Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-26

Him these habits you have, and ask Hin
if there is aRy help il al the resources O
omnipoteut love, to give it to you. d.
not go with
LONG RIGMARoLE
people call prayer, made up of "ohS" snC
"ahs" and "forever and ever, emens.'
Go to God and cry for helpI helpl help
and If you cannot cry for help, just looi
and live.
remember, in the late war, 1 was al
Antietam, and went into the hospitals
after the battle, and said to a man
'fWhere are you hurt?" He made no
answer, but held up his arm, swollen and
splintered. l saw where he WAS hurt.
The simple fact is, when q man has g
wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold
1t up before sympathetic Lord, and get
1t healed. 1t does not take any long
prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh, 1t
is no small thing when q man is nervous
and weak and exhausted, coming from
his evil ways, to feel that God
puts two omnipotent arms around him
and says; "Young man will stand by
you. The mountains may depart, and
the hills be removed, but I will never
fail you" And then as the soul thinks
the news is too good to be true, and can
not believe it, and looks up in Gods
face, God lifts His right hand and takes
an oath, an AFFIDAVIT, saying: GAS live,
saith the Lord God, have no pleasure in
| the death of him that dieth." Blessed be
God for such gospe! as this. "Cut the
slicf 8 thin," said the vile to the hus-
band, "or there will not be enough to go
ell around for the children; cut the slices
thin" Blessed be God there is full
loaf for every one that wants it Bread
enough and TO spare. No thin slices at
the Lords table. 1 remember when the
Master Street hospital, in Philadelphia,
was opened during the WET, telegram
came, saying: "There will be 800
wounded men Tonight; be ready to take
care of them" and from my church there
went IN some twenty or thirty men and
women to look after these poor wounded
fellows. AS they came, semei from e
part of the land, some from smother, no
one asked whether this man was from
Oregon, or from Massachusetts,, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There
was wounded soldier, and the only
quest on was how to take OFF the rags the
most gently, and put on the bsndage, and
administer the cordial. And when soul
comes TO God, he does not ask where you
came from or
WHAT YOUR ANCESTRY WAS.
Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for
all your guilt. Comfort for ell your
troubles.
Then, also, counsel you, il you want
to get back, to quit all your bSd associa-
tiops. One unholy intimacy will fill your
soul with moral distemper. In all the
ages Of the church there has not been an
instance where a man kept one evil asso-
ciate and was reformed. Go home to-
day, open your desk, take out letter ps-
per, stamp and envelope, and then write
d letter something like this:
"MY old companions: Isstart this day
for heaven. Until 1 an persuaded you
will j Din me in this, farewell"
Then sign your name, and send the
letter by the first post. Give up your bad
companions or give up heaven. It is not
ten bad companions that destroy a man,
nor five bad companions, nor three bad
companions, nor two bad companions,
but one. What chance is there for that
young mSu | saw along The street, four or
five young men with him, hating in front
OF grogshop, urging him to go IN, he re-
sisting, violently resisting, until after q
while they forced him to go in? 1t was q
summer night and the door was left open,
and l saw the process. They held him
fast, and they put the cup to his lips, and
they forced down the strong drink. What
chance is there for such young man?
counsel you also, seek Christian sd
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help you. II you find no other human
ear willing to listen to your story of
struggle, come TO me and l will by every
sympathy of my heart and every prayer
and every toll of my hand stand beside
you in the struggle for reformation; Il and,
as hope to have my own sins forgiven
and hope to be acquitted at the judgment
seat Of Christ, will not betray you.
First Of all seek God, then seek Christian
counsel. Gather up all the energies of
body, mind and soul and, appealing to
God for success, declare this Y ever
lasting war against all drink habits, ]
all gaming practices, all
HOUSES OF SIN. VA
Half and half work will amount TO NJ h. |
ing; II must be Waterloo. Shrink baCk |
now and you are lost. Push on and you |
are saved. A Spartan general fell at the |
very mOIueub VI NlCtOI4T DuL ne QlppeQ |
his fnger In his own blood and wrote on |
q rock near which he was dying: "Sparts |
has conquered" Though your struggle |
to get rid of sin may seem to be almost |
death struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock |
of Ages: "Yictory through our Lord |
Jesus Christ" Oil what glorious |
news it would be for some Of |
these young men to send home to their |
parents in the country. They go to the
postoffice every day or two to see if there |
are any letters from you. How anxious
they are to hear! Nothing would please |
them half 80 much as the news you might |
send homo tomorrow that you had given |
your heart to God. know how 1t is in |
the country. The night comes on. The
cattle stand under the rack through which |
bursts the trusses of haY. The horses |
Just having frlsked up through the |
meadow at the night fall, stand kree-deep
in the bright straw that invites them to |
lay down and rest. The perch of the
howell is full Of fowl, their feet warm IN
der the feathers. In
TIE OLD FARM HOUSE
at night no candle is lighted, for the |
flames clap their hands about the great |
back log and shake the shadow of the |
ornun nm and 6Ouun tho uaJI Fathor and |