Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
psnionehip;" on the third step: ga
Christian home with family altar" on

psnionehip;" on the third step: ga
Christian home with . family altar" on
the fourth step: Ever widening use:ul-
ness" en- the eth step: "a glorious
departure FROM this world" On the sixth
step: "Heavenl h.aysnI eeaven!"
Write It three times, and let The letters Of
the one word be made up OF banners, The
second of coronets, and the third CT
thrones! Promise me that you will do
that, and l Will promise to meet you on
the sixth step, Il the Lord will through
His pardoning grace bring me there too.
And here l am going 10 say word CT
cheer to people who have never had
word Of coDso!stlCn!on that su5lect. There
sre men and women IN this world by hun
dreds OF thousands, and some OF them are
lsre to-day, who have s fine Gs!ural
tasts, and yet sll their lives that taste has
been suppressed, sid slihough they could
APPRECIATE THE GALLERIES
CT Dresden snd Vienna SGD Naples far
more than 99s ont Of 1000 who visit them,
they never may go, for they must support
:heir households, ard bread and school
lug for their children are OF more
importance thsn pictures. Though ford
Of music, they sre compelled 10 live amid
discord and though fond Of architecture,
they dwell In clumsy abOdee, and though
a?preciatiVe OF all that elgrsyings and
paintings can do, they are in perpetual
deprivs ion. You are goirg, sfter you
get OF the sixth step OF iha, stsirs jast
spoken Of, to Ind yourselves In the royal
gallery Of the universe, the concentered
splendors Ct 81 worlds before yoIr trans
ported vision. IN some wsy sill the
thrilling scenes through which We and
the Church CT God have passed in onr
ssrshly Ssste will be pictured or brought
70 mind. AZ the cyclorsmA Of Gettysburg,
which ve nsd in B.ooklyD, one
dsy blind man, who lost
rig sight iu that battle, was
with his child heard taking while stsnd-
ing before that picture. Tae blind msn
ssid to the daughter: "Are there a. the
right OF tie picture some regiments
marching up hill? ?" eyes," she said,
"@ ELL" ssid the blind nan, ais there 6
general on horseback leading them on?"
EYES," she said. "Weil, is there rushing
down en- these men q csvslry charger"
"Yes," Was the reply. "And do there
seem to be many dying and desd2"
eyes" WAS the answer. i'Weu, now, do
near the wheel OF cannon" eyes"
CIV SoAN' ShSP A4SAh hLlO2Sp GsiN hlS
blind man. "That is the last thing ever
saw on earth! What 8 time it was,
Jenny, when los. my eyesight" But
when you, who have foupd life hard
bsttle, very Gettysburg, shsll stand n
the royal gallery of heaven, and with
your new vision begin to see and under-
stand that which in your earthly
blindness you could not see st sll, You
will DoIrt ont 10 VOuY celestial comrades
perhaps TO your own dear children who
have gone before, the scenes CT the earth-
ly conflicts in which you participated.
saying: "There from that hill Of pros
per!ty WAS driven back; in that valley
OF humiliation was wounded. There
lost my eyesight. That WAS the wey the
world looked when l last SAW 1t. But
what s grand thing to get celestial vision.
sad stand here before the cyclcrEml Of
saltwcrld's while the rider on the white
Ehotse goes on "corquering and TO con-
qder," the moon unosr His feet and the
Stars Of heaven for His tiara!