Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-01

over TO business, anu let 6dCR one say
- How sick you look; though we should
start out we'll, after meeting the first
and hearing his depressing salute, we
would begin to examine our symptoms.
after meeting the second gloomy accest-
ing we would conclude we did not feel
quite as well as usual After meeting
the third our sensations would be dread
full, and after meeting the fourth, UNI
less we expected conspiracy, we would
60 home and go to bed, and the
other six pessimists would be
a useless surplus of discourage
ment. My dear sir, my dear madam,
what do You mean by going about this
world with Disbursements? Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and mis-
fortune enough to meet the demand
without your running a factory of pins
and spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue in the world when God so sell
dom plants them? Plenty of scarlet col
ors, plenty Of yellow, plenty of green,
plenty of pink, but very seldom plant
black or blue. 1 never saw a black
flower, and there s only here and there
blue bell or a violet; but the blue is for
the most part reserved for the sky, and
we have to look up to see that, and when
we look up no color can do us harm.
Why notplant along the paths of others
the brig4tnesses instead of the glooms?
Do nots prophesy misfortune. If you
must be prophet at all
BE A.; EZEKIEL AND NOT JEREMIAH.
In ancient times prophets who foretold
evil were doing right, for they were di-
vinely directed; but the prophets of evil
in our time are generally false
prophets. Some of our weather
~E,,,,
shall have a summer of unparalleled
scortch. 1t will not be that at all. !
think we are going to have Il summer of
great harvest and universal health; at
any rate know as much about 1t as they
do. Last fall all the weather prophets
agreed in saying we should have winter
of extraordinary severity, blizzard on
the heels of blizzard. 1t was the mildest
winter l ever remember TO have passed.
Indeed, the autumn and the spring al
most showed winter out Of the procession.
Real troubles have no heralds running
ahead of their somber chRriots, and no
one has any authority IN our time to an
nounce their coming. Load yourself up
with healthful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in our churches is unfit
to be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser-
able all the time The old song sung at
the pianos a quarter of century ago
was right: Kind words can never die. -
Such kind words have their nests in kind
hearts, and when they are Matched out
and take wing they circle round in flights
that never cease, and sportsman S gun
cannot shoot them, and storms cannot
ruffle their Kingsg and when they cease
Hight in. these lDwer skies of earth they
sweep around amid the higher. attitudes
of heaven. At Baltimore few DAYS ago
l talked into monograph. The cylin-
der containing the words was sent on n
Washington, and the next tissS ittiiisst cylin-
der from another Topographic instru-
ment, when turnedy,gave back to me the
very words had uttered the day before,
and with the same fntonations. Scold
into photograph, and it
will scold back. Pour mild
words INTO monograph and it will
return the gentlenesS. Society and the
world and the church are monographs.
Give them acerbity and rough Treatment
and acerbity and rough treatment you
will get back. Give them practical
friendliness and they will give back
practical friendtness. A father asked his
little daughterJ "Mary, why is ii that
everybody loveI you? > She answered:
81 don It knofg unless ii is because [
love everybody - ga man that hath
friends must fhow himself friendly ("
We want something like that spirit of
sacrifice tor others which was seen in the
English channel, where in the storm a
boat containing three men upset, andaH
three were intlhe water struggling for their
lives. A boat came to their relief, and
rope was thrown to one of them
and he refused to take it, saying:
''First fin it to Tom; he is
just ready to go down. 1 can
last some time longer. A man like
that, be he sailor or landsnan, be he in
upper rankslof society or lower ranks,
will always have plenty of friends. What
is true manward is true Godward. We
must be the friends of God if we want
Him to be our friend. We cannot treat
Christ badly all our lives and expect Him
to treat lis lovingly. was reading of a
sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured
a French officer, and when the French
officer offered Lord Nelson his hand,
Nelson replied: First give me your
sword and then give me your hand. -
Surrender of our resistance TO God must
pLSCSuO OOO VI pdIuOu W
Repentance before forgiveness. You
must give up your rebellious sword be-
fore you can get grasp of the divine
hand.
IT Is GOOD TO HAVE GODS FRIENDSHIP.
Oh, what glorious state of things to
have the friendship of Godl Why. we
could afford to have the whole world
against US and all other worlds against
us if we had God for us. He could in a
minute blot out this universe, and in an
other minute make a better universe. I
have no idea that God tried hard when
he made all things. The most brilliant
thing known to us is light, and for the
creation of that he only used word of
command. AS out of a flint the 'front.'
iersman strikes a spark, so out of one
word God struck the MONDAY sun. For
the making of the present universe 1 do
not read that God lifted so much as a
finger. The Bible frequently speaks of
Sod IS hand, and God s arm, and Gods
shoulder, and God IS foot; then suppose
He should put hand and arm and shoulder
and foot to utmost tension, what could
He not make? That God, of such