Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-11

nauion? There are those here who have
it, so am not speaking in the abstract,
but to the point. You have not whis-
pered it, perhaps, to your most intimate |
friend, but you see your home
GOING AWAY GRADUALLY FROM YOU,
and unless thinGs change soon II will be |
entirely destroyed. Your grief was well |
depicted by q woman, presiding at a
woman s meeting in Ohio, when her in
toxicated husband staggered up to the |
platform, TO her overwhelming mortii-
cation and the disturbance of the. audi
ence, and she pulled II protruding bottle
from her husband g pocket, and held 1t
up before the audience, and cried out,
"there is the cause of my woe! There
are the tears ana the life-bood of q
drunkard's wifeI" And then looking
up 10 henven she said, "How long, o
Lord, how long?" and then looking
down TO the audience, cried, "do you
wonder feel strongly on this subject?
Sisters, will you help me?" And hum
dreds of voices responded, Eyes, yes,
we will help you"
You stand, some of you, in such a
tragedy to-day. You cannot even ask
him TO stop drinking. 1t makes him
cross, and he tells you to mind your own
business. Is there any relief in such
case2 Not such as is found in the rig
marole of comfort ordinarily given in
such cases. But there is a relief that
drops in mama from the throne Of God.
Oh, lift up your lacerntrd soul in prayer,
and YOU will get omnipotent comfort! l
do not know i;i what words the soothing
influence may come. but know for es-
pecial grief there is especial deliverauce.
/ give you two or three passages; try
them Oil; take that which best fits your
soul: ''Whom the Lord loveth He chas-
teneth.'' IAN things work together
for good 10 those who love God. -
''WeepinE may endure for night, but
/ Joy cometh in the morning. - know
/ there are those who, wheu they try to
/ comfort people, always bring the same
| stale sentiment
| ABOUT THE UsEFULNEss OF TRIAL.
! Instead OF bringing up a new plaster for
| n new wound, and fresh mama for fresh
/ hunger, they rummage their haversack
/ TO find some crumb of old consolation,
when from horizon TO horizon the ground
Is white with new fallen mama of God 3
help not five minutes old.
But after IA 900 consecutive days OF
falling Misunderstanding eXcepted-the
! mama ceased. Some OF them were glad
of it. You know they had complained TO
+ their leader, and wondered TINT they had
TO eat mama Instead of onions. Now the
fare is changed. Those people in that
army under forty years of age had never
seen u cornfield, and now, when they
hear the leaves rustling and see the tas-
sells waving and the pillows of green t1oW-
ing over the plain as the wind toucheu
them, il must have been new ana lively
sensation, Corn" cried the old man,
as he opened IN ear. tCorn!' cried
the children, as they counted the shining
grains. ''Corn! shouted the vanguard
of the host, US they burst open the gran
aries OF the afTrighted population, the
grunaries that had been left in the pos
session of the victorious Israelites. Then
the fires were kindled, and the ears OF
corn were thrust into II, and fresh ana
CrisD and tender, were deyouTed OF the
hungry y:Ctors; and bread was prepared
and many things that can he made out oil
flour RECALLED the appetites that had been
shurpeued by the long march. lana
the mama ceased on the morrow after
they had eRteL of the old corn of the
land. -
Blessed be God, we stand in just such 8
field to-day, the luxuriant grain COMING
above the girdle, the air full OF Inc
odors of the ripe old corn of the gospel oil
Canaan. comp you say, 1.-The fare /:
too plaiu!'' Then / remember you will
soon get tired of II fanciful diet. While
/ was In Paris liked for while the rare
and exquisite cookery; but soon
WISHED WAS HOME AGAIN,
, and had the plain fare of my native land
So il is u fact that we soon weary OF tht
> sirups and rusturds and the whipped
foam of fanrifuI religiouists, aud we cry
''Glvp us plain bread, made out OF th'
old corn of the gospel Canaan.' This
3 the only food that can quell the soul
hunger.
! There are men here who hardly BnoV
3 what is the matter with them. The
! have tried TO get together fortune ant
larger account Mt the bank, and to &c
+ investments yielding larger percentages
! They are trying to satisfy their soul will
t a diet of mortgages and stocks. There
( are Others here who have been trying I
/ get famous, and have succeeded TO get
r greater or less extent, and they nav
5 been irving TO satisfy their soul with tn
! chopped feed of magazines and neWspa
I pers. All these men are no more happ
. now than before they made the mrs
S thousand dollars; no more happy nov
1 than when for the first time they SAY
their names favorably mentioned. The
o cannot analyze or define their feelings
o but will tell them what is the matter
J., they are hungry for the old corn of tn
= gospel. That you must have, or b
!. pinched, and wan, and wasted, and hoI
: how-eyed, and shriveled up with
It eternity of famine.
10 The intidel scientists of this day al
= Offering US Il diGersut,kInd of soul food
u but they are, of all men, the most misei
able. | have known many of them; bl
h 1 never knew one OF them who can
IS within q thousand miles of being happ!
IT The great John Stuart Mill provided Il
d himself new kind Of porridGe; but ye
when he comes to die. he acknoWledg
that his philosophy never gave him an
IT comfort in days of bereavement, anu
1t a roundabout way he admits that
l. HIS LIFE WAS FAILURE.
}, So IL is with all iufidel scientists. INT
:, are try ing to live on telescopes al
r crucibles and protoplasms, and TN
is charge us with can't, not realizing IN
lie there is no such intolerable can I IN
m the world as this perpetual talk we
s. hearing about "positive philosophy,
aud ''the absolute, - and "the great
?. be. - and 1.-the everlasting no, al
g | tstba bipber unity ~ and ''the late