Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-31

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 a crown was put on his cold brow,
and q scepter in his stiff hand, but that
gave him no dominion in the next world /.
One of the most intensely interesting
things I saw last winter in Egypt was
Pharaoh of olden times, the very Pharaoh
who oppressed the Israelites. The in
scr1ptions on his sarcophagus, and the
writing on his mummy bandages !.
prove beyond controversy that he was
the Pharaoh of Bible times. All the
Psychologists, and the explorations
agree that it is the old scoundrel himself
Visible are the very teeth with which he
CRASHED against the Israelitish brick
makers. There are the sockets of the
meroiless eyes with which he looked upon
the over burdened people of God. There
is the hair that floated in the breeze off
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 uurolled, 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 leonine, and yet wicked?
What thing to congratulate you on is
your lifei Why, is it worth more than
all the gems of the universe kindled into
one precious stone. / am alive! 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 TO correct my past mis-
takes, and make sure work for heaven.
Alive, are we? Come, let US celebrate it
by new resolutions, new self-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 remem-
Der no more
What encouragement in the text tor all
Christian workers! Despair of no one s
salvation. While there is life there is
hope. When. in England a young lady
asked for class in Sunday school, the
superintendent said, ''Better go out on
the street and get your own Glass; She
brought in ragged and filthy boy. The
superintendent gave him good apparel.
In few Sundays be absented himself.
Inquiry discovered that in a street fight
he had his decent apparel torn off. He
was brought in and a second time re-
specially clad After a few Sundays he
again disappeared, and it was found that
he was again ragged and wretched.
''Then, - said the teacher, "we can do
nothing with him. But the superin-
tendent fitted him up again
and started him again. After
while the Gospel took hold Of
HIM and his heart changed. He started
for the ministry and became q 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 depraved, how
eyer ragged, and however filthy and I'M
done child is, or man is, or q woman
is, they are worth an effort. 1 would
rather have their, opportunity than any
that will ever be given to those who
lived in magnificent sin and splendid un-
righteousness and then wrapped their
gorgeous tapestry around them and with
out a prayer expired. BETTER Is a liv-
ingldog 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 pulpit stood a stranger
preaching, and he said: ''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 hurl at the preacher. One
of the young men referred to refused to
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. I was the
third, but the grace of God saved me.'
Ny hearer, give no one up. The case
may seem desperate, but the grace OF
God likes to undertake dead lift.
proclaim it this day to all the people
Free Gracei Living and dying, be that
my theme-Free Grace! Sound 1t across
the continent, sound it across the seas
Free Grace! 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,
TITS pleasure to our ears,
sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.
Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At death dark door we lay,
But we arise by grace divine,
To see heavenly day.