Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31

rebuking the nations. some ellmlnht
God from the history OF nations. Blu
not /. / cannot see why the thought
that God can and does guide nations !
their marvellous changes, Is not just 3
legitimate and acceptable as the though
: that He guides the individuals who cora
pose the bone and sinew Of those nations
grant that awful, horrid, sanRuinar
battlenelds have crimsoned humai
history, hut these have been because, re
fusing 70, hear the voice Of truth, hav
rejects d lis leading and sold themselve
10 the agencies Of sin and wrong. The.
have refused TO be rebuked and havl
sought the conflict for the sake Of the con
flct, not caring for the principle OF truH
involved.
Another cause operating In bringinl
about this desirable period Is the unsatis
factory and consequently transient WORT
OF the elements Of dIscOrd and wrong
The first years OF nations history arr
necessarily years Of strife and antagonism
This must always exist in formative pc
RODS, either Of planets, or nations, or in
diyiduals. But when that state
has passed, then thought and
soul seek for the happy and
peaceful or normal life. This conserya.
1
extremes upon either hand, but seeking
for that which satisfies and strengthens,
Is an element Of no mean significance In
this conflict. These are but few OF the
many causes that have in the past, and
are operating to-day In the world, to
bring In universal peace. The rebukiDg
voice OF God has been heard on the
mountain top, and In the valley low,
h. ali ~ ha rn
uoitipg In the universal prayer for the
descent Of the whte-wipged dove of
peace upon all lands and all hearts and
lives.
Now notice;
2. The agencies employed.
/. The tendency OF the human heart
agency. Men feel by some means
that they ought to live peaceable lives.
The law OF every civilized nation compels
all men TO keep the peace. The blatant
herangue OF frenzied communist or
anarchist, exciting mob 20 deeds at
once lawless and possibly bloody, Is
crime not only against law and good
order, but against God and the human
mind. Such men rarely, IL ever, believe
In a God, but often are moved by the
the spirit or principle OF truth.
q The word OF God Is powerful
agency In bringing about the day Of
universal peace.
The history OF nations proves that, in
proportion to the distribution and study
of the word Of God, among the masses
OF the people, has the tendency Of those
nations thus blessed been toward
ugugn mt rn1u fntaenaII,, h,,t -,
foreign relations. The great law Of the
bible Isl "Agree with thine adversary,
while thou art In the way with him. |
The Incubation of doctrines Of fra
ternlty and brotherhood, springlng dI. |
rectly irem this Magna-C harta" Of |
human rights, has gone into every cline |
ana leit its impress upon almost every
mind, But while that is true, IL is also |
true, that there Is inculcated, on the
other hand, the doctrine OF the duty OF |
resisting all species OF wrong. Not per-
maps with swords and bayonets, but with
might ana devotion to the cause OF that
which sought to be-" As have before
said, these waves Of thought, antagonistlc
% the commonplace idea OF the,
% great extent, minimizing masses of
he people require candid earnest, de-
battle for the right, because II Is right
80 that third agency employed is that OF
The age wants horoes--h heroes who shall dare
20 struggle In the solid ranks OF truth
70 clutch the monster error by the throat;
10 bear opinion TO II lofticr seat;
70 Dlot the era OF oppression out
ma lead uniyersul freedom In j"
-IDr Holland
There is trlte saying, that mas be-
ONE almost a proverb, viz "There is
DOM at the top" Many people, the pro-
ortionately large number, Will follow.
IL but seldom, however, that you lind a
lan qualified to lead. God calls the
iaderS IN any moral movement. And vet
no world has never lacked the man to
sad, when the times have demanded him,
or has the man ever arisen In the
,rength OF God, for the truths sake, but
hat he has always had following. The
lorld Is sick and tired of these merest
nadows OF men. Miserable sycophapts
mo, under the cloak of reform or re-
glon, or love of country, seek an ocea.
ION 10 crafty greed Of power, or gain of
'ealth DR.. Holland says;
The world wants mon, large hearted men
Ien who shall Join It's ohoruses, and prolonR
nc psalms OF labor and the psalms Of love-"
Men who,dare to rush into even the
Avs of death for the right, men who /,
eed not the rlbald joke, or the insulting
lslnnatlon, or look at anything said or
one TO them, but with the spirit of pity.
That bears all things, aud endures all /
hings, and hopes all thlnss.o These |
re the men who become leaders in this
evolution OF moral forces, and array in
attallon ranks an army invincible, brave I
nd offensive. II Is TO such men. and
ley alone, that the hand of sin-mana- 4
led humanity is outstretched for help, /
nd to whose side despalring humanity c
allies In the hope OF liberation. But i
access, full and complete, does not 4
ome with the thunder of the first on c
aught, II sometimes takes wears OF i
.eady work. The captive Hebrews were c
ANY years coming to the borders q
the promised land. Moses must t
rst lie down upon Pisgsh
nd die, his blessing resting upon The S
aople aud the cause he so dearly loved b
" Joshua was there to flush what O
,oses had so grandly begun, So the 9
aders die, the great men whose spirits Il
ld hearts were larger than the little n
arrow circle Of friends who knew them In
-, and took into their large thought ii
cir country and the world These I,