Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11

flia1 Absalom did not trouble it. Ambi-
tious Adonijah did not worry it. Perse-
cutting Saul did not harrow it. Exile
did not
FILL IT WITH NIGHTMARE.
Since a red headed boy amid his
fathers focks at night, he had not had
such good sleep At seventy years of
age he lay down TO it. he has had many
troubled sleep as in the cayerns OF
Adullam or in the palace at the time his
enemies were attempting his capture
But this was a peaceful sleep, calm
sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious sleep.
''AfteP he had served his generation by
the will of God, he feel on sleep. Oh,
what good thing is sleep altar hard
days work. 1t takes all the aching
out of the head and all the weari-
ness ont of the limbs and smart
ing out of the eyes. From it
we rise in the morning and
it is new world. And if
we, like David, serve our generation, we
will at life's close have most desirable
and refreshing sleep. In it will vanish
our last fatigue of body, our last worri-
ment of mind, our last sorrow of soul.
To the Christian s body that was hot
with raging fevers so that the attendants
must by sheer force keep on the blankets,
it will be the cool sleep. To those who
are thin blooded and shivering with
agues, it will be the warm sleep. To
those who, because of physical disorders,
were terrified with night visions, 1t will
be the dreamlesS sleep. To nurses and
doctors and mothers who were wakened
almost every hour of the night by those
-
they watched, it viii be the undisturbed
sleep. To those who could not get to bed
till late at night and must rise early in
the morning and before getting rested, it
will be the long sleep.
AWAY WITH 1T.
Away with all your gloomy talk about
departure from this world. If we have
served our generation it will not be put
ting out into the breakers, it will not be
the fight with the King of Terrors; it will
be going to sleep. A friend writing me
from Illinois says that Rev. DR.. Wingate,
president of Wake Forest college, North
Carolina, after a most useful life, found
his last day on earth his happiest day,
and that III his last moments he seemed
to be personally talking with Christ, as
friend with friend, saying: "Oh, how
delightful it is. 1 knew you would be
with me when the time came, and knew
it would be sweet, but did not know it
would be as sweet as it is. The fact
was he had served his generation in the
gospel ministry, and by the will of God
he fell on sleep. When in Africa, Maj
wara, the servant, looked into the tent
of David Livingstone and found him on
his knees, he stepped back, not wishing
to disturb him in prayer, and some time
after went in and found him in the same
posture, and stepped back again, but
after while went in and touched him,
and lo the great traveller had
finished his last journey and he had
died in the grandest and mightiest
posture a man ever takes-on his knees.
He had served his generation by unroll-
ing the scroll of a continent, and by the
will of God fell on sleep. Grimshaw, the
evangelist, when asked how he felt in
his last moments, responded: Gas hap
Ply as [ can be on earth and as sure of
glory as if were in it. have nothing
to do but to step out of this bed into
- Having served his genera
ton in successful evangelism by the will
of God,