Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-02

It shall be plucksd as brand from the
burning, IL you watch closely, and we ID
be placed beyond the danger line.
At Broadway Presbyterian church the
morning service partook largely Of the
nature of q service of thanksgiving, in
which DR.. Mitchell led the congregation
in a devout expression of profound graft
tude to God for the marvellous deliv-
eTanee of the people. At the evening
service DR.. Mitchell preached on 1.-The
Reversal of Human Judgments. ~ In
referring to the destruction of the Pal
ace and specially to the heroic death of
Mr.. Hayne, he said:
That man should accept death as q
testimony to his faith, or as better
alternative than betraying trust, or,
in the defense of Gauss, family or
oountry-this is heroic. But for man
to voluntarily give his life in a private
way for those whom he may not have
known-this is the highest single
action which man can achieve.
So that the conduct of Mr..
Hayne on Friday night touches the loft
lest height of heroism, redeems poor
fallen humanity from contempt, glorities
our common nature, and reoonpenses
all our loss. 1t is retrospective and In
elusive of all the reasons which make
life desirable. 1t reaches the height Of
that to which we shall come in all futHs
ages. 80.
"what glimpses we get of the grSER
ness that is in US that does not come int
action. - Are you not amazed, notsy
seeing how few great men therss&aFe,
but how many of them? l wqffer at
the heroism that is so common - People
Al, 49,
that heroes are plentiful. At least there
are heroic moments in the lives of every
one of US. Do you read the papers? You
never see an account of an accident or
calamity that you do not hear of some
man who behaves like hero.
Where is the burning house in which q,
child cries out in agony that some one
does not rush through the flame and res
cue and save the precious lifep Where Is
the crashing train that is going to i'm
pending ruin on some dark and tempest
uous night, with its precious souls on
board, that the engineer standing at his
post does not reach down, catch hold Of
the handle and hold it with the grip Of
death?
Yes, heroism is common enough; but
the awful thing is this, that a man will
tall back from the moment of his hero
ism to the level of the commonplace life.
Men are not willing to think of the grand
moments of their lives. Some day you
did great thing. A man meets you
and says, care you the man that did
that2'
Yes, sir. You have to tell the story.
What does that mean, and you say,
"Oh, that was the exception, that was
the bursting forth of volcano, the fash
of comet across my sky. 'This Is
my real life. -
He showed US what man was, Is the
full palm tree in the tropics shows what
the real one should be when compared
with the stunted one that you find in
some conservatory. When 1 want to
know what a man is, where shall gcY
Shall go to you with your cramped life,
or shall go to myself with all the base
passions that l know are in me!
No 1 will go to Jesus Christ the
man who walked through human
life and did everything that was appoint
ed for Him to do withouta single flaw or
failure; end in Him see O man who
opened His arms, and stretched His
hands and said: "You ought to men
just like me, - and he said sal go to my
father and your father; He abides in me
and in Him. - think that many people
read their Bibles in such way that they
cannot see Jesus Christ there.
Now, there is the blunder. The
noblest thing you ever did, the purest
emotion you ever felt, the deepest, ten
derest, most self-sacriflcing act of your
life-that is your true self and not the
baser life into which you have fallen.
How do know this? Through Jesus
Christ, who lived on this earth man.
He had my humanity and yours in
Him.