Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-09

AboEs Goods KsJ
that took OF His crown that you might
put 1t on. He has pursued you ell your
life long with mercy. He wants you to
love Him, wants you 10 serve Him. He
comes with streaming eyes and broken
heart and blistered feet to save you. On
the craft of
OUR DOOMED HUMANITY
he pushed out into the sea 20 t2ke you
of the wreck.
Where is the hand that will ever be
lifted in imprecation again? Let that
hand, now blood tipped, be lifted that
may see it. Not one. Where is the voice
that will ever be uttered il dishCnoring
the name OF that Christ? Let it spesk
now. Not one. Not one. Oh, I'm glad
to know thai sll these vices ct the COM
munity, and these crimes Of our city will
be gone. Society is going to be bettered.
The world by the power of Christs gospel
is going to Sc s&ved, and this crime, this
infquity, and ell the other iniquities will
vanish before the rising OF the Sun OF
Righteousness upon the nation.
There was one dsy in New England
memorable for storm and darkness. l
| uaEulf SN0I saw SuSu OIL LIN
clouds which had been gathering all day
numbered their batteries. The Housat-
| tonic, which flows quietly, save IS the
paddles OF pleasure parties rattle the oar
locks, was lsshed into foam, and the
waves hardly knew where to lay them
selves.
OIL what time it was! The hills
Jared under the rumbling Of Gods char
! ,n,S RliuHinc- chaotic nf rain 1rGVD the
cattle to the bars, or beat against the
window pane as though to dash it in. The
grain fields threw their crowns Of gold at
the feet Of the storm king. When night
came it was double night. Its mantle
WAS torn with the lightnings, and into its
locks were twisted the leaves OF up
rooted oaks and the shreds of CAVES
torn from the masts o. the beached ship
ping. It was such night as makes you
thank God for shelter, and open the door
to let in the spaniel bowling outside with
terror.
We went to sleep under the full blast
OF heavens great orchestra, the forests
with upliited voices, in chorus that filled
the mountains praising the Lord. We
woke not until the fingers OF the sunny
morn touched our eyelids. We looked
out the window and the Housatonic
slept IS quiet es an infants dream. Pill
lars Of clouds set against the sky looked
like the castles Of the blest, built for
heavenly hierarchs on
THE BEACH OF THE AZURE SEA.
All the trees sparkIed as though there
had been some great grief in heaven, and
each leaf had been God-appointed to
. catch an angels tear. 1t seemed IS ii
our Father had looked upon the earth,
His hayward child, aud stopped to her
tear wet cheek and kissed 1t. So will
the darkness Of Elm and crime leave our
world before the dawn Of the morning.
The light Shall gid the city spire and
strike the forests Of Maine and the masts
of Mobile. and al between. And one end
resting on the Atlsntlc coast and the
osher resting On the Pacific beach, Goo
. will spring g great rainbow arch OF
peace, in token of everlasting covenant
, that the world shall never more see O
deluge Of crime.
"But," says some one, preaching
sgalnst the evils of society will accom-,
pIish nothing. Do you not see that the
evils go right 0n!" l answer, we are not
at ell discouraged.
1t seemed insignificant for Moses to
w
, power could that have ov5r the wate.sf
But the east wind blew all night; the
waters gathered into two glittering pe.E-
, ssdes on either side. ThebilloWs reared as
Gods hand pulled back upon their crystal
bits. Wheel into line, o Israel? Marco
March! Pearls crash under the fest. The
shout Of hosts mounting the beach
answers the shout of hosts mid-sea: IN
til, as the last line Of the Isrselites
have gained the beach, the
| shields clspg, and the cymbsls clap;
, and ss the waters whelm the pursuing
foe, the swiit-6ngered winds on the white
keys of the foam plsy the grand march of
Israel delivered, and the awful dirge OF
Egyptian overthrow. So we go forth
and stretch out the hand of prayer and
Christian effort over these dark, boiling
waters of crime and sin. "Ahai Ahsi'
say the deridIng world. But visit. The
winds of divine help will begin to blow;
the way will clesr for the
great srmy Of Christian pbilan-
thropists; the glittering treasures
OF the worlds benefcence will line the
path of our feet; and to the other shore
we will be greeted with the clash of all
heavens cymbals; while those who re-
sist and deride and pursue US will fall IN
der the sea, and there will be nothing
. left of them but here and there, cast high
, and dry upon the beach, the splintered
wheel of chsriot, and thrust out from
the surf the breathless nostril of rider
less charger.