Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-02

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Listen, you know what's -
You do not profess any ignorS
look me in the face and say "
Is, but you do not know what
of sin sref Will you say THAR
that God win not punish sin Is 70 hy al
face of every word written In the Bible. 49,
OF you TO look at that last strong swimmer
sinking beneath the food. bea of you TO look
At Pharaoh's army dying in the Red sea, beg
of you TO look ~ Ananias and SspphIra When
they lied to the Holy spirit. l beg OF you to
look ct all the history of Gods dealings and tell
me If Cod does not punish sin. Then somebody
win say, l believe in punishment, but not
YOU tell? If you can say. how long it takes a lie
to turn to the truth then III tell you bow long
hell viii endure. don't know what he'll IS, but
] don't believe in q frebox filed with Goals and a
fellow iamIneo in and the cover shut down. don'
belive in that kind of hell, but don { know
tally incompatible with character, A little negro
boy once asked where God got all the brimston
70 burn sinnersiu and old nanny told him Why
bless We, chile, they takes II via 'eIn!' ana
that's it. Every man furnishes his own hell.
Every woman who occupies a house of shame IN
this town is lost-lost 70 shame, lost 70 purity,
lost to discretion You don't need TO build any
hell for them. They're in one all the time. and
men VIII endure as long as sin endures. mans
% nscience viii tell him whether he's right or
-ong II don't make any difference what s ont
de, II what's inside is all right. tell you
O. a carries It's punishment with it every day.
On don't need any Bible or any preaching TO
tai YOU THAI sin has done its work. The things
mar barper. II this town convince one that the
devil is getting in his ticks, and fast, too. Ig-
Eorant Of the conse 9uences Of sini Virtue pays
cash as you go along; so does sin, all you can,
bear, and enough 70 weight you down forever IN
and truth have elimination in
God and heaven, Just so certainly
has sin a elimination in he'll, You only need
20 take certain roads TO go TO certain places.
just take them you'll get there, no doubt about
81! you We got TO admit that sin will do its work.
Every one OF you have felt your feelings
and RI a bundvad times What makes
a fellow desert his wife and hurry TO the
gaming table? It's because he wants 70. It's
the same thing as he'll do when he dies. Why
does he go 10 the cursed place? Just because
he wants TO so, II tell you where q man Is 60
ing ii yOu'n tell me where he loves TO go here.
II NE curses and debauchcs and uaInnS IN this
wcrld the only logical conclusion is hell. It's
the only conclusion of sin, its destiny.
Why DO you continue in sin? is it indiffer-
cree? Its enough to make angels tremble just
10 see men and women shut their eyes against
the light and truth aud conscience. Men in
edge Of the precipice and stand there
with a horrible Indifference TO their danger.
Oh, the recklessness Of some who sin in high
handed way, and drink with an expression OF
loyalty to the truth! tell You. there are men
out there IN the cemetery who ought TO be here
listening TO the sermon. But they drank and
dropped off the sidewalk into hell. They could
rot stay 10 live out half their days;
pity the reckless men! They carry pistols and
keep their Rand on their pocket. I'd chuck
every one OF LLGEe lD-DOCkels plSlOI-lOllIS Iel-
lows IN iail. I would. These dudes who carry a
pistol have the profoundest contempt for
them. never was guilty Of carrying pistol.
! was never so afraid of being licked. If any
man wants 10 fight with me just tell him to go
out of the corporation ana wait for me. And
don't 20. That's all. OF course, il a fellow
Jumps on me I'd give him ffe best I had in the
shop, but ! don't believe IN these lighting
preachers.
Listen! let's rally to the side of the Judge and
the court. Do you ever take your presence into
court? You don't know what an influence POO OF
you would have. Just tell the Judge and the
mayor and the marshal that they are paid by the
year and yOu watching them. The first thing
YOU know they'll be bucking like Texas
broncho and nothing win be able to ride them.
They viii, sure! And property in HeI's Half
Acre viii go up so per cent just sweep EN- all ont.
