Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

Uear QOWu on you tO-udy Will d
lightly comfort. Mary and Joseph SAID:
"Where is our Jesus?'' and you say.
"Where is John? or where is Henry!
or where is Georse?'' we'll. l should
| not wonder if you found him after
while. Where? In the same place
where Joseph aud Mary foun their boy
in the temple. What do l mean by
that. l mean: do your duty toward
God and toward your child, aud = GU will
find him after while in the ingdom of
Christ. Will you say, 81 do not have
any way OF infiu encing my child.
/ answer you have the IN ost tremendous
line Of in fluence open right before you.
AS you write a letter, aud there are two
or three routes by which it may go, but
you want it to go the quickest route, and
you put on it 'via Southampton, or
''via san Francisco,' or "via Mar
settles. put on your wishes about your
child, ''via the throne Of God. - How
long will such good wish take to get to
its destination? Not quite as long as the
mlllionth part of a second. will prove
it. The promise is, before they call L
will answer. That means at your first
motion towards such prayerful exercise
the blessing Will come, and if the prayer
be made at ten O'Clock at night, 1t Will
be answered five minutes before ten.
'Bet0re they call | will answer
Welt, you say, | am clear discouraged
about my son, aud | am getting on il
years, and l fear | will not live to see
him converted. Perhaps not, neverthe-
less. | think you Will find him in the tenn
pie, the heavenly temple. There has
not been an hour in heaven the last 100
years when parents in glory had not had
announced TO them the salvation of chill
dreu whom they left In this world pro-
figate. We often have TO say, 81 for
got, - but God has never yet once said:
81 forgot.' 1t may be after the grass
of thirty summers have Creened the top
of your grave, that your son NAV be
found in the earthly temple. 1t may be
fifty Yehrs from now when, some morn
ing, the towers ure Ginning the mathis
OF the gloritiei in heaven that you shall
find him in the higher temple which has
mo need of candle or OF sun, for the
Lord God and the Lamb are the light
thereof. - Cheer up, Christian father
and mother! Cheer up, Where
Joseph aud Mary found their boy you
will find yours-n the temple. You see
God could not afford to do otherwise.
One OF the thiugsHe has positively prom
earnest and believing prayer. Failing
to do that He would wreck His own
throne, and the foundations of HIS
palace wonli give way, and the bank of
heaven would suspend payment, aud the
dark word 'repudiation would be
written across the sky, and the Eternal
Government wo;ld be disbGnded and
God Himself would become eli exile.
Keep on with your prayer, and you will
yet find your child in the temple, either
here or the temple above.
Out on the Western praIries was a
happy but isolat ii home. Father,
mother and child. by the sale of cattle
quite a large sum OF money was one
night in that cabin and the father was
away. A robber who had heard of the
money one night looked in at the win
dow, and the wife and mother of that
home saw him, and she was helpless
Her child 10y her side, she knelt down
aud prayed, among other things, for all
prodgals who were wandering up and
down the world. The robber heard her
prayer and was overwhelmed, and en-
tered the ca in, and knelt beside her AMI
began to pray. lie had come to rob that
house, but the prayer OF that woman
for prodigels reminded him of his mother
and her prayers before he became a
vagahond, and from that hour he began
new life. Years after, that woman
was in city in great audience, and
the orator who came on the platform and
plead glorously FOR righteousness and
God was the man who many years before
had looked into the cabin ont on the |
prairie rs a robber The speaker and |
the auditor Immediately recognized each |
Dth nr IN
prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule |
teers and baggugemeu have been or
dered to pitch our tents for to-nighs at |
Bethel. 1t Is already getting so dark
that we have 20 give no all idea of Euid-
ing the horses, and | leave them to their
own sagacity. We ride down amid mud
cabins and into ruvines where the horses
leap from depth to depth, rocks below
rocks. rocks under rocks. Whoa,
Whoa, we dismounted in this place,
for many things in Bible his
tory, the two more prominent, q theo-
logical semnerv where of old they made.
ministers, and for Jacobs dream. The
students of this Bethel theological semi
nary were called ''Sons of Prophets.
Here the young men were fitted for The
ministry and those of US who ever had the
advantage of such institutions will ever
astingly be grateful and in the calender
Of saints. which l read with especial nf-
are the doctors of divinity who
blessed me with their care. l thank
God that from these theological seminal
'ies there is now coming forth q maguifi-
'ent crop of young ministers who are
aking the pulpits in all parts of the
and. l hail their coming and tell these
rOung brothers to shake off the sOmuo-
ence of centuries and get out from I'M
Ter the dusty shelves of theological dis
'ussions which have no practical bearing
N this age, which nesds to get rid of its
ns and have its sorrows comtOrted.
iany Of our pulpits are dying of hum
lrum. People do not go to church be-
'ause they cannot endure the
echnicalties, and profound explunu-
ions of nothing. and sermons about the
eternal generation of the Son, - and
he difference between sub lapsarianism
md supra-lapsarianisrn, and about who
1elchisideck wasn't. There ought to |
,e as much difference between the modes
# presenting truth now and in olden
ime, as between lightning express
Gil-train and a canal boat. Years ago iS