Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18


sell silks and cloths 70 the glory of God.
And some one says, My business is to
raise corn and carrots. - Then my
brother. raise corn and carrots to the
glory of God. And some one says, % My
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 typified 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.
l am tired and sick of this fiat, tame,
insipid, satin slippered, mandy PANTY,
highty-tigh religion! 1t is worth moth
ing for this world, and it is destruction
for eternity.
WANTED: TRUE RELIGION.
Give me 500 men and women fully con-
secrated TO Christ, and we will 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 some explorations in Africa,
and they showed him all the perils, and
all the hard work, and all the exposure,
and after they had told him what they
wanted HIM to do in Africa, they said to
him: ''Now, Ledyard, when are you
ready to start?'' He said: "To-morrow
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 ''To-day, now Go now into
the mount and gather the palm branches.
But the palm branch also meant vic
tory. In ali ages, in all lands, the palm
branch means victory. We are by ma
ture the servants Of Satan. lie stole US,
he has his eye on us, he wants to keep
us. The word comes from OR 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
we fly at him, and we wrestle him down,
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. - "But, - says the man,
81 feel so sick and worn out with the
ailments of life. -
You are going to be
MORE THAN CoNQUERoR.
"But, - says the man, 81 am so
tempted, 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 a 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 abEg what they will
do for you. What diffel uce will it make
what they do for you? pu are going to
be well everlastingly Veil. And when
the spirit has fed the body, your friends
viii be talking as SO where they
shall bury yon. What difference
does it make to you where they
bury you? The angel of the resurrection
can pick you out of the dust apy-
where. and all the cemeteries OF the
earth are in Gods care. Oh, you are
going to be more than conqueror. Don It
you thinN we had better begin now TO ,
celebrate Che coming victory? In the OF {
meeting use at Rmmerville my ffRE
used 10 led the singing, and he hadE 4
old fashioned tuning fork, and he;youA
strike it upon his knee and then SLN thu
tuning fork to his ear to catch thH ixEht
pitch to start the hymn. But - vi,
don It you think we had better be, a IN
ing Nhe pitch of the everlasting so&k the
song of victory when we shall tA#nore
than conquerors? Had we not bet.M be-
gin the rehearsal on earth? 9Th a&hall
hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
neither shall the sun light on thenS, nor
any heat. For the Lamb which is a the
midst of the throne shall feed themxand
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 l fee;
All, glory! that's for you and me.
WE HAVE A BRAwNY CHRISTIANITY
My text brings up one step further. It
says, go forth into the mount and fetch
olive branches, and pine branches, and
myrtle branches. and palm branches,
and branches of thick trees. Now, you
know very well that a booth or arbor
made of slight branches would not stand.
The first blast of the tempest would pros
trate it. So, then, the booth or arbor
must have four stout poles to hold up the
arbor or booth; and hence for the build
ing of the arbor for this world
we must have stout branches of
thick trees. And so it is in the
gospel arbor. Blessed be God that we
have a bTawny Christianity, not one
easily upset. The storms Of life will
come upon us. and we want strong doc
trine, not only love, but Justice; not
only Invitation by warming. 1t is a
mighty gospel; it is an omnipotent gos-
pei These are the stout branches of |
thick trees. remember what Mr.. Finney
said in a school house in this state. The
village was SO bad it was called Sodom,
and it was said 20 have only one good
man in all the village, and he was called
Lot; and Alr. Finney, preaching, de-
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