Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-06

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should in fone, by dissipated life de-
stroPing The peace and comfort Of thai
homes God forbid th1t your children
should ever have to wiring their hands and
have people poiBt their fager at them as
they pass down the street aud say
"There goes q drunker1's child" God
forbid that the little feet should ever have
to trudge the pSth OF poverty and wretch,
edness. God forbid that any evil spirit,
born of the Wine-cup or the brandy flask,
should come forth and uproot that gar
den, al d, with e blasting, blisteriDg, all
consuming curse, shut forever the palace
gate against Vashti and the children.
On, the women and the men Of sacri-
fee are going to take the highest coro-
mails Of heaven! This woman in the text
gave up pslatisl residence, gave up all
for what she considered 10 be right. Sac,
rifcSI! Is Their anything more sublime
A steamer called the Prairie 3 lie burn
ing on the Mississippi river, BIudsO, the
engineer, declared he would keep the bow
OF the boat to ne shore I'LL all were off
and he kept lis promise. Al lis post,
scorched a-d bIaCkeDed, he perished but he
ssved all the passengers. Two verses OF
pathetic poetry describe thu scene, but
Inc verses are little rough, and so
changed word or two:
Through the hot black breath of the burning
Jim Btudso's voice was heard,
And they all had trust In his stubb Drnn2ss,
And knew he would keep h word.
And surs's you're born they all got off
Afore the smoke acks fell;
And Bluds SOS ghost we t up above
In ;he smoke of the Prairie Bele.
h. weren't no saint; bat a. Judgment
I'd Iua my chance with jim,
y "a n a nf ln mr. Tfu NJ ann
that wouldn's shake han 10 witt him.
He'd seen his dutv, dead sure thilg &,
And went for IL there and then:
And Christ is not 'ng t. be TO hard
Ca man that died for men.
Once more: l want you to look 81
Vashti the silent. You do not hear any
outcry from this woman as she goes forth
from the palace gate. From the very
dignity of her nature you know there will
be no vociterstion. Sometimes in life it
is necessary to make q retort; sometimes
in life 1t is necessary to resist; but there
are crises when the most triumphant
thing TO do is to keep silence. The
philosopher, confident ia his newly dis
covered principle, waited for the coming
of more intelligent generations, willing
that men should laugh ct the lightning
roo, and cotton gin sud steamboat
waiting for long years through
the settling of philosophical
schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. G1liIeo, condemned by msthe-
mstiCisns, and monks, and cardinals,
caricstured everywhere, yet waiting and
watching with the telescope, TO see the
coming of the stellsr reinforcemeuts,
wnen the stars In their courses would
fight for the CoperDtcsn system, then sit
ting down in complete blindness and
deafness to wait tor the coming on OF
The generations who would build his
monument aud bow at his grave. The re-
former, execrated oy his contemporaries,
fastened in 8 pillory, the slow fires of
public contempt burning under him,
ground under the cylinders OF the print
impress, yet calmly waiting for the day
when purity Of soul and heroism of
character will get the sanction of earth
and the plsudits OF heaven. Affection,
enduring without any complaint The
sharpness of the paDg, ann the violence
Of the storm, and the heft OF
the chain and the cArknt So
of the night waiting, until
q divine hand shalt be puf forth to soothe
the pang, and hush the storm, and release
the captive. a wife abused, prosecuted,
and perpetual exile from every earthly
comfort-waistug, waiting, until the Lord
shall gather mp His dear children in q
heavenly home, and no poor VAsnti will
ever be thrust out from the palace gate.
Jesus, 10 silence, and answering not
word, drinking the gsll, bearing the cross,
in prospect OF the rspturous consumma-
ton when
"Angels thronged His ch1riot wheel,
and bore Him 10 His THRONE;
Then sweps their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is done"
An Arctic explorer found ship floating
about among the ic bergs, and
going on bssrd he found that the captain
wss frozen at his log-oook, and the helms
man was frozen at the wheel, and the men
on the lockout were frozen
in their places. That was awful,
but magnificent. All the Arctic
blasts and all the iceoergs could not
drive them from their duty. Their ST.
lence was louder than thunder. Aud this
old ship of the world has many 81 their
posts in the awful chill IF neglect, snd
frozen Of the worlds scorn, and their Ell
lence shall be the eulogy of the skies, and
be rewarded long sfter this weather
beaten craft OF 4 planet shsli have made
its last voyage.
thsnk GOD that he migAtiest ipfu-
ences ere the most silent Tue fres in
furnace of fEc'ory, or Fl steamship.
roar though thsY { My m I'VE Sfew shut
ties or few thousand tons, bat the sun
that warns the world rises ard sets with
Ill 1t. !