Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-20

fNlaos.ions, 90 not know but I am a
grest deal better than he IA now. often.
LINES be Is very earthly, and he talks SO
,it.ie aoont Christ snd 80 much abont
himself, am very glad 10 testify tina,
THIS Is a bad man.
Stop, . world with the greedy ey and
sne hard heart. fear You are too much
interested IN THE trial TO give Impartial
eNluence. Let al those who hear the ties.
ulnony OF luis witness know that there Is
IN GA family quarrel between these two
parties There always has been var,.
ence between the world and the church.
and while tae world on the witness stand
to-day has told great deal of truth about
this Christian man, you must take Il ali
with some allowance, remembering mat
they still keep the old grudge good %
world OF the greedy eye and the hard
heart, that will do. You may sit down.
The second witness | call ia this case
IS conscience. VINO art thou, o con-
sciencef WHAT Is your businees9 Where
We're you hornS What are you doing
hsreg "O!" says conscience, ~ was
born IN heaven. Icame down 10 hefriend
this man. | have lived with him Ihaye
Instructed him. have warned him.
showed him the right and the wrong, ad-
Vising him 10 take the one and eschew
the other. have kindled great light In
his soul. With
wHIr OF SCORPIONS
have sconrged his wickeduess, and |
have tried to cheer him when doing right;
and yet am compelled to testify on the
stand to-day that no has sometimes re-
lected my mission. Oh, how many cups
OF life have pressed TO his lips that he
dashed down, aud how often has he stood
with his hard heel on the bleeding heart
OF the son Of God II pains me very much
that have to testify sgainst this Chris
tian man, and yet must, in behalf OF
Him who will in no wise clear the guilty,
say that this Clristlan man has done
wrong. He has been worldly. He has
been neglectful. He has done q thousand
things he ought not to have done and left
undone thousand things he ought to
have done" That will do, conscience.
y on can sit down.
The third witness call IN the case is
an angel Of God. fright and shining one,
whatdoest thou here? What hast thou TO
say against this man on trialg conn
says the angel, al have been messenger
to him. / have guarded him. / have
watched him. With this wing have de-
Tended him, and oftentimes wnen he knew
II not Lied him into the green pastures
and beside the still waters. | snatched
from him the poisoned chalices. When
bad spirits came upon him 10 destroy
| MIN ! fought them back with Infinite
fierceness; and yet have TO testify to-
day that he has rejected my mission. He
has not done as he ought 10 have done
| Though ! came from the aky he drove me
back, Though with this wing ] defended
| him, and though with this voice l woocd
| MIN, have TO announce his multiplied
imporiectlons. dare not keep back the
testimony, for then / should not dare to
appear again amongst the sinless ones be-
fore the great white throne.n
There is only one more witness TO be
called on
BEHAIF or THE PROSECUTION,
and that Is this great, the holy, the august,
the omnipotent Spirit of God We bow
down before Him. Holy Spirit, knowest
thou this maup ooh, yes,n sGys the
Holy One, al know him. have striven
with him ten Thousand times, aud though
sometimes he did seem TO repent, he fell
bgcs again as often from his first estate.
Ten thousand times ten thousand has he
| grievcd Me, although the Bible warned
| him, saying; 'Grieve not the Holy
Ghost. Quench not the Spirit Yes, he
| mas uIIFtu mC lHOuEu Il an u y
| Third Person OF the Trinity he has
trampled on My mission, aud the blood Of
] the Atonement that brought, with which
| to cleanse his soul, he sometimes de.
| splsed. l came from the throne OF God
to convert, and comfort, and sanctify and
| yet look at that man, aud see what he is
compared with what, unreslsted, would
have made him !"
| The evidence on the part OF the prose-
cution has closed. Now let the defense
bring on the rtbuttal testimony. What
have you, o, Christian soul, to bring 10
reply to this evidence OF the world, OF
the conscience, OF the angel, an OF the
Holy Ghost2 No eyldencel Are all
these things true2 "Yes, unclean, un-
cleap," says every Chrlstien soul What!
| DO You not begin to tremble at the
thought OF condemnation?
| We have come now to the most inter-
esting part Of this great trial. The ev-
idence Is oil In, the advocates speak
The profession Of an advocate Is fun of
responsibility. In England aud the United
| States there have arisen men VINO In this
calling have been honortd by their
race, and thrown contempt upoI
those who In the profession have
been guilty Of a great many meannesses.
| That profession wi 4 be honorable as long
as IT has attached TO 1t such names as
Mansfield and Marshall and Storey and
Kent and Southland and William Writ.
The courtroom has sometimes been the
scene Of very
MARVELLOUS AND THRILLING
things Some Of You remember that IA
nous Gitard viii case, where one OF our
advocates pleaded the cause Of the Bible
and Christianity in mastery Anglo-Saxon,
every paragraph athunderbolt.
| Some Of you have read OF the famous
trial in Westminster hall Of Warren
Hastings, the despoiler Of India. That
great man had conquered India by splen-
did talents, by courage, by brlbes, BY
gigantic dishonesty. Tpe whole world
had rung with applause or condemnation.
Gathered In Westminster hall was one OF
the most famous audiences ever gathered.
| Foreign ministers aud princes sat there.
Peers marched in, clad In ermine and
gold. Mighty men and women from al
lands looked down upon the scene, Amid
all that pomp and splendor, and amid
I a. Igna al