Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-26
Christians who have q vulture in their
souls. They prey upon


banquet for them. Some rival in trade
or profession fsils, and the vulture puts
out Its head. These people revel IN the
details Of q mans ruin. They say: "I
told you co." They rush into some store
and say: "H.ve you heard the news?
Jast IS expected! Our neigabor hss
gone all to pieces! Good for him!"
That protessedly Christian woman,
having heard Of the wrong doing Of ecme
sister In the church, instead Of hiding the
sin with 8 mantle OF charity, peddles 1t
sll elong the streets. She takes the efser-
noon'to make her lorg neglected calls.
She tells the story ten times before suo-
down, aud every time tells 1t larger She
rushes into the paflors TO tell 1t, and into
the nursery to telli', and into the kitchf NJ
to tell 1t. She says: "Would you have
thought II? Well, always said there
was something wrong about her. Way,
should net speak to her If | saw her in
the street. Is It not horrible? But bet
ter not say anything about It, because
there msy be come mistake. do not
want my name involved In the matter
1 guess will just go over and ask them
at No. 26S whether they have heard IT,
Guess 1t must be so, for Nary Ann says
that her husband saw man who heard
from his business partner that his blind
old grandmother had seen something thai
looked very suspicious"
| The most losthsoms, miserable, God
forssken wretch on earth is gossip.
can tell her on the street, though l have
never seen her before. She walks fast
and has ner bannet strings loose, TOR CHE
has not had time to tie them since she
heard that last scandal. She looks bott
wsys rs she passes, hoping to see naN
evidences of depravity in the windows.
think that when satan has a Job SO in
] fnitely mean that in ell the pit he CANNOT
find devil mean enough to do II, and a.
brides aud threats have failed 10 ge! one
willing for
THE INFERNAL CRUSADE,
he says to one OF his sergeants: "Go up
to Brooklyn, and in such street, Oh
such corner, get that gossiping woman
and she will be glad to do 1t " And eur,
enough, Ike hungry fish, she tskes tn
hook in her mouth, and satan slccken
the line, aud lets her run out fsrtae
and farther, until after awhile h'
Gays: "It is time to haul in the
line," and with few strong pulls
he briggs her to the beach Of FIRE. Wha
do you sayf Tnst s1e WAS q member Of
the church? cannot help that. Wher
satan goes fishing, he does not car
what fchool the fl n belong to, whether !!
Is Presbyterian mackerei or an Episco
palisn sslmon. Amidst the thunde
crash OF Sinai, God said: "Thou shsl
n bear false witness against thy neigh
Dor " And in Lsviticus, he says: "ThoI
shalt not 60 up and down SO tale bear
er." Take not into your ear thst scuI
OF hell that people call title-tstle. Who
soever willingly listens to o Islander i
equally guilty with the one who tells it
and an old writer SAYS they ought bot
to be hung, the one by the tongue and tn
other by tne ear. Do not smile upol
such spaniel, le.st, like g pleased dog
! he put his dry paw upon you. Throw
back the shutter Of your soul. oh Clr!s
tisn men and woman, and see II ther
be within you vultuca with filthy Is
Ions and cruel beak. Let not this unclean
thing roost in your sCu!, for my tex
says: ':Ye shAl! hold in sbom.natIo,
smong the fowls, the Vu!turs."
Again, taking the suggestion Of IN
text, drive out the bA. from your soul
M wonder G ID set this bird among IA
unclean. IL i5 an CSense TO ever
one. Let it fly into the window Of
summer night, and al the hands, your
and old, are against it. It is
HALF BIRD AND HALF MOUSE.
It seems made partly to walk and psrtl
to fly, and does neither well; and becoms
an emblem Of those Christians who try t
cling to earth and heaven ct the sam
time. They want to walk on earth i
worldliness, and yet fly towards heaven i
spirituality; and their soul, between fee
and wings, is constantly perplexed. o,
my brethren, be one thing or the other
Choose the world, If you prefer 1t; an
see how many dollars you can win, az,
how much applause you can gain, an
how large business you can establish
and how grand house you cSn build
and how fast q span OF horses you ca
drive. You may be prospered until yo
eau fail for $500, COO, instead Of having tn
disgrace Of failing for only $40 600 S
some unenterpfising people do. l.
quite 8 reward to be able for TEL
or twenty years to be called on
of the solid men of BROOKLYN or Boston
and then, to make your fortune las. q
, long as possible, we will give you
splendid funeral and you shall hsv
twenty. five carriages following you, wit
!, somebody in the most Of them, End you
coffin shall have silver handles on tn
sides, and We will mourn for you /
splendid pocket hsndkerchiets boun
with Grape, and with bombsz!re twent
full yards long, trailing half across tn
: plrlor, so that all the company ms
, stand upon 1t, and we will write our le
tiers for the next six months on pape
/ edged with black. But my friends, you
worldly ortuues will not last l wi
buy out now all that you will be worth /
, worldly estate seventy-fve years fror
now. have the money in mp pocke
with which to do 1t. Here II is! Tw
cents! II is q large sum to offer for 8
you will possess st the close Of seventy
FIVE years. Choose the world II yo
J vans to, tut If not then choose HEAVIER
That estate lies partly On this side OF tn
river, but mostly on the other. It Is eve
, sccumulRting. The prospect OF it max:
, one independent of
KARTHLY MISFORTUNE,
so that Rogers, the martyr, SLEPT g
J soundlY the night before his burning the
, violently shock him In order t
] ge. him awake in time for tn
, execution, snd Paul exults 6
!, the thought of the "joY unspeeksbl
and full OF glory" Oh, choose earth c