Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-03

aud hearts of the people, you will then
have q grand and glorious country.
Watch thou in all things. Then there
are small things which We are to watch.
have said TO the preachers all along
that I would not hppoint one to
church, if knew il, tat drinks liquor
or will not preach against it. II COM
plant, well grounded, is made against
one of the members Of my conference.
he will receive no charge from me. /
take high grounds upon this question.
But the aiiurements Of the world and
the literature that our children are read
ing are perver,inG the mind. Do you
nos know that the books our children are
reading to-day are running great many
of them. Men that might be the means
of doing good are misled by the exciI-
Ing literature of the day. We should
impress upon the people to read only
that literature that would exalt man
KIND and raise men and women higher In
the scale Of civilization, and anything
that will not do that should be avoided.
Novels that are setting our sons and
daughters crazy are to be found on on:
railroads and every here else. running
thousands of our children to-day. We
should not sustain any literature that is
destitute of morality and religion.
Wherever our Savior cannot be guest
no man who loves the Savior ought to go
whether II be in ball room, or a
gambling hell, or ut circus, or in q
negro minstrel hall, or IN the thester-
we are wasting time aud money, and
shadowing the mind; but rather let the
mind be imbued with those things that
would make him greater and better,
and
HELP HIM TO GLORIFY GOD.
There is another thing We ought to
wsich, and that is our own hearts. Do
you know the tendency OF man is TO
watch men? Humanity will watch hui
mainly, and wherever that is the case
suspicious are excited. To the pure all
things are pure. What we ought to do
is to watch our own deceitful hearts, and
when q man has watched himself land by
God 'sgrace fitted himself for theikingdom
of Christ, he has accomplished great
work. "Watch thou in all things and
among the most important, watch your
own hearts. They need 1t very much in
deed. We need. preachers aud people. to
watch ourselves. If u man gets the adj
vantage of you, you will certainly get
injured; but if Christ gets the advantage
of you. you will have home in heaven.
We are more likely to 90 from God, IN
less his grace sustains US. raising
US above our incli ninat!ons and
washing US In the Iathsr of
regeneration. aud putting our feet in
the straight path. Let Us watch our
selves. We need il. The church is our
lighthouse. l have seen a lighthouse
under a very heavy gale of wind almost
dip into the water; and SO tbs church
bows and gives away to the world. Some
preachers 20 into community and con-
form to some Of the popular habits, and
excuse themselves by saying they did
such things before l came here. What
will they say before God? You are to
watch aud pray. You want TO be with
the majority; but you forget that with
God on your side, righteous MAN is al
WAYS in the majority. in this world. l
charge you to stand up for righteousness
and truth, and you will be in the major
ity always. Let a man feel that he has
done right and performed his duty, and
he will feel not only happy, but strong.
| remarked recently that 10 man has a
right to live in this world without making
il better by mis- life and living. You
should always try to make men and
women better. Have you ever said in
your Intercourse among men. look to
Calvary and live? Have you said on the
authority of the meek aud lowly Jesus,
come unto me- all ye that labor and are
heavy ladened and l will give you restf
Instead of speaking for Christ, you can
hardly do it because you become
TOO WEAK IN THE CAUSE,
God help Us to do our duty. We are
the lighthouses. Some of you have been
\
do not burn brightly, they endanger the
snfety of the vessels coming Tito port.
The church OF God il the lighthouse, and
the ship of state is passing by, and if it
Is not guided by Righteousness and truth,
ahead God help the church to
do it's duty. o Christians, do not con-
fine myself to any particular denomna-
ton because We are all workmen OF
Christ in His church, and ars His ad-
vance agents. Every Christian church
is climbing toward Mount Zion. and We
pray they will all reach the top and plant
the flag at the feet of Jesus. Men often
preach more about particular denomina-
tions than they do about Christ. Sam
ZONES says that one denomination
breaches perseverance rs the means of
reaching heaven; that the Episcopalians
preach about the apostolic succession in
stead of fixing the attention of men on
the future rather than the past; that the
Methodists are preaching about the bap-
tfsm of infants wheu all the babies are
asleep. What we want TO do is to point
men to Calvary and welcome all deuom-
ipatious in the common cause of saving
souls through the medium of the cross.
What We want to do now Is not so much
TO cling to creeds, 81 they do not amount