Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11

out some poor laQ OF the street anu take
| him down to 4 cloth ng store and fit
him out for the winter Don t think
that God has forgotten to send ice and
snow, because of this wonderfully mild
January and February. We shall vet
have deep SHOWS and SO much frost on
the window pane that in The morning you
cannot see through it; and whole fiocks
of Billiards, for God long ago declared
that winter as well as summer shall not
cease, and between this and the spring
crocus we may all have reason to cry out
with the psalmist: ''Who can stand
before His cold?'
HOW MAY WE SERVE OUR GENERATION?
Again, let US look around and see how
we may serve our generation. What
short-sighted mOTtals we would be if we
were anxious to clothe and feed only the
most Insignificant part of man, namely
his body, while we put forth no effort 20
clothe and feed and save his soul. Time
is a little piece broken off a great
eternity. What are we doing for the
souls of this present generation? Let me
say it is q generation worth saving. Most
magnificent men and women are in it.
We make great ado about the improve
ments in navigation, and in locomotion,
and in art and machinery. We remark
what wonders of telegraph, and tele-
/ phone and stethoscope. What improve
ment is electric light over a tallow can
] die! But all these Improvements are in
| significant compared with the
/ improvement in the human race.
| In olden times, once in awhile,
! great and good man or
| woman would come up and the world has
made great fuss about it ever since, but
now they are so numerous we scarcely
| speak about them. We put q halo about
| the people of the past, but think if the
/ times demanded them it would be found
we have now living in this year 1889 fifty
| Martin Luthers, fifty George Washing
tons. fifty Lady Huntingtons, fifty Eliza
! beth Frys. During our civil war more
splendid warriors in North and South
were developed in four years than the
whole world developed in the previous
twenty years. l challenge the four
thousand years before the food and the
eighteen centuries after the flood, to
show me the equal of charity on a large
scale of George Peabody. This genera
ton of men and women is more worth
saving than any of the one hundred and
eighty generations that have passed off
But where shall we begin? With our
selves. That is the pillar from which we
must start. Prescott, the blind histo-
TIaQ, tells Us now PlZarTO
SAVED HIS ARMY
for the right when they were about de-
serting him. With his sword he made
long mark on the ground. He said:
My men, on the north side are deser-
ton and death, and on the south side is
victory; on the north side Panama and
poverty, on the south side Peru with all
its riches. Choose for yourselves; for
m art 10 hp
across the line one by one, his troops fol-
lowed and finally his whole army. The
sword of God IS truth draws the divid-
ing line to-day On one side of it are sin
and ruin and death, on the other side are
pardon and usefulness aud happiness and
heaven. YOu cross from the wrong side to
the right side and your family will cross
with you and your friends and associates
The way you go they will go. If we are not
saved, we will never save any one else.
How to get saved? Be willing to accept
Christ, and then accept him instantane-
ously and forever. Get on the rock first
and then you will be able to help others
upon the same rock. Men and women
have been saved quicker than have been
talking about 1t. What, without a
think it over? Yes. What, without q
tear? Yes, believe! That is all. Believe
what? That Jesus died to save you from
sin and death and hell. Will you? Do
you? You have. Something makes me
think you have. New light has come |
into your countenances. Welcomed !
Welcome! Hail! Hail! Saved your
selves, how are you going to save
others? By testimony. Tell it to your
family. Tell it to your business asso-
ciates. Tell 1t everywhere. We will |
successfully preach no more religion and |
will successfully talk no more religion |
than we ourselves have.
BEHAVE WELL YOURSELVES.
The most of that which you do to ben |
eft the souls of this generation, you will |
effect through your own behavior Go |
wrong, and that will induce others to go |
wrong. Go right, and that will induce |
others to go right. When the great GEN. |
tennial exhibition was being held in Phil
adelphia, the question came up among |
the directors as to whether they could
keep the exposition open on Sundays, |
when a director, who was man of the !
world, from Nevada, arose and said his /
voice trembling with emotion and tears
running down his cheeks. 81 feel like |
returned prodIgal. Twenty years ago |
vent West, and into region where we
had no Sabbath, but to-day old memories
come back to me, and 1 remember what
my glOrltied mother taught me about
keeping Sunday, and seem to hear her
voice again and feel as l did when every
evening knelt by her side in prayer.
Gentlemen, [ vote for the observance of
the Christian Sabbath. - And he carried
everything by storm, and when the ques-
ton was put, ''Shall we opeD the exhibit
ton on Sabbath?' it was almost unani-
nous, "No, - 90 No. =" What one man
can do if he does right, boldly right, en-
phatically right.
What if we could get this whole gen.
GRAFTON saved! These people who are
living with Us the same year and amid
the same stupendous events and flying
toward the future swifter than eagles to
their prey.
WE CANNOT STOP.
They cannot stop. We think we can
stop. We say: 'Come now my friend,
let us stop and discuss this subject but
we DO not stop. The year does not stop,
the day does not stop, the hour does not
stop. The year is a great wheel and