Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25

curved spine or crooked limb, but tn
promise has been fulfilled
1.-THE CROOKED SHALL BE MLDl
STRAIGHT. -
In many q domestic life are difficulties
to be removed. There are thousands o
matches that were Dot made In heaven
Some of the lovelisst women have beer
united to some of the meanest men and
some OF the grandest men to the most
worthless women. There may be NJ
sufficient cause OF enforcement. tut there
has never been any accord. For them
the wedding march ought never to have
been played. The twain enlargement il
sentiment, the north pole and the south
pole might just as well have been
married. A twis: of netiles would have
been more appropriate than garland of
orange blossoms. The unutterable mis-
take was made to please parents, or tor
the acquisition of estate. or for height
ening of social position, or thorough
thoughtlessness. 1 call the attention OF
such 10 the rapid dissolution OF families
This thought, which is q sadness to q
happy marital state, might be cousola-
tory to those unequally yoked. very
short path is the path of life. The roll
Everybody, for discipline, must have
some kind OF trouble, and that Is your
trouble. Put in q song now and then TO
cheer your spirit. Make the best of
things. Find in God that peace which
no one else can bestow. The days and
months and years are crowdiug past and
the last of the procession so far as you
are concerned will soon have gone by.
u tn- hot &c he hnaf or,
and women VINO ever lived have had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore up
under it and so can you. The expiration
of the life OF one of you will, after a
while, remove the affection. Let the one
that remains make no
HYPoCRITICAL MOURNING
at the obsequies of the one that goes or
initiate those whom we have all noticed
who fought like cats and dogs all their
married state, and then could not get
organs to sound dirges doleful enough
or furnishing stores to prepare weeds
black enough, or tombstone cutters TO
chisel epitaphs enologistlc enough. It is
a matter of congratulation that the
unhappiest conjugal relation will
terminate. The crooked shall be
made straight. In the ages of the
world when people lived 500 or 600 or
500 or 900 years, such consolation for any
kind OF trouble would have been inapt.
1t would have brought no relief to some
of those old patriarchS to say "you will
have only 700 years more OF this. But
life has been abbreviated by the cutting
off of century after century until we can
console people, whether their trouble be
financial or social or domestic, by saying
it will not be long before the crooked
shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated :,
the same thought comes, in a good
cheer. Not long separated! Tradition
says that two bells were nodded and sent
from Spain TO a distant land to chime in
q church tower. But while in a storm
at sea one of these bells were wreck ed
and only one reached the shore and was
hung in the church tower. And some
people thought that, when standing on
the land they heard that bell ringing
for worship or in wedding peal, they
could at the snme time hear from
the sea the lost bell ringing as if in re-
sponge. Some of our friends and kindred
have
CROSSED THE STORMY SEA
and are in the tower of God on high.
But we are still in the tempest and some
times the surges beat over us but our
souls are still in accord with those who
are gone, and they ring down to US and
we ring up 10 them and there is sympa-
thy between US that can never die.
"Oh, - says some one, "the crook in
my lot you have not mentioned, and 1
sit clear outside of all the consultations
you have offered Well, l will take
after you with Gospel com fort and reach
you before close. Do you think your
wound Is 80 deep the divine
Surgeon cannot treat it? Have
you trouble that overmasters
God? Is your annoyance of such q
nature that you must suppress it2 All,
that is what is killing you. Trouble
must be told or it stings to death the
one who carries it. If there is no man
or woman that you can trust with
the secret, you can trust God. HE
away to Him. Tell him all about
it. Lock your door and tell Him
aloud, and if you do not get relief you will
be the first soul in the 5000 years of the
world g existence, and the only one of
the hundreds of millions of the human
race who ever called on God for help and
did not get it. In all the universe, in
all eternity, there is mot an exception.
Stop brooding and commence pray
ing. l bless my God that, while
there are so many crooked things in life,
there are some things so straight God
Himself could not make them straighter.
Divine help comes straight to those who
will have 1t. The angels OF mercy fly
straight when thew undertake q rescue
The hour of your final deliverance
straight out of the eterni-
ties. And as the carpenter puts down
his rule on a piece of timber, and with
his axe hews away until the last ine-
quality and irregularity disappears, so
when God in the last great day shall put
DOWN His unfailing measuring rule be-
side that event which seemed the most
twisted in our lives or in the world, 1t
will be found out that the last discrep-
ancy has vanished, and the asst wrong
mas been righted, and the las crooked
hing has been made straight.