Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
and Crash 60 All Domestic Hopes,
Prospects and Expectations.
You can not Put Your Trust In Any
Man Until You Know What Kind
Of Stuff He is Made OF.
Better Go Down Into a Cave Of Wild Beasts
or Jungle OF serpents than Into
the Grave Without Christ
BELIEVE AND BE SAVED.
Special to the Gazette.

ST. PAUL, MINI. July 2S.-The Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., of Brook
Ign, \. Y. preached in this city to-day
His subject was 1.-THE Earthquake,
and he took for his text: ''Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved Acts xvi, 81. The sermon was
as follows:
Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome
places even now; but they were worse in
the apostolic times. I imaging to-day we
are standing in the Philippian dungeon
Do yOu not feel the chill? Do you not
hear the groan of those incarcerated
ones who for ten years have not seen the
sunlight and the deep sigh OF women who
remember their fathers house, and
mourn over their wasted estate? Listen
again. 1t Is the cough OF a consumptive i,
or the struggle of one in the night
mare of a great horror. You
listen again and hear q culprit, his
chains rafting as he rolls over in his
dreams, ana you say; f'God pity the
prisoner. But there is another sound
ia that prison. 1t is a song of joy and
giadness. What place TO sing in! Tie
music comes winding through the cOrri-
Gors Of the prison, and in all the dark
wards the whisper is heard: 90 What 5
that? What s that?''
THE SONG OF PAUL AND sILAs.
1t is the song Of Paul and Silas. They
cannot sleep. They have been whipped,
very badly whipped. The long gashes
on their backs are bleeding yet. They
lie fiat on the cold ground, their feet fast
in wooden sockets, ana of course they
cannot sleep. But they can sing
Jaiier, what are you doing with these
people? Why have they been put in
here? Oh, they have been trying to
make the world better. Is that all?
That is all. 4 pit for Joseph. A lion $
cave for Daniel. 4 blazing furnace
for Shadrach. Clubs for John Wes-
ley. An anathema for Philip Me-
lancthon. A dungeon for Paul and Silas.
But while we are standing in the gloom
OF the Pnilippian dungeon, and we hear
the mingling voices of sob and grOan and
bIasphemy ana halleluiah, suddenly an
earthqEakei The iron bars of the prison
twist, the pillars crack off, the solid ma
s0nry begins to heaTe and all the doors
swing open. The iaileT, feeling himself
responsible for these prisoners, and be-
lieyiHg, in his pagan ignorance, suicide
TO be hOnOrGble-since BTutuS killed him
self, and Cato killed himself, and Cas-
sius killed himself-puts his sword to his
own heart, proposing with one strong,
keen thrust 10 put an end to his excite
ment aud agitation. But Paul cries ont:
''Stop! stop! Do myself no harm
We are all here. Then l
see the jailer running through
the dust aud amid the ruin of that
prison, and [ see him throw himself down
at the feet of these prisoners, crying out:
''What shall do? What shall l dol? "
Did Paul answer: ''Get out this place
before there is another earthquake; put
handouts and hopples on these other
prisoners, lest they get awaY?' no
word OF that kind. His compact, thrill
ing, tremendous answer, answer memoir
able through all earth and heaven, was:
: Belisve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt be saved. - Well, we have all
read of the earthquake in Lisbon, in
Lima, in Aleppo and in Caracas; but we
live i'll a latitude where severe volcanic
disturbances are rare And yet we have
seen fifty earthquakes. Here is man
who has been
BUILDING Up \ LARGE FORTUNE.
His bid on the money market was felt in
You'd all annoying riyairies in trade, and
he says to himself: "Now l am free
and safe from all possible perturba-
ton. But il 1887 or in 1857 or iii 1873
a national panic strikes the foundations
Of the commercial world, and crash
goes all that magnificent business es-
adjustment. Here is i man VINO has
built up a very beautiful home. His
daughters have Just come from the semi
nary with diplomas of graduation. His
SONS have started in life, honest, tenn
perate and pure. When the evening
lights are struck, there Is a happy and
unbroken family circle. But there has
been an accident down at Long Branch.
The young man YentuTed too far out in
the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror
up to the city. An earthquake struck
under the foundations Of thar beautiful
home. The piano closed, the curtains
dropped, the laughter hushed. Crash!
20 all those domestic hopes aud prospects
and expectations. So, my friends, we
have all felt the shaking down of some
great trouble, and there was a time
when We were as much excited as this
man of the text, and we cried out as he
LID: "What shall l do? What shall
io?'' The same reply that the apostle
made 20 him is appropriate to us: Be
iove en- the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt 6e saved -
There are some documents Of so little
Importance that yOu do not care to put
any more than your last name under
hem, or even your initials; but there
Ire some documents of so great impOr-
auce that you write out your full name.
so the Savior in some parts OF the Bible
; called lord - ana in other parts Of
he Bible he is called "Jesus, and in
other parts of the Bible he Is called
Christ, bat that there might not be
10 mistake about this passage, all three
names come together-''T The Lord Jesus
Christ.
YOU CAN TRUST HIM.
Now, who is this Being that you want
ne TO trust in and believe in? Men
come 10 NE with credentials
md certificates of good character, but l
.2uuet trust them. There is some dis
honesty in their looks that makes me
Know / shall be cheated if [ confide in
hem. You cannot put your heart s con-
;dence in man until you know what !
tuT he is made of, and am 1 Hnreason-
IDLE to-day when / stop 10 ask you who
his IS that you want me to trust in? No
nan would think OF yenturing his life !
ID q vessel going out to sea that had l