Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14

ready. His pardon all ready; His peace
all ready! everything ready in Christ.
Are you ready for Him?
You say: .'That is snch q simple
gospel!'' know It is. You say you
thought religion was strange mixture
OF elaborate compounds. No; it is so
plain that any abecedarian may under
stand 1t
IN ITS SIMPLICITY is ITS POWER.
Ii you could this morning. realize that
| Christ died to save from sin and death
and hell. not only your minister and
your neighbor and your father and
your child, but you, it would make this
hour like the Judgment day for agita-
tons, and no longer able TO keep your
seat, you would leap up, CRYING: "For
mel FOR Mel" God grant thnt you, my
brother, may see this gospel with your
own eyes and hear it with your own ears,
and feel II with your own heart that you
are lost soul, but that Christ comes for
your extricatiou. Can you not take
that truth and digest it, aud make it
part of your immortal life? 1t is only
bread,
You have noticed that iuvalids cannot
take all kinds of food. The food that
| will do for one will not do for another.
| There are kinds of food that will pro-
duce, in cases of invalidism, very speedy
! death. But Won have noticed that all
persons. however weak they may be, can
| take bread. Oh. soul sick with sin, in
valid In your trausgressiops. L think this
| pospei will acre, with YOU! l think if
you cannot take anything else, you onn
| take this. Lost-found! Sunken-
raisedi Observation-Disclosures Cast
| out-iuvited in! That is the old corn of
| the gospel.
You have often seen a wheel with
| spokes of different colors, and when the
wheel was RAPIDLY turned all the colors
blended into a rainbow of exquisite
| beauty. | wish could to-day take the
| peace and the life and the joy aud glory
| of Christ and turn them before your soul
with such speed and such strength that
you would be enchanted with the revolv-
| ing spiendors of that name which is above
| every name-the name written once with
| tears of exile and in blood of martyrdem,
but written now in FURNISHED crown and
lifted sceptre and transangelic throne.
THERE is ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
about bread, aud that is, you never get
tired of it. There are people here sew
enty years OF age who find it just as ap-
propriate for their appetite as they did
when, in bovhood, their mother cut a
slice of 1t clear around the loaf You
have not got tired of bread, and that is
| characteristic of the gospel. Old
Christian man, are YOU tired of Jesus?
If so, let us take His name out of our
Bible. and LET us with pen an ink erase
that name wherever we see 1t. Let us
cast it out of our hymnuogy, and let
ssThere q Fountain and 'Rock of
of Ages'' 90 into forgetfulness. Let us
tear down the communion-table where
we celebrate His love. Let us dash down
the baptismal bowl where we were con-
secrated to him. Let us hurl Jesus from
our heart, and ask some other hero to
como in. Let us say: $50 away,
Jesus; l want another companion,
another friend, than Thou art. - Could
YOU do il? The wears OF your mast life.
aged mau, would utter a protest against
1t and the graves of your Christian dead
would charge you with being
an migrate, and your little
grandchildren would say: 'fGrand-
father, don t do that. Jesus is the one
TO whom we say our prayers at night,
and who is to open heaven when we die.
Grandfather, don t do that. - Tired of
Jesus? The Burgundy rose YOU pluck
from the garden is not SO fresh and fair
aud beautiful. Tired of Jesus? AS well
get weary of the spring morning, aud the
voices of the mountain ruunel, and the
quiet of your own home, aud the glad
ness of your own children. Jesus is
bread and the appetite for that is never
obliterated.
/ notice, in regard TO this article OF
food, you take it three times day, 1t
Is on your table morning, noon and
night; and if 1t is forgotten, you say:
.'wHERE IS THE BREAD?"
Just so certuinly you need Jesus three |
times day. On, do not start out with |
out Him; do not dare to go out of the |
front door; do not dare to go off the front |
steps, without having first oommuned |
with himl Before noon there may be |
perils that will destroy body, mind and |
soul forever. You cannot afford to do |
without Him. You will during the day |
be amidst sharp hoofs and swift wheels |
aud dangerous scaffoldings threatening
the body, and traps for the soul that |
have taken some who are more willy than |
you. When they launch a ship they
break against the side of it a bottle of |
wine. That is a sort of superstition
among sailors. But oh, on the launch
ing of everyday, that we might strike
against it at least one earnest prayer for
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