Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-28

the pxlgnGe9t eyes In heaven VIII % tnoee
that never saw ON earth. The ears
most alert in heaven Will be those
that in tnis world heard neither voice in
friend, nor thrum Of harp, nor carol OF
bird, nor doxolog3 Of congregations.
A lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculiss operated on the
lad and then pus very heavy bsndage
over the eyes and, after few weeks had
gone by, the bsndage was removed and
the mother said to her child: "Willie,
can you seer" he said: "Oh! mamma,
is this heaven?" The contrast between
the darkness before and the brightness
afterwards was overwhelming. And
tell You the glories Of heaven will be q
thoussndfold brighter for those who
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 af1 cited
ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble
and he made their sorrows their Advan-
tage, snd SO "the lama took the prey"
In the seventh century there was .
legend OF St.. Modobsrt. " was said that
his mother WAS blind, and one day while
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
forward and kissed her blind eyes, and,
the legend says, her vision came immedi-
ately. That was only legend, but 1t Is
q truth, glorious truth, that kiss OF
GODS eternal love has brought to msny .
Dliad eye eternal Illumination.
A step further: There are those In Ill
communities who toll nightly for live
lihooc. They have scant wages. Per
hsps they are diseased, or have physical
infrmities, go they are hindered from do
ing q continuous days work. A city
finds them up the dark alley,
with no Are, with thin clothing, with very
coarse bread. They never ride in the
street car; they cannot afford the five
cents. They never see sny pictures save
those in the show-Hiadow on the street,
from which they are often jostled, ana
locked Ct by some one who seem to say
in their look: "Move on what are you
doing here looking at pictures?"
Yet many of them live on mountains Of
transit yuration. At their rough table he
who fed the five thousand breaks the
bread. They talk often Of the good times
that are coming.
THIS WORLD has NO CHARM
Tor them, out heaven entrances their
spirit. They often divide their scant crust
with some forlorn wretch who knocks
at their door at night, and on the blast OF
the night wind, IS the door opens to let
them in, is heard the voice Of him who
said: s.I was hungry and ye fed me-"
No cohort of heaven will be too
bright to transport them. By Gods
hall
Assyrisn host. They have divided among
them the spoils. Lame, lame, yet they
took the prey.
Twas riding along the country road one
day, and 1 ssw man on clutches. l
overlook him. He WAS very old. He was
going very slowly. At that rate 1t would
have taken him two hours to 60 mile. l
said: "Wouldn't you like to rider" He
said: "Thsnk you, would. God bless
you When he sat beside me he said ::
"You see, I am very lsme and very old,
but the Lord has been good Lord to me.
l have buried sll my children. The Lord
gave them and the Lord has right to
take them sway. Blessed be His name.
1 wSs very sick, and had no money, and
my neighbors came In and took care Of
me, and 1 wanted nothing. l suffer G
great desl with pain, but then I have
SO many mercies left. The Lord hiss been
q good Lord to me-" And before we had
got far was In doubt whether YVES CIV
ing him ride or he WAS giving me & ride !
He said: snow, if you please, I'll get
out here. just help me 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-morning." 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 many Ssnnacherib OF
which hAs mastered you and
me. Lame, SO fearfully lame, SO awiully
lame; but
HE TOOK THE PREY.
A step further: 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:
ooh! my father was killed in the war"
Have you ever no,iced-I fear you have
well those children have turned
out? Starting under the greatest disad-
vantage, no orphan asylum could do
for them what their f,ther would have
done had he lived. TIE skirmisher sat
one night, by the light Of fsgots, in the
swamp, writing . letter home, when 3
bullet ended the letter
which was never folded, never posted,
ana never read.
Those children came up under great
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 that
fathers long march, aud how he suffered
n the hospital; but they looked still
further on in the Bible, and they came to
the story Of how God is the Father Of the
fs;herlses, and the widows portion, and
they soon TOOK their fathers place in that
They pattled the way Tor
their mother. They came on up, end
nany of them havs In the years since the
war, taken positions In church and state.
While many CT those who suffered moth
ing during those times have had sons go
out into lives Of Incidence and vsgs-
bondage, these who started under 80
many disadvantages because they were SO
early berefs, these are the lame who took
the prey.
A step further: There are those VINO
would like to co good. They say: "Oh!
II / only had wealth, or, If I had elo-
nuanca or IL T had high socisl oOsft!on