Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

meet US at certain points on our way
over to business, and let each one say:
elbow sick you look;'' though we should
start out well, after meeting the first
and hearing his depressing salute, we
would begin to examine our symptoms.
after meeting the second gloomy accost-
ing we would conclude we did not feel
quite as well as usual. After meeting
the third our sensations would be dread
full, and after meeting the fourth, un-
less we expected conspiracy, we would
go home and go to bed, and the
other six pessimists would be
a useless surplus of discourage
ment. My dear sir, my dear madam,
what do you mean by going about this
world with disheartenments? Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and mis-
fortune enough to meet the demand
without your running factory of pins
and spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue in the world when God so sell
dom plants them? Plenty of scarlet col
fors. plenty of yellow, plenty of green,
plenty of pink, but very seldom plant
black or blue. l never saw a black
flower, and there s only here and there a
blue bell or violet; but the blue is for
the most part reserved for the sky, and
we have to look up to see that, and when
we look up no color can do us harm.
Why not plant along the paths of others
the brightnesses instead of the glooms?
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you
must be prophet at all
BE AN EZEKIEL AND NOT A JEREMIAH.
In ancient times prophets who foretold
evil were doing right, for they were di-
vinely directed; but the prophets of evil
in our time are generally false
prophets. Some of our weather
wise people are prophesying we
shall have a summer of unparalleled
scortch. It will not be that at all. l
think we are going to have q summer of
great harvest and univeral health; at
any rate 1 know as much about 1t as they
do. Last fall all the weather prophets
agreed in saying we should have winter
of extraordinary severity, blizzard on
the heels of blizzard 1t was the mildest
winter 1 ever remember to have passed.
Indeed, the autumn and the spring al
most showed winter out Of the procession.
Real troubles have no heralds running
ahead of their somber chariots, and no
one has any authority IN our time to an
nounce their coming. Load yourself up
with healthful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in our churches is unfit
TO pc sung, Tor IL says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser-
able all the time. The old song sung at
the pianos q quarter of q century ago
was right: Kind words can never die. -
Such kind words have their nests n kind
hearts, and when they are Matched out
and take wing they circle round in flights
hot .
cannot shoot them. and storms cannot
ruffle their wings, and when they cease
fight in these lower skies of earth they
sweep around amid the higher attitudes
of heaven. At Baltimore a few days ago
l talked into photograph. The cylin-
der containing the words was sent on to
Washington, and the next day that cylin-
der from another photographic instru-
ment, when turned, gave back to me the
very words had uttered the day before,
and with the same intonations. Scold
into monograph, and it
will scold back. Pour mild
words INTO a monograph, and it will
return the gentleness. Society and the
world and the church are monographs.
Give them acerbity and rough treatment
and acerbity and rough treatment you
will get back Give them practical
friendliness and they will give back
practical friendliness. A father asked his
little daughter: Mary, why is it that
everybody loves you?' She answered:
81 don t know unless it is because [
love everybody - GA man that hath
friends must show himself friendly. -
We want something like that spirit of
sacrifice tor others which was seen III the
English channel, where in the storm
boat containing three men upset, and all
three were inthe water struggling for their
lives. A boat came to their relief, and
rope was thrown to one of them
and he refused to take it, saying:
First fling it to Tom; he is
just ready to go down. 1 can
last some time longer. - man like
that, be he sailor or landsman, be he in
upper ranks of society or lower ranks :,
will always have plenty of friends. What
is true MAYNARD is true Godward. We
must be the friends of God if we want
Him to be our friend We cannot treat
Christ badly all our lives and expect Him
to treat us lovingly was reading of a
sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured
a French officer, and when the French
officer offered Lord Nelson his hand
Nelson replied: ''First give me your
sword and then give me your hand -
Surrender of our resistance to God must
precede God proffer of pardon to us.
Repentance before forgiveness. You
must give up your rebellious sword be-
fore you can get grasp Of the divine
hand.
IT is GOOD TO HAVE GODS FRIENDSHIP.
Oh, what a glorious state of things to
have the friendship of God Why. we
could afford to have the whole world
against us and all other worlds against
us if we had God for us. He could in a
minute blot out this universe, and in an
other minute make q better universe. l
have no idea that God tried hard when
he made all things. The most brilliant
thing known to us is light, and for the
creation of that he only used a word of
command. As out of flint the 'front.'
iersman strikes a spark, so out of one
word God struck the MONDAY sun. For
the making of the present universe 1 do
not read that God lifted so much as a
finger The Bible frequently speaks of
God 8 hand, and God IS arm, and Gods
shoulder, and God IS foot; then suppose
He should put hand and arm and shoulder
and foot to utmost tension, what could
He not make? That God, Of such
demonstrated and undemonstrated
strength, you may have for your present