Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-26
TIRE NIGHT SERVICE.
He That Pursueth Evil Pursueth 1t to His
Own Death.

He That Pursueth Evil Pursueth 1t to His
Own Death.
By O'Clock last night the immense
canvas tabernacle was nearly full, and
every door at the front was closed.
People had come there as early as $3.50
and 6 o clock to pre- empt seats in posi-
ton where they could get the full benefit
OF the popular preachers humorous
stories or burning eloquence. If they
came for amusement alone last night,
they got sadly fooled; but the eloquence
was all there, and the application was q
little hotter than was conducive to the
pleasure of a mere amusement-seeker.
AS the great tent slowly filed up the
choir sang, with d lifting volume of
voice and harmony, some of those well
known old hymns, into which Mr.. EXCEL
has woven new melodies. The music
was grand, and waking babies on the
front row sat and crowed through it all
and sleeping ones slept on.
While the squeezing process was going
on and the coins were clinking merrily in
a score of hats MIR. EXcell's big voice
swelled out in leading the choir through
q beautiful selection. Then the Rev.
Sam Jones made a few announcements.
This aftern oon at o'clock there will be
a service especially for preachers and
teachers and officers of all the churches
in the church on the corner of Sixth and
Throckmorton streets. Friday at 1880
there will be a special service for wives
and mothers and daughters; Saturday
afternoon special service for colored
nd NJ 1nlOn III
service for men only. In speaking of the
latter Rev. Mr.. Jones warmed up little
and said: "You needn It come thinking
I'm going to pour ilto your ears lot of
filthy stuff, but do say I'll rub 1t in
little thicker and harder than you ever
saw before or I'll be out of my whack,
that's all. No, I'm not going to talk
vuIgarity. I never said a vulgar thing in
my life in the pulpit. There are lots of
stories around town about what l said in
Tyler, and the man who tells them de-
serves to be slapped in the face. There IS
only one thing in all the world that hurts
me, and that is when people say I'm i'll
bred. I'm not i'll bred. 1 had one of
the purest mothers and one of the no.
blest fathers; but when l get after some
of you old NANCY hounds, you think 1 m
i'll bred. That all
morning service lose the best service. 1t
is meant for those who profess religion
but 90 not possess it. The evening is for
the unconverted, and the methods are
different. -
At this point Mr.. Excel sang a beauti-
full solo, 1.-The Writing on the Wall -
which was followed by prayer by Rev.
DR.. Armstrong of Waxahachie. Then
Samuel, the preacher, came to the front.
The text was Proverbs XII, 10: AS
Righteousness tendeth to life, so he that
pursueth evil pursueth it to his own
death.
Rev. Mr.. Jones took a header right
into the midst of his subject, and began:
"When a good man dies he goes to
heaven, not only by the gravity of good
ness, and the approval of God and all
the angels, but by the common consent
of all good and bad; and when a bad
man dies, he as surely goes to hell not
only by the gravity of badness, but by
the approval of all men, good and bad.
Did you ever attend the funeral of a
good man, and when the preacher said
his body is here but his soul is yonder in
heaven, hear the comment of SAINT and
sinner? They all agreed, but when that
was said at the funeral of a man whom
you knew to be hypocrite, you saw the
looks of lisapprobation. 1 tell you the
common sense of humanity can put a
good man nowhere but in heaven, and a
bad man nowhere but in he'll. Good
ness gravitates as certainly toward
heaven as wickedness toward hell,
Holiness will open the gates of
one as surely as she will
unlock the gates OF the other. Heaven
is the center of gravity of goodness as
hell is of meanness. God has delivered
himself on this question as clearly as pos
sible. / believe in heaven aud as GER
tainly believe in hell. It's there as
sure as we live, Gnd we may play with
logic and scientists may argue, but tell
you there ism t two-weeks- old baby in
Fort Worth that doesn't know as much
about IL as the brightest scientist Of the
nineteenth century. Things that are
seen belong to man, but the unseen
things are God Do not spend your
time in trying TO prove there is no hell
just for the sake of spending your etsr-
nifty in one.
''Sin is not only q transgression, but q
disease. just as certain as the virus of
cancer will kill the body, so will the
virus of sin kill the soul. It is not what
church you belong to, or have you been
baptised, or q dozen other things like
that. 1t goes deeper. Whether water
has been sprinkled or poured all amounts
to nothing unless the blood Of Christ
goes INTO the depths of your nature.