Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-22

my mother, throw yourself on God. Go
to him fpankly and earnestly, and tell
him these habits yo,: have, and ask him
if there is any help in all the resources of
omnipotent love, t6 gfSslt to you. Do
not go-with a long rignaTols see6pfe cali
prayer, made up of ''ohs ana f1,aiis'
and q funeger and forever amens!'t TO
to God ana cry. for. help! help help! And
# you cen notAcTy fdF help just look and
live. l Eemember- in the, war / was at
Antietam, aHd I went into tiis hospitals
after the battle, and I said 10 .. man,
''Where are YOU hurt? tIeA mage
no answer, but held up hiss Ssms
swollen and splintered. saw where. <es
was hurt. The simple fact ID. when "a
man has wounded soul, all3ie has, to do
is to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord
and get y healed, 1t does not take any
long prayer. Jdst hold up the wound
oh, it is no small thing when man is
nervous and weak aud exhausted, COM
ing from his evil ways, to feel that God
puts two omnIpotenU arms around about
him and says: ''Young man, I will
stand by'yOu! The mountains may de-
part and the hills be removed, but will
never fail you. az And then, as the soul
thinks the news IS too good to be true,
and cannot believe ft5 .Rnd looks up in
God S face, God lifts his right; hand and
takes an oath, an affidavit, satidg: .'sAs
live saith the Lord God, l have no
pleasure III the death OF him that dieth. -
THANK con. FOR THE GOSPEL,
Blessed be God for such a gospel as
this. ''s Cut the slices, thin, - said the
wife to the husband, eorsthere viii not
be enough TO go all around fer tks emil
dren; cut the slices thin. - Blessed be
God, there is ,fpu loaf for every one
that wants it; bread enough andSto
spare. No thin slices at. the Lord s
table. l remember wheR4.th Master
street. hospital in Philadelphia was opened
during the war, a telegram came saying,
''There wiA[be 800 wounded men to-
night: be ready to take care Of them; -
and from my church there went in some
twenty or thirty men and women to look
after these poor wounded. fellows. AS
they came some from one paTSS of the
land, some from another, no one
asked whether this man was
from, Oregon. or from Massa-
chusetts, or from Minnesota, or
from New York. There was wounded
soldier, and the only question was how
to take off the rags most gently, and put
oh the bandage, and administer the cor
dial. And when q soul comes to God He
does not. ask where youscorr&e from or
what your ,anpestry was. Healing, for
all your WOundss pardon for all ,yQar
guilt, comfort for ALI your, troubles. =
Then, also, l counsel you, if you wanss
TO get back, TO quit ali your bad aSsocia-
tions. One unholy intimacy Will fill
your soul with moral dIstemper. In all
the ages of the church there has not been
an instance where a man kept one evil
associate and was reformed. Among the
l 400 900 600 of the race not one in
stance. Go home to-day, open your
desk, take out letter paper, stamp and
envelope, and then write a letter some
thing like this
My Cd companions: I start this day
for heaven. Until am. persuaded You
will join me in this, farewell. -
YOU MUST RENoUNCE ONE OR T4IE OTHER.
Then sign your name and send the let
ter with the first post. Give up youTbad
companions or give up heaven. 1t isnot
ten bad companions that destroy a man,
nor five bad companions, nor three bad
companions, but one. What chance is
there for that young man I saw along
the street, four or five young men with
him, haltiRg in front of a grog shop,
urging him TO go in, he resisting, ViO-
lently resisting, until after while they
forced him TO go in? 1t was summer
night and the door was left open, and 1
saw the process. They held him fast,
and they put the cup to his lips, and they
forced down the strong drink. What
chance is there for such young man?
I counsel you also seek Christian ad-
vice. Every Christian man is bound to
help you. First of all seek God; then
seek Christian counsel. Gather up all
the energies of body, mfhd aud soul,
"a
clare this day everlasting war against all |
drinking habits, all gambling practices,
al houses of sin. Half-and-half work |
will amount to nothing; it must be a
Waterloo. Shrink back now and you
are lost. Push on and you are saved. A |
Spartan general fell at tie very moment |
Of. victory, but he dipped his finger in:l
his own blood and wrote on rock near1
which he was dying, ''Sparta has3
conQured. - Though your struggle to get I
rid of sin may seem to be almost a death |
struggle, you can dip your finger in your
own blood and write on the Rock af |
Ages, ''Victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ. -
On, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send home to
their parents. They go TO the postofffee
every Gay or two to see whether there are
any letters from you, How anxious they
are to hear.
SEND THE GOOD NEWS home.
Some one said to Grecian general:
"What was the proudest moment in your
life?'' He thought moment, and said:
''The proudest moment in my life was
when l sent word home to my parents
that I had gained the victory - And
the proudest and most brilliant moment
in your life will be the moment
when you can send word to your parents
that you have conquered your evil
habits by the grace Of God and become
eternal victor. On, despise not parental
anxiety! The time will come when you
will have neither father nor mother,
and you will go around the place where
they used to watch you and find them
gone from the house and gone from the
field, and gone from the neighborhoOd.
Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may
over the mound in the chErchyard, they
will not answer. DeadI Dead! And
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