Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22
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THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADI
STRAIGHT
In many g domestic life are dificultie:
to be removed. There are thousands oil
matches that were Dot made in heaven
Some Of the loveliest women have beer
united to some of the meanest men and
some of the %grandest men TO the most
worthless women. There may be nc
sufficient cause of enforcement, Tut there
has never been any accord. For them
the wedding march ought never to have
been played. The twain enlargement in
sentiment, the north pole and the south
pole might Just as well have been
married. A twist of nettles would have
been more a~ppropri-te than q garland of
orang blossoms. The uuutterable mis-
take was made to please parents, or tor
the acquisition of estate, or for height
ening of social position, or thorough
thoughtlessness. l call the attention of
such TO the rapid dissolution of families i.
This thought, which is q sadness to q
happy marital state, might be consola-
tory to those u%nequally yoked. A very
short path is the path of life. The roll
ing years will give quick emancipation.
Everybody, for discipline, must have
some kline of trouble, and that is your
trouble. Put in a song now and then to
cheer your spirit. Make the best of
things. Find in God that peace which
no one else can bestow. The days and
months and years sre crowdiDg past and
the last of the procession so far as you
are concerned will soon have gon by.
Remember that some of the best men
and women who ever lived ave had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore up
under it and so car you. The expiration
of the life of one of you will, after a
while, remove the affection. Let the one
that remains make no
HYPoCRITICAL MOURNING
at the o~bsequies of the one that goes or
initiate those whom we have all noticed
who fought like cats and dogs all their
married state, and then could not get
organs to sound dirges doleful enough,
or furnishing stores to prepare weeds
black enough, or tombstone cutters TO
ohisel epitaphs ~enologistic enough. It is
a matter of congratulation that the
uuhappiest conjugal relation will
terminate. The crooked shall be
made straight. In the ages OF the
world when people lived 500 or 600 or
800 or 900 years, such consolation for n
kind of trouble would nave been inapt.
1t would have brought no relief to some
of those old patriarchs to say ''you will
have only 700 years more of this But
life has been abbreviated by the cutting
off of century after century until we can
console people, whether their trouble be
financial or social or domestic, by saying
1t will not be long before the crooked
shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated,
the same thought comes, in q good
cheer. Not long separated Tradition
says that two bells were nodded and sent
from Spain to q distant land to chime in
q church tower. But while In q storm
ut sea one of these bells were wrecked
and only one reached the shore and was
hung in the church tower. And some
people thought that, when standing on
the land they heard that bell ringing
for worship or in a wedding peal, they
could at the same time hear from
the sea the lost bell ringing as if in re-
sponse. Som of our friends and kindred
have
CROSSED STORMY SEA
and are in the tower CT God on high.
But we are still in the tempest and some
times the surge beat over US but our
are still in accord with those who
are gone, and they ring down to US and
ring up TO them M there is sympa-
thy between US that can never die.
"Oh, - says some one, ''the crook in
my lot you have not mentioned, and 1
sit clear outside of all the consultations
you have offered. We'll, l will take
after you with Gospel comfort and reach
you before l close. Do you think your
is SO deep the divine
Surgeon cannot treat it? Have
you q trouble that overmasters
Is your annoyance of such q
that you must suppress it? All,
that is what is killing you. Trouble
must be told or 1t stings to death the
who carries it. If there is no man
Or woman that you can trust with
The secret, you can trust God. HE
away to Him. Tell him all about
it. Lock your door and tell Him
aloud, and if you do not get relief you will
be the first soul in the 5000 years of the
existence, and the only one of
he hundreds of millions of the human
race who ever called on God for help and
lid not get it. In all the universe, in
all eternity, there is not an exception.
Stop brooding and commence pray
nG. 1 bless my God that, while
are SO many crooked things in life,
here are some things so straight God
Himself could not make them s%traighter.
Divine help comes straight to those who
will have it. The angels of mercy fly
straight when they undertake a rescue.
The hour of your final deliveranoe
marches straight out of the eterni-
les. And as the carpenter puts down
lis rule on q piece of timber, and with
lis axe news away until the last inc
and irregularity disappears, so
when God in the last great day shall put
His unfailing measuring rule be-
iide that event which seemed the most
in our lives or in the world, it
will be found out that the last discrep-
lucy has vanished, Inc the l asst wrong |
las been righted, and the las { crooked
hing has been made straight.
A Demonstration at GiIme- |