Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-26
Special TO the Gazette.


fowls: The owl, the vulture, and the bat
These also shall be uncleEn to You smong
the creeping things that creep upon the
earth: The chameleon aud the IL
Leylsicus xi:13, 81. Following is the
discourse IN full:
The Bible offerg every possible variety
OF theme, Of argument and Of illustrs
tion, We csre not much In what kind Of
q pitcher the water Of life is brought, il it
is only the clear, pure water. God gave
the ancieH:s list Of the animals that they
might eat, and 8 list OF the animals that
they might no: eat. These people lived
in hot climate, and certain forms Of an
lmsl food corrupted tneir blood, and dis
posed taem TO scroiulous disorders, de-
Drayed their eppetites, and bemeaned
their souls. mans food when he has
he meals and opportunity Of selecting 1t,
suggests his moral nature. TIE reason
the wild Indian is as cruel es the lion is
btcsuse he has food that gives him the
blood Of the lion. A mis- sionary among
the Indians says that, by changing his
STYLE Of food 70 correspond with theirs,
his temperament WAS entirely changed.
Taere ara certain forms OF food that
have q tendency TO Affect the moral nature.
Many q Christian is trying to do by prayer
that which cannot be done except through
corrected diet. For instance, he who
uses sWiue's flesh for conesant diet will
DE diseased IN body and polluted OF soul
all his liturgies and cAtechisms not
wilhstandiug. Tae G,darene swine were
possessed of the devil, snd ran down
steep place into the sea, and ell the swine
ever since seem to have bsen MI
I1rly possessed. Ia Leviticus G I'd struck
- III in avnH
placed before them bill OF fare at once
heSlthtu', nutritious aud generous.
But, higher than this pnysicxl reason,
there WAS q spiritual reason why God
chose certsin forms Of food for the an
clients. G3d gave & peculiar diet to His
people, not only because he wanted them
toSe distinguished from the surrouudiI e
nations, but because cer!Gip birds &nc
animals, By reason of their ha tits, have
always been suggestive Of moral qusli-
ties. By the list Of things from which
THKY WE'RE TO ABSTAIN,
God wished to pref udlce their minds
ag&ins' certain evils; and In the uet OF
lawful things given, He wished to suggest
certain fuImy or good. When God SOL
EMMY forbade His people to eas the owl,
tae v1lsUre, the Dat, the chameleon and
the snail, He meant to drive out of His
people all the sins that were thus EN-
blemiz d.
take the suggestion OF the tex. and
say that one Of the frs! urcIean things
the Christian needs to, drive out OF his
soul IS the owl. The owl is the melsn.
choly bird Of night. It matches out
whole broots Ct euperstitions. It ia
doleful and hiisous. When 1t sings, II
sings through its nose. Ii loves the
el)om of mig 1t better than the brightness
of day. Who has not slept in the cabin
near the woods and been awakened in
the night by the dismal 900 hoo" Of the
owl? Melancholy is the owl thai
is perched 10 many 5 Christian
soul. lis an unclean bird, snd needs &c
De driven away. A man Whoee sins are
pardoned, knd who is on the road tc
heaven, has 10 rlglt - be gloomy. HI
says: ~ have so many doubts" Ths'
is because 'you are hz7," CD actively
to work in Chris.'s cause, and youl
doubts will vanish. You gay: SCI have
lost my property but reply: "You
have Infinite treasures laid up in heaven
You say: "I am weak aud sickiy, anC
goiag to die" Then be congratulated
that you are 50 Fear eternal health an(
perpetual gls1 Catch f-w morn
ing ,sIl io7 J " scul, and stone thi
owl & your piemiSes.
ASH little girl was eating, the sui
dsshed upon her spoon; and she cried
40, mamma. hsya swallowed Q spoon
full Of suushire!n Would God that W,
might ell INDUCE In the same beverage
CheeTfulnessS it makes
THE HoMELIEsT FACE HANDSOME;
il makes the hardest mattress soft; !
h,,&kr vNd
ard rainboWs, and suroras. God madt
the grass bl1cs? No; that would be TOT
scmore. GodmAde the grass red? No
grass green, that by this parable all th'
world might be LED to subdued cheerful
ness. Read your Bible IN the sunshine
REMEMBER tlassyour physical heath il
closely Glied 10 your spiritual. Tit
heart and the liver are only few inches
apart, Srd Whist affects one s3ects tht
other. A historian records that by thu
sound Of great laughter in Rome
HGnnloals AssRulting army Was fright
tened away In retreat. And there is In
the great outburstiug JOY ofa Christian
soul that which can drive back any in
fernGl besiegen emit. Rats love derE
closets, ana Sstsn loves to burrow in ,
gloomy soul "Rtj DICE in the Lord, {
ye righteous ana again say, reioice! y
Hoist the window OF your soul IN this
the II o'cLcck Of y ur spiritual night
Put the qua to your shoulder and aim a
the black Jungle from which the hootine
comes, pun the trigger, and drop tha
choking, iottnscns, nj locus owl OF re-
ligIous melauch1lI iuro the bushes.
Again: TsAitg the suggestion OF til
text, drive cut the Vulture from you
soul. esd would not slow the Jews Il
est 1t. II lives on csTcasses; 1t fattenl
among the dead: with lesden wing 1t cir
cles about bstsleHeids. Wilson, TIT
American ornithologist, counted 2Si
A., vultuees around one carc.ss. II crossing
me desert, when there is no sign OF wins
in the air, a camel perish out OF the cara
VAR iI;ne distely the air begins to darker
with SSltures. There ale m,nY professet