Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-25

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resolved that he would take care of his
fathers household, but under the swoop
of yellow fever at Fernandina, Fla, he
suddenly expired So you know good
men and women who have had enough
troubles, you think, to crush fifty peo-
pie. No worldly philosophy could take
such trouble and set it to music, OF
play it on violin or flute or dulcimer or
sackbut, but l dare TO open that dark
saying
on A GOSPEL HARP.
You wonder that very consecrated peo-
pie have trouble2 Did you ever know
any very consecrated man or woman who
had not had great trouble? Never. 1t
was through their troubles sanctified that
they were made very good. If you find
anywhere in this city man who has now
and always has had perfect health, and
never lost child. and has always been
popular, aud never had business struggle
OF misfortune, who is distinguished for
goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph
messenger boy and send me word and
will drop everything and go right away
to look at him. There never has been
man like that and never will be. Who
are those arrogant, self-conceited Great
ures who move about without sympathy
for others and who think more of St.
Bernard dog, or an Alderney COW, or
Southdown sheep, or a Berkshire pig
than of a man? They never had any
trouble, or the trouble was never sane
tilted. Who are these men who listen
with moist eyes as you tell them of suf-
fering and who have pathos in their
voice and a kindness in their manner and
an excuse or al alienation for those gone
astray? They are the men who have
graduated at the Royal Academy Of
Trouble and they have the diploma writ
ten in wrinkles on their own counte-
nances. Ny! my! What heartaches
they had! What tears they have wept!
What injustice they have suffered The
mightiest influence
FOR PURIFICATIoN AND SALVATION
is trouble. No diamond fit for crown
until it is cut No wheat fit for bread
till it is ground. There are only three
things that can break off chain-a ham
mer, file or a fire; and trouble is all
three of them. The greatest writers,
orators and reformers get much of their
force from trouble. What gave to
Washington Irving that exquisite ten
derness and pathos which viii make
his books fagorites while the
English language continues to be
break that he never once mentioned; and
when, thirty years after the death of Ma
tilda Hoffman, who was to have been his
bride, her father picked up piece of
embroidery and said: ''That is piece
of poor Matilda 5 " orkmanship - Wash
inton Irving sank from hilarity into ST.
lence and walked away. Out of that
lifetime grief the great author dipped his
pen S mightiest Reinforcement. "Cal-
vim IS Institutes of Religion than which
a more wonderful book was never writ
ten by human hand, was begun by the
author at twenty-five years of age, be-
cause of the prosecution by Francis, king
of France. Faraday toiled for all time
on a salary of ESQ a year and candles.
AS every brick of the wall of Babylon
was stamped with the letter N, standing
for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the
temple of Christian achievement is
stamped with the letter Y,
STANDING FOR TROUBLE.
When in olden time man was to be
houored with knighthood he was struck
with the fat of the sword. But those who
who have come to the honor of knight
hood i'll the kingdom of God were first
struck not with the fiat of the sword, but
with the keen edge of the cimeter. To
Paul could not have spared one lash, one
prison, one stoning, one anathema, one
poisonous viper from the hand, one ship
wreck. What is true of individuals is
true of nations The horrors of the
American revolution gave this country
this side of the Mississippi river to indie
pendence, and the conflict between En-
gland and France gave the most
of this country west Of the Mis-
sissippi to the United States.
France owned it, but Napoleon,
fearing that England would take it,
practically made a present to the United
States-for he received only S15, 900 900
of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas,
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota,
Colorado, Dakora, Montana, Wyoming
and the Indian Territory. Out of the
fire of the American revolution came this
country east of the Mississippi, out of the
European war came that west of the
Mississippi river. The British empire
rose to its present overtowering grandeur
through gunpowder plot, and Guy
Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northampton
Instruction, and Walter Raleigh's be-
heading, and Bacon s bribery, and Crom-
well 5 dissolution of parliament, and the
battles of Edge Hill, and Grantham, and
Newberry, and Marston Moor, and
Naseby and Dunbar, and Sedgemoor,
and execution of Charles the l., and
London plague, and London fire, aud
London Instruction, and Ryehouse plot,
and the
VICISSITUDES OF CENTURIES.
So the earth itself, before it could become
appropriate and beautiful residence for
the human family had, according to ge-
ology to be washed by universal deluge,
and seorched and made incandescent by
universal fires, and pounded by sledge-
hammer OF Icebergs, and wrenched by
earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed noun
tains, and passed through the catastro-
pixies of thousands of years before Para
disc became possible and the groves
could shake out their green banners
and the first garden pour its car
mage of color between the Gihon
and the Hiddekel. Trouble a good
thing for the rocks, good thing for
nations. as wen as good thing for
individuals. So when you push against
me with n sharp Interrogation point,
Why do the good suffer- 1 open the
darks saying on a harp, and though l
can neither play an organ, or cornet, or