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

is no telling. Among the audience grey
hairs and shiny heads were in abundance
but the great majority were young men
| in the strong prime of life, and they
| were swayed like women under the burn
| ing sermon.
| The expense Of building the tabernacle
| has been met, and yesterday Col. Wynne
| took the stand and asked the people to
/ give what they wished for the Rev. Mr..
| Jones and his helpers. He made short,
| eloquent speech that sent people down
| into their pockets. He said: ''I now
| come to you in a new role. I've often
| asked you to give for the welfare of your
oity and for ends that would rebound to
| her benefit, but now ask you for an OBJ
| ject which, say with my hand on my
| heart, has done us more good
than any railroad ever built into
| the city. This great man came
| to make US better men, to make our
| children better children, to labor for
better feeling, for better principles and
| for better government. Let not it be
| said of the gallant Fort Worth people
| that they received OF a man who came
among US to labor for our good and sent
! him away empty handed. -
The appeal was needed, and the sub
| scription reached over $4,000 in all ways.
| Among those who subscribed openly TO
| the S100 list were Robert Mozart, Col.
| Wynne, A. NJ. Carter, Capt. McAnulty,
| D. w. HUMPHREYS, w. F. Lake, ". J.
! Boaz, E. w. Taylor, E. W. Woodruff +,
| Thorp Andrews, Burke Burnett and Mr..
Bateman, while Rev. Mr.. Lowber is re-
! sponsible for another hundred.
The $50 list contains A A. Green
! George Mulkey, o. s. Kennedy, John
| Andrews, Collins s. Armstrong and s. H.
| Mulkey.
Next came the So list with l. R. Tay-
| lor at the head and followed by Messrs.
| Connor, Peak, Wilcox, Manchester, J
| Morgan Wells, Thomas, J J Massey,
| B. 8. Sprinkle, Lenoir, J . H. Leach,
Jesse Jones, DR.. Grammer, Malcomb
! Graham, Mont Kelley, B. C. Wells, II.
| W. Williams, Judge Boyd, Holden, DR..
| Field, Drew Prui md G. B. Boyd.
The ten dollar was held up by J A.
| Brosiey, George ger, j. Q. Saudidge,
| NJ. F. Daniels, Torl Bratton, Ben Hard
ing, F.. Harper, DR.. Brown, \. c. SUI
| gar, George Massey, J. H. Getzendaner,
| Mr.. Slack, A. g. Reding, j w. Scott,
| J. W. Burton, o. NJ. Eckles, Mr..
| Shuck, Brown Tucker, J. d. Johnson;
w. s. Matney and E. E. Powell came
| in with two tens.
| up So, and the good work was going on
| when Mr.. Jones stepped forward and
said that Mr.. Excel would sing the Rail-
| road song. He did sing it, and the vast
| audience Joined in the chorus, ''I IN Co
| ing Home to DIE no More, - with a fer
| vor that made the cid tent shake and
| made the preacher smile softly.
The evangelist then read q few selected
verses and announced his text. ''What
| 1 have written 1 have written, - were
| the words and q new light was flashed
across that sarcastic utterance of PLATE.
''There are two something's and one
someone with whom we all have to do.
Those who went away from this tent yes
terday have felt them and those who are
here to-day feel them. Conscience and
record are the things and God is the
someone.
"Now want you to give me your at
tentIon and be quiet. If you We come
here to find circus you III find it the
most serious circus you ever got tangled
up with, and if you can't keep your lit
tie mouth shut you just get up and get
out of here.
.''What have written have written.
Conscience and recordI Conscience is
the principle Of right in the human
bosom; it is the voice of God in the soul.
It Is that which cries when you face q
duty Thou Oughtest. 1t is that which
warns when you turn away Thou ought
est not. Conscience, conscience; where
is the man in this audience who has not
felt the pangs of an outraged conscience?
Where is the man who has not been at
some time unable to eat though the table
was set for him? Where is the
man who has not been I'M
no.
as down because of the pangS Of an out
ragged conscience. 1t is the voice of God
in the bosom, and where is the man who
has not felt 1t? And it is as truly part
of the man as the hand. It is as much
part of you as the head, and as INSOFAR
able IL life. Conscience and record
They stand like an inscrutable index
finger pointing the'way to God, and God
stands, great index, poin ting the way
to the Judgment seat of Christ. The poet
was right: 1t is not all of life to live nor
of death to die.
Judgment! You all know what that
means in the courts, and judgment in
the ecclesiastical sense is the last great
sessions of heaven IS chancery. Judge
ment! You know how in this
world there are only three ways
of escaping judgment and these
arc, Dy lOTC0 OF law, Dy IOrc0 OI
testimony and by force of pardon and
the clemency Of the governor. You may
say man may flee from justice, he may
bride the grand jury, he may violate the
law and bride the jury or even the
Judge, he may defy the tribunal
to catch him, but when judgment is
rendered there are but the three ways.
He may be guilty but no law to fit his
case, he NAV be guiltless and go free, or
he may receive pardon and go free and
happy once more. But in the great tri-
| bunal up there there is no escape for
him who violates the law. If you take
the wings of the morning and fly to the
desert God is there. If you make your
bed in hell God is there. You cannot es-
! cape. God may burn down the world
and sift the ashes but He'll
bring you every one before the
great judgment seat of Christ.
every path that you take from the tab
ernacle leads there and everyone of the
devious roads in the world converge TO
that point. You can It bride God g grand
jury, you can't bride the Judge of all
the earthI Shall 1, who haven Z thing
in the world, try it? Shall I defy the