Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
surroundings will b.

worldly surroundings will be no
solace. Death is blind, and sees no difference
Nazarene and the Athenian, between bookless
hut and a national library. The frivolities of
life cannot. with their giddy laugh, echoing
from heart to heart, entirely drown the voice OF
a tremendous conscience which says: ~ am
immortal. The stars shall die, but am i'm
mortal. One wave of eternity shall drown time
in its depths, but 1 am immortal. The earth
shall have shroud of flame and the heavens
fee at the glance of the Lord, but i'm
mortal. From all the heights and depths of my
nature rings down, and rings up, and rings out
the word Immortal. - A good conscience, and
assurance of life eternal through the LordJ
esuE Christ are the only securities.
The souls Nappiness is too large craft to
sail up the tream of worldly pleasure. As ship
carpenters say, it draws too much water. This
earth is a bubble, and it will burst. This life is
vision, and it will soon pass away. Time! 1t
is only ripple, audit breaketh against the
throne of Judgment. Our days! They fly
swifter than shuttle, weaving for us robe OF
life with religion and for its greatest trial you
will be ready. Every day will be triumph, and
death will be only ak ing's servant calling you
to a royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to receive the
honors of knighthood was required to spend the
previous night fully armed, and with shield and
lance to walk up and down among the tombs OF
the dead. Through all the hours of that night
his steady step was heard, and when morning
dawned, amid great parade and the sound OF
slowed. Thus it shall be with the good mans
soul in the night before heaven. Fully armed
with shield and sword and helmet, he shall
watch anu wait until tine darkness fly and the
morning break, and amid the sound of celestial
harpings the soul shall take the honors of
heaven amid the innumerable throng with robes
snowy white streaming over seas of sapphire
Mordecai will only have to wait for his day Of
triumph. 1t took all the preceding trials to
make a proper background for his after-suc-
cesses. The scaffold built for him makes all the
more imposing and picturesque the horse into
whose long white name he twisted his fingers at
the mounting. You want at least two mis-
fortunes, hard flint, to strike fire. Heavy
and long-continued SHOWS in the winter are
signs of
GOOD CROPS NEXT SUMMER.
So. many have yielded wonderful harvests OF
benevolence and energy because they were
long while showed under. We must have
good many hard falls before We learn to walk
straight, It is on the black anvil of trouble
that men hammer out their fortunes. Sor-
rows take up men their shoulders
and enthrone them. TONES are nearly always
bitter. Men, like fruit trees, are barren, unless
trimmed with sharp knives. They are like
wheat-All the better for the failing. 1t re-
quired the prison darkness and chill to make
John Bunyan dream. 1t took Delaware ice and
cold feet at Valley Forge and the whiz of bullets
to make Washington. Paul, when he climbed
up on the beach of Melita, shivering in his wet
clothes, was more of Christian than when the
ship struck the breakers. Prescott, the his
toUan, better without his eyes than he
could ever have seen with them. Mordecai de-
spised at the gate, is only predecessor of Morde-
cal grsndly mounted.