Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-12

metropolis homeslck. o, II they onl
knew what a helpful thing it is for mai
70 put his weary head down on the bosom
Of a sympathetic Christ. He knows hoy
nervous and tired you arc. He has hear
large enough TO take In AL your Interest,"
for this world and the next. O, men o
the newspaper press, you sometimes &c
sick OF this world, II seems so hollow anC
unsatisfying. II there are any people In
ell the earth that need God, you are tn,
men, and you shall have Him II only this
day you implore His mercy.
a man was found at the foot OF Canal
J street As they picked him up from the
/ water and brought him TO the morgue.
! they saw by the contour OF his forehead
that he had great mental capacity. He
had entered the newspaper profession.
He bad gone down in health.
He took 10 artificial slim
illus. lie went down further and
further, until one summer day, hot and
hungry and sick, and In despair, he flung
himself OF the dock. They found In his
pocket reporters pad, lead pencil, a
photograph OF some one who had loved
him long ago. Death. as 1t sometimes
will, smoothed out all the wrinkles that
had gathered prematurely on his brow,
and as he lay there his face was as fair
as when seven years ago he left his
country home and they babe him good
bye forever. The world looks through
the window of the morgue and says: ats
nothing but an outcast,n but God says 1t
was gigantic soul that persisted because
the world gave him no chance.
Let me ask all men connected with the
printing press that they help us more
and more In the effort to make the world
better. charge you, in the name of God,
before whom you must account
for the tremendous influence
you hold in this country,
TO consecrate yourselves to higher en-
deayors. You are the men TO fight back
this invasion OF corrupt literature. Lift
up your right hand and swear new allie.
glance to the cause of philanthropy and
religion. And when, at last, standing on
the plains of judgment, you look out
upoH the unnumbered throDgs over whom
you have had influence, may it be found
that you were among the mightiest ener-
gles that lifted men upon the exalted
pathway that leads to the renown of
heaven. Better than to have sat in edi-
torial chair, from which, with the finger
OF type, you decided the destinies of en-
pires, but decided them wrong, that you
had been some dungeoned exile, who, by |
the light Of window iron grated, on scraps !
Of new testament leaf, picked up from |
The hearth, spelled out the story of Him |
who taketh away the sins of the world
In eternity, Dives Is the beggarl
swell, my friends, we viii all soon get |
through writing and printing and proof |
reading ana publishing. What then? oar |
NE Is a book. Our years are the chap |
.ers. Our months are the paragraphs. |
)ur days are the sentences. Our doubts |
are the Interrogation points. our imita- |
lion OF Others the quotation marks. Our
attempts nc display dash. Death the |
period Eternity the peroration. o God, |
where VIII we spend il? Have you heard |
me news, more startling than any found |
n the journals OF the Last six weeks? It'll
IS the tdings that man is lost Have YOU
heard the news the gladdest that was
,yer mountaineering this day from |.
.hc throne Of lightning couriers
Gaping from the palace gate? The news
The glorious news That there is par
lon for all guilt and comfort for all trou.
Die. Set IL up in "double-leadedn col
aims and direct 1t to the whole race.
\ Scotch poet, insane on everything
out religion, wrote this beautiful vet
strange Rhythm:
Sod has pardoned all my sin,
That's the II, VS. That $ the news
feel the witness deep within
That's the news, Th&;s tine neWsi
And since he took my sins away,
And taught me how TO watch ana pray.
TN happy nowfrom day to day
That's the news That's the news
Md now II any one shsald say;
What the news WHAT'S the news
o. tell him you've begun to pray
That's he news That's the newsi
lhat you haze Joined the conquering band
Md now with Joy at Gods command
onre marching to the better land
That's the news ThnSs the news