Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01

! breast decked with new down and
| plumes, its body as finely feathered as
that OF her young ones Just beginning to
! try the speed OF their wings. Thus re-
| juvenated and repIumed is the Christian g
faith and hope, by every season of COM
| munion with God. ''Thy youth is re-
newed like the eaeie's.'' Would Solo,
mon represent the annoyance of a con-
! tentious woman s tongue, he points to q
leakage in the top of his house or tent
where, throughout the stormy dav, the
water comes through, falling on the floor
drip! drlpl drip! And be says: "a
continual dripping in very rainy day
and contentious woman are alike. -
Would Christ set forth the character of
those who make great profession OF pietY
but have no frnit, He compares them to
barren ig-trees, which have very large
and snowy leaves,
AND NOTHING BUT LEAVES.
Would Job illustrate deceitfuI friend
ships! He speaks of brooks in those
chimes, that wind about in different di-
rectIons, and dry up when you want to
drink out of them: ''My brethren
have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and
as the stream of brooks they pass away -
David when he would impress us with
the dependency into which ne had sunk,
compares it to quagmlre of those
regions, through which be had doubtless
sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up
to his neck, and he cried, 81 sink in
deep mlre where there is no standing. -
Would Habakkuk set forth the capacity
which God gives the good man 10 walk
safely amid. the widest perils, he points
to the wild ANIMAL called the hind walk,
ing over slippery rocks, and leaping from
Wild crag to wildserag,. by the peculiar
make of its hoofs able ealmly to sustain
itself inA the most dangerous places:
"The Loi1 God is mxstrength, and he,
will make my feetkliEel hind e feet" =
Job makes all natural objects pay
tribute to the royalty of his book. AS
you go through some chapters of Job
you feel as if 1t were a bright spring
morning; and as you see the glitterIng
drops from the grass under your feet you
say with that patriarch, ''Who hath be-
gotten the drops of the dew?'' And
now as you read on you seem in the
silent midnight to behold the waving of
a great light upon your path, and you
look up to find it the aurora borealis,
which Job described so long ago as "the
bright light in the clouds and the splen-
dor that cometh out of the north AS
you read on, there IS a darkness hurt
ling in the heavens, and the showers
break loose till the birds fly for hiding
place and the mountain torrents in red
fury foam over the rocky shelving; and
with the same poet you xclaim, 'Who
can number the clouds in wis
dom, or who can stay the bottles of
heaven?" AS you read on, you feel
yourself coming in frosty chimes, and in
fancy, wading through the snow, you
say, with that same inspired writer,
"Hsst thou entered into the treasures of
the snowl' And while the sharp sleet
drives in your face, and the hail stings
your cheek, you quote him again:
"Hast thou seen the treasures of the
hRil!' In the Psalmist's writings 1 hear
the voices of the sea: "Deep calleth
unto deep;" and the roar of forests:
Z" The Lord shaketh the wilderness of
Kadesh;'' and the loud peal of the
black tempest: ''The God of glory
thundereth;'' and the rustic of the
long silk on the well-filled husks:
''The valleys are covered with
corn;'' and the cry of wild beasts:
f'The young lions roar after their
prey;" the hum of palm trees and
cedars: 'The righteous shall flourish
like palm-tree, he shall grow like a
cedar in Lebanon;h the sough of wings
and the swirl of fins: ''Dominion over
the fowls of the air and fish of the sea. -
THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL
might have been presented in technical
terms, and by the means of dry dedni-
tons, but under these the world would
not have listened or felt. How cessfd
the safety of trusting upon Christ shave
been presented were it not for the 4gure
of rock2 How could the gladdepiHM7
effect of the gospel have been
set forth had not Zacharias thought of
the dawn of the morning ex-
claiming, 'The day spring from Oh high
hath visited us to give light to them that !
sit in darkness. - How could the SOULS
intense longing for Christ have been pre-
scented so well as by the emblem of nat
ural hunger and natural thirst? As the
lake gathers into its bosom the shadow of
the hills aroepd, and the CLEAN of stars
above, so, IN fhese great deeps of divine
truth, all OBJECTS in nature are grandly
reflected. We walk forth in the spring.
time and every thing, bTeathessof the res
direction. bright Blossom and springfng
grass speak to US OF the coming up Of
LnOSe WuOIu We nave ROF6Os huou III lIle
white robes of their joy and COR
onatIon they shall appear. And
when JIM the autumu of the year Ma
turS breaches thousands OF funeral SER
mons from the text, awe all do fade as
leaf - and scatters her elegies in our
path. we cannot help but think of sick
ness and the tomb. Even winter, "Be-
ing dead, yet speaketh. The world
will not be argued into the right. Il ]
will be tenderly illustrated into the
right. Tell them what religion is like
When the mother tried to tell her dying
child what heaven was, she compared it
to light. 'But that hurts my eyes,"
said the dying girl. Then the mother !
compared heaven to musio. "But any |
sound hurts me; am so weak, - said |
the dying child. Then she was told that |
heaven was like mothers arms. ''Oh, |
take me therel" she said. ''If it is like
mothers arms, take me thereln ThsSE
similee had been found at /
last. n |
Another contribution which thes7
natural world is making to the kingdom |
of Christ, Is the defence and aid which
the elements are compelled to the Chris