Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
and dishonesty and all sorts of wicked

and dishonesty and all sorts of wicked
ness
Deniel stood on most unpopular plat
form. He stood firmly, though the
demagogues OF the day Kissed at him and
TRIED TO OVERTHROW HIM.
We must carry our religion INTO our
politics. But there are great many
men who are IN favor of taking religion
into national politics who do not see the
Importance of taking it into city politics;
as though q man were Intelligent about
the welfare of his Deighborhood, and had
no concern about his own home.
Religion would drive out all base per-
sonalities from politics. You have right
TO discuss mems politics and denoUnoe
their political sentiments, or receive
them, as you will; but you have no right
10 assail their private character, as Is
done everv autumn. That is not carry
ing religion into politics. Now you can
always tell without asking, IN any con-
test, what candidate l will vote for. 1t
is always for the man who is most bad
gered, and most abused, and most spit
upon, and most howled at. You have
right to contest a mans political seDti-
ments; you have no right for base politi-
cal purposes to assail his private moral
character.
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that lions cannot hurt good man.
No man ever got into worse company
than Dauiel got into when he was thrown
into tbs den. What rare morsel that
fair young man would have been for the
hungry monsters! If they had plunged
at him he could not have climbed into
niche beyond the reach of their paw or
the snatch of their tooth. They came
pleased all around about him, as hum
ter's hounds at the well-kuOwn whistle
COME BOUNDING 10 HIS FEET.
You neeu not 90 to Numidia to get
among lions. You all have had them
after you-the lion of financial distress,
the lion of sickness, the lion of perseeu-
ton. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting his mouth down to the
earth, ami he roared until all the banks
and all the insurance companies qusked.
With his uostril he scattered the ashes on
the domestic hearth. You have had
trial after trial, misfortune after mis-
fortune, lion after lion; ami yet they
have never hurt you if you put your
trust in God aud they never will hurt
you. They did not hurt Daniel, and
they cannoC hurt you.
The Persians used TO think that spring
rain falling into sea-shells would turn iu-
to pearls; aud l have TO tell you that the
tears of sorrow turn into precious gems
when they drop into God 3 bottle. You
need be afraid of nothing, putting your
trust in God. Even death, that mon
ster lion whose den is the world g sepul-
chre, and who puts his paw down amid
thousands of millions OF the dead, can
not alright you.
When in olden times q man was to get
the honors of knighthood, he was COM
PEELED to 20 fully armed the night before
among the tOmbs of the dead, carrying q
sort of spear, and when the day broke he
wOulu come forth and amid the sound of
cornet and great parade, he would get
the hOuors of knighthood. And so il will
be with the Christian in the night before
heaven, as fully armed with spear
and helmet of salvation he
will wait and watch through
the darkness until the morning dawns
and then ne will take the honOrs of
heaven amid that great throug with
snowy robes, streaming over seas of sap
Dhire