Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30

! SAosoi IL suO SoutSuf luete&U VI llHlDg IN
sin with mantle Of charity, peddles j
sli aioEg the streets. She takes the after
noon 20 make her loug neglected csils
She tells the story ten times before sup.
doHp, aud ePer3 time tells 1t larger Sht
PUSHES into the psrlors 10 Tell It, and iatc
the nursery to teili', sud Into the kitche n
to tell 1t. She says: "Would you have
thought h5 Well, always said there
wss something wrong about her. Why,
should not speak to her il I s,w her il
the street. Is it not horrible? Bat bet.
ter not say anything about It, becsuse
there msy be come mistake. / do no,
want my name involved In the matter
guess l will inst go over and ask them
at No. 1863 whether they have heard It,
Guess 1t must be SO, for Mary Ann says
that her husband saw man who heard
from his business partner that his blind
old grandmother had seen something ths.
looked very suspiciousl"
| The most loathsome, mis- cradle, God.
forssken wretch on earth is q gossip. ]
can tell her on the street, though I have
never seen her before. She walks fast,
and has ner bonnet strings loose, for she
has not had time to tie them since she
heard that LIST scandal. She looks both
ways az she passes, hoping TO see new
evidences OF depravity in the windows. l
think that when satan has s job so In.
hnitely mean that in all the pi. he canno.
find a. devil mean enough to do It, and all
brides AID threats have failed to get one
willing for
THE INTERNAL CRUeADE,
he says to one OF his sergeauts: "Go u2
to Brooklyn, and in such street, on
such corner, get that goss!ping woman,
and she will De glad to 90 II" And sure
enough, like hungry fish, she tsses the
hook in her mouth, and satan slsckens
the line, and lets her run out farther
and fsr'her, until after awhile he
says: "It fs time to haul ID that
line," and with 8 few strong pulls,
he brings her 10 the beach CT fire. What
do you saw That sac was 8 member CT
the church? cannot help that. Wnan
satan goes 8 fishing, he does net care
what school the Ii IN belong to, whether II
is Presbyterian msckerel or xn Eoisco-
palisn salmon. Amidst the thunder
crash Of Sinsi, God said: "Thou shalt
i beer false witness sgsins, thy neigh
Dor Ard in LsviticuJ, he says: 'Thou
shslt no. go up and down as & tale bear
err" Take not into youc ear thst scum
OF hell thai people call title-tattle. Who
soeVsr Willingly listens TO . SANDER is
equally guiltY~Tith the one who tells If,
snd ar old writer ga7s they ough: both
to be hung, the one by the tongue and the
other by the e2r. Do not smile UPON
such spaniel, leist, like pleased dog,
ne put his dirty paw upon you. Throw
back the shutter Of your soul, oh Car!s.
tian men and women, and see If there
be Within you G yulture with filthy ta-
Ions and cruel besk. Let not this unclean,
thing roost in your soul, for my text
gays: "Ye shxL hold in abomInat.on
among the fowls, the vulture."
Again, taking the suggestion Of The
text, drive out the bat from your soul.
No wonder 6 ID set this bird among the
unclean. It is sn cferse to every
one. Let it fly into the window OF s
summer night, and all the hande, young
and old, are against it. 1t is
HALF BIRD AND HALF MUSE.
It seems msde partly to walk and partly
to fly, and does neither well; and becomes
an emblem Of those Christians who try to
cling to earth and heaven st the same
time. They want to walk on earth In
Worldliness, and yet fly towards heaven in
spirituality; snd their soul, between feet
and wings, is constantly perplexad. o..
ny brethren, be one thing or the other
Choose the world, # You prefer II; ana
see how many dollars you can win, ard
how much spplause yen can gain, and
how large business you can estahlieh,
and how grand house you can build,
and how fast span CT horses you can
drive You may be prospered until you
can fsil for $500, GOO, instead CT having the
disgrace Of failing for only $40 coo as
some unenterprisipg people do. Il Is
quite reward 20 be able for ten
or twenty years 10 be called one
Of the solid men Of Brooklyn or Boston,
ard then, to make your fortune last IS
long as possible, We will give you
splendid funeral snd you shslI have
twenty i've carriages following you, with
somebody in the most OF them, and your
coftin shall have silver handles on the
sides, and We will mourn for you in
splendid pocket handkerchiefs bound
with Grape, and with bombszlne twenty
full yards long, traiIing half acrcss the
pArlor, so thst al the company msy
stand upon It, and we will write our let
ters for the next six months On paper
edged with black. Blu. my friends, your
worldly ortunes will not lsst l will
buy out now all that you will be worth IN
worldly estate seyeMty-fye years from
now. have the money in my pocket
with which TO do it. Here il is Two
cents! It is large sum to Offer for all
you will possess at the close Of seventy |
five yesr5 Choose the world II you |
wan to, " il not then choose heaven |
That ests,e lies partly on this side Of the !
river. hut mostly on the other. Il il ever |
aet nulating. The prospect Of !. makes |
fne independent OF
- a EARTHLY MISFORTUNE,
s$5 tss. RIgers, tue martyr, slept 50
&undlY the night before his Burning they |
p1eleDtlY shook him in order to |
Few him awake in time for the |
Xscu.ion, and Pau! exults at
The though. Of the "j)Y unspeakgble
and full OF glory" On, choose esrth or
heaven! Make up your mind whether
7ou will walk in earthly Joys or fly with
le aveuly expectations. Be not bat, Il.
leither to walk nor f7, having jus.
enough OF heaven to spoil the world, aud
10 much Of the world IS to spoil heaven.
Christ ssys that your present condition
louseates him to positive sickness: "Be-
;ause thou art neither cold nor hot, will
pew thee out OF my mouth" In the
uiDs OF Pompeii there was found petri-