Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19

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.tion. The surgeon must come away from
his study of the human organism and
| set our broken bones. The chemist must
come away from his laboratory, where he
! has been studying analysis and synthesis
| and help us to understand the nature of
! the soils. l bless God that all classes of
| people are compelled to meet on the
! street. The glittering coach wheel
| clashes against the scavenger's cart
Fine robes run against the peddler's
/ pack. Robust health meets wan sick
| ness. Honesty confronts fraud. Every
class OF people meets every other class.
Independence and mOdesty, pride and
humility, purity and beastliness, frank
! ness and hypocricy, meeting on the same
block, in the same street, in
| the same city. Oh! that is what
Solomon meant when he said: 1.-THE
rich and the poor meet together; the
Lord is the maker of them all - I like
this democratic principal of the gospel
of Jesus Christ, which recognizes the
fact that we stand before God on one and
the same platform. Do not take on any
airs: whatever position you have gained
in society, yOu are nothing but man,
born of the same parent, regeuerated by
the same spirit ,cleansed in the same blood,
to lie down in the same dust, to get up
in the same resurrection. II is high time
that we all acknowledge not only the
fatherhCod of God but the brotherhood
of man
HARD TO KEEP THE HEART RIGHT.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that it is very hard thing for q
man to keep his heart Eight and to get to
heaven. Infinite temptations spring
upon Us from these places of public con-
course. Amid so much affluence, low
much temptation to coyetOusneSs and to-
be disconnected with our humble lots
Amid so many opportunities for over
reaching, what temptation to eXtortiOn.
Amid so much display, what temptation
to vanity. Amid so many saloons of
strong drink, what allurements to
dissipation. In the maelstToms of
the street, how many make quick
and eternal shipwreck If man
Of-war comes back from a battle and is
tOwed into the navy yard, we go down to
look at the spEnteTed spaTS and count
the bullet holes, and look with patriotic
admiration on the flag that tioated in
victory from the mast head. But that
man is more of a curiosity who has gone
through thirty years of the sharp-shoOt-
ing of business life, and yet sails on.
victor over the temptations of the street.
Oh, how many have gone down under
the pressure, leaving not SO much as the
patch of canvas to tell where thew per-
ished They never had any peace. Their
dis hOnestIes kept toliing IN their ears. If
I had an ak, and could split open the
beams of that fine house, perhaps I would
find in the very heart of it a skeleton.
IN his very best wine there is
smack OF the poor man s sweat Oh! is
il strange that when man has devOured
widows houses he is disturbed with indi-
gestiOn? Ali the forces of nature are
against him. The floods are ready to
drown him, and the earthquake to swal-
low him, and the fires to consume him,
ana the lightnings to smite him. Bnt the
children of God are on every street, and
in the day when the cTownsOf heaven are
distributed some of the brightest of them
viii be given to those men who were
faithful to God and faithful TO the souls
of others amid the marts of business,
proving themselves the heroes of the
street. Mighty were their temptations,
mighty was their deliverance, and
mighty shall be their triumph.
THE sHAMs OF LIFE.
Again, the street impresses me with the
fact that life is full of pretensiOn and
sham What subterfuge, what double
dealing, what two facedness. Do all
people who wish you good morning really
hope 70" You happy day? Do ali the
people who snake hands love each other?
Are all those anxious about your health
who inquire concerning it? Do all want
to see you who ask yOu 30 calt? Does all
the world know half as much as it pre-
tends to know? Is there not many a
wretched stock of goods with a brilliant |
oh,
these streets to your business and your
work, are you not impressed with the |
fact that much of society is hollow, and |
that there are subterfuges and preten-
siOns? Oh. how many there |
are who swsgger aud strut,
and how few people who |
are natural and walk. While tops sim |
per and fools chuckle, and simpleton s |
giggIe how few people are natural and |
laugh. The courtesan and the libertine |
go down the street i'll beautiful apparel, |
while within the heart there are vOlca- |
noes of passion consuming their life |
away. l say these things not to create |
in you incredulity or misanthropy, nor |
90 l forget there are thousands of people |
a great deal better than they seem; but l |
do not think any man is prepared for the |
conflicts of this life until no knows this |
DdIIlCUldI perm. E.nuu COlueS pretending
to pay his tax to King Eglou, and while |
he stands in front Of the king, stabs him |
through with q dagger until the haft |
went IN after the blade. Judas Iscariot |
kissed Christ
a FIELD FOR CHARITY.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that it's great field for Christian
charity. There are hunger and suffer-
ing, and want and wretchedness, in the
but these evils chiefly congre-
gate in our great cities. On every street
crime prowls, and drunkenness staGgers,
and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts
out its hand asking for aims. Here want
is most squalid and hunger is most lean.
A Christian man, going along street in
New York, saw poor lad, and he
stopped and said: my boy, do you
know how to read and writer The boy
made no answer. The man asked
the question twice and thrice:
. Can you read and writer and then the
boy answered, with a tear FLASHING
on the back of his hand. He said in
defiance: mo, sir; I cant read nor