Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

was grander day when they laid Hin
in Joseph's tomb. 1t was q grande
! day when the angel came to earth ant
rolled away the great stone and Chris
came forth. It was q grander day
when God took the stylus in His owl
! hand and wrote the freedom of human
| itY. Thank God for a Savior suffering
| dying, but more for Savior risen. Il
was grander day when He said vii
send the Holy Comforter to you, anC
! rose above the earth and clouds anC
vaulted over the throne itself. It was 6
| grander day when the angel said tC
! those who stood gazing into the heavens.
Why stand We gazing, even as ye saw
| Him go so will He return. It was 6
| grsnder day when the Spirit came down
and filed all the place, and Peter went
| out and preached aud won 5000 souls fol
Christ. But it was the grandest day
| when God left this last invitation, and
the Spirit and the bride say come. II
says come, come.
1.-THE spirit and the bride say come.
The church says come and go with us
and we II do you good. l tell you we We
| not been as faithful as we ought to have
been, but every man who is a Christian
to-day is Christian in answer to the
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spirit and the bride say come. L know
the heart of the church is right toward
you and me. l thank God 1 was never
lost in sin; thank Him for ever receiv-
ing me into the church, and thank God
for church so broad and high that all
may come in and be saved. thank Him
for church my children may enter and
live, where all may come and live and
die.
Listen, my countrymen. l wish
every man was better than they are.
wish every one was better man than
am. wish they were all as good as the
grace of God could make them. l wish
l was the worst man in the world and
was as good as grace would let me be.
How easy the way would be if you were
all going that way, but how hard you
make it when you are going the other
way? Oh, do hope there are men here
who will arise in their manhood and say
the last Sunday 8 sun has risen on me in
this old way; as for me, I'll seek the
Lord. How much better it would be,
how much better
"Listen! The Spirit and the bride say
come. But God comes closer than that
And let him that heareth say come.
You may not only come, but you may
say come. You do not need to be con-
verted to say come-let him that heareth
say come. The most effective appeal
ever heard was when a man in the mid
die of the audience sprang up and said {:
Boys, it IS right, it's right Come on :,
boys! Come on come on! and forty of
the boys followed him to the altar. Oh i,
there are men listening to me here, God
only knows how many souls they
could lead to heaven, and alas, how
many they may lead TO hell You men
of standing and character, If you could
only comet God help you to do it! If
you desist you may damn every child you
have. Oh, the evils of life i'll spent!
But it's settled with me, and 1 shall
ever travel on the side of the Lord {.
Then, if the world drifts to hell shall
not have to say led any there. 1 ap-
peal to the nobility of your manhood, to
the purity of your womanhood, come!
It's the best and wisest thing to do.
"And let him that is athirst come! It
is the old cry Of the caravan: We've
found water, come, come! called down
that is athirst come. That cry God called
out to Jesus, who passed it on to the
preachers, to the members, to the world.
Let US take it up and on and on to the
gates of hell. Let's rush and
drink and be thirsty no more.
Let him that is athirst come!
No matter how many, the banks OF the
river of life are broad. No matter
whether you hear or know, or only
thirst, just comet God touches the heart
with his finger of love with thirst, and
there are the waters of life. He touches
the heart with hunger and satisfies it
with the bread of life. Thank God for
the beauties that God can give mortal
man, the richness and grandness OF life
eternal.
listen, God comes still closer yet.
And whosoever Will let him take of the
water OF life freely. Whosoever will
Thank God for the breadth of the gospel
Whosoever will We couldn't get any
thing without that. The millennium is
bottomed on that fact. The elect are
the whosoever-w wills. The non-elect are
the whosoever-won' It's. The pulpits
have had great divergences, but every
move brought them closer together.
Every time there was split the split
came over and joinedthe whosoever-
The whole church is moving towards the
whosoever- wills, and I expect before
every hair in my head is gray the uni
VerSdI cnurCQ VIII % pOLCOmeQ on the
great truth Of whosoever will. Whose
ever will; 1 like that, and I hope to
make my way to heaven on it.
''Llsten! I want you TO read this
Alright. Don't get it wrong! ITS the
last great message Of God to the world.
don't care what you may find in
Genesis, or in the Prophets, or in the
Epistles, or anywhere else in the Bible.
It's narrowed down to this: whatsoever
will. It's not whosoeyer feels, that's
not what you read. It's not
whatsoever is good, not that.
les not whosoever is happy, it's
not that nor whosoever has led good
life, nor has faith like Abraham, nor
whosoever has grace in his heart. It's
none of these, but here it is plainly and
squarely before you-whosoever will may
come and take Of the water of life freely.
viii you, will you? That's the ques-
ton, will you? It's not who so is good,
but who SO will. I wish you would get it
right. wish you would.
''Hear me! The human viii is the
sovereign power of man. It's where he
differs from the brute. Hopes, feel
ings, affections. perception, reason, in
tellect-every peculiar faculty of the
soul-God may come up through them
all, but when He gets to the win He
stops and says: Behold, L stand at