Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-09

cies of invention, | do not know that
the redemption of the world will be
more than the work of half a day. Dc
we not read the queens speech at the
| pToroguing of parliament the day before
IN London? If that be so is il anything
marvellous that in twenty-fouE hours a
divine communication lean reach the
whole earth? SUPPOSE Christ should de-
scend on the nations-many expect that
Christ will come among the nations per-
sonally-suppose that tomorrow morn
ing the Son of God from lowering cloud
should descend upon these cities Would
not that fact be know all the world over
in twenty-four hours? Suppose he should
! present His gospel in few words, say
ing: g L am the Son of God; came to
! pardon all your sins aud to heal all your
| sorToTs, to prove that 1 am q
| supernatural being have just
! descended from the clouds; do
| you believe me, and do
| you believe me now? Why, all the tele-
! graph stations of the earth would be
! crowded as none of them were ever
| crowded just after SD ipwreck. [ tell
| you these things to show you it is not
among the impOssibiIities or even the i'm
| probabilities that Christ VIII conquer the
whole earth, and do it instanter, when
! the time comes. There are foretOken-
ings in the air. Something great is going
soon to happen. do not think that Jupiter
is going to run Us down, or that the axle
of the world is going to break; but 1
mean something great for the world S
blessing and not for the worlds damage
is going to happen. 1 think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough, the
| London plaques. Enough, the Asiatio
choleras. Enough, the wars. Enough,
the shipwrecks. Enough, the contiagra-
! tions.
LOOK OUT FOR 4 CELEBRATION.
. think our world could stand right
well procession of properties and tri-
umphs. Better be on the lookout. Bet
ter have your observatories open to-
ward the heavens, and the lenses of your
most powerful telescopes well polished.
Better have all your LeYden jars ready
for some new pulsatiOn of mighty in
tluence. Better have new fonts of type
in your printing offices TO set up some
astounding good news. Better have
some banner that has never been carried
ready for sudden professions. Better
have the bells in your church towers well
hung and the ropes within reach, that
you may ring out the marriage of the
Kings Son. Cleanse all your court
u
appear Let all your legislative halls be-
gilded, for the great Lawgiver may
be about to come. Drive off the thrones
of despOtism all the occupants, for the
King of heaven and earth may be about
to reign The darkness of the night is
blooming and whitening into the lilies OF
morning cloud, and the lilies reddening
into the roses OF stronger day-fit gar
lands, whether white or red, for Him on
whose head are many crowns. "The
day is at hand! -
One more ray of the dawn I see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come,
now, do not let rs 90 another stroke Of
work until we have settled one matter.
What is going to be the final issue5of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is gong to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this
world going to be all garden or all
desert? Now let us have that matter
settled. If we believe Isaiah and
Ezekiel and Hosea, and Micah and
Malachi, and John and Peter, and Paul
and Christ, We believe it is going to be
all garden. But let US have it settled.
Let Us know whether we are working on
toward a success or toward a dead fail
ure. If there is a child in your house
we'll, you sympathiZe with present pains.
but all the foreboding is gone. If you
are in a cyclone off the Florida coast land
the captain assures you the vessel is
staunCh and'the winds are changing for
better quarter, and he is sure he will
bring you safe into the harbor, you pa
tIently submit to present distress with the
thought Of safe arrival. Now l want to
know whether we are coming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat, or on
toward light and bIessedness. You ana
I believe the latter, and if so, every year
we spend is one year subtraoted from the
worlds woe, and every event that
passes, whether bright or dark, brings
us one event nearer happy cOnsumma-
ton, and by all that is memorable in
chronology and mathematics I commend
you to good cheer and courage. IF there
is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three,
then by every rolling'sun we are coming
on toward a magnificent terminus Then
every winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every summer
gone by brings Us nearer unfading
arbOrescence. Put your algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is is nearer morning at 3 O clock
than it is at 2, if it Is nearer morning at
O'Clock than it is at 5, then we are
nearer the dawn of the world s deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to go very
slowly, but the pendulum swings and the
hands move, and it will yet strike noon.
The sun and the moon stood still once;
they will never stand still again until
they stop forever. If you believe arith-
metio as well as your Bible, you must be-
lieve we are nearer the dawn. ''The
day is st hand. -
MYSTERIOUS SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
There is a class OF phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may after a while
make a demonstration in this world which
will bring all moral and spiritual things
to q climax. Now, am no spiritualst;
but every intelligent man has noticed
that there are strange and mysterious
things which indicate to him that per-
haps the spiritual world is not so far off
as sometimes we conjecture, and that
after a while, from the spiritual and
heavenly world there may be demon
stration upon our world for its better
ment. We call it magnetism, or we
call it mesmerism, or we calIit cleo
tricity, because we want some term to