Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-31

| pher. - A fine illustration of testing the
| accuracy of mathematics by the Swiss
and French tunnelling the Alps, was
| given. Christianity can be tested in
the same way.
"Then you say, demonstrate it or
| away with it forever. Religion makes
me happy. You are a Philosopher and q
! muddplysician. L want q Christianity
| commensurate with the needs of human
| ity. I will test it now Blind Barte-
| meus is used as an illustration The
story of the ten lepers was given. "This
| old world is mighty mean. II
| thing says Sam Jones is an
old blab mouth! It's all sensation.
Then when they see the people keep COM
| ing they say it won't last. Then they
| say L am paid for what do.
| 'fOh, my countrymen, the longer
| live the more like the old hard-shen Bap-
fist preacher 1 get. 1t is the old story
| Of the dogs barking at the moon
and the moon shining after the Edogs
| had barked themselves to death. Now
| brethren, am going to let every dog
| and every little fists bark himself to
death while 1 shine on forever. How
| you respectable business men in
this town can give your patronage to
| papers that publish such stuff 1 do
not know. Why, it should not
be thrown into your back yard
"Christianity can be tested just like
anything else can be tested. Do you
| want to test it?" An incident where
man without any feeling or belief gradu-
| ally took up all the duties of G tristan ;,
aud as he was talking about il and try
ing to find some Christian duty, he all at
once broke out glory to God. 'I've got
| it. Now 1 know of the doctrine. If
| Christianity is anything it is every
! thing If it is worthy of
anything it is worthy Of everything,
and it is the bounded duty of every man
| to gay, 1 will test Christianity and see if
it is true. This is where intidelIty breaks
| down. They won t test il to find its
| truth. Find me a man who says the
Texas and Pacific railway won t take me
to Dallas and he won't get on the train
| to see. How does he know? Let him
| try it and he will surely get
to Dallas if he stays on the train.
he says, Il can't go to Dallas; aim t got
the money. L say, L will pay your
way He says, Il ain got time 1
say, & will pay you for your time. He
then says, Il won't GO. You are fool
and deny what you say. Inf1delity oc-
universe He denies a truth that you
know, and will not test it. One of these
little miserable Texas iniddles (infidels)!
If had hundred of you I'd
pack you in a a sardlne box with plenty
| of paper around you, and ship you from
Texas. An old-fashioned Texas steer
was niue-tenths horns. You Texas in
fidels are nine tenths mouth. You can
bite off more than you can swallow. You
can run your tongue all about in your
head You got no brains in there. You
are all mouth. Infidele! In fiddle!"
He re the sarcasm was most cutting.
Brother Jones used a fine Illustration,
something like this 81 receive a box
of machinery, wheels, cogs, wires, etc.
don It know how to put it together, SO 1
have it set up out of the way. A few
days later receive with my mail q book
of directions. take it home and say:
Wife, that was Singer sewing machine
we got the other day We take it out,
and by the book put it together, and
wife sits down and tucks and ruff1es and
hens and bangs-nO, you don't bang
with sewing machine.
HTwenty- four years ago was q ma
chine all out of fix, but God spoke peace
to my soul, and took down this blessed
old book of directions and by its aid I
put this old machine, myself, together,
and, thank God, for seventeen years I
have been running along happily, and
DAYS grow brighter all the time. When
the good Lord made the man he made
the directions and the two go together.
Some of you will never run because some
parts OF you are missing. Christianity
may be tested. Will you test it? If the
men of Fort Worth will test Christianity
they will know its true. Some of you
are waiting for Gods good time to be
religious. Well, brother, God s good
time is when you want to be Christian.
If you want TO be good pitch in. God
will help you. If you want to be bad
pitch in. The devil will help you. You
old fellows, waiting for the Lords
good timel Then you need
not do anything. God has
made special provision for children and
idiots. God is always willing to save any
man. Some preachers have fall a into
that line. You must wait Gods good
time! Whenever you rise in your man
hood and say, Il will serve God as long
as live, that's sense. The most foolish
thing a man ever did is to wait for this or
that. God says to every man, go and
be Christian man.
Some incidents of one of his early
churches, which consisted or four MEM
bers, followed, showing If men will re-
solve to be Christians then go to work
and be them. God will soon convert
them and bring them TO knowledge OF
the truth of the doctrine. No man
can be religious without doing his
duty. He must come up to his
duty, fodder or no fodder.
Brother Jones thinks good sense is one
of the essentials of religion. He said in
speaking of election: s'No man in this
Christian warfare can be elected unless
he is a candidate. Glory to God. He
needs no Republican or Demo-
cratic caucus, but he can
run on the Independent ticket and be
elected.
At the close OF the meeting Brother
Jones invited persons desiring to lead
new life to stand up. Some stood. He
invited them to give their hands. Some
came forward.
THE AFTERNOON SERVICES.
For Men On1y-What I Have Written, I
Have Written-A Burning Appeal.
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