Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20

| In one place the roof is broken through.
! Large stones emhank tie wall on oil
! sides. Our dragoman took pebbles and
| dropped them in, and from tae time they
| left his hanG to the Instant they clicked
| on the bottom you could hear it was
| deep, though not rs deep as Ouce, for
| every day travellers are applying the
| same test, and though in the time of
| Maundreil, the traveller, the well was
| 1863 feet deep, now II is only seventy
| five. So great is the curiosity OF the
world to know about that we'll, that dur
! Ing the dry senson a Capt. Anderson de-
| scended into this well, at one place the
sides 80 close he had to put his hands
! over his head in order to get through aud
| then he tainted away, and lay at the
| bottom of the we'll rs though dead, until
hours after recovery, he cume TO the sur
| face.
IL ia not like other wells digged down
20 & fountain that fills ii, but a reservoir
70 catch the IA ling rains, Gnd to that
Christ refers when speaking to the
| Samaritan woman about spiritual sup
ply, he said that he would, if asked,
haze given her ''living water;' that is /,
water frgm fioFinS spring in distinc-
ton from she water of that well, which
was rain water. But why did Jacob
| make a reservoir there, when there is
plenty of water all around ard an abund
nnce OF springs aud fountains, aud seem
I iuglv no need of that reservoir! Why
did Jacob go 20 the vast expense OF boring
AMI picgiuG well, perhaps 200 feet
deep as first completed, when, by going
y little way off, he Guild have water
from other fountains at little or no ex-
pense.
All, JACOB WAS WISE.
He wanted his own well. QuHrrels and
wars might arise WIKI other trioes anu
the supply OF water might he cut Off, so
the shovels and pickaxes and boring in
struments were ordered and the well OF
nearly 1000 years ago was sunk through
the solid rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on
having his own well he taught US not to
be unnecessarily dependent on others.
Independence of business character. IN
dependence of mora! character. IDde-
pendunce of religious character. Have
your own well OF grace, your own well of
courage, your own well of divine supply.
If you are an invalid you have right TO
be- dependent on others. Bat if God
has given you good health, COM
mon seuSa, and two eyes, and two
ears, and two hands, and two feet, He
equipped you for independence of MI the
universe except Himself. If He had
meant you 20 be dependent Oh others you
would have been built with cord around
your waist to tie fast TO somebody else.
No; you are built with common sense TO
fashion your own opiniOns, with eyes 10
dul your own way, with ears TO select
your own music, with hands TO fight
your own batties. There IS only one be-
ing in the universe whose advice you
need and that is God. Have your own
well and the Lord viii fill it. Dig it if
need be through 200 feet Of solid rock
Dig it with your pen, or ai; it with your
yard stick, or dig it with You: shovel, or
dig II with Jour Bible.
In-my small way | never accomplished
anything for God or the church, or the
world, or my family, or myself except in
contradiction 20 human edvi,e and in
Obedience to divine counsel.
GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING
and what is the use of going tor advice to
human beings who know so little that no
one but the all-seeing God IAN realize
how little it is. ! suppose that when ia
cob began 10 dig this we'll on which we
are sitting this nOontide, people gath
cred around and said: ''Wbat a useless
expense you are going to, when rolling
down from yonder Mount Gerlzim, and
down from youder Noun: Ebal, and
oGt youaer in the valley is plenty of
wuter!' "Oh, - replied Jacob, "that
Is all true, but suppose my neignborS
should get uugered against me and cut
off my supply of mountain beverage,
what would do, and what would my
family do, and what would my focks
and herds do? Forward. ye brigade of
pirk-aXcs and crowbArs and go down
into the depths of these rocks ana make
me independent of all except Him who
fills the bottles of the cioudsl l must
have NV own well.
Young man. drop cigars, and cigar
cites, and wine cups, and the Sunday
excursions and build your own house aud
have your own wardrobe and he your
own capitalist! 'Why, | only have
$500 income Il yeari' says some one.
Then spend 500 of it in living and 10 per
cent. OF il or $50 i'll benevoience ard the
other $50 in beginning to Dig your own
well. Or, if you have $1,000 year
spend $500 of it in living-ln per cent. or
500 in bencvolence and the remaining
500 in beginning 10 dig your own we'll.
The largest bird that ever tew through
the air was hatchei out of one egg aud
the greatest estate was b-ooded out Of
81.
JACOB s FAITH
i suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well on whose curb we are now seated
this December noon, Il was dry season
then aS now and some one comes up and
says: "Now, Jacob, suppose you get
the well fifty feet deep or 200 feet deep
and there should be no wafer to fill il,
would you not feel s!lly?'' People pass
ing along the road and looking down
from Mount Ger.zlm or Mount Ehal near
by would laugh and say: THAT is
Jacob well, great hole in
the rock, illustrating the mans
folly Jacob replied: "There never
has been well in Palestine
or any other country, that once thor
oughly dug was not sooner or later filled
from the clouds, and this wall be no ex-
Ceptlou. For months after Jacob had
completed the we'll people went by, and
out of respect for the deluded old man
put their hand over their mouth to hide
Il smoker, and the well remained as dry
rs the bottom OF kettle that has been
hanging over the fire for TIRES hours.
But one day the sun was drawing water
aud the wind got round to the east and il
began TO dTiZZle and then great drops