Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-21

! WnitGneU their mar. 1t was trouble that
shook the cup in their hands. 1t was
trouble that washed the luster from their
eyes with the rain of tears until they
needed spectaeies. 1t was trouble that
made the cane a necessity for their
journey. Do you never remember seeing
your old mother sitting, on some RAINY
day looking out of the window, her ell
bow on the window sill, her hand TO her
broW-looking out, not seeing the falling
shower at all (you well knew she was
looking into the distant past), until the
| apron came up to her eyes, because the
| memory was too much for her2
soft the big, unbidden tear,
Stealing down the furrowed cneek,
Told IN eloquence sincere,
Tales OF woe they could not speak.
But this scene of weeping DER,
! Past this scene of toll and pain,
They shall feel distress no more,
Never, never, weep again.
'sWho are these under the aItar?' the
! question was asked; and the response
came: ''These are they which came out
/ of great tribulation, and have washed
! their robes, and made them white in the
! blood of the Lamb Our friends went
! by path of tears into glory. Be not
! surprised if we have to travel the same
pathway.
/
/ society of our friends in heaven, we win
| not only have to travel a path of faith
! and path of .trIbulation, but we will
| also have to positively battle for their
! companionship. David and his men
never wanted sharp swords and inYulner-
able shields and thick breastplates so
much as they wanted them on the day
when they came down upon the Amalek-
ties. If they had lost that battle they
never would have got their families back.
l suppose that one glance at their loved
ones i'll captivity hurled them into the
battle with teufold courage and energy.
They said 1--WE must win it. Every
thing depends upon it. Let each one
take man on point of spear or sword.
We must win it. - And ] have to tell
you that between us and coming into the
companionship of our loved ones who are
departed there is an Austerlitz, there
is q Gettysburg there is a Waterloo.
War with the world, war with the
flesh, war with the devil We have
either to conquer our troubles, or our
troubles will conquer us. David viii
either Stay the Amalekites, or the ANA
lekites viii Stay David. And yet is not
the fort to be taken worth all the pain.
all the peril, all the besiegenent? Look!
who are they on the bright hills of heaven
yonder? There they are, those who sat
at your own table, the chair now vacant
There they are, those whom you rocked
i'll infancy in the. cradle, or
HUsHED TO SLEEP
III your arms. There they are, those in
whose life your life was bound up There
they are, their brow more radiant than
ever before you saw it, their lips waiting
for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their
cheek roseate with the health of eternal
summer, their hands beckoning you up the
steep, their feet bounding with the mirth
of heaven. The pallor of their last sick
ness gone out of their face, never more
to be sick, never more to cough, never
more TO limp, never more to be DID,
never more to weep. They are watching
from those heights to see if through
Christ you can take that fort, and
whether you viii rush in upon them
Tictors. They know that upon this battle
depends whether you will ever join their
society. Up! strike harder! Charge
more brayelyI Remember that every
inch you gain puts you so much farther
on toward that heavenly reunion.
If this morning while / speak you
could hear the cannonade of a foreign
navy, coming through the ''Narrows, .
which was to despoiI our city, and if
they really should succeed in carrying
our families away from us, how long
would we take before we resolved to go
after them? Every weapon, whether
fresh from Springfield or old and rusty in
the garnet, would be brought out;
and we would urge on, and COM
ing in front of the foe, we would
look at them and then look at our fami-
lies, and the cry would be: s'Victory or
death!'' and when the ammunition was
gone we would take the captors on the
point of the bayonet or under the breach
of the gun If you would make such Il
struggle for the getting back of your
earthly friends, will you not make as
much struggle for the gaining of
THE ETERNAL COMPREHENSIVE
of your heavenly friends? Oh, yesi we |
must join them. We must sit in their |
holy society. We must sing with them
the song. We must celebrate with them
the triumph. Let it never be told on
earth or in heaven that David and his |
men pushed out with Drawer hearts for the
getting back of their earthly friends for
a few years on earth than we to get our
departed.
You say that all this implies
that our departed Christian friends
are alive. Why, had you any
idea they were dead? They have only
If you should go on the I'd of
May TO house where one of your friends
lived, and found him gone, you would
not think that he was dead. You would
inquire next door where he had moved
to. Our departed Christian friends have
only taken another house. The secret is
that they are richer now than they once
we're, and can afford a better residence.
they once drank ont of eaTthenware;
they now drink from the Kings chalice
Joseph is yet alive, - and Jacob will go
up and see him. Living? are they? Why,
f man can live in this damp, dark
dungeon of earthly captivity, can he not
i've where he breathes the bracing at
nosphere of the mountains of heaven?
Oh, yes, they are living!
Do you think that Paul is so near dead
low as he was when he was living in the
Roman dungeon? Do you think that
Frederick Robertson of Brighton
5 as near dead now IS
lie was when, year after year, he slept
seated on the floor, his head on the bot
ON of chair, because he
,ould find ease in no other position? Do
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