Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-16


and other shelves TO which yon may go
while you feel Disguised with
the shame of the world, snd ask Thack-
cray to express your chegrin or Chsrlss
D .ckens to expose the PecksniftiaDism or
Thomas Carlyle TO thunder your indigna-
ton; or the other shelves where the old
Gospel writer's stand ready to warn and
cheer Us while they open doors into tha!
city which is SO bright the MONDAY sun
is sbolished. There is no virtue in own
irg horse that takes four minutes to go
d mile il you can own one that can go in
2 little over two minutes and half; no
virtue in running into the teeth OF g
northeast wind with thin spparel il you
can afford furs; no virtue in being poor
when you can honestly be rich. There
are names OF men and women that / hsve
only to mention and they suggest rot
only wealth but religion and generosity
and philanthropy, such as Amos Law
rence, james Lennox, Peter Cooper, VIII
liam E Dodge, Saaitesbury, Miss Wolfe
and Mrs. Aston. A recent writer says
that of fifty leading business men in one
OF our eastern cities, and Of the fifty leading
business men OF one Of our western cities
three fourths are Christians. The fact
is that about all the brain AID the bust
ness genius is on the side OF religion.
II fidelity is inc'pieLt insanity. All inf
dels are crauks. Many of them talk
brightly, but you soon fl I'D that in their
mental machinery there is screw loose
When they are not occurring against
Christianity they are sitting in barrooms
squirting tobacco juice, AID when they
get mad swear till The place Is sulphur
ous. They only talk to keep their cour-
age up, and 81 best will feel like the in f.
del who begged TO be buried with his
Christian wife and daughter, and when
asked way he wanted such burial replied:
"It there be resurrection OF the good as
some folks say there will be, my Christian
wife and daughter Will somehow get me
up and take me along with them"
Man may pretend TO despise religion,
but they are
RANK HYPOCRITES.
The sea ca plain was right when he came
up to the village on the sea coast, and
insisted on paying $40 to the church
although he did not attend himself.
When asked his reason, he said that he
| had been in the habit Of carrying csTgoes
Of oysters and CLANS from that place, and
ne found since that church was built the
people were more honest than they used
| 30 be, for before the church WAS built he
often found the load when he came TO
count it thousand clans short. Yes.
GOODNESS is profitable for both
worlds. Most OF the great honest per-
manent worldly successes are by those
who reverence God and the Bible. But
what | d. say is that if man have moth
ing but social position and fnaucisl re-
sources, woman VINO puts her hspoi-
ness by marriage in his hand re enacts
the folly OF Abigail when she accepted
djssgreeable NabaI, "whose po> sessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very
great, and he hsd 5000 sheep and 1000
| goats"
II there be good moral character &C
companied by sffiuent circumstances,
congratulate you. II not, let the morn
ing lark fly clexr of the Rocky Mountain
eagle. The sacrifice Of woman on the
altar Of social and financial expectation il
cruel and stupendous. | sketch you :
scene you have more than once witnessed
A comfortable home with nothing more
than ordinary surroundings, but an st
! tractive daughter carefully and Christian
| IL reared. From the outside world comes
in man with nothing but money, unless
you count profanity and selfishness and
| fondness for champagne and general
recklessness as part of his possession.
! He has his coat-collsr turned up when
there Is no chill in the air, but because it
gives him an sir Of abandon, and eYeslass,
not because he is near-sighted, but be-
cause it gives classical appearance, and
with an attire somewhat loud, a cane
| thick enough to be the club of Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his converse
! ton interlarded with French phrases in
accurately pronounced and sweep OF
manner indicating that he was not born
like most folks but terrestrial,y landed.
| By arts learned of The devil be insinuates
himself into the affections of the dsughter
OF that Christian home. Ali the kindred
congratulate her On the almost supernat-
ural prospects. Reports come in tina. the
| young man is fast in his habits, that he
! has broken several young hearts, and that
he is mean and selfish and cruel. But all
this Is covered up with the fact that he
has several houses in his own name, and
has large deposits at the bank, and, more
than all, has father worth many hundred
thousand dollars and
VERY FEEBLE IN HEALTH
and may any day drop Off, aud this is the
| only son, and round dollar held close
to ones eye Is large enough to shut out
great desert, and how much more will
several bushels Of dollars shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough and the
bene diction solemn enough and the we'd
ding march stirring enough. And the
audience shed tears OF sympathetic glad
ness. supposing that the craft containing
the two has sailed off on placid lake,
although God knows that they are
launched on 8 Dead Sea, its waters
brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
CHASTITY faces of despair floating to the
surface and then going down. There
they are, the newly married pair, in their
new home. He turns out to be q tyrant.
Her will is nothing, his will everything
Lavish OF money for his own pleasure, he
begrudges her the pennies he pinches out
into her trembling palm. Instead OF the
kind words she left behind in her former
home, now there are complaints and
faulthndings and curses. He is the.
master and she the slave. The worst
villain on earth Is the man who, having
captured woman from her faith
er's house and af.er the
oath OF the marriage altar has been pro-
noupced, says, by his manner If not in
words: "I have you now in my power.