Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-07


with equal physical health, aud then one
Of them shah get the religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ in his heart and the other shah
not get il, the one who becomes q son of
the Lord Almighty viii live the longer.
with long life viii l satisfy thee, and
show thee my salvation -
Again / remark that Goodness is good
for the intellect. know some have sup
posed that Just as soon as a man
enters into the Christian life, his
intellect goes into betfwarflng process.
So far from that, religion viii give new
bTiliiancy to the intellect, new strength
70 the imagination, new force TO the
viii, and wider swing to all the intellect
ual faculties. Christianity Is the great
central fire at which philosophy has
lighted its brightest torch. The religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ is the fountain
out of which learning has dipped its
cIearest draaght The Helieon poured
forth no saeh inspiring waters as those
which flow from under the throne of God
clear as crystal. Religion has given new
energy TO poesy, weeping in DR.. Young's
Night Thoughts, - teaching in Cow
per s eeTasll , tanning IA Charles Wes-
leys hymns, and rushing with archan-
gelic splender through Milton 5 GO Para
disc Lost. y The religion Of Jesus Christ
has hung in studio, and in gallery of art,
and IN vatican, the best pictures
Titan s. Assumption, RaphaeI's
Transformation - Reubens' g Descent
from the Cross, - CTaude's Burning
Bush, - and Angeles 'eLast Judg-
ment. - Religion has made e
THE BEST MUSIC OF TIRE WORLD,
Hayden IS Creation, - HandeI's Mes
siah, ," Mozart's Requiem. - Is it
possible that religion which builds such
ndestructible monuments, and which
lifts its ensign on the highest pPomontor-
les of worldly power, can have any eff
feet upon Il man S intellect but elevation
and enlargement? Now, l commend
Goodness as the best mental discipline
better than belles-IetterS to purify the
taste, better than mathematics to harness
the mind to all ntricacy and elaboration
better than logic 10 marshal the intellec-
tual forces for onset and victory. 1t will
go with Hugh Miller and show him the
footprints of the Creator in theEe5g sand
stone 1t viii 90 with the botanist and
show him celestial elorles encamped under
the curtain of water lily. 1t viii go with
the astronomer on the great heights
where God shepherds the great flock OF
worlds, that wander on the hills of
them all by their names
Again l remark, that Goodness is
profitable for ones disposition Lord
Ashley, before he went into great bat
tie, was heard to offer this prayer: go
Lord, / shall be very busy to-day; if /
forget Thee, forget me not. - With such
a Christian disposition as that, a man is
independent of all circumstances. Our
piety will have a tinge of our natural
temperament. If a man be cross and
sour and fretful naturally, after he be-
comes Christian he will always have to
be armed against the rebellion OF those
evil inclinations; but religion has tanned
the widest nature; it has turned fretful-
ness into gratitude, dependency into
good cheer, and those who were hard and
ungoYernable and mcompromising have
been made pliable ana conciliatory
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
not effect the change. 1t takes a mightier
arm and mightier hand
no BEND EVIL HABITS
than the hand that bent the bow of Uiys-
SEES, and it takes a stronger Iasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie A
man cannot go forth with any human
weapons and contend successfully against
these Titans armed with uptorn noun
tain. But You have known men into
whose spirit the influence of the Gospel
of Christ came, until their disposition
was entirely changed. So it was with
two merchants in New York. They were
very antagonistic. They had done all
they could to injure each other. They
were III the same line of business One
of the merchants was converted to God
Having been converted, he asked the
Lord to teach him how to bear himself to-
ward that business antagonist, and he
was impressed with the fact that it was
his duty when customer asked for Ger
tain kinds Of goods which he had not but
which he knew his opponent had, to re-
commend him TO go to that store. sup
pose that is about the hardest thing q
man could do; but being thoroughly con-
verified to God, he resolved to do that very
thing, and being asked for certain kind
of goods which he had not, he said:
'You go to such and such a store, and
you will get If. - After awhile, mer-
chant number two found these customers
coming so sent, and he found also that
merchant number one had been brought
to God, and he sought the same religion.
Now they are good friends and good
the grace of God entirely
changing their disposition.
ooh, says someone, F'I have a
rough, jagged, impetu0us nature, and
religion can t do anything for me - Do |
you know that Martin Luther and Robert |
Newton and Richard Baxter were i'm
petuous, all-consuming natures, yet the |
grace Of God turned them into the might |
lest usefulness? A manufacturer cares |
but very little for stream that slowly |
runs through the meadow, but a strong |
torrent that
LEAPS FROM ROCK TO ROCK,
and PUSHES with mad energy through the |
valley ana cut toward the sea- Along
that river you will find fluttering shuttles !
and grinding mill and flashing water |
wheel. And Il nature, the swiftest, the |
most rugged and the most tremendous, |
that is the nature God turns into greatest |
usefulness. Oh, how many who have |
been pugnacious, and hard to please, and |
irascihEe, and more bothered about the |
mote in their neighbor s eye than about |
the beam-like ship timber IN their own /
eye, who have been entirely changed by |
the grace of God, and nave found out |
that Goodness is profitable for the life |
that now is as wen as for the life which