Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-01

thOueAndf0ld brighter 1Ot tnO6e VINO
never ssw anything on earth. While
many with good vision closed
their eyes in night, and many
who had good artistic and cultured ear.
wentldown into discord, these afflicted
ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble
and he made their SORROWS their advan-
tage, and SO "the lame took the prey"
In the seventh century there was q
legend Of St. Modobers. II was said that
mis- mother WAS blind, and one day while
looking st his mother he felt 30 symps-
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
| forward and kissed her blind eyes, snd,
the legend says, her vision csme immedi-
ately. That was only legend, but 1t is
atrutb, glorious truth, that kiss OF
Coos eternal love has brought to many 3
oiind eye eternal Illumination.
! a step further: There are those in ell
/ communities who toll nightly for live
lihood. They have ecsnt wages. Per-
hsps they are diseased, or have physical
| inf1rmities, so they are hindered from do
| ing continuous days work. a city
| missionary fipds them up the dark alley,
| with NO fire, with thin clothing, with very
coarse bread. They never ride in the
street car; they cannot sf,rd the five
cents. They never see any pictures save
those in the show window on the street,
from which they are often lostled, anu
| looked e. BY some one Who Sc, m 10 SAY
doing here looking ct pictu.es?"
Yet many of them live on mountains OF
trans fguration. at their rough table ne
who fed the five thousand breaks the
| bread. They tax often Of the good times
| that s-e coming.
THIS WORLD HAS NO CHARM
| for them, out heaven entrances their
spirit. They often divide their scsnt crust
with some forlorn wretch who knocks
81 their door at night, snd on the blsst OF
the night wind, az tae door opens to let
them In, is heard the voice OF him who
said: al wss hungry and ye fed me-"
No cohort of heaven Will be too
bright to transport them. By Gods
help they have vanquished the
Assyrisp host. They have divided among
them the spoils. Lame, lame, yet they
| took the prey.
Twas riding along the country rosd one
day, and / saw man on crutches.
overlook him. He WAS very old. He WAS
going very slowly. At that rate it would
have taken him TWO hours to go mile. l
ssid: "Wouldn't you like to rider" He
| said: "Tnsnk you, would. God bless
| you" When he sat beside me he said:
"You see, an very lame snd very ola,
| out the Lord has been good Lord to me.
have buried all my children. The Lord
gave them and the Lord has right to
! lake them away Blessed be His name.
l was very SICK, and had NO money, and
my Deighbors came in and took care OF
me, and / wanted nothing. l suffer d
great deal with pain, but then l have
so many mercies left. The Lord has been
q good Lord 10 me-" And before We had
got far was In doubt whether was CIV
ing him ride or he was giving me ride!
He said: Snow, If you please, I'll get
out here. just help NE down on my
clutches, II you please. God bless you.
Thank you, sir. Goed-morning. Good
morning. You have been feet to the lame,
sir, you have. Good-mornipg." Swarthy
| men had gone the road that day. do not
| know where they came out; but every
| hobble of that old man was toward the
shining gate. With his old crutch he had
| struck down msny q Ssnnacherio OF
temptation which has mastered you and
me. Lsme, 70 fearfully lame, so awfully
lame; but
BE TOOK THE PREY.
A step farther: raere are in all COM
munities many orphans. During our last
war and IN the years immediately follow
ing, how many children we heard say:
"Ohi my father was killed in the WAR;
Have you ever no.iced-I fear you have
not--how we'll those children have turned
out2 Starting under the greatest disad-
vantsge, no Orphan asylum could do
for them what their fsther would have
done hsd he lived. TIE skirmisher sat
one night, by the light of fagots, In the
swamp, writing 3 letter home, when 8
sharpshooter's bullet ended the letter
which was never folded, never posted,
and never read.
Those children csme up under great
disadvantage. No father TO fight their
way for them Perhaps there was In the
old family Bible an old yellow letter
pasted fast, which told the story OF thst
fs.her's long march, and how he suffered
"a the hospital: bus they looked still
further on in the Bible, and they csme to
the story of how God is the Father Of the
f.tht rless, and the Widows portion, and
they soon took their fathers place in that
household. They nsttled the waY for
their mother. They came on up, and
many of them have in the years since the
war, taken positions In church and state.
While many Of those who suffered nota-
ing during those times have had sons go
out into lives Of Incidence and vags
bondage, these who started under SO
mspy disadvantages because they were SO
early bereft, these are the lame who took
the prey.
A step further: There are those VINO
would like to do good They say: a0h
II only had wealth, or, II had elo-
quence, or IL had high social position,
now much would accomplish for God
snd the church," stand here to-day 10
tell you that you have great
OPPORTUNITIES FOR USEFULNESS.
Who Quilt the pyramids? The Kipg
who ordered them buil'2 NJ; the plain
workmen who added stone after stone and
stone after stone. Who built the bikes Of
Hollsnd2 Tue government that ordered
the enterprise2 No; the plain work
men who cs ried the earth and
rupg their trowel on the wall.
Who are those who have built these vast
cities? The capitalists7 No; the car
psDters, the masons, the plumbers, the
plssterers, the timers, the roofers, de-
pendent on days wages for q livelihood.
And 80 in the great work Of sssuaging
human suffering and enlightening hu-
man ignorance and hating human In
EQUITY. In that great work the chief part
is TO be done by ordinsry men, with ordi-
nary speech, In an ordinary manner and
IN Tho 10 that