Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-15

he lies, another says he is. stupid
another says he is dishonest,
and hat dozen printing establishment.
tt!sck hin, and he Is in q great state o.
excitement and worry and tune, and csn
not sleep; but religion comes to him and
ssys: "Man, Gnd Is on your side; he
Will take care of your reputation; il God
| ne for you, who can be against your"
How much should that man worry abou.
his reputation? Not much. II thai
broker who some years ago in Wall stree:
after he had lost money, sat down and
wrote farewell letter to his wife before
he blew his brains out-if instead of tax
ing out Of his pocket s pistol, he had
taken out q well-read New Testament,
there would have been one less suicide
o, nervous and feverish people Of the
world, try this almighty sedstive. You
will live twenty i've years longer under
its soothing power. L. is MOI choral that
you want, or morphine that you want; II
Is the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. "With
long life will satisfy him"
Again, practical religion Is friend OF
longevity in the fact that it removes all
corrodipg csre about
A FUTURE ExIsTBEox.
Every man wants to know what Is to DE-
come Of him. II you eet OF boari rail
train you want to know a. what depot il
is going to stop; II you get on board &
ship you want to know into what harbor
it is going to run, and il you should tell
me you have no interes! in what Is to be
your future destiny, l would, In IS polite
q way as know now, tell you did Eot
believe you. Before l had this matter
settled with reference to my future exist
ence, the question almost worried a
into ruined hes!th. The snxieties mer
have upon this subject put together
would make msrtyrQom. This Is state
of swful unhealthiness. There are peo-
pie who fret themselves to death for fesr
Of dying.
Iwant to take the strain of your
nerves and the depression Of your soul,
snd make two or three experiments
Experiment first: When you go ouf Of
this world it does not make any d;tf T.
en- whether you have been good or bsi,
or whether you believed truth or error,
you will go straight to glory. "Impos-
sible," you say; "my common sense as
well IS my religion teaches that the bad
and the good cannot live together for.
ever. You give me no comfort in that
experiment" Experiment the second:
When you leave this world you will 60
into an intermediate state where you can
get converted and prepared for heaven.
Impossible" you say; "as the tree
fslleth so 1t must lie, and l cannot post
pone to an Intermediate state reforms-
tion which ought to have been Effected il
this state =" Experiment the third: There
is no future world; when man dies
thst Is the last OF him. Do not worry
about wDat you are to do in another
state Of being; you will not do any
thing. "ImpossibIe," you say; "there is
something that tells me that death is not
the appendix but the preface; there il
something That tells me that on this side
Of the grave only get started and that l
shall 60 ON forever; ny power to think
says forever my Affections say forever
my capacity to enjoy or sutfer, forever
Wei, you defeat me In my thee exper-
iments. l have only one more 10 make,
and II you defest me In that am exaeus-
ted: A mighty One on a knoll back of
day, the skies filed with
FoRKED ueHTEIEas
and the earth filed with volcanic disturb
ances, turned his pale and agonized face
the heavens and said: 81 take
the sins and SORROWS of the ages into my
own heart. lam the expistion. Wltlsss
earth and heaven and hell, l
am the expistion" And the
hammer struck him, and the spears pune.
tured him, and heaven Numbered: "Tne
wages OF sin Is DEATH" "rhe soul that
sinneth 1t shall diei" "I will by no
means clear the guilty!" Then there
WAS silence for half an hour, and the
lightnings were drawn back into the
to culver, and all the colors Of the sky be-
woven ont OF the falling tears Of Jesus.
and there WAS red as OF the blood shedding
and there was blue as Of the bru!sins,
snd there WAS green as Of the heavenly
foliage, and there wss orange IS of The
day-da9n. And along the line OF the
blue saw the words: 81 was bruised
Tor their iniqattIes." Aud along the line |
Of the red saw the words: "The blood |
of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin."
And along the line Of the green I
,sw the words: 1.-THE leaves of
he tree Of life for the healing Of the rs.
ions" And slong the line OF the orange |
saw the words: 1.-THE dsy-spring from
IN high hath visited u.s."
And then l saw the storm Was over,
md the rainbow rosa higher aid higher
lntil 1t seemed retreatiug 10 another
heaven, and planting one column of its
;olors on one eide the eternal bill and
,lsntiDg the other column Of It's colors on
he other side
THE ETERNAL HILL,
t rose upward Snd upward, "apd behold
here was rainbow sbout the throne"
Accept that sscriacs and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, the Inspiration, the
of this truth. Religion is sun.
hine, that is health. Religion is fresh
ir and pure water, they are healthy. b.
igion is warmth, that Is healthy. Ask
II the doctors, snd they will tell you that
quiet conscience and pleasant anticips-
ions are hygienic 1 offer you perfect
'eace, now and hereafter.
What do you want in the future world?
rell me and you shall have It. OIcharts?
there are the trees with twelve manner
i fruits, yielding fruit every month.
Water scenery7 There is the River Of
LIE, from under the throne OF God,
lear a. crystal, and the sea Of glass min
lied with fire. Do you want music7