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

| hope for US in the law. L say L would not
take the record of the purest soul that
| ever lived and stand on the law and ex-
| pect an acquittal.
| elbow do we stand on testimony? I
| look you in the face and tell you that
| when we crossed the line of accountable
| ity our souls were blank tablets, and
| we've been writing on them ever since.
| God will trust to the written slip, and
| the testimony will correspond with the
| allegation. What I've written, I've
| written! and man keeps his own record.
| There is a small piece OF mechanism,
| which attached to an engine Will tell its
| record completely, runs ano stops, and
! length of the journey. Man has uOus
| that, and do you doubt that God is able
| to make you and 1 keep our own record,
| testimony on which we shall stand, or
| by which we shall be eteTnally damned.
| ''RecOrd, record, record, let con-
| science and memory run back over our
| lives and read the testimony as God
| shall read it! oh, you ministers, have
| you been faithful to the vow you took?
! Shall any one of US preachers call for the
| rocks and the mountains to fall upon US
| on that last great day? Goo help US TO
| keep our record clean, TO be true and
/ may He keep Us free from that time
| every hand. Brethren, there is no
| higher nor holier calling than the minis
| try of Jesus Christ. But you can t mix
much with the world, you can {, On,
! stay away from those parties and din
| lngs out evenings! Stand aloof from
| them. Show the world that you d rather
| starve in the parsonage than live IN any
| questionable means. Don t compromise
| the truth.
"And next, what is the record of you
| officers of the church, you are next in
| Importance? is your life clean, is your
| character pure? You have got record,
You own property; do you rent it to
dens of vice? Oh, how can you be q
| party to the sins of others and live on
others disgrace? Stand sloof, stand
aloof! and show the world church with
"a true ministry aud pure officials.
''Let me come closer still! What is the
record of your fathers? Are you respect
able? Do you drink and gamble and
swear and debauch your virtue? Oh,
horrible recordi Did you marry q sweet
wife and are you brute? What is your
record as n father? L want you TO hear
me on this great question. Some OF
you came here to giggle, but if you have
any brains in your head or any soul in
your boz hear me on this, 1t is no
joke. What is your record since
you plighted your VOW to your
wife? The worst thing I know
in this world is when a man will come
in dripping from house of i'll fame
aud put his head upon the pillow be-
| side that of his pure souled wife.
tell you If some wives could read your
souls as God can, they would never
see you again. II q page of some Of
your records were displayed IN tbpt
post you would fee and hide yourself.
God help us! He only can be respectable
whose record is clean and pure.
"Record, record! Some men think
they have right to license, but 1 tell
you you have no more right to be impure
than your wife has, God being the Judge.
Your wife and your daughter have as
much right to be impure as you. 1 want
the day to come when every man will be
as pure as he wants his wife and sister /.
to live.
"Record, record! Every time you
have been IN one of those places it has
left its mark. Every time you we visited
one of those rooms your record has it
down. and that record Will be read be-
fore the Judgment bar of God, and your
pure mother will hear it read off before
the assembled world. How some of your
records VIII make holy mothers pale anu
pure sisters weep! Oh, young men, il
your mother or sister could read
it now as God knows you could
never hold up your head again.
EsHear mel What record have you got
as lawyer? Are you a dirty, damnable,
mean little pettifogger, whom the devil
can hire for s. to do any job? tell you,
next to the ministry, lawyer is the
greatest force there is in community
for good. But there are some lawyers IN
Fort Worth who are ready 20 DO any
dirty job the world wants done, VINO have
load of sin heavy enough to damn
whole city.
HAnd what is your record as a mayor
I've got nothing to do with candidates
nor with men. IN voice and con-.
science, as far as that goes, for l never
spoke for or against g candidate in my
life. But l tell you that q man who Is
politically and personally corrupt can
never make q good mayor. Hear me!
As long as debauched women can ride
arounb our streets in a carriage and dress
in sill it g a direct insult to our pure
workit girls who dress in calico and
go to weary every night. L would
have strumpet caught IN the streets
in pris hat our wives and sisters may
pass til eets without an insult. II
ia trio ayor as long as some people
have know and he didn t do any
better, . = him Off would. Your
chief of nd the force would have
every stri behind the bars on short
notice if d ity said SO.
''Hear me, my cOuntrymen! II you
let Fort Worth 20 on for five years as she
is you heads of families will want TO
gather up your children and emigrate to
some place where there Is not such
premium put on vice. Are you too much
of q coward to stand up and declare
yourself. II I was able I'D run back
bone down some of your backs as big as
circus pole, but you! you'v got little
cotton string run up your back. That's
what you havel You can't make men
out of beef and cotton string. No you
can't!
"Again, what is your record as q
Judge? Above all, give me clean,
pure, brave man on the bench! IN not
calling names, but every man knows MS
number when he hears it. hear you
have brave, outspoken man on the
bench, and thank God for it.
''Recordl What is your record as