Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12

When good men take possession or all
these scientific forces and all these agen-
cies of invention, 1 do not know that
the redemption of the world will be
more than the work of half day. Do
we not read the queen s speech at the
proroguing of parliament the day before
IN London? If that be so is it anything
marvellous that in twenty-four hours a
divine communication can reach the
whole earth? Suppose Christ should de-
scend on the nations-many expect that
Christ will come among the nations per-
sonally-suppose that tomorrow morn
ing the Son OF God from lowering cloud
should descend upon these cities. Would
not that fact be know all the world over
in twenty -four hours? Suppose he should
present His gospel in few words, say
ing: ''I am the Son of God; came to
pardon all your sins aud 10 heal all your
sorrows, to prove that am a
supernatural being 1 have just
descended from the clouds; do
you believe me, and do
you believe me now? Why, all the tele-
graph stations of the earth would be
crowded as none of them were ever
crowded just after a shipwreck. ! tell
you these things to show you it Is not
among the impossibilities or even the i'm
probabilities that Christ will conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter, when
the time comes. There are foretoken-
ings in the air. Something great is going
soon to happen. l do not think that Jupiter
is going to run US down, or that the axle
of the world is going TO break; but
mean something great for the worlds
blessing and not for the worlds damage
is going to happen. 1 think the world
has had il hard enough. Enough, the
London plaques. Enough, the Asiatio
chOlePas. Enough, the wars. Enough,
the shipwrecks Enough, the confiagra-
lions
LOOK OUT FOR A CELEBRATION.
[ think our world could stand right
well procession of properties and tri-
umphs. Better be on the lookout. Bet
ter have your observatories open to-
ward the heavens, and The lenses of your
most powerful telescopes we'll polished.
Better have all your Leyden jars ready
for some new pulsatiOn of mighty in
huence. Better have new fonts of type
in your printing Offices TO set up some
astounding good news. Better have
some banner that has never been carried
ready for sudden professions. Better
have the bells in your church towers well
hung and the ropes within reach, that
you may ring out the marriage Of the
Kings Son. Cleanse all your court
houses for the Judge of all the earth may
appear. Let all your legislative halls be
gilded, for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive off the thrones
of despotism all the occupants, for the
King of heaven and earth may be about
to reign. The darkness of the night is
blooming aud whitening into the lilies Of
olN
into the roses of stronger day-fit gar
lands, whether white or red, for Him on
whose head are many crowns. 1.-THE
day is at haud!''
One more ray of the dawn see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now, do not let US do another stroke Of
work until we have settled one matter.
What is going to be the final issue of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is gong to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? is this
world going to be all garden OF all
desert? Now let us have that matter
settled. If we believe Isaiah and
Ezekiel and Hosea, and Micah and
Malachi, and John and Peter, aud Paul
and Christ, we believe it is going to be
all garden. But let US have it settled.
Let Us know whether we are working on
toward a success OF toward a dead fail
ure. If there is a child in your house
sick, and you are sure he is going to get
well, you sympathiZe with present pans,
but all the forebOding is gone. If you
are in a cyclone off the Florida coast and
the captain assures you the vessel is
staunch and the winds are changing for a
better quarter, and he is sure he will
bring you safe into the haIbor, you pa
f1o fr,
thought of safe arrival. Now / want to
know whether we are coming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat, OF on
toward light and blessedness. You and
l believe the latter, and if so, every year
we spend is one year subtracted from the
worlds woe, and every event that
passes, whether bright or dark, brings
US one event nearer q happy cOnsumma-
ton and by all that is memorable il
chronology and mathematics 1 commend
you to good cheer and courage. If there
is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three,
then by every rolling sun we are coming
on toward a magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every summer
gone by brings US nearer unfading
arborescence. Put your algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is is nearer morning at CLOCK
than it is at =, if it Is nearer morning at
CLOCK than it is at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn Of the world 8 deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to 20 very
slowly, but the pendulum swings and the
hands move, and it win yet strike noon.
The sun and the moon stood still once;
they will never stand still again until
they stop forever. If you believe arith-
metic as we'll as your Bible, you must be-
Iieve we are nearer the dawn. 1.-The
day is at hand. -
MYSTERIOUS SIGNS OF THE TINES.
There is class Of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may after while
make demonstration in this world which
viii bring all moral and spiritual things
to climax. Now, l am no spiritualist;
but every intelligent man has noticed
that there are strange and mysterious
things which indicate to him that per-
haps the spiritual world is not so far off
as sometimes We conjecture, and that
after while, from the spiritual and
heavenly world there may be demon
stration upon our world for its better
ment. We call it magnetism. or we