Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-28

ance of the pulpit he said in a subdued
tone: esThat Is lie. An officer of the
church tapped him on the shoulder and
said: You must be silent, or you must
90 out. - The next night that stranger
came, and he was converted TO God. He
was in the liquor business. He resigned
the business. The next day he sent back
the samples that had just been sent him.
He began to love That which he hated. /
baptized him by hmm rsion in the bap
tistry under this platform. a large sal
arg was offered him if he would return
to his former business. He declined it
He would rather suffer with Jesus Christ
than be prospered in the world. He
wrote home a letter to his Christian
mother. The Christian mother wrote
back congratulating him, and said: If
in the change of your business
You have lack Of means, come home;
you are always welcome home.' He
told of his conversion to dissolute com
panion. The dissolute companion said:
''Wel1 if you have become q Christian,
you had better go over and talk TO that
dying girl. She is dying with quick con-
sumption in that house. The new con-
vert went there. All the surroundings
were dissolute. He told the dying girl
that Jesus would save her. ''Oh, said
she, that can't be, that can't be.
What makes you think so?'' 81 have it
here in book in my pocket, - ne re-
piled. He pulled out New Testam ent.
She said: ''Show it to me; if l can be
saved, show it to me in that book - He
said: g have neglected this book as you
have neglected it for many years, and [
don't know where to find it, but 1 know
it is somewhere between the lids. Then
he began to turn over the leaves, and
strange and beautiful to say, his eye
struck upon this passage: ''Neither do [
condemn thee; go and sin no more. -
She said: cit isn't possible that is
there! - eyes, - he said, s'that is
there. - He held it up
BEFORE HER DYING EYES,
end she said: "'Oh, yes, see it for
myself; l accept the promise, Neither
do 1 condemn thee; go and sin no
more. - In a few hours her spirit sped
away to the Lord that gave it, and the
new convert preached the funeral SER
mon. The man who few days before
had been a blasphemer and drunkard,
and a hater of all that was good, he
preached the sermon. That is regenera-
ton, that is regeneration! If there are
any dry husks of technicality in that,
where are they? All made over again by
the power of the grace of God.
a few years ago a ship captain came in
here and sat yonder under the gallery.
He came in with a contempt for
the church of God and with an
especial dislike for Talmage.
When an opportunity was given
he arose for prayer, and as he was
more than six feet high, when he arose
rN,. hat na
That hour he became a Christian He
went out and told the ship owners and
ship commanders what a great change
had been wrought in him, and scores and
scores have been brought to God through
his instrumentality.
A little while after his conversion he
was on ship off Cape Hatteras in thick
and prolonged fog, and they were at
their wits ends and knew not what to
do, the ship drifting about hither and
thitheT, and they lost their bearings; and
the converted sea captain went to his
room and asked God for the salvation of
the ship, and God revealed it to him
while he was on his knees that at a GER
tain hour, only little way off, the fog
would lift; and
THE CONVERTED SEA CAPTAIN
came out on deck and told how God heard
his prayers He said: sit is all right
boys, very soon now the fog will lift,''
mentioning the hour. A man who stood
there laughed aloud in derision at the
idea that God would answer prayer: but
at just the hour when God had assured
the captain the fog would lift there came
a flash of lightning through the fog and
the man who had jeered and laughed was
stunned and fell to the deck. The fog
lifted. Yonder was Cape Hatteras light
house. The ship was put on the right
course and sailed OF to the harbor Of
safety.
When in seaport the captain spends
most of his time in evangelical work
He kneels down by one who has been
helpless in bed for many months, and the
next day she walks forth in the streets
well. He kneels beside one who has long
been decrepit, aud he resigns the
crutches. He kueels beside one who had
not seen enough to be able to read for
ten years, and she reads the Bible that
day. Consumptions go away, and those
who had diseases that were appalling to
behold come up to the rapid GONZALES
cence and to complete health. am not
telling you anything second
handed. have had the
story from the lips of the patients in
this very house, those who were brought
to health of body while at the same time
brought to God. No second hand story
this. l have heard the testimony from
men and women who have been cured.
You may call it faith-eure. CT you may
call it the power of God coming down in
answer to prayer; do not care what you
call it it is a fact. The soothing sea cap
tain, his heart full of hatred for Chris
tianity, now becomes a follower of the
meek and lowly Jesus, giving all the
time to
EVANGELICAL LABoRS,
or all.the time he can spare from other
occupations. That's regeneration, that
is regeneration. Man all made over
again.
'.There is your absurd doctrine of vica-
rious sacrifice - say these men who have
chewed up the little book of creeds and
have the consequent embittered stomach.
''Vicarlous sacrifice! Let every man
suffer for himself. Why do l want Christ
TO suffer for me? Tn SITTER for myself
and carry my own burdens. - They scoff
ut the idea of vicarious sacrifice, while
they admire it everywhere else except in
Christ. People see its beauty when a