10 grand Christian character can grow up III
that polluted atmosphere. let every woman be
as pure as q mother and every man as kings
son. Talking about necessary evil is lie! God
made man without the necessity Of evil. All we |
need IS manhood with backbone twice as big
as your body. Meanness would 90 while the !
Texas long horns ranged over your CITY, but |
you are improving the cattle, improve your men.
The drunken fellow who attempted to catch the |
engine in his hands and throw it of the track |
was philosopher N comparison with you, who |
attempt to meet your Gcd unprepared.
Agaln,h Il IS mol lndine[ence or reckless |
ness, is it inconsjderat eness? Is il? tell you,
there is not sinner IN this congregation who |
would spend ten minutes IN sober thought about !
his soul but what would spend the next ones on /
his knees IN prayer. Again l look You |
are satisfied with your present conditions? !
You can't tell me fnat; you never thought !
about your condition ten minutes, but you were |
pTodigiously dissatisfied. Your wife g tears felt |
like hot lead ard Sour sweet child was rebuke
10 you. Haven't You felt it? Haven't you?
- Inconsistencies. No, you tell me Won /
think good deal. Ny friend. thinking is good |
shing, but il don't take you anywhere Think
ing! You sensible fellows, one time N tickled at
you ana then again 1 like 70 oumD you. Or may
be you ale an agnostic or an ignoramUs-l hats |
what it means Rut thew arc Tlaying ont: they
ali die with a cold in the head Cold hits the
erL gfTo1R v-fgFr Ev0nE Or FREQ f,,t-o
Think as you please, do as you please and run
off with another mans wife That's ii. Free
thinker? Free should be spelled fool.
'Or Is Il a spiritual apathy? Are you
asleep over your eternal inter ests? How many |
POOR souls have taken the Opiates of /
The devil and said. Let me sleep tC- night, |
AZ hour. only while you are singing linen and |
slept to waken only in he'll Oh, viii you say |
-FOUR peace is inVulperabIe. 1 believe there is = |
line when the Holy Spirit takes flight forever. |
If praise God for any thing it is when |
hrew away my musket and cartridge box and
he world and what ravaRes they make, but all
He wants is you TO run up The white flag. Then |
lLe' II roll back the guns and rush TO your aid.
This IS our last service! Don't fight God! Let's
TO Him.
Hear my last overture and appeal. In my
asst service in Augusta, Ca, an old minister
Csc and asked permission 80 say few words
nd said: i was brought up on the sea shore, |
md one morning l saw big ship up on the |
md played over the old ship. Every morning l |
rent down and said, poor old ship, |
VII you ever go out again. And
hen when the spring tide came in and !
ashed around the ship and lifted her up, ami |
he trembied and righted, 1 said: Now, Old |
hip, go out, go ont! But in the morning the |
Id ship was lying on her side again, high and |
Try, and I said: Poor old ship 1 fear you'll
ever go ont again., And when the tide lifted |
eF again and she trembled and righted, I said: |
Now, now, old ship, go Out!' ESt she never |
moved, and in the morning she was lying all | ,
allen 70 pieces, high and cry on the beach.
brethren, listen! This is the spring tide in | ,
ort Worth. Go out! Go out! It's the highest |
de that has ever swept over this city. VIII |
Gu be stranded on tbs beach of damnations Go | ,
at! Go ousi God help every man to say -SI'u !
o. Have preached my last sermon here? II | I
OF, is there 4 man here who s heard his last ,
ermon? There's not man here but I'd go,and
ut my arm round him in all humility and help
i'm. Let's go out with the tide. GO out! Go !
ut!''
In the after-service the first man to press to
lie front was Judge Beckham, and soon Rev.
II. Jones asked him to say few words. Then | ,
lie judge mounted the platform and told an ex- ;
erienee that was the most powerful sermon of
he series. Young men and old men, and those |
Tong in the primo of life, were melted. Dixie | I
Villains. sam Jones and, last but not least the :
dge's little son were the factors in the :
.pcrience. Judge Beckham cid more for |
he cause last night than volume OF sermons
e was followed By Col. Wynne, who furthered | .
Le impression Judge Beck had GRATED | I