Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-23

going to be Cay OF solemn settlement.
When the old farmer OF the text got home
ne Immediately called ell tina servants
about him ana said: "Here is the little
account / have been keeping. l want to
see your account. sDd we will first CON-
pare them end I'll psy you what owe
YOU, and you'll pay me What you owe Eae.
Let Us have settlement" The dsy al
come when the Lord Jesus Christ will sp-
pear, and will ssy to you: "Whst have
you been doing with my property? What
hsve ycu beer doing with ny faculties?
Whist have you been DOING with Whist
gave you for aCcumuistlve purposes?"
There will no escape ffcm that settle
mert. Sometimes you cannot get a set
tlement with map, especially If he owes
yeU. BE postpones ard prucr sstinatee,
sud says: ''I'll see you mex week." or
am Bee you nsxs month" The fact ie,
ne dogs not want 70 settle But when
the great day comes Of which am speak
ing there will be no escspe. We will
dave TO face all the bills. l hsve s1me-
times been sm'zsd to see how sn account
snt Will run up or down u loug line CT
figures. II see len Of fifteen figures in a
line, and 1 attempt to add them ur, ind l
add them two or three times, l make
them different each time. But have sd-
mired the way an accountant will tJks 8
long line OF figures and, without Sin. lie
mistake, snd
WITH GREAT CELEBRITY,
snuource the aggregate. Now, in the
last great settle ment, there will DC E cor
rect scco1rt presented. G I'd has kspt 3
long lire Of shy, long line CT broken
SsbDashs, loEg line Of piotaEe words, 8
long line c. disclEded sscrtmerts,
q lorg line OF unsupported
privileges, They will sll be ADDED up,
ana b.foEe Angels, and devils, ard men,
| The aggregate will be announced. Oh,
tnst Will be the CREST dsy ct settlement.
have to ask the question: IAN / ready
Tor liz" L is Ct more importance to ME
20 sHsEec thai question in regard TO my
| SELL tisn in Tsgar& 10 you; snd il is Ct
mere importance fer you to answer /. in
TeGsTt 20 yourself than ic regard 10 ne.
Ever7 nsn for himself il thst cay.
Every Woma2 iJr hersst il that day. AT
thou De wise, ihGu shalt De wise for thy
sell il t1ou sccrGest, th0u clone snalt
beae it," We are app to speak e The last
/ dag Gs al oCc.si0n Of ToCiteTaticr-I
ersa. deuoastTa, on Ct pGwer ard comp;
ous there Will DO IN that dsy,
/ .h.Ek, = feT n0meEts CT eztiTe si-
lerce. l Think tEe menI0us, Al over
! Rhe.m:pg sileEca. mink it will ba euCh
siieIcs az he CS:,h never heard. II
/ will be st the moment HEen I'll nations
sre li.tsl lag FIR their doom.
! ieSrn also from thi5 parable CT the
| iext tiat our degrees ii happiness In
heaven will be graduated according to
our degrees Of usefulness on earth Sev-
eral ct the commentators Egree liz mski1g
| tais parable the came one SO IL Luke,
where one uan was made ruler over I've
cities and another mSde ruler ever two
cities. Would 1t be fair and right that
the professed Christian man who has
lived very near the line bstTeen the
world and the chorch-the man VINO has
often compromised his Christian cbarsc-
ter-the man who has never spoken out
for GCG-!he man who has never been
known SIS q Christian only or C1mmunion
days-tte man whose great struggle has
been To sea low much OF the world he
could get
AND YET WIN HEAVEN
is il right to suppose that thst man will
heaven as FlC mal who gave all his ener-
giss Of body. micd, aud soul to the ser.
vice Of Gcd? The dying thief entG red
hekven, but lot with tee same startling
acclaim IS thst which greeted Paul, @ho
dungeons, and through ms.tZe2tme1ts
inc the kingdom CT glory. One star diff
feTg from another star in glory, and they
~. NniI 5,i,E fcS
shall have faf greater reward shaH those
VITO have rendered Only h:lf service.
SHna CT you are hsstenlpg on toward
cheer gou up ct the thought that there
will be some kind Ct reward val ing for
ycu. There are Chriatian people n this
house VINO are very near heaven. This
week scme cf you nay pass out into the
light cithe uGsat!iug sun. say C. biiud
man eoirg along the road with his STAFF,
stamping with ais foot. l ssid IL him:
said, cSn tel by she Sound of the
grouEd wheG I an neaT d1s Hing"
And SEINE 81 you can tell by the sound CT
your earthly pathway that you
ors coming 3ear 70 your fatner's
nOGSC' SOIsSi eIH!htS JOus " Is Nfntncl-
beaten voysgers, the storms ars driving
You ITO the hsrbor just az when you
Tere looking FOR friend, you cana up 20
the gate OF mis- house, anG you we're talk
ing with the servant, when your friend
hoisSed the window and shouted: "C1me
i'll, come il :" just SO, when you come
TO the gate Of tac future world, sid you
are ia King NTH death, the black porter ct
the gate, nut think Christ will hoist the
window and say: "Come in! come
in! will make thee ruler
over ten oi les" In Anticipation
OF th.f lsnd DO not wonder that Angus
tus Tcplsdy, the suthor Of "R2ck Of
Ages" declared in his lsEt moment: "I
nave nothing more 20 prsy for; God hes
given &c everything. Surely no man csD
live on earth s;,sr the glories hSye wit
messed " Ga, 10y brothers and sisters,
how sweet II VII be, sitter the lor 6 will
derree msroh, 20 get home. That 1as
bright moment for he sired dove in the
time q the deIugs when 1t found It's way
safely ito the WINDOW CT the sCk.