Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-16
head? II you have ever killed snake

the passage ought to be plain to YOU.
You sea this old serpent, the devil, has
cra1led across the nations, poisouiu Q
whole generations and leaving It's trail5on
everything; but after s while il will be
cornered, and Kissing and writhing in
rSge, and with crest lifted and forked
tongue shot out 1t will make faal stack
on Clri5t, and Christ viii sdvsuce upon
1t, and lifting his omnipotenI foot, that
foot strong enough to crush o world, lift
Ing that foot right over the head OF the
reptile, will put down his heel with
crushing power that shall leave the
N onster bleeding and msahed, lever to
hiss sEsin, or bite sgsip, or shake his
cid rattle sgain. Thank God he has a.
ready received stunning blow. Hear
you not the rambling OF the Christian
printing presses and the whirlipg Of the
Gospel chsfiOt wheel? As many souls
have bsen added to the Christian church
In the last eighty years IS II the previous
eighteen centuries. and that is re- 10 Of
Increase scclamstory with e 6dness. TIE
kingdom lie coming, and I am SO sure
If 1t that do not propose to fret and
Worrv because 1t has noI already come.
may Jump to get on boat thai ia going
OF, bat do not propose TO
JOMF Fos BOAT
that is coming in. The sharp attacks OF
infdelity and sin are 3 good sign that
especial blessing is coming in showers
ever eli the earth. Files bite shsrp Just
before rain.
II we do not see the full contamination
our children will see II. In the time If
he Frenca Revolution = great procession
Of boys carried through the streets bsn.
ner with this inscrip ,ion: "Prembls ".
rsnte; We shall grow Upi" Though We
nag fail 10 do our duty there IL 9 rising
generation being gospelizad and coming
OF the hundreds OF thousands from our
Ssbasth-echools sad Christian homes wac
might properly bsTe on their banners:
"ftemble, ye powers OF darkness ana
III; Cor we are growing up" We may
not amount to much in ourselves, co, If
Ee pa! ourselves in the rigot place
We can do great exploits. fRo pat
under two make Only four; but
placed beside two mako twenty-five.
Yet what you and mos! need is power
to drive back this Apollyon, this AS
modeus, this Ahrimsnes from tpr hears
, ssd lives. and We can do it, not By oul
own strength, but by divine power sRorc-
ed, for here is passage embIiZ2ned with
encouragement, which Bsys: Resist
the devil and he will Zee from you "
Remember it is no sin Of all 70 be
tempted. The best and the nightiesl
have been tempted. Milton describes h
toad squat st the ear of Eve. The sin is
10 surrendering. Do NOT feel So secure
in yourself as to think You cinnet be
overthrow. How do you account for
the fsct that there are SO many old men IN
Slg Sing and Auburn and the other psa
itentsFies, serving out their protfacted
sentences fer frauds Committed in mid
l,fs or advanced ages, although Ia II
early life had been g0oo, and nothing bad
been suspected ct them unlll ct fly or
SKY years OF age the whole land WIS
struck dumb st their
FORGERY OR ENLIGHTENMENT
The clock in the sGeepie Of old Trinity
church striking the hours did Dot re
mid the TeCreEnt Wal stfeeteT OF the
passage Of time thss would soon brig
exposure to and doom The cxplsns
ton is tat Mephis.ophslss, Apoligon,
Satan got il his work at that time. The
man vas not naturally bad Hs WAS as
good as any q yau sTe, but Saten with
whole bEt.alions Of Intervals sWoOpsO
upon hin uEswsres. Look out for the
wlles Of the devil, not only those cf you
who are ynung but the midde>sged and
tie old. Outside Of God you are nos cafe
moment. But yield not to diaheart-
ment. II we put our trust in God cur
best days ara yet to Come-3sys OK vic
tory, days OF song, days Of heaven, ind
the best days OF the cause of righteous
ness in al the earth are yet to come. As
the ten thousand men CT Xerophou'5
army when they came to the top Of Mount
Theches snd saw the waters On which
they we're to SSH 10 their homes, The SOL
diers with clsppirg hands AMI waving
banners al t0gsther shouted: "The sea;
the see, ~ So We to-day in our march
toward our heavenly home come up to
the top Of the mount. CT holy anticips
ton and look OF upon ccesns Of Hight and
oceans OF glory ana oceans OF jGy; ard
thrilled as we hsv5 Fever been thrilled
before we clap our hands and wsVe Gu
gospel ensigus and cry one TO another and
shout up to the responding snd .ee5o-
ing heEvsre: "The ssss the ses !''es