Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-10

gum as he cries out: CHOW let me die,
since have seen thy face; behold, Joseph
is yet alivei'' The wagons roll up il
front OF the palace. Help out the grand
children and take them in ont of the hol
Egyptian sun. Help old Jacob out of
the wagon. Send word to Pharaoh that
that the old shepherd has come. In the
royal apartment Pharaoh and Jacob meet
dignity and rusticity-the gracefulness
of the court and the plain manners of
the field. The king, wanting to make the
old countryman at ease, and seeing how
white his beard is, and how feeble his
step, looks familiarly into his face, and
says to the aged man: Chow old art
thou?'' Give the old man seat. I'm
load the wagons; drive out the cattle to-
ward the pastures of Goshen. Let the
slaves in scarlet lineel and wash the feet
of the newly arrived, wiping them on the
finest linen of the palace. From vases of
perfume let the newly arrived b.
sprinkled and refreshed, let minstrela
come in with sandals of crimson, and
thrum their harps, and clap the cymbals,
and jingle the tambourineS, while we sit
down, at this great distance of time and
space, and learn the lesson of the King 5
wagons.
My friends, we are in world by sin
famine struck; but the King is in con-
slant communication with us, His wagons
coming and going perpetually; and in the
rest of my discourse | will show you what
the wagons bring and what they take
back.
In the first place, like those that came
from the Egyptian palace, the King
wagons now bring lis corn and meat, and
oh nf roine11t We rIs nt
to think of
THE FIELDS AND THE ORCHARDS
as feeding us; but who makes the fax
grow for the linen, and the wheat for the
bread and the wool on the sleeps back?
Oh, wish we could see through every
grain field, by every sheep fold, under
the trees of every orchard, the King 5
wagons. They drive up three times
day-norning, noon and night. They
bring furs from the arctic, they bring
fruits from the tropic, they bring bread
from the temperate zone. The King
looks out and he says: ''There are
twelve hundred millions of people to be
fed and clothed. So many pounds of
meat, so many barrels of flour, SO many
yards of cloth and linen and flannel, so
many hats, so many socks, so many
shoes;' enough for ali, save that we
who are greedy get more shoes than
belong to us, and others go
barefooted. None but God could feed
and clothe the world. None but Kings
corn crib could appease the world S
famine. None but King could tell how
many wagons to send, and how heavily to
load them, and when they are to start.
They are coming over the frozen ground
to-day. Do you not hear their rum
bling? They will stop at noon at your
table. Oh, if for Il little while they
should cease, hunger would come into
the nations, as to Utica when Hamilcar
besieged it, and as in Jerusalem when
Vespasian surrounded it; and the nations
would be hollow-eyed and fall upon each
other i'll universal cannibalism; and
skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and
there would be no one to bury the dead;
and the earth would be field Of bieached
skeletons; and the birds of prey would
fall dead, flock after flock, without any
carcasses to devour; and the earth i'll ST.
lence would wheel around,
ONE GREAT BLACK HEARSE!
All life stopped because the Kings
wagons are stopped. Oh, thank God for
bread-for bread!
l remark again, that like those that
came from the Egyptian palace, the
king s wagons bring us good news. Jacob
hard not heard from his boy for great
many years. He never thought of him
but with a heartache. There was in
Jacob s heart room where lay the
corpse of his unburied Joseph; and when
the wagons came, the kings wagons,
and told him that Joseph was yet alive,
he tainted dead away Good news for
jacob Good news for us! The Kings
wagons come down and tell us that our
Josepk-Jesus is yet alive; that He has
forgiven us because we threw Him into
the pit Of suffering and the dungeon of
shame. He has risen from thence to
stand in 2 palace. The Bethlehem shep-
herds were awakened at midnight by the
rafting of the wagons that brought
the tidings.. Our Joseph-Jesus sends
us message of pardon, OF life, of
heaven; corn for our hunger; raiment
for our nakedness. JOseph-J esus is yet
alive.
go to hunt up Jesus. l go to the vii
lage of Bethany and say: "Where does
Mary live?' They say: ''Yonder Mary
lives 1 go in. l see where she sat in
the Sitting-room. | go out where Martha
worked i'll the kitchen, but [ find no
Jesus. l go into Pilates courtroom and
l find the Judges and the police and the
prisoner 5 box, but no Jesus. l go into
the Arimathean cemetery, but the door
is gone and the shroud is gone and Jesus
is gone. By faith look up to the Kings
palace, and behold, l have found him!
Joseph-Jesus is still alive! Glorious re-
ligion, q religion made not out of deaths
heads and crossbones and undertakers'
screw drivers, but one bounding with
life and sympathy and gladness. Joseph
is yet alive!
know that my Redeemer lives.
What comfort this sweet sentence givesl
He lives, u lives, who once was dead,
He lives, my everything Head!
He lives to grant me daily BREATH
He lives, and l shall conquer death.
He lives my mansion to prepare,
He lives to bring ME safely there.
He lives, all glory to His name;
He lives. my Jesus still the same.
On. the sweet Joy this sentence gives,
know that my Redeemer lives!
The Kings wagons will after while
unload, and they will turn around, and
they will go back to the palace, and
really think that you and l will 20
with them. The King will not
leave us in this famine-struck
world. The King has ordered that
we be lifted into the wagons, and that
we 90 over INFO Goshen where there shall