Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-24

| tower aud, not knowing their danger
went outside on some timbers, when one
of those iimbers broke, and the boys fell
and the older hoy caught on q beam and
the younger clutched the foot of the
older; the older could not climb up with
the younger hanging to his feet, so the
younger said: "John, am going to let
go; you can climb out into safety, but
you can I climb up with me holding fast !;
l am going to let 90,
KISS MOTHER FOR ME-,
and tell her not to feel badly; good
bye!' and he let go and was so hard
dashed upon the ground he was not re-
coguiza BILE. Plenty OF such brave boys
coming up from Nazareth! Let Jerusa-
lem be careful how il treats thep A
gentleman long ago entered school in
Germany and he bowed very low before
the boys and the teacher said: 'Why
do you do that?'' 'Oh,' said the Wis
itor. 81 do not know what mighty man
may yet be developed among them. -
at that instant the eyes of one OF the
boys flashed fire. Who was it? Martin
Luther. A lad on his way 10
school passed doorstep on
which sat a lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said to him: 'Why
| don't you go to schooi?'' "Oh. am
lame and l can't walk to school!'
| ''Get on my back, ~ said the well boy,
"and will carry you TO school, And
! so be did that day and for many days
until the invalid was fairly started on
the road to an education. Who was the
well boy W no did that kindness3 l don't
| know. Who was the invalid he carried?
1t was Robert Hall, the rapt pulpit
orator of all Christendom. Better give
! To h.I hova M Nnyp raf
| to Jerusalem crown instead of a cross.
On this December morning III PaleS-
| tine, on our Why out from Nazareth, we
saw just such q carpenter shop as Jesus
| worked in, supporting his widowed
mother, after he was old enough to do
| so. l looked in, and there were ham,
mer, and saw, and plane, and auger,
and vice, and measurIngrule, and
chisel, Ald drill, and adze, and wrench,
and bit, and all the tools of carpentry.
Think of it! He who smoothed
THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH,
moving plane. He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake. pounding Il
chlse. He who opened the mammoth
caves of the earth, turning an auger.
He who Yields the thunderbolt, striking
with n hammer. He who scooped out
the bed for the ocean, following a ladle.
He who flashes the morning on the
earth, and makes the midnight heavens
culver with aurora, constructing u win
dow. / cannot understand it, but be-
lieve it. A sceptic said to an old clergy
man, "I will not believe anything l
cannot explain. - "lndeed!' SAID
the clergyman, "You will not
believe ANYTHING you cannot ex-
plain. Please to explain TO me why
some cows have horns, and others have
no horns. "No!' said the sceptic,
81 did not mean exactly that. l mean
that will not believe anything l have
not seeu!'' "Indeed, - said the clergy
man, "You will not believe anything
You have not seen. Have you a back
bone?'' ..Yes,' said the sceptic.
.'How do you kuow?' sa:d the clergy
man. "Have you ever seen t?' This
mystery of God-head and humanity
irterjoined cannot understand, and l
cannot explain, but believe it. 1 am
glad there are so many things we can
not understand, for that leaves some-
thing for heaven. II we knew every |
thing here, heaven would he great in
dolence. What foolish people those |
who are in perpetual fret because they |
ctnnOt understand all that God says aud |
does. A child in the first juvenile |
primer might as well burst into tears be
cause it cannot understand comic Sec
tons. In this world We are only in
THE A-B-C CLASS,
and we cannot now understand the lib
raries of eternity which put to utmost
test faculties arrhangelic. l would be
ashamed of heaven if we do not know
more there, with all our faculties inten-
sied milionfoid and 1T the center of
the universe, than we do here with our
dim faculties aud cl;nging to the outside
rim of the universe.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village of Palestine. where
the mother of Christ aud our Lord at
tended the wedding of a poor relative
and having come over from Nazareth
for that purpose. The mother of Christ
for women are first 10 notice such
that the provisions had
fallen short and she told Christ.
and He, to relieve the embnrrass-
ment of the houspkeeper, who had
invited more guests than the pantry
became the butler of the oc-
casion, and out of a cluster of few
sympathetic words squeezed beverage
of l26 gallons Of wine in which was not
one drop OF intoxcaEt or 1t would have
left that party as maudiin and drunk rs
Inc great centsnulhl banquet IN New |
York two years ago, left senators, and
governors, and generals and merchant
princes. The difference between the
wine at the wedding in Cana and the
wine at the banquet in New York being
that the Lord made the one and the
devil made the other. We got off our
horses and examined some of these
water jars ut Cana, said to be the very
,nes that held the plain water that
Christ turned into the purple bloom of
IN especial vintage. l measured them
aud found them eighteen inches from
edge to edge ana nineteen inches deep,
md declined to accept their identity.
But we realized the immensely of u sup
,Iy of l26 gallons OF wine.
WHAT WAS THAT FOR?
one gallon would have been {
for it was only an additional in {
tallment of what had already been pro-
'ided. and it is probable that the house ,
Ieeper could not have guessed more than
'ne gallon out of the way. But l26 gall
ons! What will they do with the sur
,lus? All, 1t was just like our Lord! !
those young people were about to start :
n housekeeping. and their means were
united and that big supply, whether