Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

than that of the most favored sinner de-
parted. The chance of these last Is gone {.
Where they are they cannot make any
earthly assets available. After Charlie
mango was dead he was set in an orna-
mented sepulcher on golden throne,
and q crown was put on his cold brow
and a scepter in his stiff hand, but that
gave him no dominion in the next world
One of the most intensely interesting
things l saw last winter in Egypt was
Pharaoh of olden times, the verv Pharaoh
who oppressed the Israelites. The in
scrlptions on his sarcophagusp and the
writing on his mummy bandages
prove beyond controversy thatf1e was
the Pharaoh of Bible times. all the
Egyptologists, and the explorations
agree that 1t is the old scoundrel himself
Visible are the very teeth with which he
gnashed against the Israelitish brick
makers. There are the sockets of the
meroiiess.eyes with which he looked upon
the over burdened people of God. There
is the hair that fioated in the breeze OF
the Red Sea. There are the very lips
with which he commanded them to make
bricks without straw. Thousands OF
years afterward, when the wrappings OF
the mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh
lifted up his arm as if in importation, but
his skinny bones cannot again clutch his
shattered scepter. He is dead lion
And is not any man now living, in the
fact that he has opportunity of repent
ance and salvation, better off than any
of those departed ones who, by author
ity or possessions or influence, were posi-
lively leenine, and yet wicked?
What thing to congratulate you on is
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all the gems of the universe kindled into
one precious stone. 1 am alivel What
does that mean? Why, it means that still
have all opportunity of being saved my
self, and helping others to be saved. To
be alive! Why, it means that have yet
another chance 10 correct my past mis-
takes, and make sure work for heaven
Alive, are we? Come, let US celebrate it
BY new resolutions, new sef-examina-
ton, new conservation, and new career
The smallest and most insignificant to-
day is worth more to US than 500 yester-
days. Taking advantage of the present
let us
GET PARDEN FOR ALL THE PAST,
and security for all the future. Where
are our forgiven sins? 1 don't know
God don't know, either. He says,
''Your sins and iniquities will I remem-
Der no more.
What encouragement in the text tor all
Christian workers! Despair of no one Is
salvation. While there is life there is
hope. When in England a young lady
asked for class in a Sunday school, the
superintendent said, "Better go out on
the street and get your own class. She
brought in a ragged and filthy boy. The
superintendent gave him good apparel &.
In few Sundays he absented himself
Inquiry discovered that in a street fight
he had his decent apparel torn off. He
was brought in and second time re-
specially clad. After few Sundays he
again disappeared, and it was found that
ne was again ragged and wretohed.
"Then, - said the teacher, ave can do
nothing with him. - But the superin-
tendent fitted him up again
and started him again. After a
while the Gospel took hold Of
him and his heart changed. He started
for the ministry and became a foreign
missionary and on heather grounds lived
and translated the Scriptures, and
preached, until among the most illus
trious names of the church on earth and
in heaven is the name of glorious Robert
Morrison. Go forth and save the lost,
and remember however deDraved, how
eyer ragged, and however filthy and un-
done child is, or a man is, or q woman
is, they are worth an effort. l would
rather have their opportunity than any
that will ever be given to those who
lived in magnificent sin and splendid I'M
righteousness and then wrapped their
gorgeous tapestry around them and with
out prayer expired. BETTER Is liv-
ing dog than dead lion. -
In the great day it will be found that
the last shall be first. There are in the
grog-shops and in the haunts of iniquity
to-day those who will yet be models of
holiness and preach Christ to the people.
In yonder group of young men who came
here with no useful purpose, there is one
who will yet live for Christ and perhaps
die for Him. In q pulpit stood o stranger
preaching, and he said: 1.-THE last time
l was in this church was fifteen years
ago, and the circumstances were pecu-
liar. Three young men had come, eX-
pectlng to disturb the service, and they
had stones in their pockets which they
expected to hurI at the preacher. One
take part in the assault, and the others,
in disgust at his cowardice, left the
building. One of the three was hanged
for forgery Another is in prison, con-
demned to death for murder. l was the
third, but the grace of God saved me. -
My nearer, give no one up. The case
may seem desperate, but the grace of
God likes to undertake q dead lift.
proclaim it this day to all the people
Free Grace! Living and dying, be that
my theme-Free Grace! Sound 1t across
the continent, sound it across the seas
Free Gracei Spell out those words in
flowers, lift them in arches, build them
in thrones, roll them in oratories-Free
Grace! That will yet Edenize the earth
and people heaven with nations re-
deemed. Free Grace!
Salvation! Oh, the joyful sound,
IT'S pleasure to our ears,
A sovereign balm for every wound,
a cordial for our fears.
Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At deaths dark door we lay,
But we arise by grace divine,