Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-28
OBSTACLES OVERCOME.
,nccsssfuI Men Who Havs Overcome
Disadvantages Of Divers Kinds,
and How They Did II.
,,ussyegc, Obscure Percentage, Pew.
srty. Weakness, Physical Defermisy
HsudIcaps tn the Racs OF Life.
9Th You May Hsve Heen the worst
s,ry.ri the World, You May Be-
CONS the Best Saint

snscla to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, May q AT the Tabernacle
nj, morning the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
s,se read the account of the man help
,..s AZ the Beautiful Gate Of the Temple.
Ne tnen gave out the hymn beginning:
"a cloud of witnesses around
Hold thea In full survey;
Forget the steps already trod.
Ana onward urge thy way"
The subject OF the eloquent DOCTORS dis
..r,se was: "Dissblsd Hunters Bring
w. Down the Most Game" HE text was
ann Isaiah, chapter 80, verse %: "The
,ms take The prey" Following is the
ne utter demolition OF the Assyrisn
inst wss here predicted. Not only TO-
mai men should &c forth and gather the
.1olls Of conquest, but even men crippled
tam and crippled of foot should go ont
I'd capture much that WAS valuable.
Tseir physical disadvantages should not
tfrdgr their crest enrichment. So 1t has
Sssu in the past, SO it Is now, so 1t will
No IN the future. 50 1t is in all depart
msuts. Men labor under seemingly great
advantages. and smid the most unfov-
cr.Sle circumstances, yet making grand
.sh,eYements, getting great blessing for
tssmselves, crest blessing for the world,
rest blessing for the church, and 30
die lsms take the prey"
Do YOU know that the three great poets
n the world were totally olind? HON T,
0,si.u, John Milton. Do you know that
M. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
b,ok. 1.-THE Conquest OF Mexico" never
ay Mexico, could not even see the paper
IA which he WAS writing? A framework
uross the saeet, between which up
aud down went the pen immortal.
DO yOu know that Gambassio, the SOUP
tor, could not see the marble before him
or the chisel with which he cut 1t into
lt,pss bswitching? Do you know that
Alexander Pope, whose poems will last
ulong as the English language, was 80
much Of an invalid that he had to be
wTed up every morning In rough CANVAS
in order to stand on his feet st all?
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrs-
led painter, did much OF his wonderful
work under the shadow of the dungeon,
where he had been urjustly imprisoned
for debit Do you know that Demos
themes by almost
sUPERHUMAN HxERTIoN
arst hsd TO corq der the lap of his own
speech before be conquered assemblages
with his eloquence? Do you know that
B,co1 struggled all through innumerable
scknesses, and that Lord Byron and Sir
Wslter Scott went limping on clubfoot
through all their life, and that many of
the great poets snd painters and orators
md historians aud heroes OF the world
lad something to keep them back and
pull them down, and impede their way
md cripple their physical or their intel
lsctusl movement, and yet that they
pushed on and pushed up until they
lssched the spoils Of worldly success and
amid the huzzs OF natious and centuries,
1.-THE lame took the preyp"
You know that vast multitude Of
hsse men started under the disadvantage
Of obscure parentage. Columbus, the
son ;of 1.-THE weaver. Ferguson,
tie astronomer, the son Of
hsshepherd. America the prey of the
one worlds on worlds the prey
Of the other. But what is true in
secular directions is more true in spir:-
tuil and religious directions, and 1 pro-
coed to prove II. T
There are In all communities
many invalids. They never know Q
well day. They adhere to their
Occ1pstions, but they 60 painting along
as streets with exhausticns,. and st even
noe they lie down on the lounge with
Naings beyond all medicsment. They
frs tined all prescriptions, they have
gone through sill the cures which were
Proclaimed lnfallible, and they have
come now to surrender to perpetual all
tents. They consider they are among
many disadvantages, and when they see
nose who are buoyant Ia health pass by,
NeFsmost envy their robust frames and
asY respiration.
But have noticed among thst invalid
a,ss nose who have the greatest knoWl-
sOssoi the Bible, who ere In nearest init
licI with Jesus Christ, who have the
Isss glowing experiences of the truth,
vac have had the most remarkable an.
'SsB to prayer, and who have most
RxHILARATING ANTICIPATIoNs
aasaVen. The temptations which weary
sWno are in robust health they have
Snquered. They have divided among
gem The spOiis of the conquest. Many
W., saa gre alert and athletic and swarthy
. slel IN the way. These are the lame
~ nv lske the prey. Robert Hall, 81 invs-
oai Edward Psyson, an invalid; Richard
.a1.eF, az invalid; Samuel Rutherford,
Invalid. This morning, when You
IN to call to mind those who are most
.lSu!Ee, you think OF some dsrkened
Ssa 10 your father's house from viii b
@sie vent forth an influence potent for
step further: Through raised letters
M OF printing has been brought to
sv,saention of the blind.
-, .ou take up the Bible for the blind and
~ Vlose your eyes, and you run your I'm
s III ever the rsised letters and you say:
'sa, | never could get any Information
uis way. What slew, numerous
nol fesdiugi God help the blind"
a., sea ye. find among that class of per-
III among the blind, She deaf and the
~ ~, Inc most thorough acquaintance
~ God's word. Shut out from all
NJ sources OF information, no sooner
~ saelr hand touch the raised letter
,taty gather prayer. Without eyes,
looS CT upon the kingdoms OF Gods
~ Without hearing, they catch the
,s,snne!sY Of the skies. Dumb, yet with
b. or with irrsdisted c1untenance,
1ecsre the glory of God.
ase audience gathered In New
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