Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-11

going south, and one wheel plays LATERAL
and the other plsys vertically. l go to III
Manufacturer and say: 40 manufacturer
your machinery is q contradiction. WIN
do you rot make al the wheels go on
way?" "Well," he ssys, 81 made then
to go in opposite directions on purpose
ana taey produce
TIE RIGHT RESULT.
( You 60 downstairs snd examine the car.
| pets we are turning out in this establish
mens snd you will see." go down or
the other fJor and see the carpets, ant
am obliged to confess that though the
wheels in that factory go in opposite dl,
rections, they turn cut beautiful result
snd while l am standing there locking s,
the exquisite fabric sn old Scripture pas
ssge comes into my mind: Gan things
work together for good to them who love
God" Is there not RESI- in thai? Is
there not tonic In t1st? Is there not lon
gevity In thiti
Suppose man is all the time wor.
ried abou. his n putation2 Ole man says
he lies, another says he is stupid,
another ssys he is dishonest,
and half dozen printing establishments
attack him, and he Is in q great state Ct
excitement and worry snd iume, and can
not sleep; but religion comes to him and
says: MAN, G ID Is on your side; he
Will take care CT your reputation; II God
be for you, who can be against your"
HOW much should that msn worry about
hts reputs,ion2 Not much. II that
broker who some years aga in Wan street,
af5er he had lost money, sat down and
wrote q farewell letter to his wife before
he blew his brains out-if instead Of tax
ing Gu. Of his pocket pistol, he had
taken out well-reAd Nav Testament,
there would have been one less So eide.
o, nervous and feverish people CT the
world, try this almighty ssda!ive. You
will live twenty five years longer under
its soothing power. l; is no choral thai
you want, or morphine tnat you want; it
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
corroding care sbou.
FUTURE EXISTENCE,
Every man wants TO know what is to be-
come Of him. II you get On board rail
train you want to know at what depot it
is going to stop; II you get on board 8
ship you want to know into what harbor
1t is going to run, and If you should tell
me you have no interest In what Is to be
your future destiny, would, in as polite
way IS 1 know how, tell you did not
believe you. Before l had this matter
settled with reference to ny future exist
ence, the question almost w,rried me
into ruined health. The erx,eties men
have upon this subj C. pus together
would make 8 martyroom This Is state
Of awful unhealthiness. There are peo-
pie who fret themselves to death f9r te.r
of dying.
wasn't TO take the ttrsip CT y9rr
nerves and the depression # your 6Uu +,
and | make two or three experiments
EIperine 1t first: When YOU 90 out of
this world 1t does not make snT differ
en- whether you have been good CT bad,
or whether you believed truth or erro-,
you will go.stra!ght to glory. "Imp3s-
siole," you say; "my Common sense az
well SIS my religion teaches that the bad
and the good cannot live together for
ever. You give NE no comfort in that
experiment" Experiment the second ::
When you leave this world you will go
into an intermediate state where you can
get converted and prepared for heaven
impossible" you say; "es the tree
falleth SO 1t must lie, and cannot post
pone to an intermediate state reforms-
ton which ought to have been Effected in
this state" Experiment the third: There
is nc future world; when 3 man dies
that is the last Of him. Do not worry
state OF being; you will not do any
thing. Impossible" you say; "there is
something tast tells me that death Is not
the appendix but the preisc3; there is
something that tells me that on this side
OF the grave only get started and that l
shall go on forever; my power to think
says forever my aft ctiOns say forever
my capacity to enjoy or suffer, forever
Wei, you defeal me in my three exper-
iments. l hsye only one more to make,
and II you defeat me in that am exhaus-
ted: A mighty Ooe on knoll back of
Jerasalemlope day, the skies filed with
FoRKED LIGHTNNGs
and the earth filled with volcanic disturb
ances, turned his pale and sgopiz ed face
towards the heavens and said: 81 take
the sins and SORROWS of the ages into my
own heart. l Am the expiration. Witaess
earth and heaven and hell,
am the eXpietiop." And the;
hammer struck him, and the spears slgf
tured him, and heaven teu1fered: "The
wsges OF sin is DEATH" "rne soul tha$,
sinneth Ii shall die!' 81 will by ne
means clear the guilty." Then THE
was silence for half an hour, and the
lightnings were drawn back into the
scabbsrd Of the sky, and the earth ceased
to culver, and ell the co!ors OF the SKY be-
gan to Shift themselves into rsinbow,
woven out of the falling tsars Of Jesus.
and there was red as OF the blood shedding
and there WAS blue as Of the bruising,
and there was green as Of the heavenly
foliage, and there WAS orange IS of the
day And along the line of the
blue saw the words: II WAS bruised
for their iniquities." Aad along the line
of the red saw the words: "Tne blood
Of Jesus Christ cleanseth from sill sim"
And along the line Of the green I
SAW the words: 1.-THE leaves OF
The tree Of life for the healing of the ns.
TONS" And along the line of the orange
saw the words: "The day spring from
on high hath visited u.s."
And then I saw the storm was over,
and the rainbow rose higher and higher
until 1t seemed retresting to another
heaven, and planting one column of it's
colors on one side the eternal hill and