Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-15


! sell silks and cloths 70 the glory of God
And some one says, My business is 10
raise corn and carrots. - Then my
| brother, raise corn and carrots to the
| glory of God. And some one says, Ny
business is TO manufacture horseshoe
nails. - Then manufacture horseshoe
nails to the glory Of God. There is moth
ing for you to do that you ought to do
but for the glory of God,
Usefulness is typifed by the palm tree.
All, we don't want in the church any
| more people that are merely weeping
willows. signing into the water, stand
ing and admiring their long lashes in
the CLASSY spring. No wild cherry
dropping bitter fruit We want palm
trees, holding something for God, some
thing for angels, something for man.
/ am tired and sick of this fat, tame
insipid, satin slippered, namby PANTY !,
highly tightly religion! It is worth moth
ing for this world, and it is destruction
for eternity.
WANTED: TRUE RELIGION.
Give me 500 men and women fully con-
seerated TO Christ, and we viii take any
city for God in three years Give me
10 900 men and women fully up to the
Christian standard; in ten years 10, 900
God. But when are we going to begin.
Ledyard.. the great traveller, was
brought before the geographical society
of Great Britain, and they wanted him
to make sohke explorations in s,Africa,
and ttssy. showed him All. the perirs, and
all the hard work, and al the exposure !;
and after they had told what they
wanted HIM to do in Africa, they said TO
him: "Now, Ledyard, when are you
ready to start?'' He said a. Tomorrow
morning. - The learned men were
astonished; they thought he would take
weeks or months TO get ready. Well,
now, you tell me you want to be earnest
for Christ; you want to be useful in
Christian service. When are you going
to begin? Oh, that you have the decision
to say, tTo-day, now Go now into
the mount and gather the palm branches.
But the palms branch also meant vic
tory. In alt ages, in all lands, the palm
branch means iNictory. We are by ma
ture the servants. of Satan. He stole US,
he has his eye on us, he wants to keep
us. The WORD comes from o6r Father
that if we will try to break loose from
this doing Of wrong our Father will help
us; and some day we rouse up and we
looked the black tyrant in the face, and
IL
and we put our heel on his neck, and we
grind him in the dust, and we say: Vic
tory, victory, through our Lord Jesus
Christ! Oh what grand thing it is to
have sin under foot and a wasted life
behind our backs. Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven, and whose sin
is covered. 'tBut, - says the man,
81 feel so sick and worn out with the
ailments of life. "
You are going to be
MORE THAN CoNoUERoR.
"But, says the man, 81 am so
tempted, I am so pursued in life. - You
are gong to be more than conqueror.
81 who have so many ailments and
heartaches going to be more than con-
queror?' Yes, unless you are so SELF
conceited that you want to manage all
the affairs Of your life yourself, instead
of letting God manage them. Do you
want to drive and have God take back
seat? Oh, no, You say want God to be
my leader. Well, then, you will be more
than conqueror. Your last sickness will
come, and the physicians IN the next
room will be talking about what they will
do for you. What difference will it make
what they do for you? You are going to
be well, everlastingly well. And when
the spirit has fed the body, your friends
will be talking as to where they
does it make to you where they
bury you? The angel OF the resurrection
can pick you out of the dust any
where. and all the cemeteries OF the
earth are in Gods care. Oh, you are
going to be more than conqueror Don t
you think we had better begin now to
celebrate the coming victory2 In the old
meeting house at SummeryiIle my father
used TO lead the singing, and he had the
tuning fork, and he would
strike it upon his knee and then put the !
tuning fork to his ear to catch the right |
pitch to start the hymn. But, friend,
don It you think we had better be catch |
ing the pitch Of the everlasting song, the |
song of victory when we shall be more
than conQuerors? Had we not better be- |
gin the rehearsal on earth? ''They shall |
hunger no more, neither thirst any more; |
neither shall the sun light on them, nor
any heat. For the Lamb which is in the |
midst of the throne shall feed them, and |
shall lead them to living fountains OF |
water; and God shall wipe away all tears |
from their eyes. -
City of eternity, to thy bridal halls =
From this prison, would. I fee; -
All, glory! that sttor 1an and me, -
:. WE. HAVE A BRAw5ES gHR1sr1ANtrY.
My text brings up one step fIirther. 1t
says, go forth into thefnouut and fetch
olive branches, and pine branches, and
myrtle branches, andb palm branches,
and branches of thick tTees.. ,.Now, you
know very well that. a. booth or arbor
made Of slight branches would not stand.
The first blast of the tempest Ypuld pros
trate it. So, then, the kosfh or arbor
must have four stout poles to hold up the
arbor or booth; and henae5for the build
ing of the arbor fer this world
We must have stout branches of
thick trees. And so it is ia sthe
gospel arbor. Blessed be God that We
nave brawny Christianity : mot one4i
easily upset. The storms Of life will 4
come upon US. and we wantystrong doc
.rine, not only love, but Justice; not
,nly invitation by warning, 1t is
mighty gospel; it is an opitTpotent Cos
pei These are the stout branches of
-hiok traes I remamhar what cir Finneu