Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
THE GAZETTE: FORT WORTH, TEXAS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
and dishonesty and sill sort. of wicked

ness.
Daniel stood on most unpopular plat
form. He stood firmly, though tbs
demaeogues OF the day Kissed at him and
TRIED TO OVERTHROW HIN.
we must carry our religion into our
politics. But there are a great many
men who are IN favor OF taking relig on
into national politics who do not see the
Importance OF taking it into city politics
as though man were intelligent about
the welfare of his npighborhood, and had
no concern about his own home.
Religion would drive out all base per-
sonalities from politics. You have a right
TO discuss mems politics and denoCuce
their political sentiments, or receive
them. az you will; but you have no right
10 assail their private character, as Is
done every autumn. That Is not carry
ing religion into politics. Now you eau
always tell without asking, IN any con-
test, what candidate ] will vote for. 1t
Is always for the man who Is most bad
gereu, and most Infused, aud most spit
upon and most howled at. You have q
right to contest mans political sentl-
ments; you have no right for base politi-
cal purposes to assail his private moral
character.
My subject also i'm presses me with the
fact that lions cannot hurt good man.
No man ever got into worse company
than Darrell got into when he was thrown
into tbs den. What rare morsel that
far young man would have been for the
hungry monsters! If they had plunged
at him he could not have climbed into
niche beyond the reach of their paw or
the snatch of their tooth. They came
pleased all around about him, as a hum
ter's hounds NJ the wel-knOwn whistle
COME BOUNDING 70 HIS FEET.
You need not 20 TO Numidia 20 get
among lions. You all have had them
after you-the lion of financial distress,
the lion of sickness, the lion of persecu-
ton. You saw that lion of financial
panic putting his mouth down TO the
earth, ami he roared until all the banks
aud all the insurance companies Quaked.
With his nostriI he scattered the ashes on
the domestic hearth. You have had
trial after trial, misfortune after mis-
fortune, lion after lion; ami yet they
have never hurt you II you nut your
trust in God and they never will hurt
you. They did not hurt Daniel, and
they cannot hurt you.
The Persians used 10 think that spring
rain falling into sea-shells would turn iu-
to pearls; and have TO tell you that the
tears OF sorrow turn into precious gems
when they drop into God . bottle. You
need be afraid OF nothing, putting your
trust in God. Even death, that mon
ster lion whose den is the world . sepul-
chre, and who puts his paw down amid
thousands of millions of the dead, can
not alright you.
When in olden times man was TO get
the honors of kuighthOod. he was COM
PEELED TO 20 fully armed the night before
among the tombs OF the dead, carrying q
sort OF spear, and when the day broke he
woulL come forth and amid the sound of
cornet and great parade, he would get
the honors of knighthood. Aud so il will
be with the Christian in the night before
heaven, as fully armed with spear
and helmet of salvation he
Will wait and watch through
the darkness until the morning dawns
and then he will take the houors of
heaven amid thut great throug with
snowy robes, streaming over seas of sap
phire.