Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-21


As The appetite Of yesterday re,un,s.
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auu new SO Inc world unveils i,ne;f
saen morning as bright and fresh as
my u We're created the night before.
daily bread. -" wy
II you would learn how daily bread
lains uoWn ike mama for the hungry
mark what infinite resources ara IN n
and how it feeds the mind each aav' as
The rooin begins before daybreak ~ seek
new food for her young. select. IL vop
please, the profession Of the law when
me mind accepts Of 1t az a pursuit. and
the heart bestows upon Il its
love, 1t spreads daily fesst
ior IT'S sons Just az regularly
as the night makes new dewdrops or
eAcn June new flowers. The cases which
come before the lawyer who has spoken
before the bench for forty wears are as
new as the peach just blushing, or as
me grapes we pick in the autumn.
I.AReE LEGAL QUESTION
arises before the lawyer In his sixtieth
year, and his sleep Is disturbed bv "A. and
his mind all wrought up over the intr,-
caoies, as though the court had lust been
opened for the tlrst time, aud for the frat
time at the aga OF twenty-five he were
addressing the grave men ia the Jury box
instead OF being routine, his life Is an
Infinite expanse. Sixty years away from
mis- cradle the changes of the bell have
not yet all been rung, but lol on the
morning air they ring out a new tune.
iesterday disappears. The cloth Of It's
table Is shaken, and its worthless crumbs
are hidden to so and feed the birds or
mngle with the elements, and then a
new white cloth Is brought out
Tor the table Of the morrow
We see a Gladstone, who for many years
mas been spreading new feasts for his
own mind and for the minds Of the peo-
PIE. New measures, new laws, new aud
larger franchises, new reforms, the aboli-
ton OF old and cumbersome systems,
having made many great reforms, having
enacted many new and blessed laws, vet
now in his seyenty-elghth year, behold
4 once more the table Is cleared, the cloth
shaken out, and new aud grand feast
Is spread. IL Is a noble spectacle
TO see this grand old man, greater
than. Cromwell, and without Cromwell's
faults, coming up fresh % the task OF
solving the new and large political prob
lem.
What you thus note In the profession OF
law and craftsmanship you will find In
each department OF human activity. The
merchants seasons never repeat them
Selves In science, while its vo.
taries are moving along they stun.
Bile on new fossil or new
track of bird or beast The questions
which drove Hugh Miller to such study
snd sleeplessness and to self.destruo-
ton were not the questions which
aroused Aristotle and Pliny, and
are not the questions which now
feed the souls OF Huxley and Tyndall.
The old feast was cleared away and a
new repast has been spread. To law and
statesmGnship and science add the pulpit
and the phenomenon Of daily bread is
again seen.
The past did not think for the
present. Mankind cannot live on one
meal TO the century
There could not have been such feast
spread in the tenth century that III the
nineteenth nobody would be found hungry
again.
When the tenth or sixteenth century
had eaten its feast, no matter how costly
or luxuriant, we know we'll that the cloth
was carried out and shaken that the NOR
row might assemble 10 Joy around an
other table with new viands and with
some new guests. Thus
THE PULPIT SHOULD ADVANCE
in time, as all other pursuits advance,
ever shaping itself TO the new hours
around its feet, 1t labors under pc
culiar disadvantages, however, and does
not, like the law, or craftsmanship, or
science, awaken each day 10 new, fresh
life. The lawyers case never comes
back TO him. The questions, the sur
roupdings, the witnesses, the incl
dents all change, and the speech
the lawyer made ten years ago
cannot be slowed away fol-
future use. Each day must care for it.
self And the world OF the statesman
SHIFTS It's scenery as the sky rearranges
its clouds.
Enough has been said now to illustrate
/, the law of man that bread is to be prayed
for each day, and that the souls infn.t,
hunger is its noblest attribute. Man'l
mind and heart are like their God meas
ureless. After the three-score years
have emptied their varied riches
into It, it wakes as from sleep and ask
for more.
In weary or sick or melancholy hour
: life seems indeed a routine, and ther
with Solomon OF the sad ones here anC
there we complain and would welcome
oblivion. In the long expanse OF half
century all kinds of hours come. Ligh
! comes 10 help us TO see the shadow, ant
the shadow to help US TO set
the light. So hours Of depression
come that the next day maj
I seem the better. Out Of melancholy houri
comes much poetry that is beautiful ia
I deed, but which is false US universe
, philosophy. The poet says;
: aFor we are the same that our fathers hav'
G we see the same sights that our fathers have
seen; .
We drink the same stream and we view ih'
, Aud we e run the same course that our father
have rum"
+ "rhe tho'ts we are thinking our fathers woal'
think;
. From he death VIC arc shrinking our father
did shrink;
To the NE we are clinging TO they, too woul'
Bu. II speeds from us all like the I'd on tn
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