Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-12
FERYID ORATORY.
An Hour of a Lifetime-sermon by Rev
Manly Hard,

An Hour of a Lifetime-Sermon by Rev
Manly Hard.
At the conclusion of the final number
of the second part of the concert, Capt.
B. B Paddock mounted the band stand
and in few appropriate remarks intro
duced Rev. Manly S. Hard, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist church of BIng-
hampton, N. Y, who addressed the au-
dience present in substance as follows:
I do not forget that this is the Sabbath. We
have already worshipped in . house assigned
Tor devout service; now we come to study God
as we see him In nature. This is an hour of a
lifetime Yesterday as I wandered through
these avenues and saw the products of this
great state and heard this matchless band and
the happy opening Of this Spring Palace by your
president, whom 1 see you are always
glad to hear-and the Grafton packed with facts
and genuine eloquentness-I fancied that we
might have adjourned sine die and have counted
the whole EFFORT success. But we halt to note
the things that are wonderful on every hand.
The disgustfnl worm that the tiaiest child of the
gathering crushed on its way here this afternoon
its little crushed form. The drill that could
come to the instinct of beast, so that horses
are sensitive to the electric announcements of
fire, is a IpR1vel of wonder. In the effort to find
the north S5le, or the tropics-men will live
where first the thermometer will not tell how
cold 1t is or the strong rays of the sun dwarf
into mumInies,
; Men rejected the Christ because He was too
wonderful. Hesslept and ate and loved and
mfgrned and hfd personal friends, and hence
was counted too Wonderful to be believed as the
Sl.ord of Life. But marvellous things surround
us to-day. From a county not organized eleven
years since there stands an exhibit of fruits and
cereals that indicate decades of growth But
let us notice that 1.-THE greatness OF
people is accident and in what
does it reside? We answer not in lands. Rus
STA is rich in acreage, she stretches from the
Ural mountains to the Black sea, and yet her
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Geo. Cannon to show the civilized world the
shameful oppression OF Russia, she relegates
her political exiles to Siberian outrages. India
has breadth of land as she measures her way
from Hemalyas to the belt that separates the me-
ridians. But standing army is needed to main
tain peace Italy was small in landed estate,
but from her seven hills she ruled the world.
Greece ran her bit of land into the sgean sea
and was not great In length or breadth, but she
secured the ripest scholarship to the world.
Our country is abundant in land and in SYM
pathy as well. We could march this whole
apart and have land left. We could marshal
them into this famous state of Texas and give
every human being on this continent
homemakers. Again; our greatness is not in our |
armies. The presence OF an army signifies an |
absence OF unity. Force is not the umpire of |
to-day. The world is making light of the ma
tions that are forced to keep an immense stand |
ing army to maintain its dignity or ats place. |
Charlemagne and house of the Stewards are |
passed. The greatness for people resides first 1
IN the equality of things There is an un7
means and piece. Yet the whole question |
Is regarded by the masses as sophistsy. |
The construction of man. and mind is sach |
that some will have more than others, and this |
is likely 70 hold to the end. The law that |
should preYRl is that all should have their |
rights, An8Epen Whatever follows mustsield to
The right az suffrage and the claims 81 death
are the only. things that seem to be equally in /
again Again. the s6iess Of land lies in its
natural resources ONE things can never be /
forced to thrive, as one cannot make
resources. England s coal is getting costly, for
her shafts are so deep. Ours IS near to the sur
goes thrice thousand miles for every bale Of |
her cotton, but we built cotton mills Just be-
side our plantations.
The resources of our land seem inexhsustible |
and are little known.
Again. Our greatness adheres IN the power Of |
young men. China makes men wait until age /
cannot vait-cannot wait. It was young |
men who pushed this Palace to success.
odisin c ~as OuS swensyseYen wnen ne an
seven when he dictated to the house OF Haps-
berg. JOIN Summerfeld died at twenty-neyen, 1
are not wanted to-day. They must clear the !
track in church and city and state. Again The
greatness OF this land consists in the home idea;
for, first, we lave places for them and, second,
a taste for them. The battle to the |
Chinaman Is pivote1 on the home idea |
dead; was not to accept the customs he found,
but to introduce his own; he came without fam |
lily or home; the China women he brought were
relegated to 3 vicious life. It was bright COM
pliment the president Of the Palace gave Thsn i
be said it was due to the women of Fort Worths3s
that this Palace was constructed. That was IL
compliment to the home Having made study
Of society believe that the reuding Of sympa-
thies, the break in friendship, that
courtesy was intended for Invasion, 1
began in the hotel and boarding house system
The expectation Of the former days make much
Of the housekeeping idea few samples are
left to us OF dishes OF olden make, little linen
Tor bed or table, chair without splint or
rocker. These vera made OF earned By Ter, who