Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-01

NAS3~ 49,
Worth. there was general attendance yester'
day CT those who had got taste of the waters Of
everlasting life at previous meetings, and who
desired to get plunge bath In the stream be-
ore the pr oprietor OF the spa left the city.
MONDAY.
The First Baptist church was full of attentive
appreciative, listeners yesterday morning. Ar
ter the song service, Rev. Mr.. LowDer of the
Christian church prayed. A short responsive
service was held.
Mr.. Jones then came forward and read the
twenty-eighth verse, eighth chapter Of Romans:
And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to his purpose"
''There is no verse IN the Bible more assuring
or reassuring than the one we read this morning
as text. / do thank God that amid all the errors
things we do know. Eighteen hundred years
ago the disciples talked OF these things, and TO
this day Gods people may prove it.. If we get
hold of this text rightly it may strengthen US fer
some of the harder duties of life. We know that
all things work together for good TO
them that love God. Now, let us
for it is the pivot on which all turn. We know
that ali things work together for good. We DO
not know always what Is best for US. We do
not know wnat is good for US; only the Lord IS
doing the best thing for us. Sometimes, Ike
Jacob, we say sill these things are against US,
when all things are for US For we know that all
things work for the good of those who love God.
Riches is not the best thing for US. could
show 200 cases where 1t Is not for
best sometimes. In the delta of the
Mississippi are the finest lands in the world, but
the air is full OF impurity and malaria. and the
atmosphere is unhealthy. Go over into the poor
red lands of Georgia and you find sparkling
I'D from the earth the purest, sweetest water and
the air is the purest that human lungs ever
breathed. So it is with riches and poverty here.
Among the rich you will sometimes ind the
noblest friends.
and old bonnets out Of fashion in 2 woman
meeting and he said, God bless those old
women When Jesus was here he said, The
poor ye should always have with you You can
always count on the poor in your church to
stand by you in all your work. Riches are good
as a means to an end. Riches do not make
man bad; poverty does not make man
good went through the great store OF q rich
man They said the man who owns all this does
not give any thing for Gods cause These men
that run society have got mighty little 20 give,
and no time to go to church. He aim much OF
Christian when he's rich. He amt got time.
'iAgur prayed wisely when he said: Give
me neither poverty nor riches. Don't give
poverty, lest 1 be too poor ana am.
fear 5obn T g gor bnt his vctuas and
clothes? He owns 70, 900 houses in New York,
and he could not live in but one. and do that
l live in one house. He had more houses than
Won have in Fort Worth The rich man is the
man who can say with st. Paul, / have learned
in whatsoever state am to be Herewith con-
u.
If he has $40 900 he wants the next $40, 600. Still
more, the more he has the more he wants.
''Getting rich is like snag in river. It
catches one log, then another log, till at last
great raft is formed. Jay Gould says he can't
sleep we'll at night. If he viii do as tell MN,
he will lie down and sleep sweetly ten hours in
eign missions, Sic, COO. 000 to other charitable
Institutions. Take fifty more millions and
build cottages and churches. The text does
not read all things work together for the riches
OF Gods people. 1t does not read, all things
work together for the health of Gods people.
It is best not always to be well. Good does not
mean health always. Some OF the grandest
Christian men and women ever saw were
always sick. People no have never suffered
are not reliable. do not mean that you would
lie but that your life has flowed on
and you have not been tried. Your char
acter had not been developed. II l were gong
to cross the Atlantic would not want TO cross in
a new and untred ship. Give me grand old
Cuuarder and when the storms came would
saw This old ship has weathered thousand
storms and I will reach the port IN safety
shake man over a coffin o time or two and ne
will run mile a minute. L believe IN faith
he ever heard of till his system is all out OF
order, then he quits and gets well.
ut don't say all things work together for the
honor of Gods people. Very few are honored.
It does not read all things work for the happi-
ness of Gods people. for they are often cast
down. David said, Why art thou cast down
and whv art thou disquieted within me, oh my
souIF' have quit running on my feelings. Is
IL right or is it wrong is the question with me.
I D
eoes ali the time. You old fellows waiting for
the feeling would rather be dog and go to
running rabbits.
paring the wheels that run back to our trials and
the others to our joys, but all running IN com
plete harmony and pressing forward to the one
duty of giving the correct time.
ssThese little gadding around preachers that
love to visit their people. L love preacher
that hates to go but goes because it is right
MANY man has been ruined by laying
around. People say; I want my preacher. TO
visit me- You little old trundle-bed Christ
ians! You better put your preacher to sleep in
the next room have no patience with all this
sEpaftorial'' visiting. God never said visiting is
rather my preacher would read, study and pray
and give me good sermons. than to be
an old airgun, gadding around pastor1ally
LET alone A battery. am against the whole
thing. lean, Iong-necked. cadavarous Chrls-
tian that wants preacher rack1ng round ali the
something else 10 do besides visiting all the
time You need anything tell him. When
sickness and sorrow ana trouble come, SEND Tor
him As long as you stay well and hearty. stay
at home and behave yourselves. Some OF you
preachers don't hurt yourselves running around
anyhow When Brother Wells wants to go any
- 81 he Gets his dog and gun and goes hunt
ing. That's sensible. Old Hard-sheI Baptist
saws he has got to do well in this world No
man can do well unless he has got good wife
and a good home and good cow. / hate an
old bachelor, and when see an old maid feel
sorry and say some man has failed IN dong ms
duty. Honor, health, happines Of his people,
ali things work together for the salvation Of
Gods people-that Is the greatest good-sal-
walton.
al believe in the providences Of God just as
much as / believe in the existence OF God. 1
believe God knows me. knows my wife and chill
dren. knows where live and hears my prayers.
Providence means going before to make preDa-
ration for us. I see a train OF wagons
start out. A man lopes on before them to
prepare camping places, look after water and
prepare for their comfort when they get there.
God prepares for US. Providence. God
hedges us in and disap-
pointed. but we find It was for the best. the
moon shall not smite rs by night nor the sun by
"A man wanted to go of on train. hurried
to the DEPOT found he had left his poeketbook.
He went home and found It. saying I am
SO sorry His wife says but it is for the best
few hours later he hears that the train was
wrecked and forty men killed. The only way
God could save him, was to make him leave his
pocketbook under his pillow
Some incidents illustrating the text were
given ssGod helps as little fellows right
Smart. I believe In an oTerruling provid ence.
When my wife and children get sick trust the
doctor, and when he has done al he can go to
God aud he answers prayer. Ny wife Is alive