Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27

>'e"o VI sdc!iucihS, you neip t0em.
Boys as grand As the one who, with his
elder brother, climbed into a church
lower and, not knowing their danger.
went outside on some timbers, when one
OF those iimbers broke, and the bows fell
and the older boz caught on beam and
the.younger clutched the foot of the
older; the older could not climb R4Rff
the younger hanging to his feet, ths
younger said: "John. 1 am Soiq to let
go; you can climb out into saf3y. but
you can I climb up With me holding fast; :;
l am going to let 90,
KISS MOTHER FOR Me, a
and tell her not to feel badly; bod ;
bye!' and he let go and was so Rr6
dashed upon the ground he was not
cognizable. Plenty Of such bI$xe bog
| coming up from Nazareth. Lsf eN8-
lem be careful how it treats 8hew IA
gentleman long ago entereGHA schQ4h
Germany and he bowed very glow lHors
the boys and the teacher sud- MWhy
do you do that:'' :'Oh, 5aid fl vis-
itor. ~ do no: know what ig4 man
may yet be developed amoAgAhem. .
AT that instant the eyes OF one OF the
boys flashed fire. Who was it? Martin
Luther. A lad on his way to
school passed doorstep on
which sat lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said 20 him: "Why
don't you go to srhool?' "Oh, l am
lame aud l can't wslk TO schoo.'
"Get on my back - said the well boy
land l will carry you 10 school And
SO he did that day and for many days
until the invalid was fairly started on
the road to an education. Who was the
well boy who did that kindness? I dnu't
know. Who was the invalid he carried?
1t WAS Robert Hail, the raut pulpit
orator Of all Christendom. Better give
to the boys who come up from Nazareth
TO Jerusalem a crown instead of cross.
On this December morning III Pales-
tine, on our Why out from Nazareth. We
saw just such a carpenter shop as Jesus
worked in, supporting his widowed
mother, after he was old enough to do
so. l looked in. and there were ham,
mer, and saw, aud plane. and auger,
and vice, and Interchangeable, and
chsel, and drill, and adze, and wrench,
and bit. and NIL the tools of carpentry.
Think of il! He who s,Dcothed
THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH,
moving plane. He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake, pounding a
rhIsel. He who opened the mammoth
caves of the earth. turning au anger.
He who yields the thunderbolt. striking
with hammer. He who scooped out
the bed tor the ocean, following d ladle.
He who flashes the morning on the
earth, and makes the midnight heavens
culver with aurora, constructing win
dow. | cannot understand il. but be-
lieve it. A sceptic said to an old clergy
man, 81 will not believe anything l
cannot explain. - ''lndeedi' SAID
the clergyman, lyon will not
believe anvthing you cannot ex-
plain. Please TO explain 70 me why
some cows have horns, and others have
no horns. "No!' said the sceptic,
81 did not mean exactly that. l mean
that will not believe anything I have
not Scent 'Indeed, - said the clergy
man, 'You will not believe anything
you have not seen. Have you back
bone:'' '.Yes,'' said the sceptIc.
"How do you know?' said the clergy
man. ''Have you ever seen lI?'' This
mystery of God-head and humanity
interjolued 1 cannot understand, and 1
cannot explain. but believe it. l am
glad there are 80 many things we can
not understand, for that leaves some
thing for heaven. IL We knew every
thing here, heaven would be q great in
uOleHCe. Nuht iOOiisu t,eopic tuobe
who are in perpetual fret because they
ctnnot understand al! that God SAYS and
does. A child In the first juvenile
primer might as we'll burst into tears be
cause II cannot understand comic sec
tlons. In this world we are only in
TIKI ARC CLASS,
and we cannot now understand the lib
raries OF eternity which put to utmost
test faculties archangeic. l would be
ashamed of heaven II we do not know
more there. with all our faculties inten-
stied a millioufoid and at the centsr of
the universe, than we do here with our
dim faculties and clinging to the outside
rim of the universe.
in about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village Of Palestine, where
ths mother Of Christ and our Lord at
tended the wedding OF poor relative
and having come over from Nazareth
for that purpose. The mother OF Christ
for women are first TO notice such
thinss-found that the provisions had
fallen short and she told Christ,
and He, to relieve the embarrass-
ment of the housekeeper, who had
invited more guests than the pantry
warranted, became the butler OF the Oc-
cesion, and out of cluster of few
sympathetic words squeezed beverage
of l26 gallons of wine in which was not
one drop of in,oxi or it would have
left that party as maudlin and drunk as
the great centennial banquet ir New
York two years ago, left senators, and |
governors, and generals and merchant |
princes. The difference between the |
wine at the wedding in Cana and the |
wine at the banquet IN New York being |
that the Lord made the one and the !
devil made the other. We got off our |
horses and examined some of these |
water jars at Cana. said to be the very |
ones that held the plain water that |
Christ turned into the purple bloom of |
an especial vintage. l measured them |
and found them eighteen inches from |
edge to edge aud nineteen inche. deep, |
and declined to accept their identity. |
But we realized the immensely Of sup
ply of l26 gallons of wine.
WHAT WAS THAT FOR?
Probably one gallon would have been |
enough, for it was only an additional in
stallment of what had already been pro-
vided, and it is probable that the house |
keeper could not have guessed more than
one gallon out of .he way. But l2G gall !