Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-26
Thank God, there is a fountain in the
house of David to purify the darkest

| AND sinners plunged Deneatn that no0Q
| Lose all their guilty stains.
Yes. leave all form and flee to this
fountain that will wash away all your
sins and eliminate all that is Contempt
Bile and engenders corruption. Listen!
| He who pursueth evil pursueth 1t to his
| death, and first to the death of his con-
| science. Every sin is a direct stab con-
science and Will be until conscience Is
| dead. If were asked what is the great
est trouble with Fort Worth, would say
| it is the fact that conscience is dead. You
| hav sinned and sinned until conscience
| has been stabbed to death. You will sin
all day long and eat hearty supper and
sleep all right. You have s1nned against
your vow and against the truth until
conscience is dead and buried in your
yosom. Pray that God may come down
in his spirit and dig up that dead con-
science and tear of the grave clothes and
| pour in the light OF life.
81 don't believe men could act as
they co and stay out of the asylum if
their consciences were alive. Conscien-
| oes! If it were alive every man would
| be driven to right or to suicide. Alas
| you profane old swearer, you drunken,
| debsuched creature! if conscience were
thine it would be death or reform! You
! men who are piling up your millions
| while pure women and overworked men
| are starving il confidence were alive you
would scatter it in benedictions!
And you wealthy church member you IL
| have to unlock the gate and
| shovel out this gold between this and the
| grave or you IL be with Dives, without
drop Of water to cool your tongue. How
| you can possess bank account without
having your heart eaten out 1 can t see.
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| Some of you old cocks with your millions!
| Some three years after you are dead an
other, man will be sitting on your door
| step and will have married your wife and
! your money, you old fool, you! They'll
! say, wv al, yes, married Squire So
and-So's wife; L guess you don It re-
member him!' Haven't you been there
| and heard him say that? (Chorus from
the audience, yes, yes. y 1 wish you
could remain around this territory lit
tie while after you were dead. You piled
up your money, saying it was for Sally
and the children, but you see Sally with
a new husband and new set of teeth,
and the children with new turn out.
Listen remember my words tonight land
you III see literal fulflment of every
world Piling up wealth! What Go you
want of it? Living, it VIII curse your
soul, and dead, 1t will ruin your
family. There is hardly a notable
man all over the United States who came
from rich father. Every boy needs
poor father; it makes him worth his
weight in gold. But man developed in
the lap of luxury is generally useless.
Some of you rich men will say: Yes,
give it to those poor old sinners, but just
let US poor devils alone I've no re-
spect for you if moneys all you've got.
There is nothing SO contemplate as mon
led aristocracY. And God only knows
how some of you got your money, prob
ably by squeezing every drop of blood out
of all you could get. If you are
noble man give me your hand, but
if you are pusilanimous and mean, just
fix for my foot. Conscience! Five men
out of every six six do not stop to ask is
it right, but how much can l make out of
it? I've been trlking about rich folks,
but don t think 1 forget the poor. l can
respect a rich rascal, but despise poor
one. You are contemplate indeed who
have been serving the devil all your life
and boarding yourself to boot.
''Conscience! get all you can and keep
all you get is the cry of the age. You
not only sin in getting 1t, but you sin in
keeping it, and l believe every sin is a
new start at conscience. l never shat
tered my conscience clear to death.
never saw the day 1 couldn't cry over
the SINS of my life, but men often have
conscience neither for time nor eternity.
"Again he who pursueth evil pursueth
it to the death of his resistance. The
greatest power of the Nineteeth century
is the throttle valve of the engine. It's
go-ahead power is the first, but the next !
best is the air-brakes - the stopping |
power. Your will power is the |
greatest, but the next best is the |
won t power, and every sin is direct |
interference with that power. What |
would be the horror OF the engineer when |
he found the air brakes would not work |
on the down grade and within half a
mile of the narrow bridge! 1 tell you |
IN talking to some who've rounded the |
last curve and are on the down grade. |
Some of you drinking men are going |
down to death terrible enough |
to make the devil even hide his |
face under his black wing. IN preaching |
to men who will die cursng as they have !
lived. They are struck with impotence.
God help you to put on the brakes and |
stop swearing, and you gamblers who |
leave your wives and children in want,
God help you! I'm talking TO you ladies
who dance and say l will dance. The
IlInO is COMING Hueu you Will uduC6 anu
skip and whirl through the horrible cor
rldors of damnation. God help us to re-
sist.
"He that pursueth evil does it to the
death of the intellect. He pursues it to
the death of conscience and to the death
of resistance and to the death of the in
teIlect. There are men here who have
sinned against God until they believe
there is no God, and who have
sinned against truth until they be-
lieve there is no such thing. If
you could know those men as God knows
them you would know the reason why
they have no benefits. I've seen many
an intidel walk up to the penitent seat
and confess that their infidelity went no
deeper than the roots of their tongues.
But believe what they may, 1 never saw
a man who didn't believe in hell but
would as certainly go there.
HE who pursueth evil pursueth It to
the death of his own soul. 1 know what
1t means when he pursues it to the death
of conscience, resistance and intellect;
but when you say death of the soul, who
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