Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-28
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people who haa seoaed came and looked

people who laaa seo1fed came and looked
upon the
PALE FAeE OF THE MARTYR,
and all honor was done her: but 1t was
too late. Viearious sacrifice. All are
thrilled with such instances as that. But
MANY are not moved by the fact that
Christ paid His poverty for our riches !,
His self-abnegation for our enthFone-
ment, and knelt on the sharp edges of
humiliation that we might climb over His
lacerated shoulder into peace and heaven /.
Be IL ours TO admire and adore Theses
doctrines at which others jeer. Oh, he
depths Of the riches, both Of the wisdom
and knowledge OF Goit How unsearch-
able is His wisdom, and His ways
are past finding outi Oh, the
height, the depth, the length
the breadth, the inhnity the immensely :,
the eternity of that love. Let our ear :
nest prayers go out IN behalf of all those
who seoff at these doctrines of grace
When the London plague was raging in
the year 1865, there was a hotel near the
chief burial place that excited much
comment. England was in fright ana
bereavement. The dead carts went
through the streets day and night, and
the cry, ''bring ont your dead, - WAS
answered by the bringing out of the
forms of the loved ones, aid
they were put twenty or
thirty in a cart, and the
wagons went on TO the cemetery; and
these dead were not buried in graves
but in great trenches, in great pits, in
one pit 1Il4 burals! The carts would
come up with their great burden of twen-
ty or thirty TO the mouth OF the pit, and
the front of the cart was lifted and the
dead shot into the pit. All the churches
in London were open for prayer day and
night, and England was in a great an
guish. At that very time, at hotel at q
wayside inn, near
TIE CHIEF BURIAL-PLAcE,
there WIS group of hardened men, who
sat day after day and night after night
blaspheming God and Initiating the grief
struck who went by to the burial-pIaee.
These men sat there day after day and
night after night, and they scUffed at
men, and they scoffed at women, and
they scoffed at God. But after a while
one Of them was struck with a plague,
and in two weeks all of the group were
down in the trench from the margin
of which they had uttered their
ribaldry. My friends, greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions
have died of it. Millions are slnitten
with it now. Plague OF sin, plague of
sorrow, plague of wretchedness, plague
of woe. And consecrated women and
men from all Christendom are gong out
trying to stay the plague and alleviate
the anguish, and there is group of men
in this country base enough to sit and
deride the work. They scoff at the
Bible, and they scoff at evangelism,
and they scott at Jesus
Christ, and they scott at God. If these
words shall reach them, either while they
are sitting here to-day or through the
printing press, let me tell them to re-
member the fate of that group in the
wayside inn while the plague spreads its
two black wings over the doomed city of
London. Oh, instead of being scoffers
let us be disciples! ''Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the I'M
godfy nor standeth in the way of sin
ners, nor sitteth in the seat of the seorn-
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