Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-19
4 DELUSION.
The World First Wears You Down
With Its FoIIies ard Then
Kicks You Out.
There is No Peace Out OF God-He Is
the Fountain That Can Stake
The Thirst.
Accept Christ and Exchange This Awful
Uncertainty about the Future for
an Assurance of Heaven.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
FORT SCOTT, KAN, March is The
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmsge, DID,, Of the
Brooklyn IN. y Tabernacle, preached
here this evening to crowded congrega-
ton. BE took for his subject 1.-THE Dec
Grafton of the SOUL" and his text was
Luke XIV, %: "Put ring on his hand"
He said:
Iwill not rehearse the familiar story of
the fast young man of the parable. You
know W. st splendid home he left. You
know whist hard time he had. And you
remember how after that SESSION of vsga-
bondage and prodigality he resolved to go
and weep out his soIrows On the bosom
Of parental forgiveness. Well, there is
great excitement one day in front of the
door Of the old farmhouse. Tho servants
come rushing up and say: "Whal's the
matter? What is the matter?" But be-
fore they quite arrive the old man cries
out: "PuG ring on his hand" What Q
seeming absurdlUy! What can susn y
wretched mendicenL as this fellow that is
tramptng on toward the house want with
d ring? Oh, he is the prodigal son. No
more tending Of the swine trough. Nc
more longing for the pods of the CARGO
tree. n more blistered feet. OF with
the ragsI On with the robt. Oct with
the ring! Even so does God receive
every one Of us when we come back.
There are gold rings aud pearl rin2s
and carnelian rings and diamond RIGGS;
but the richest ring that ever flashed on
the vision is that which our Esther puts
upon forgiven soul.
know that the Impression is abroad
among some ? 3ople that religion bemeans
and belittles q man; that it takes all the
sparkle out Of his soul; that he has to
exchange q registering independence for
an ecclesiastical strait 1cket. n 1t so.
When a man becomes d Christian, ne
does not go down, he starts upward. Re
ligien multiples one by ten thousand.
Nay, the multiplier is in infnity. 1t is
not blotting QUIT il q polishing, IL IS
an arborescenCe, 1t is effi presence, it is an
lrradistion. When man comes into the
kingdom OF God he is not sent into 8
mental service, but the Lord God
Almighty from the palaces Of heaven calls
upon the messenger angels that wait upon
the throne to fly and "put ring on his
hand" In Christ are the largest liberty,
and brightest Joy, and highest honor, and
richest adornment. "Put ring on his
hand"
remark in the first place, that when
Christ receives q soul into His love He
puts upon him the ring Of adoption. In
my church in Philadelphia there came the
representative of benevolent society IN
New ork. He brought with him eight
or ten
CHILDREN OF THE STREET
that he had picked up, and he was
trying to find for them
Christian homes; and as the
little ones stood on the pulpit and sung
our hearts melted within US. AT the
close Of the services q greet-hearted,
wealthy man came up and said: "Pll
take this little bright-eyed girl, and I'll
adopt her as one OF my children;" and he
took her by the hand, lifted her into his
carriage and went away.
The next day, while we were in the
church gathering up garments for the
poor of New York, this little child came
back with bundle under her arm, and
she said: "Tnere's my old dress; per-
haps some Of the poor children would
like to have It," while she herself was
in bright and beautiful array, and those
who more Immediately examined her
WAS ring of adoption.
There are 8 great many persons who
pride themselves on their ances-
try, and they glory over the
royal blood that pours through their after
les. In their line there was lord, or G
duke, or q prime minister, or king. But
when the Lord, our Father, puts upon Us
the ring Of His adoption, We become the
II ut n nf q
hold what manner of love he Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be call
ed the SONS Of G ID" 1t matters not how
poor our garments may be IN this world,
or how sc0at our bread, or how mean the
hut we live in, if we have that ring of
Cbrist's adootion upon our hand We are
assured of eternal deiensss.
Adopt! Why, then, we are brothers
and sisters to oil the good Of earth aud
heaven. We have the family name, the
family dress, the family keys, the family
wardrobe. The Father looks after US,
robes us, defends US, blesses US. We
have royal blood 10 our veins, and there
are crowns 10 our line. II we ere His
children, then princes and princesses. 1t
Is only question Of time when we get
our coronet Adopted! Then we have
THE FAMILY SECRETS.
1.-THE secret Of the Lord is with them that
fear Him" Adopted! Then we have
the family inheritance, and in the day
when our Esther shall divide the riches
of heaven we shall take our share OF the
mansions aud palaces and temples.
Henceiorth let us boast no more Of an
earthly snceetry. The insignia OF eternal
glory is our cost Of arms. This ring Of
adoption puts upon US all honor ana all
privilege. Now we can take the words Of
Charles Wesley, that prince OF hymn
makers, and sing:
Come let us join our friends above.
Who have obtained the pIiZ /,
And on the eagle wings of love
To JOY celestial rise.
"Let all the saints terrestrial sing
With those 10 glory gone;
For all the servants of our King,
IN neaVtn and earth, are one."
have been told that when any Of the
members Of any OF the great secret So
cieties of this country are in distant city
and are in any kind of trouble, and are
Set upon by enemies, they have only to
give certain signal and the members Of
that organization will flock around for
defense. And when any man belongs to
this great Christian brotherhood, II he
gets in trouble, in trial, in persecution,
in temptation, he has only to snow this