Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-09
THE DAY Is AT HAND
The Outlook Of the World Should
Stir Us with GIadneSS.
# shows the Substitution of Diplomatic
skill in the Place OF Human
ButcheFy.
rsase Strange and Mysterious Things Which
Indicate that the Spiritual World
Is Not Far Of.
THE SUNRISE.

s--cial to the Gazette.
RgoonLYN, n. Y, Sept. 8.-The
psr. I. Dewitt Talmage. D. D., was
--rromed home to-day by an overflow
ina congregation. At the opening of the
,s-r;ce the hymn beginning
Welcome, sweet day of rest,
Thas saw the Lord arise,
80. sung with fine effect. DR.. Tai
-sr.,s subject was: 1.-The Sunrise, -
.,5 his text, "The Gay is at hand -
po.ans xiii, y. He said:
BACK from the mountains and the sea-
side. ana the springs, and the farm
t,rsa. vour cheek bronzed and your
.:rrs lighted, 1 hail you home again
r-ftg the words of Gehazi to the Sbunam-
mite. Is it well with thee? Is it well
9th thy husband? Is it well with the
.Hla.'' ON some faces l see the mark
If recent GRIEF, but all along the track
af+eaTs see the story Of resurrection
and reunion when al tears are done: the
deem blowing Of the keel, followed by the
dash of the phosphorescence.
Now that 1 have asked you in regard to
~agr welfare, you naturally ask how ]
am Very well, thank you. Whether
was the bracing air Of the Colorado
r1autains, y coo feet above the level of
-r- sea. or the tonic atmosphere of the
Pacific coast, or n bath in the surf Of
LING Island beach, or whether it is the
rr of Standing in this great group of
Earn-hearted friends, or whether it is
new appreciation OF the goodness Of God,
cannot tell. I simply know 1 am
rranIIv and glOriously and ineNpTessibly
nanny II was said that John MOfIatt,
The great Methodist preacher, occasion
q,- got fast il his sermon, and to eXtri-
cafe himself would cry FHallelujah!
lam IN no such pTedicament to-day. but
Lam full Of the same rhap sodic~ ejaculs-
.rn. Starting out this morning on new
slesastical year, I want to give you the
feyno.e Of my next twelve. months
ministry. I want to set it to the tune of
antioch, Ariel and Coronation. Some
Tine ago we had a new stop put in this
great orgau-a new trumpet stoD-and l
want to put a new trumpet stop into my
arHons
4 TIE NEED TIE ELEMENT OF GLADNESS.
IN all our Christian work you and l
want more OF the element OF gIadness.
That man lad no right to say that Christ
never -tlt-LaC-t III JOlA 'btA pEJCSO LAirAS
lie was GUM at the wedding in Cana
Of CalIee? Do you suppose Christ was
uuresu0usive when the children clam
rar-l over his knee and shoulder at His
own invitation? Do you suppose that
the evangelist meant nothing when he
5al of Christ: ''He reioiced in spirit?''
1r y0u believe that the divine Christ,
! V-a nours all the water over the rocks
% Frl TOeo.roi-N Enps
Lsve ia the sparkle and gallOp and III
ugl.uons 10Y and rushing Taptures Of
8 human life? l believe not only that the
morning laughs, and that the noun
,4.ns laugh, and that the seas laugh,
and that the cascades laugh, but that
Christ laughed Moreover, take a
aasa and tear into an alembic,
a-i assay them, and test them, and
aaIyzs them, and you viii often find as
much of the pure gold of religion in a
laugh as IN tear. Deep spiritual Joy
4.7ars shows itself in facial illumination.
yo-u Wesley said he was sure of q good
RELIGIOUS impression being produced be-
el-s- %. what he calls the great laughter
be saw among the people. Goddess meT-
!melt is biasphcmy anywhere, but eI-
.G.ess.aa e., Christian Joy is appropriate
s everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook Of the world
0a--t 10 stir us to gladness. Astronomers
y .s.5luE have disturbed many people by
.-ly rnem that there is danger of stel-
III collision. We have been told through
-a papers by these astronomers that
a.Tr age worlds coming very near to-
l.-ler, ami that we shall have plaques
-2- wars and tumults, and perhaps the
....i destruction. Do not be scared.
Il E.U have ever stood at & rail
..-- center, where ten or twenty
% .rsT rail tracks cross each
.-r1, and seen that by the move
-4alol the switch one or two inches the
--.s shoot this way and that, without
d.. g.l..ug, then you can understand
-." L.-v worlds may come within an
-.l o. Disaster, and that inch be as good
d, -@...9u miles. Il a human switch
.--eT can shoot the trains this way and
-1I without harm, cannot the Hand that
At. thousands Of years has upheld the
inverse keep our little world out OF
.~-A way: Christian biologists tell Us
49, '-ls world was HilliOns Of years in
Jung Well, now, l do not think
would take millions of years to
.-.+ house which was TO last only SIX
..-sali years. There is nothing in the
'N OF outside the world, ter
a or astronomical, to ex-
,.5 A>may. I wish that some stout Cos
a.. '....a might scatter all the malaria
'--.AaA toreboding. The sun rose this
ming about $50, and 1 think that
--'. about the hour in the world S his
The Gay is at hand. -
,"A WAR PERIOD IS PASSING AWAY.
81 81 '-- aFst ray Of the dawn I see in the
--aa substitution of diplomatic skill
a human butchery. Within the last
,..s-uEe years there have been inter-
.-'o-A. differences which would have
f74' a shock of arms in any other
'"1 which were peacefully adjusted,
pen taking the place Of the sword.
,--' Alaoama question in any other
80 '4e world would have caused war
p.-'sa the United States and England.
vas 1t settled? By men-of-war off
,--'.asIows, or Of the Mersey? By the
r. >Team of the ocean crossed by a
s.l Sueam of human blood? BY the |
ny of nations incarnadiDed? No.
csr.,. wise men 20 into quiet room ut |
l,rr.,@' talk the matter over, and tele- |
an 20 Washington and TO London: |
a,5 settled. - Peace. Peace. Eng |
lrq,5s Pays 10 the United States the amount |
r-t, '-pays really more than she |
lsla-' nave paid. But still, all that |
II laf.--..5a4 hFoil Is sattled-settled forever.