Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-26

known by It's changesbleness of color,
taking the color OF the thing rext to 1t,
sometimes brown, sometimes red, and
sometimes gray, bat always the color OF
its surroundings, Q type Of that class OF
Christians who are now one thing In re-
ligious faith, and now another, just to
suit circumstances, always taking their
color Of religious belief from the man
they are talking to. They go to enc
place, and are hrs.-rats Unitarians.
"JssUs WAS =
GOOD MAN, BUT NOTHING MtRE
They go 20 Princeton, and they axe Trim
itaIisns, slmost willing to die for the d.
vinity OF jesus Among the Universal-
lists they refuse the idea Of future punish,
msnt; and going among those of opposite
belief announce thas there is hell with q
gusto that makes you think they are glad
OF 1t. Drive oui that unclean chameleon
from your soul. Do not be ever chang.
! ing the color Of your fkith. My friends,
Liberal Christianity, falsely so-cslled,
believes IN nothing. God is anything you
want to make Him. The Bible to
be believed in SO far as you
like it. Heaven, q grand mixing up OF
Neros and Pauls. TIE man who dies by
suicide in his right mind in 1888, beating
into glory by ten years the Christian man
who dies Christian death 10 1898; the
suicide proving himself wiser than the
Christian. On, my friends ilet Us tvy to
believe In something. An infdel was
called to the bedside Of his daughter. The
daughter said: "FA.her, which shall
believe, you or mother? Mother took
the religion Of Christ, and died in liz
EN- orsce. You say that religion Is a
humhug. Now 1 sm going TO die, and
am very much perplexed; shall believe
you or take the belief of mJsmother?n
} The father said: "Choose for yourselfll,'
! Sac said: "No; 1 Em TOO weak to cAsese
for myself; l want you to choose fol
me-" "Well," said the father, sfteS
much hesitation and embarrassme9s,
"Msry, think you had better take1fhe
religion Of your mother" The time will
come when we shall have to believs
something. We cannot sfford
/ TO BE ON TIE FENCE
in religion. Truth snd error are set op.
posite to each other. TIE one Is Infinitely
right, and the other infinitely wrong
Ia the j1dg1 emit day we must give a.
account of what we believed as vel
as for Whist we acted. The
difference between believing truth
and believing error is the difference ben
tween paradise and perdition. beg you
In the light of the Bible, ana on youl
knees before God, to form your RELIGIOUS
opinion and then stick to it, though bust
ness companions scof, and wits carics-
ture, and the air crsckles with the fires
of martyrdom. Surely truths in behalf O.
which Christ died, and angels Of Goo
trooped forth, sad the whole universe Ii
m,sshaled, are worth living for and worth
dying fer. Amidst the most uuclsR1
things is this ever changing chameleon Of
religious theory. Away with the reptile
God ebhors 1t with en all consuming ab
lcrenCe.
| O-c5 more; take the suggestion Of the
tex, and drive ous the snail from your
soul. God has declared II uncleen. l
Is "a ANNA to be- found everywhere be
,wsen the coolest north and the hotties
south. There ere 1900 species of ths
snail. They have no backbone, ana they
are SO slow that their movement is al
mes i'm 1erceptibIs. You see snsil IL
one place day; 60 to morrow and yor
will find it has advanced only fe7
inches. Il becomes IN ern5l,m OF tina
large class CT Christian people who go K
work with 9 slo Hness and sluggishLes
t1a. Is wonderful. They are stopped b!
every little obstacle, because, like thu
snail, they nava no backbone. O.her
mount up on eagle's wings but they 60 a
snail's pace.
|, o., child OF God, arouse! We have
apotheosizsd prudence and caution lon
enough. Prudence is beautiful grace
but Of all the family Of Christian grxces
like her the least, for she has been
MARRIED so OFTEN
to liziness, eloth and stupidity. We haV
million idlers in the lords vinegar
who pride themselves on their prudence
"Bs prudent" said the deciples to Christ
land stay away from Jerusalem I" but b.
went. "Be prudent" said Pauls friends
land look out for what you say to Fe *,
! but he Numbered away until the ruler
, knees knocked together. In the eyes o
the world, the most imprudent men tina
J eyer lived we're Martin Luther, and Johl
Oldcastle, and Wesley, and Knox. M
} opinion is that the most imprudent an,
reckless thing Is to stand still. It Is vel
) to hear our commanders voice when b
, says "HRlt." but quite as important K
: hear it when he says "ForHard!" Tai
! gospel ship made TO plough the sea at fif
+ teen knots an hour, 10 no. making thr; e
; Sometimes it is most prudent to rid
/ your horse slowly and pick out tn
way for his feet, snd lot strike him wi
7 the spurs; but when band OF Shoshon'
, Indians are after you in full tilt, the mos
! prudent thing for you to do is to p!upg
in the rowels and put your horse to full
: run, shouting: "Go 'long!" until tn
r Rocky Mountains echo it. The foes Q
God are pursuing us. The world, tn
/ fash, and the devil are after ue; and on
! Wisess course is to go ahead at swittes
t speed.
} When the church OF God gets to sd
vancing too fast, 1t will be time enoug
to use caution. NJ need OF putting O.
/ the brakes while going up hill. Do nc
let Us cit down waiting for something ut
3 turn up" bu, 60 ahead in the name o
+ God, and Turn II up. The great dan e
5 10 the church now Is not sensation, Blu
stsgnstior. o. that the Lord God woul
send host of aroused AID consecTate
, men to set the church on Are, AID
: turn the world upside down. Let us 6
, to work and catch The last snail in on
9 souls. With divine vehemence let .
stamp its life out; for my text decl1res
3 "These also shall be unclesn to yo
r among the creeping things that creep up