously attractive church Will
N your companion stays outside OF cvange
IT ical privilege. Better have the drownin
n saved by scow or sloop than let him o
e her 70 down while you sail by in III
&c gilded cabins OF Brltanic or Great Eas
" ern.
'e Second remark: II both OF the ma
ri d couple be Christians, but one is 8
l. naturally constructed that 1t is impossi
,r bic to enjoy the services Of particuls
Is denomination, and the other Is not $
1t sectarlan or punctilious, let the one les
n particulat 20 with the other who Is yer
e. particular AS for myself, feel as muc
II ut nome III one ubuOiuIuhuOu OF cNhuBbll
)f cal Christians as another, and | think
lie must have been born very near the line
W like the solemn roll OF the Eriscopt
lie liturgy, and like the spontaneity Of tn
e Methodlsts, and | ike the importanc
A. given to the ordinance OF baptism by tn
e. Baptists, and like the freedom OF Ia
g Congregationists, and | like the govern
d. ment and the sublime doctrine OF th
Id Presbyterlans, and | like many OF tn
IN others lust as good as eny have mel
IN toned, and could happily live and preac
10 and die and be buried from any OF then
e, But others are born with 80 stout and al
d. bending and memorable liking for som
re denomination that 1t Is positive necei
sity they have the advantage OF that on,
n What they were intended to be In eccles
x asticism was written IN the
II sIDEs or THEIR CRADLE,
g. II the father and mother had eyes kee
II enough to see it. They would not sto
: CRYING until they had put In the
hands as plaything Westminist'
catechism Of the Thirty-nine Article
The whole current of their temperance
ed and thought, and character runs int