Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-29

ION is between your conscience and your |
nod, Like Abram and Lot, agree TO ali. |
Ter When on Sabbath morning YOU
come ont OF the door Of your home to- |
gether, and one goes one way and the !
other the other, heartily wish each other
good sermon, and time Ct profitable
devotion, and wnen you meet again a. |
the MONDAY repast let Il DO evident, each /
70 each, and to yonr children, aud to the |
nired help, that you have both been on the |
Mount Of TRANSPORTATION, although you |
Went up oy different paths, and thai on /
have been fed by
TnE BREAp OF LIFE,
though kneaded by different hands In dif- |
ferent trays, and baked In different
ovens.
"But how about the childrengm am
often asked by hundreds Of parents. LIZ.
them also make their cnoice. They will
grow up with reverence for both demon.
nations represented by father and
mother, II you, by holy lives, commend
those denominations. II the father lives
the better life, they will have the more
, favorable opinion OF his denomination.
II the mother lives the better life, they
Will have the more favorable opinion OF
her denomination, And some daye both
the parents will, Tor at least one service,
90 to the same church. The neighbors
will cay; ~ wonder what is going on
to-day, for | saw our neighbor and his
4 wife, who always 70 to different churches,
going arm In arm to the same sanctu.
ary.n Well, / will tell you what
has brought them together, arm
In arm, to the same altar. Some
thing very important has happened.
Their son is to-day uniting with tho
church, He is standing In the aisle
taking the VOWS of o Christian. He had
been somewhat maynard, and gave father
aud mother good deal OF anxiety, but
their prayers have been answered In his
conversion, and as he stands in the aisle
and the minister OF religion says; $40
you consecrate yourself to the God who
made and redeemed you, and do you
: promise to serve him all your days7n
and with manly voice he answers 81 do "
! there is an April shower In the pew where
| father and mother sit, and rainbow OF
Joy which arches both their souls, that
I makes all differences of creed influtesi-
D NAL. And the daughter who had been
! very worldly, and gay, and thoughtless S,
I puts her life on the altar OF conservation,
+ and as the sunlight of that Sabbath
d streams through the church window and
4 falls upon
: HER BROW AND CHEEK
S she looks like their other daughter, whose
: face was luIulned with the brightness Of
r another world, on the day when the Lore
y took her into His heavenly keeping years
: ago.
u l should not wonder II, after all, thes,
J. parents pass the evening Of their life in
Is the same church, all difference OF church
!. preference overcome by the Joy of beinl
J. In the house Of God where their children
were prepared for usefulness and heagen
But can give you recipe for running
Is your children. Augrlly contend in tn
o household that your church is right an,
II the church Of your companion Is wrong
e Bring sneer and caricature to emphaslz
10 your opinions, aud your children viii
Y. make up their minds that religion Is
le sham, aud they will have none Of IL. /
10 the northeast storm of domestic contro
is versy, the rose of Sharon and the lily o
lie the valley viii not grow. Fight abou
IN apostolic succession. fight about electio
IL aud free agency, fight about baptism
or fight about the bshopric, fight sbou
lg gown and surplice, and the religion
10 prospects of your children will be lei
- dead on the field. You will be as unfll
err tunate as Charles, Duke of Burgund.
u who in battle lost diamond the value {
of a nation, for In your fight you Will los
e, the jewel of salvation for your entit
G. household. This is nothing against II
es advocacy Of your own religious theories
III Use all forcible argument, bring all tel
o. ing Illustration, array all demonstratis
ct facts, but let there be no acer6lty, L
at singing retort, no mean insinuation, Z
at superclliousness, as though all othe
were wrong and you infallibly right.
Take a hint from astronomy. tt
Ptolemaic system made The earth the Gel
u Ter OF the solar system, and everythir
was thought TO turn round the earth Isl
I, "a the Copernican system came, and made Il
y sur the center around which the plane
= revolved. The bigot makes his little b.
y, lief the center Of everything, but u
"a large. souled Christian makes the Son
:, Righteousness the center, and all demon
~ nations,
le WITHOUT ANY CLAsHING,
sl- and each at.its own light, and in It's on
w sphere, revolving around It, Over u
Of tomb OF Dean Stanley IN Westminst'
ne abbey is the passage OF Scripture; "Tf
81 commandments are exceeding broad
Let no man crowd us on to path III
We the bridge AL Slrat, which the Mohamm
50 dan thinks leads from this world over u
u abyss OF hell into Paradise, the breadth (
- the bridge, lCBs tnhu the WbO ol SUR
so ed spider or the edge OF sword
So razor, of the edges Of which many fsl
Y Mo- while the way is not wide enough
60 take with us any OF our sins, 1t IL wiC
~ enough for all Christian believers to pa
l without peril into everlasting safety.
9; But do not any Of you depend ups
~ what you call sound creed for salyatlo
nc A man may own all the statutes of u
&c state OF New York and yet not be lay
ne yer, and a man may own all the be
ne medical treatlses and not be physical
u and man may own sll the best works {
ne painting and architecture and not
nc either painter or architect, and ms
u may own ell the sound creeds In u
ca world and yet not be Christian. N
n what you have in your head and on yol
NJ tongue, but in your heart and In your III
NC will decide everything
IS In olden times In England, before u
le modern street lamps were invented, ever
81 householder was expected TO have lai
tern suspended in front OF his house, an
the cry OF the watchmen In London
en- they went along at eyentide was; Char
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