Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-27


dor, Is wbon small host yields 70 supc
rlcr Numbers. It's NO humlnatlon .ol
l.J0c fnen TO yield to 10000. IL Detsei
than TO keep on when there can pc no -,
suit except that Of massacre SUI tnyae
who surrender TO sin make snrreuucr
when on theig side they have enou d re-
serve forces 10 rout all the armies OF per
dition, whether led on by what demono
grapher calls Belial, or BeelzeouD,
Apollyon, or Abaddon, or Arlei. Inc
disgraceiul thing about tne sur
render at Sedan was that the French
handed over 4l9 field guns anu l
mItrailleuses, 5000 horses and $4,000
armed men. And II is base for that man
10 surrender to sin when all the anna
ments Of almightiness would nave
wheeled to the front to fight his
battle II he had waved one earnest
signal. But, mol He surrendered body,
mind, soul, reputation, home, pedigree,
time and eternity, while yet ell the
prayers of mis- Christian ancestors were
on mis- side and all the prohered aid
supernal, cherubic, seraphic, angehc,
deific.
We have talked SO much the last few
weeks about the abdication OF Alexander
OF Bulgaria, but what paltry throne was
that from which the unhappy king
descended compared with the abdication
OF that young man, or middle-aged man,
or old man, who quits the throne of his
opportunity and turns his back upon a
heavenly throne, and tramps off into
ignominy and everlasting exilel That Is
an abdication enough to shake an
universe. In Persia they will not have a
rhn.s n
reigning monarch is Jealous Of some
ambitious relative he has
HIS EYES ExTINGUIsHED
so that he cannot possibly ever come to
browning. And that suggests the differ
ence between the way sin and divine
grace takes hold of man. The former
blinds him so he may never reach q
throne, while the latter illumines the
blind that he may take coronation.
Why this sermon? have made up my
mind that our city life is destroying too
many young men. There comes in every
September and October a large influx Of
those between sixteen and twenty-four
years of age, and New York and Brooklyn
damn at least thousand of them every
year. They are shoyeled off and down
with no more conjunction than that
with which coal-heaver scoops the
anthracite into dark cellar. What with
the wlne-cup, and the gamblers dice,
and the scarlet enchantress, no young
man, without the grace OF God, is safe ten
There is much discussion about which Is
the worst city of the continent. Some say
New York, some say New Orleans, some
say Chicago, some say st. Louis. What
have to say is, you cannot make much
comparison between the inflnities, and in
all our cities the temptation seems inf
mite. We keep great many mills run
ming day and night. No rice mills or cot
ton mills; not mills of corn or wheat,
but mills for grinding up men. Such are
all the grog-shops, licensed and unli-
Such are all the gambling
saloons. Such are all the houses OF
infamy. And we do the work according
to law, and we turn out new grist every
hour, and grind up warm hearts and clear
heads, and the earth about ciGer mill Is
not more saturated with the beverage
than the ground about all these mind.
destroying institutions Is saturated with
the blood of victims. We say to Long
Island neighborhoods and villages:
'Send us more supply;'' and to West
chester and Ulster and all the other coun.
lies OF New York: "Send us more men
and women to put under the wheels
Give us full chance and we could grind
up in
THE MUNICIPAL MILL
i've hundred day. We have enough
machineryi we have enough men who can
run them. Give us morelhomes to crushl
Give us more parental hearts to pulyerIzel
Put into the hopper the wardrobes, and
The family bibles, and the livellboods of
wives and children. Give us more mate
rial for these mighty mills, which arc wet
With tears and sulphurous with woe, and
trembling with the earthquakes of an in
zen ed God, who will, unless our cities
repent, cover us up as quick and as deep
IS In August of the year 20 Vesuvius
ivalanched Herculaneum,
y, man and women, ponder the path OF
my feetl See which way you are
going. VIII you have the destiny OF
Edward or Nicholas2 ON this sacrament
tai day, when the FURNISHED chalices
stand In the presence OF the people,
start from the foot of the cross
Tor usefulness and heaven. Plu-
tarch tells us that after Cesar was
slain and his twenty-three wounds
had been displayed to the people, arous-
ing an uncomfortable excitement, and the
body OF the dead conqueror, according to
ancient custom, had been put upon the
funeral pile, and the flames arose, people
rushed up, took from the blazing mass
torches, with which they ran through the
city, crying the glory of
THE AsSAssINATRD RULER,
and the shame of his assassinatoIs. On
this sacramental day, when the five bleed
ing wounds of Christ, your king, are
shown to you, and the fires of his earthly
suffering blaze before your Imagination,
each one OF you take torch and start
heavenward-a torch with light for YOUR
self and light for others, for the race that
starts at the cross ends at the throne
While the twenty-three wounds OF Caesar
wrought nothing but the Consideration of
the people, from the five wounds OF our
Conqueror there flows Transforming
power TO make all the uncounted millions
who will accept it, forever happy and for
ever free.