Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
Their religion is system of negations.
You say to one of them

tisn. 'What do you believer
"Well, don't believe in the perse-
verance of the saints "'well, now
tell me what you do believer" "Well,
L don't believe in the eternal punish
nent of the wicked. ~ So their religion
is row of ciphers. Believe something
and teach it; or, to resume the figure Of
my text, scatter abroad the right kind
of seed
A minister in New York preached a
sermon calculated to set the denomina-
lions of Christians quarreling. He was
sowing uettles. minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach a SER
mon on the superiority OF trauscendental
and organized forces to untranscen-
dental and unorganlzed forces. What
was he sowing?
The Lord Jesus Christ nineteen centu-
rIes ago planted the divine seed of doc
trins. Ii sprang up. On one side of the
stalk are all the churches OF Christen-
dom. On the other side OF the stalk are
all the free governments OF the earth,
and on the top there shall be Towering
millennium after awhile. All from the
Gospel seed of doctrine. Every word
that parent or Sabbath-schooi teacher
or city missionary or other Christian
WORKER speaks for Christ comes up. Yea,
it comes up with compound interest
you saving one soul, that one saving
ten, the ten 100, the 100 1000, the 1000
10 900, the 10 900 100, 000-on, on for
ever.
Again, / remark, In grace as in the
farm there must be narrowing. re-
fer now not to harrow that goes over
the field in order TO
PREPARE THE GROUND
for the seed, but harrow which goes
over after the seed is sown, lest the
birds pick up the seeds, sinking it down
into the earth SO that 1t can take root.
There are new kinds of harrow, but the
harrow as [ remember IL was made of
bars of wood nailed across each other
aud the under side OF each bar was
furnished with sharp teeth, and when
the horses were hitched to II, 1t went
tearing and leaping across the field,
driving the seed down into the earth I'M
Ill il sprung up in the harvest. Be-
reavement, sorrow, persecution are the
Lord 3 harrows TO sink the Gospel truth
into your heart. There were truths tina
you heard thirty years ago that nave not
affected you until recently. some
great trouble came over you, and the
truth was narrowed in, and 1t mas come
up. What did God mean IN this coun-
try in 1857? For a century there was the
Gospel preached. but great deal OF IL
produced no result. Then God harnessed
a wild panic to a harrow of commercial
disaster, and that harrow went down
Wall street and up Wall street. down
Third street and up Third street, down
State street and up State street until the
whole lane was torn to pieces as II had
never been before. What followed the
harrow? A great awakening In which !
there were 900 900 souls brought into the
kingdom of our Lord. No harrow no crop
Again, | remark, in grace as in the farm
there must be reaping. Many Chris
tians speak of religion as though II were |
A matter of economics or insurance. |
They expect to reap in the next world.
Oh, no!
NOW IS THE TINE TO REAP
Gather up the JOY of the Christia relig
on this morning, this afternoon. tbi
light. Ii you have not as much grace
As you would like to have. thank God
or what you have, and pray for more,
fou are no worse euslaved than Joseph.
40 worse trGu led than was David no |
worse scourged than was Paul. Yet.
amid the rafting of letters, and amid
he gloom of dungeons, and amid the
lorror OF shipwreck, they triumphed in
he grace of God. The weakest man
lere has 800 acres OF spiritual joy all
ipe. Why do you not go and
cap iti You have been groan-
ne over your Intirmities tor thirty
ears. Now give one round shout over
our emancipation. You say YOU have
so hardi you might have it worse.
'ou wonder why this great cold trouble
eeps revolving through your soul, turn
lg and turning, with a black hand on
he crank. An, that trouble is the
rindstone on VIII Oh you are to sharpen
our sickle. To the feldsl Wake upI
AXE off your green spectacles, your blue
pe@tacles, your black spectacles. Pull |
p the corners of your mouth as far as
on pull them down. To the fields!
.eap! Reap!
Again, l remark, in grace as in farm
lg there is time for threshing. tell
on bluntly that is death. Just as a
irmer beats the " heat out OF the straw,
death beats the soul out of the body.
very sickness is stroke of the fail,
nd the sickbed is the thres thing floor.
mat, say you, is death to a good man
My taking the wheat out of the straw?
hat Ia all. An aged man has fallen to
eep. Only Yesterday you saw him in
le sunny porch playing with his grand
lildren. Calmly he received the mes
Ige TO leave this world. He babe q
easant goodby to his old friends. The !
legraph carries the tidings, and on
7ift railtrains the kindred come, want
& once more to look on the face of dear ]
d grandfather. Brush back the gray
airs from his brow. /
IT WILL NEVER ACHE AGAIN. :
ut him away in the slumber of the Z
NIB. He will not be afraid of that {
ght. Grandfather was never afraid of {
lything. He will rise in the morning r
the resurrection. Grandfather was {
ways the first to rise. His voice has
ready mingled in the doxology of Z
'aven. Grandfather always did sing T
church. Anything CHASTITY in that9 /
o. Threshing OF the wheat out of the
raw. That is all. T
The Savior folds lamb in His bosom. !
10 little child filed all the house with
II music, and her toys are scattered all 1
and down the stairs just as she left I
EN-. What If the hand that plucked :
ur-o clocks out of the meadow is still? +
VIII wave the eternal triumph. What 4
the voice that made music in the home e
stlll' 1t will sing the eternal hosanna. 3
IL white rose in one hand. 3
"a red rose II the other hand d