Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-13

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or make some enigmatical passes over
my wounds. Why, don't think he
knows who am Isn't he coming outf
Why, when the Shunammite woman came
70 him, he rushed out and cried Us II
well with theei Is II well with thy hus-
bandi Is II we'll with the childs And
will he treat poor unknown woman Ike
that, and let me, Q titled parsonage SIT
here In my chariot and walt and waltz l
won't endure It any longer. Cnarioteer,
drive on Wash In the Jordan! HE
ha! The Shiny Jordan-the muddy Jor-
dan-the monotonous Jordan. wouldn't
be seen washing In such a river as that.
Why, we watered our horses In q better
river than that ON our way here. The
beautiful river, the lasper-paved river
OF Pharpar. Besides that, we have In our
country anothe' Damascene river, ALBANIA,
with fOliaged bank and torrent ever swift
aud ever clear, under the hickerlng shad-
ows OF sycamore and oleander Are not
Abana and Pharpar, rivers OF Damascus,
better than al the waters OF Israel2h
/ suppose N,aman felt very much as
we would feel If, by way of medical pre-
scrlptlon, some one should tell US to go
and wash In the Danube or the Rllne.
We would answer; "Ale not the COnnec-
ticut or the Hudson Just as goodf" Or,
as an Englishman would feel II he were
iold, by way OF medical prescription, he
must 20 down and wash in the Missls-
sippi or St. Lawrence. He would cry OUT
care not the Thames and the Shannon
just as wellY" The fact was that naughty
Naaman needed to learn what every En-
glishman aud American needs 20 learn
that when God tells you to do thing, you
must go and do 1t, whether you under
stand the reason or not. Take
the prescription whether you
like 1t or not. 0ae thing
is certain: Unless naughty Naaman
does as Elisha commands him,
he will die OF his awful sickness. And
unless you do as Christ commands you,
you will DE seized upon by an everlast-
Ing wasting away. Obey aud live
D1soBEY AND DIE
over-arching, under-girding,
stupendous alternative!
Well, Gen. Naaman could not stand
the to /. The charioteer gives jerk to
the right line until the bit snaps in the
horses mouth, and the whirr Of the
wheels and the flying of the dust show
the Indignation of the great commander. |
HE turned and went away In q rage"
So people now often ges mad at religion
They yituperate against ministers, against |
churches. against Christian people. One |
would think from their lrate behavior |
hat God had been studying how to an
lOy aud eXasperate and demolish them.
What has he been doing? 0lly trying to
cure their death-dealing lepTosY. That is
NJ. Yet they whip up their horses, they |
Jig In the spurs, and they go away in
age.
So, after all, 1t seems that this health |
xcursiOu Of General Naaman is to be
lead failure. That little Hebrew captive
night as well have not told him of tine |
prophet, aud this long Journey might as
We'll not have been taken. Poor, sick, |
lying Naamanl are you going away in
ligh dudgeon and worse than when you
anne! As his chariot halts moment,
lis servants Chamber up In 1t and coax
lin 10 do as Elisha said. They say; "It's |
,asy II the prophet had told you to walk
or u mile on sharp spikes in order to get
Id OF This awful disease you would have
lone 1t. 1t Is easy. Come, NY lord, Just |
ret down and wash in the Jordan. You
axe bath every day, anyhow, and in |
his climate 1t is so hot that it will do you
good. Do IL on our account, and !
or the sake OF the army you com
nand, and for the sake of |
he nation that admires you. Come, !
NY lord, just try this Jordanic BATH
well" he says, "to please you l will do |
rs you say" The retinue drive to the |
brink OF the Jordan The horses paw and
leigh to get into he stream themselves |
ma cool their hot TANKS. Gen. Naaman, |
assisted by his attendants, gets down out |
d the charlots and painfully comes to the |
Drink OF the river, and steps in until the |
water comes TO the ankle, and goes on |
iet per until the water comes to the Cir |
lie, ana now standing so far down In the !
stream, just little inclination of the head |
VIII thoroughly immense him. He bows |
'nce into the Hood, and comes up and |
makes the water out OF nostrils and eyes, |
md his attendants look at him and say |
why, general, how much better you do |
Q k!" And he bows a second time into |
ne mood and comes up, and the wild stare |
) gone out OF his eye. He bows the |
hlrd time Into the flood and comes up, |
Ind the shrlvelled flesh has |
got smooth again. He bows the |
0urth time into the food and |
ZONES up, and the hair that had fallen out |
3 restored in thick locks again all over
he brow. He bows the Gith time into
ne flood and comes up, and the hoarse-
less has gone out Of his throat. He bows
he sixth time and comes up, and all the
soreness and anguish have gone out OF
he limbs.
why" be says, az am almost well,
tut VIII make complete cure" and he
BOWS the seventh lime into the food and
lie comes up, and not SO much as tester
n scale or an eruption as big as the head
II pin Is to be seen on him. He steps
tut on the bank and says: "Is 1t posi-.
lle?" And the attendants look and ssy
is II possibie2n And as, with the
trength of an athlete, he bounds back
nto the chariot and drives on, there goes
up from all his attendants wild "huz.
"a? huzza" OF course they go back 10
'ay and thank the man Of God for his
COUNSEL so iraught with wisdom. When
hey left the prophets house they went
N mad; they have come back glad.
People always think better of minis
er after they are converted than they do
before conversion, Now we are to them