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

immoralities, or arrested civilization, or
dwarfed the intellect. The genuine reason
WHETHER ADMITTED OR NOT,
was because the religion of Christ paid no re-
spect to their intellectual vanities. Blount and
Boyle, and the host Of infdels Matched out by
the vile reign Of Charles the Second, as reptiles
crawl out of a marsh of slime. could not keep
their patience because, as they passed along,
there were sitting in the gate OF the church such
men as Matthew and Marx and Luke and John,
who would not bend an inch in respect to their
PHILOSOPHERS.
Satan told our first parents that they would
become as gods if they would only reach up and
take taste of the fruit. They tried 1t and
fed with the experiment We have now many
desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet an
other apple Human reason, scornful OF coos
word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath
of a Hsman, and attempt to compel the homage
of the good, but in the presence or men and
angels it shall be confounded. ''God shall smite
thee thou whited wall" When science began
to make its brilliant discoveries there we've great
facts brought to light that seemed to overthrow
his crowbar, and the geologist With his
hammer, and the chemist with his batteries
charged upon the Bible. Moses account OF the
creation seemed denied by the very structure OF
the earth. The astronomer wheeled round his
telescope until the heavenly bodies seemed TO
marshal themselves against the Blole, as the
stars in their courses fought against S1sera.
Observatories and universities relo1eed at what
they considered the extinction of Christianity
They gathered new courage at What tney cohsld-
cred past victory, and pressed on their conquest
into the kingdom of nature until, alas Tor them!
they discovered too much. Gods word had
only been lying in ambush that, IN some IN.
guarded moment, with sudden bound, it might
tear infdelity to pieces.
1t was as when Joshua attacked the city OF Al.
He selected 30, 600 men, and concealed most OF
them; then with few men he assaulted the city,
which poured out its numbers and strength
upon Joshua's little band. According to pre-
vious plan they fell back in seeming defeat,
but after all the proud inhabitants of the city
had been brought out of their homes and had
Joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that
brave man halted in his flight, and with ms
spear pointing toward the city, 1000 men
BOUNDED FROM THE THICKETs
as panthers spring to their prey, and the pursu-
ers were dashed to pieces, while the hosts OF
Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their
lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thus it was
that the discoveries of science seemed to give
temporary victory against God and the Bible,
and for while the church acted as If she vera
on a retreat but, when all the opposerS of GOD
and truth had Joined in the pursuit, and were
sure OF the field, Christ gave the signal to HIS
church and. turning, they drove back their foes
in shame. There was found to be no antagonlsm
between nature and revelation: The universe
and the Bible were found to be the work of the
same hand, two strokes of the same pen, thelf
authorship the same God.
Again: Learn the lesson that pride goes before
a fall Was any man ever so far up as Haman, who
tumbled so far down? Yes, a smaller scale,
every day the world sees the same thing.
Against their very advantages men trip into
destruction. When God hGmbles proud men 1t
is usually at the moment of their greatest ar
rogancy. If there be man in your community
greatly pulled up with worldly success you have
but to stand little while and you will see him
come down. You say, wonder that God allows
that man to go on riding over others heads and
making great assumptions OF power. There is
no wonder about it. Haman has not yet got
to the top. Pride is q commander,
we'll plumed and caparisoned. but it leads forth
a dark and frowning host. We have the best OF
anti 0rifu for aTyino hat a
fall - The arrow from the Almlghty's culver
are apt to strike man when on the wing. Go
small stones from the brook Elah make him stag
ger and fall liRe an OK under the butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall. Yes
sells scudding under bare poles do not feel the
force of the storm. but those with all sails set
capsize at the sudden descent of the tempest.
Again: This oriental tale reminds us of the
upon ourselves. The gallows that Hannah built
for Mordecai became the prime minister's
Robespierre, who sent SO many
to the gulllotine,
HAD HIS OWN HEAD CHOPPED OFF
by that horrid instrument. The evil you prac-
tice on others will recoil upon your own pate.
SANDERS come home. Expressions come home.
Cruelties come home. You will yet be lackey
walking beside the very charger on which you
expected to ride others down. When Charles L,
who had destroyed Straford, was about to be be-
headed, he said: II basely ratified an
injustice am row to undergo is a sensible retri-
button for the punishment inflicted on an in
nocent man. Lord Jeffries, after irCarcerating |
many innocent and good people in London |
tower, was himself imprisoned in the same
place, where the shades OF those whom he had |
seemed to haunt him SO that he Kept |
tlemen! for Gods sake, keep them of I'' The |
chickens had come home TO roost. The body of |
Bradshaw, the English Judge, who had been |
ruthless and cruel in his decisions, was taken |
from his splendid tomb in Westminster abbey, |
and al Tyburn hung on a gallows from morning |
until night in the presence of ieerng multitudes
Humans gallows came little late, but they |
came. Opportunities fly in a straight line, |
and just touch us as they pass from eternity to |
eternity, but the wrongs we do others fly in /!
circle. and however, the circle may widen out, |
they are sure to come back to the point from |
which they started. There are guns that kickl |
Furthermore, let the story of Haman teach US
how quickly turns the wheel of fortune. One /
day, excepting the king, Hannah was the might /
lest man in Persia; but the next day, lackey. |
dom find any man twenty years in the same cir |
cumstances. OF those who, in political life |
twenty years ago, were the most prominent, |
how few reman in conspicuity. Political parties |
make certain men do their hard work, and then,
after using them as hacks, turn them out on the |
to die. Every four pears there is a
ought certainly to be the next president are
Shamefully disappointed; while some, who this |
day are obscure and poverty stricken, will ride
upon the shoulders OF the people, and take their |
turn at admiration and the spoils of office. Oh, |
how quickly the wheel turnsi Ballot-boxes are
the steps on which men come down as often as
they go up. OF those who were long ago sue
cessful in the accumulation of property, how
few have not met with reversesl while many of
those who then were straitened in circumstances
now hold the bonds and the bank-keys Of the |
nation. OF all tickle things In the world,
FORTUNE IS THE MOST TICKLE.
Every day she changes her mind, and woe to
The man who puts any confidence in what she
promises or proposes! She cheers when you
go up, and she laughs when you come down.
On, trust not moment your hearts affections
10 this changeful world Anchor your soul in
God. From ChTist's companionship gather
your satisfaction. Then, come sorrow or glad
ness, success or defeat, riches or poverty, honor
or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death,
lime or eternity. all yours, and>ye are
Christ's, and Christ is Gods.
Again: This Haman's history shows Us that
outward possessions and circumstances cannot
make man happy. While yet fully vested in
authority and the chief adviser of the Persian
and everv thing that equipage and
9omp and splendor Of residence could do were
MS, he is object lesson OF wretehedness.
There are to-day more aching sorrows under
crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps OF
the houseless. Much of the worlds afluence
woman seated in the street at her apple stand is
happier than the great bankers. The mountains of
worldly honor are covered with perpetual snow
ramerlane conquered half the world, but could
not su bdue his own fears. AhAb goes to he'd |
nick, because Naboth will not sell him his
Vineyard. Herod is in agony because q little
,hild is born down in Bethlehem. Great
felix trembles because a poor minister will
preach righteousness, temperance and iudg-