Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE. FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY MAYL

| you this day with your morning meal
The great earth and the heavens are the
busy loom at work for you; and shooting
| light and silvery stream, and sharp light
ming are only woven threads in the great
| loom, with Gods foot on the schultz.
| The same Spirit that converted your soul
has also converted the elements from
enmlty toward yod into inviola5le friend&
ship, and, the furthest star and deepest
cavern, regions of everlasting cold as
we'll az 1-clipes of eternal summer, all
have mission OF good, direct or indi-
rect, for your spirit.
Now infer from this that the study of
natural objects will increase our religious
| knowledge. If David and Job and John
and Paul could not afford to let go with
out observation one passing cloud, or rift
of snow, or spring blossom, you cannot
afford to let them go without study.
Men and women OF God most eminent in
all ages for faith and zeal, INDUCED in
such observation-disclosures and Baxter
and Doddridge and Hannah More. That
man is not worthy the name of Christaie
who saunters listlessly among these mag
nificent disclosures OF divine powFf
around, beneath, and above us, stuRfa
| and uninstructed. They are mi
that has its fountains and palm treess
nor in the regions of everlasting ice. for
even there there the stars kindle their
lights, aud auroras flash, and huge Ice
bergs shiyer in the morning light, and
God IS power sits upon them as upon
great white throne. Yet there are
Christians in the church who look upon
all such tendencies of mind and heart as
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believe this printed revelation OF God
are content to be infidels in regard TO all
'that has been written in this great book
of the universe,
WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF STARS,
in paragraphs of consultations, and
illustrated with sunset and thunder
cloud and spring morning.
II infer, also, the Iransoendent import
ance of Christ's religion. Nothing is so
far down, and nothing is so high up, and
nothing is so far out, but God makes it
pay tax to the Christian religion. If
snow and tempest and dragon are ex-
pected TO praise God, suppose you He
expects no homage from your soul? When
God has written His truth upon every
thing around you, suppose you He did
not mean you to open your eyes and read
it?
Finally, learn from this subject what
an honorable position the Christian oc-
cupies when nothing is SO great aud Sglo-
rious in nature but it is made to edify,
defend and instruct bin. Hold up your
heads, sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty. that
may see how you bear your honors
Though now you may think yourself I'M
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next summers harvest of barley, and
next autumn IS glowing fruits. and next
winters storms, all seasons, all ele-
meDts. zephyr ana euroclydon, roses
breath and thuudercloud. cleaning light
and thick darkness, are sworn to defend
you, and cohorts of angels would fly to
deliver you from peril. and the great
God would unsheathe His sword and arm
the universe in your cause rather than
that harm should touch you with one of
its lightest fingers. 90 As the mountains
around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is
around about His people from this time
forth for evermore.
oh for more sympathy with the natural
world and then we should always have
a Bible open before Us, and we could
take lesson from the most fieeting cir
cumstances, as when a storm came Down
upon England Charles Wesley sat in a
room watching it through an open win
dow, and frightened by the lightning
aud thunder little bird few in and
nestled In the bosom of the sacred poet.
and as he gently stroked it and felt the
wild beating of its heart, he turned to his
desk and wrote that HYMN which will be
sung while the world lasts:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
ID While the pillows near me roll,
sssss While the tempest still is high;
Hide me, o my Saviour, hide,
ssssSEril the storm of life is past.
aSsD Safe into the haven guidesk
y - receive my soul at Ian. "A