Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-11

lost world wrapped Him all about, was
not the corn baked? Oh, yes! Christ Is
ready. His pardon all ready; His peace |
all ready! everything ready in Christ. |
Are you ready TO- Him?
You say: ''That is such simple
gospsl!' know 1t Is. You say you
thought religion was strange mixture
of elaborate compounds. No; 1t Is SO
plain that any abecedarian may unner-
stand IL
IN IT'S SIMPLICITY IS ITS POWER.
If you could, this morning. realize tnat
Christ died TO save from sin ana aeatn
and hell. not only your minister ana
your neicbbor and your father and
your child, but you, 1t would make TINS
hour like the Judgment day for agita-
tons. and no longer able to Keep your
seat, you would leap up, CRYING: 'For
me! FOR ME!'' God grant that you my
brother, may see this gospel with your
own eyes and hear it with your own ears,
and feel 1t with your own heart that you
are a Lost soul, but that Christ comes lot
YOUR extricatiou. Can you not take
that truth and digest it, and make II
part of your immortal life! 1t Is only
bread,
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food. The food that
will! do for one will not do for another
There are kinds of food that Will pro-
duce, in eases of invalidism, very speedy
death. But you have noticed mat All
persons, however weak they may be, can
take bread. Oh, soul sick with sil' m
valid in your trnnsgressions, thlnK 'nis
gospel will agree with YOU! l thlhk IL
you cannot take anything else, you chn
take this. Lost-fOund! Sunkeu-
raised! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS! CAST
out-invlteG in! That is the old corn oil
the gospel.
You have often seen wheel with
snokps of different colors, and when the
wheel was rapidly turned all the roiorS
blended into q rainbow of exquisite
haoutv wish l could to-day take the
nence and the life nud the JOY and glory
of Christ and turn them before your soul
with such speed and Surh strength that
| vou would be enchanted with the revo!v-
| ing spIenlors of that name which Is above
| every uame-the name written once with
| tears of exile and in blood of martyrdoIn,
| hut written now in FURNISHED crown anu
| lifted sceptre and transnngeiic throne.
/ THERE is ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
| about bread and that is, you never get
| tired of it. There are people here sew
enty wears OF age who find II JUST Us APP
! propriute for their appetite ms they dla
| when, i'll boyhood, their mother cut
| slice of It clear around the lnGt. You
have not got tired of bread, and that Is
n characteristic of the gospel. Ola
| Christian man, are you tired of Iesusf
| If so. let us take His name out OF our
| RibIe. and let us with pen nn1 ink erase
| that name wherever We see 1t. Let us
cast il out of our hymnology, and let
| HThere s Fountain and 'Rock OF
| of Ages'' go Into forgetfunes5. Let US
tear down the COMMUNICATIVE where
we celebrate His love. Let us dash GOWN
the baptisnal bowl where we were con-
secrared to him. Let US hurl Jesus from
our heart, and ask some other hero to
como in. Let us say: ''Go away
Jesus: l want another companion
another friend, than Thou art. - Could
YOU do 1t? The years of your past life,
ared man, would utter protest against
IL. and the graves OF your Christian dead
would charge you with being
an migrate, and your littie
grandchildren would say: 'Grand-
father, don t do that. Jesus is the one
TO whom we say our prayers at night
and who is to open heaven when we uie
Grandfather, don't do. that. - Tired o.
Jesus? The Burgundy rose you PLUCK
from the garden is not so fresh ana ran
and beautiful. Tired of Jesus? AS wei
get weary of the spring morning. and TIT
voices of the mountain runnel, anu th'
quiet of your own home, and the glad
ness of your own, children. Jesus /
bread, and the appetite for that is neVe
obliterated.
notice, in regard to this article o.
food you take il three times day. II
Is on your table morning, noon anc
night; aud If It is forgotten, you say:
''wHERE is THE BREAD?'
Just so certainly you need Jesus three
times a day On, do not start out with
, out Him; do not dare TO go out OF tn
front door; do not dare to go of the from
steps, without having first oommune
with himI Before noon there may b
perils that will destroy body, mind an
soul forever. You cannot afford to d
.. without Him. You will during the da
be amidst sharp hoofs and swift wheel
, and dangerous scaffoldings threatenin
the body, and traps for the soul tina
have taken some who are more willy tina
: Won. When they launch ship the
. break against the side of 1t bottle c
: wine. That is sort of superstitio
among sailors. But oh, on the launch
ing of everyday, that we might strlk
, against il at least one earnest prayer re
. divine protection! That would not b
. superstitiou; that would be Christian.
!, Then at the apex of the day. at tn
tiptop of the hours, equidistant froI
) morning and night, look three ways
= Look backward to the forenoon; loo
= ahead to the afternoon; look DIP to thf
Savior who presides over all. You war
;, bread at noon. You may find no plIc
IN which to kneel amidst the cotto
, bales and the tierces of rice; but if iona
could find room to pray in the whale
= belly, most certainly you will never
:, In such a crowded place that you cannt
:. prav. Bread 1t noon! When the even
ing hour comes and your head is buzzin
- with the days engagements, and Yot
whole nature is sore from the abrasio
- of rough life, and you see great man
- duties you have neglected, then CON
y muue with Christ, asking His pardon
thanking Him for His love. That wou
be q queer evening repast at which the
~ was no bread.
d This is the uutriment and life Of Il
80 plain gospel that commend you. l {
n not know how some OF our ministe
II make it so intricate and elaborate al