Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-25
GUS dispute to settle quarrel? Did they
not always make matters worse, and
worse, and worse?

GUS dispute to settle quarrel? Did they
| not always make matters worse, and
| worse, and worse?
Many years ago there was great quar-
rel in the Presbyterian family. Minis
listers of Christ were thought orthodox in
proportion as they had measured lances
with other clergymen of the same de-
nomination. The most outrageous per-
sonalities were abroad. As, in the au-
tumn, q hunter comes home with a
string of game, cartridges and wild
ducks slung over his shoulder, SO there
were many ministers who came back
from the ecclesiastical courts with long
strings of doctors of divinity whom they
had shot with their own rife.
THE DIVISION BECAME WIDER,
the luminosity greaIer, until after q
while some good men resolved upon an
other track. They began to explain
away the difficulties; they began to for
give each others fault, and, 10! the
great church quarrel was settled, and
the new school Presbyterian church and
the old school Presbyterian church be-
came one. The different parts of the
Presbyterian order, welded by ham,
mer, little hammer, a Christian ham,
mer that the Scripture calls "a soft
tongue
You have dispute with your neigh
Dor. You say to him 81 despise you. -
He replies: ''I can't bear the sight of
you" You say to him: "Never enter
my house again. He says: elf you
come on my door sill, III kick you off -
You say TO him: "I'll put you down -
He says to you: ''You are mistaken;
I'll put you down. - And so the con-
test RACES; and year after year you act
the unchristian part, and he acts the un-
christian part. After while the better
spirit seizes you, and one day you go
over TO the neIghbor, and say: "Give
me your hand. We have fought long
enough. Time is so short, and eternity
is so near, that We cannot afford any
longer to quarrel. l feel Won have
wronged me very much; but let us settle
all now in one great hand shaking, and
bs good friends for all the rest of our
lives. You have risen TO q higher
platform than that on which before you
stood. You win his admiration, and
you get his apology. But if you have
rate you have won the applause of your
own conscience, the high estimation of
good men, and the honor of your Lord
WHO DIED FOR HIS ARMED ENEMIES.
"But, you say, "what are we to do
when ISLANDERS assault us, and there come
acrimonious sayings all around about us,
and We are abused and spit on?'' My
reply is: Do not go and attempt to chase
down the ISLANDERS. Lies are prolific,
and while you are killing one fifty are
born. All your demonstration of indig-
nation only exhaust yourself. You
might as well on some summer night
when the swarms of insects are coming
up from the meadows and disturbing You,
and disturbing your family, bring up
some great 'sswamp angel' like that
which Numbered over Charleston and
try to shoot them down. The game is
too small for the gun.
But what, then. are yeu to do with the
abuses that come upon you in life? You
are TO live them DOWN. 1 saw farmer
go out to get back a swarm of bees that |
had wandered on from the hive. AS he |
moved amid themithey buzzed around his |
head, and buzzed around bis hands, and |
buzzed around his feet. If he had killed |
one of them they would have stuug him |
TO death. But he moved in their midst |
in perfect placidity until he had captured |
the swarm of wandering bees. And SO /
have seen neR moving amid the annoy
ances, and the yexations, and the as
saults OF LIE in such calm. 4