Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.

In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
he weren't no saint; but at judgment
| I'd run my chance with Jim,
| Longsioe of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shake hands wit him.
| He'd seen his duty, dead sure thisg,
And went for is there and them.
| And Christ is not 80 pg to be TOO hard
On man that died for men.
Once more: 1 want you to look at
Vasii the silent. You 90 not hesr anY
| outcry from this woman IS she goes forth
from the palace gate. From the very
dignity of her nature YOU know there will
be no yociieralion. Sometimes in life it
is necessary to make q retort sometimes
in life il is necessary to resist; but there
are crises when the most triumphant
thing to do is to keep silence. The
philosopher, confident in his neWly-dis-
covered principle, waited for the coming
Of more intelligent generations, willing
that men should laugh at the lightning
rod, and cotton gin and steamboat
waiting for long years through
the scoffing of philosophical
schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. Calico, condemned by msthe-
maticians, and monks, and cardinals,
caricatured everywhere, yet waiting and
watching with the telescope, to see the
coming of the stellar reinforcements,
when the stars in their courses would
fight for the Coperntcsn system, then sit
ting down in complete blindness and
deafness to wait for the coming on Of
the generations who would build his
monument and bow st his grave. The re-
former, execrated by his contemporaries,
fastened in s 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 parity Of soul and heroism OF
character will get the sanction of earth
aud the plsudits OF heaven. Affection,
enduring without any complaint the
sharpness Of the psDg, and the violence
OF the storm, and the hefE Of
the chain and the ca.kne IS
Of the night waiting, antil
q divine hand shsll be pu5 forth to soothe
the paug, and hush the storm, snd release
the captive. A wife abused, prosecuted,
and perpetual exile from every earthly
COMMUNICATING, waiting, until the Lord
shall gather up His dear children in
heavenly home, and no poor WASN'T will
ever be thrust out from the palace gate.
Jesus, ia silence, and answering not 6
word, drinking the gall, bearing the cross,
in prospect OF the rapturous consumma-
| ton when
"Angels thronged His chariot wheel
| And bore Him to His throne;
/ Then swept their golden harps and sung
| The glorious work is done"
An Arctic explorer found ship floating
helplessly about among the icebergs, and
| going on beard he found that the captain
was frozen at his log-book, and the helms
man was frozen at the wheel, and the men
on the lockout we're frozen
in their places. That was awful,
but magnificent. All the Arctic
blasts and au the iceoergs could not
drive them from their duty. Their ST.
lence was louder than thunder. And this
old ship OF the world has many at their
posts in the awful chill OF neglect, and
frozen Of the worlds scorn, and their ST.
lence shall be the eulogy Of the skies, snd
be rewarded long sitter this weather
beaten craft OF planet shall have made
its last voyage.
thank God that The migAtiest infu-
ences are the most silent. The fires in q
furnace of fac DRY, or of d steamship,
roar though they Eonly novel few shut
ties or a few thousand tons, but the sun
that warns the world rises and sets with.
J out crackle, or faintest sound. Travel
ers visiting Mount Etne, having heard OF
the glories OF sunrise on that peak, went
up to spend the night there, and see the
sun rise next morning, but when 1t came
up IL was SO far behind their snticipations
they actually Kissed It. The mightiesl
influences to-day are like the planetary
system-completely silent. Don'E hiss
the sun!
o, woman! do not this story Of Wash
ii the Queen, Vash!i the yelled, WASN'T
the sacrifice, Vashti the silent, move you
soul? My sermon conVerges into the ont
absorbing hope that none OF you may bt
shut out OF the palace gate Of heaven
You can endure the hardships, and the
privations, and the cruellies, and tht
misfortunes Of this life, If you can only
gain admission there. Through the blooC
Of the everlasting covenant, you q
through those gates, or never go at all
When Roma Was beseiged the daughter
OF its ruler saw the golden bracelets CT
the left arms Of the enemy, and she sen
: word to them that she would betrEy hel
city and surrender 1t to them II they
would only give her those bracelets OF
their LETT arms. They accepted thu
prefer, and By night this daughter OF thu
ruler OF the city opened one of the gates
The army entered, and keeping thei
: promise, threw upon her thei
bracelets, and also their shields
until under weight she died
Alss, that all through the ages tn,
same folly has been repeated, and for tn,
trinkets and glittering treasures of thi
world men and women swing open thu
portals of their immortal soul for 81
everlasting surrender, and die under thu
shining encouragement.
: Through the rich grace of our Lore
Jesus Christ may you be enabled to imi
tate the example of Rachel and Hannal
and Abigail ard Deborah and Mary anC
Vashti. Aman!