Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31
COKE MINERS STRIKE
HARRY STONE,
The Bright Young Secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association Talks to
the Audience at the Arbor.

the Daggett school house in the Third
ward was pretty well filled by an at
tentive audience, which was addressed
by Brother H. w. Stone, general seore-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. a. His talk was
! TO the following effect:
'This, Saturday, night at the close of
| the week s labors, l shall take as my
| text one of the most soothing verses in
Gods Word, verse that you have no
doubt read again and again, and vet one
that do not think you have ever heard
a sermon preached from. 1t is an eX-
ceedingly short passage, and yet it
brought more comfort to a group of anX-
ious and weary men than almost any
thing else that could have been uttered.
| say it is short, very short. In fact, it
Is SO brief that It contains but three
words, and the words are so small that
it requires TO spell the longest
and yet this is the passage
1 bring to you tonight, and it
can give you more comfort and happi-
ness and peace and consolation than
anything you have ever known If you
have not already accepted it. This pas
sage was first spoken some 1900 years
ago, and at that time it brought as moth
which were expecting to perish every
moment, who saw death staring them in
the face, this passage, say, brought
hope and assurance of deliverance. 1t
brought to them all they could have
asked for, as so tonight, out here under
this arbor, L shall repeat these words of
our Lord and Master to you. Would
you not like to hear them?
Are you not anxious to hear them?
Brief words! that could do SO much yet
l assure you that they have lost none of
their power by time. They have brought
peace to thousands of souls and hope
they shall bring peace TO many troubled
and sin-tossed hearts here tonight.
"Now before 1 repeat this passage to
you believe will try and bring up be-
fore your minds eye the conditions
under which these words were uttered.
"Picture to yourself If you can an in
land sea with q high rock bound coast
having but two openings, one on the
north and one on the south
through which the river 1iOws ut
times with great ferocity, making this
sheet of water the most dangerous kind
of place to be on even in a vessel
OF any kind. But the time that
l want to call your special attention to ID q
time when this sea was in one of its wild
est storms, when a small boat with
twelve men was in the midst of this sea
a boat not like one of our steamers of to-
day, or even a well built sailing vessel or
schooner, but simply large row boat
with oars on the side and one sail in the
center. In such boat twelve men are
being tossed about and have labored all |
the night and are just about giving up |
hair
with them through many dangers and |
had always delivered them, who had JUS |
the day before mlracuously fed 5000
people, this their Lord came to them |
walking over the water, and they were |
afraid, thinking He was spirit until He |
uttered these three short words: cit is |
/, '"'it Is I.' Who was this opp
1t was their Lord for whom they had left |
all things, their nets, their tax books |
and all.
"He comes to them, saying: 1T Is I
1T is t. In this simple declaration at |
is L there was no promise OF fine |
weather, no message for the waves, no |
mention of q harbor-that was all I'M
necessary. 1t is simply recorded that |
they received Him into the ship and |
the ship was at land,
whittier they went. Immediately 1t
was at land.
"And tonight the Lord comes to you
over the waves of sin, over the waves of |
trouble, over the waves of sorrow, over
the waves of iniquIty, over the waves of
unrest, and do you say you do not know
whether He is the Lord or not? You do
not know whether it is a hoax, whether
1t is not an excitement, vision. II SO
He says to you as He did to His dis
ciplss come 1900 years ago on that
and dark night: BE not
afraid. 1t IS l.
tThe Lord stands and says 1T Is l. to-
night. Will You not reeeiye Him into
your ship-your heart?
"'Let US just for a moment glance at
this man who could bring about such a
great change simply by declaring, 1T is
L. He was born in Manager. He
reasoned with the doctors. He
worked at the carpenters trade. Hell
increased in wisdom and statute, and in
favor with God and man. He then
started out on His great mission of
teaching the great truths of Christianity,
Of love, of peace, OF long suf-
fering, of gentleness, of weakness, of
doing unto others as ye would that men
should do TO you. Yet, he did not spend
The greatest part of His time in teaching.
Did you ever think of how most of HIS
time was spent in doing kind deeds, in
simply doing kind deeds for others. He
this ministry for three years.
Then He was cruoi6ed for the sins of the
world, having before declared that 'the
ION of man must be lifted up, and If l
be lifted up I will draw all men unto
me-
''And tonight as He says to you, 1T
10 I; it Is /, / lift up to you his wounded
body and ask If you will, as his disciples
lid willingly, receive him into your ship,
INTO your heart, and have your ship,
your heart. brought within the kingdom