Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-01
,.,csssfuFMsnsWho Have Overcome
Disadvantages of Divers Kinds,
and How They Did 1t.
o.obsvsge, Obscure Parsn'sge, Pow.
" .r,,. weakness, Physical Defsrmiiy
Hspdlesps In the Race OF Life.
- You May asSe Been the worsi
sps.sr.ri the worl6, You Msx Be-
come the Best Saint.

we Al the BEAUTIFUL Gate of the Temple.
"a then give out the hmm beginning:
IA cloud OF Witnesses around
Hold the IN full survey;
Forget the steps already trod,
Ana onward urge Thy way"
The subject of the eloquent Doctors dis
.,nrse was: "Disabled Hunters Bring
ss Down the Most Game" HIS teH NC
rem Isaiah, chspteT 50, verse %: tz1e
i,me take the prey" Following is the
efmcn:
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian
INST was here predicted. Not only re-
sust men should 60 forth and gather the
snoils of conquest, but even men crippled
tam and crippled of foot should go out
and capture much that was valuable.
Their physical disadvantages should not
SIpder their great enrichment. So 1t hss
been in the past, SO it il now, SO it will
he in the future. So il is in all depart
rsrts. Men labor under seemingly great
disadvantages, ard amid the most unfnv-
orsbe circumstances, yet making grand
achievements, getting great blessing for
themselves, great blessing for the world,
great blessing for the church, snd 30
6the lsme take the prey"
DO YOU know thst the three great poets
Of the world were totally blind? HON r,
Ossisu, John Milton. Do you know thai
Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchsntiu g
hook, "The Conquest Of Mexico," never
.g Mexico, could not even See the paper
on which he was writingf A framework
scross the sheet, between which up
md down went the pen immortal
Do you know that Gsmbassio, the sculp-
Tor, could not see the marble before lin
or the chisel with which he cut il into
shspes bewitching? Do you know thai
Alexander Pope, whose poems will LIST
islong as the English language, was so
much OF su invalid tnat ne had to be
ewed up every morning 10 rough canvas
IN order to stand on his feet st ali?
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrs
Ned painter, did much of his wonderful
work under the shadow of the dungeon.
where he had been unjastly imprisoned
for deb? Do you know that Demos
themes by almost
sUPERBUMkN EXRRTIoN
first hsd TO conquer the lisp of his own
speech before ne conquered assemblsges
with his eloquence? Do you know that
Bacon struggled sill through innumersble
slcknesses, and that Lord Byron and Sir
Walter Scott went limping on clubfoot
through all their life, and thst many Of
the great poets and painters and orators
and historians aud heroes of the world
bad something to Keep them back and
pull them down, aud impede their way
ind cripple their physical or their intel
hctusl movement, and yet that they
b,shed on and pushed up until they
reached the spoils OF worldly success aud
amid the huzZs Of nations and centuries,
"ihe lame took the prey?"
You know that vast multitude Of
these men started under the disadvantage
Of obscure parentage. Columbus, the
son iCf 1.-THE weaver. Ferguson,
the astronomer, the son OF
the shepherd. America the prey Of the
one; worlds on worlds the prey
Of the other. Blu. what Is true in
secular directions is more true In spirit
tusl and religious directions, and pro-
coed to prove II.
There are in all communities
msuy invalids. They never know 8
well day. They adhere TO their
occupations, but they go painting along
the streets with exhaustiGns, and st even
tide they lie down on the lounge with
schipgs beyond all medicsment. They
have tired all prescriptions, they have
gone through all the cures which were
proclsimed Infsllible, and they have
come now to surrender to perpetual ell
nents. They consider they are among
many disadvantages, and when they see
those who are buoysnt in health pass By,
they almost envy their robust frames ano
easy respiration.
But L have noticed among that invalid
Glass those who hHve the greatest knowl-
edge Of the Bible, who are In nearest int
nscy with Jesus Christ, who have the
most glowing experiences OF the truth,
Who have had the most remarkable an
sBers to prayer, and who have most
EXBILARATING ANTICIPATIONs
ofheaYen. TIE temptations which wesry
Us Who sre In robust health they have
conquered. They have divided among
them the spells Of the conquest. Msny
who are slert and athletic and swartoy
loiier in the way. These are the lsme
that take the prey. Robert Hsll, an iRva-
I'D; Edward PAyson, an invalid; Richard
Baxter, gu invalid; Samuel Rlthe ford,
IN Invalid. This morning, when you
want to call to mind those who are most
Chfistlike, you think of some darkened
room IN your fsther's house from viii b
there went forth an influence potent for
eternity.
A step further: Through raised letters
The art Of printing has been brought to
'ae attention Of the blind.
You take up the Bible for the blind ard
you close you, eyes, snd you run your fn-
gers over the raised letters and you say:
We'll, never could get any information
II this way. What slow, numerous
way OF resdirgl God help the blind"
And yet find among that class OF per-
sons, among the blind, the deaf and the
dumb, the most thorough acquaintance
With Gods word. Shut out from ell
other sources of information, no sooner
does their hand touch the raised letter
thsn they gather prayer. Without eyes,
.hey look on upon the kingdoms OF Gods
love. Without bearing, they catch the
minstrelsY Of the skies. Dumb, yet with
percil, or with irrsdisted countensnce,
taey declare the glory OF God.
large audience gathered In New
York at the anniversary Of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, and one of the visitors
with chalk On the blackboard wrote this
question to the pupils: "Do you not find
livery hard to be deaf and dumbf" And
enc OF the pupils took the chalk ana
Wrote on the blackboard this sublime sem
tenee In answer: when the song OF
NE angels shall burst upon
OUR KNRapTURRD EAR,
We will scarce regret that our ears were
never merred with earthly sounds" Oh!
Iae brightest eyes In heaven will be those