Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-17

! Large stones embank the wall on all
| sides. Our dragomau took pebbles and
| dropped them in and from the time they
| left his HAND to the Instant they clicked
| on the bottom you could hear it was
! deep, though not al deep as once, for
/ every day travellers are applying the
same test, and though in the time of
| Maundre!i, the traveller, the well was
| l65 feet deep, now it Is only seventy
| five. So great is the curiosity OF the
| world TO know about that well, that dur
| ing the dry season q Capt. Anderson de-
| scenGed into this we'll, at one place the
| sides so close he had TO put his hands
over his head iii order to get through and
then he tainted away, and lay at the
bottom of the well as though dead, until
| hours after recovery, he cane 10 the sur
| face.
1t is not like other wells digged down
to fountain that fills it, but a reservoir
to catch the falling rains, and 10 that
| Christ refers when speaking to the
! Samaritan woman about spiritual sup
| pig, ne said that lie would, if asked,
have given her ''liviug wster;'i that is,
water from slowing spring in distinc-
tIoH from the water of that we'll, which
WAS rain water. Bat wig did Jacob
make reservoir there, when there is
plenty of water all around and an sbuud-
auce OF springs and fountains, aud SEEM
inglv no need of that reservoir: why
| did Jacob 90 to the vast expense OF boring
aud piggiug well, perLaps zoe feet
deep as first com pleted, when, by going
a little way Off, he Guild have water
from other fountains at little or 10 sI-
pense.
All, JACOG WAS WISE.
In, taa D yr-l1t q nd
wars might arise with other tribes ant
the supply of water might he cut of, SO
the shoyels anG pickaxes ana boring in
struments were ordered aud the we'll OF
nearly 1000 wears ago was sunk through
the solid rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on
having his own we'll he taught US not to
Eo unnecessarily dependent on others.
Independence CT business character. IN
dependence of moral character. Inde-
pendencs OF religious character. Have
your own we'll Of grace, your own well of
courage, your own well o. divine supply
Ii you are an Invalid you have q right 70
be dependent on others. But if God
has given you good health, COM
mon sense, an2 TWO eyes, and two
enrs, and two hands, and two feet, He
equipped you for Independence of I'll the
universe except Him3el,. II he had
meant you TO be dependent on others you
would have been built with Q cord around
your waist TO tie fast to somebody else.
No; you ara built With common sense to
fashion your own OPINIONS, with eyes TO
find your own way, with ears 10 select
your own music, with bands TO fight
your own BATTLES. There is onir one be-
Ing in the universe whose advice you
need and that ID God. Have your own
well and the Lord will fill it. Dig il ii
need be through 200 feet of SOLID rock.
Dig it with your pen, or dig it with your
yard stick, or dig Ii with your shovel, or
dig II with your Bible.
In nav small way Fever accomplished
anything for God or the church, or the
world. or Iny family, or myself except in
contradiction 70 human advice ana in
obedience to divine counsel.
COP KNOWS EVERYTHING
and what is the use OF going for advice 20
human beings wlo know SO little that no
one but the all seeing God can realize
how little il is. ! suppose that ~hen Ja-
cob began 10 dig this well on which we
are sitting this noontide, people gath
cred around hnd suid: ''What useless
expense you are going to, when rolling
down from Wonder Mount Gerlzim, and
GphH ilODl NOulAeI NULL t4biL dDl
ont yondec in the valley is plenty of
wGter,' "Oh, - replied Jacob, "that
is all true, but suppose my neignbors
should get fingered against me and cut
off Thy supply Of mountain beverage,
what would dc, and what would my
family do, and what would my fiocks
and herds dor Forward, We brigade of
pirk-axeS and crowbars and go down
into the depths of these rocks and make
me independent Of all except Him who
Ills the bottles OF the cioudsI l must
have my own well,''
Young man. drop cigars, and cigar
ettea. and wine cups, and the Sunday
excursions and build your own house and
have your own wardrobe and be your
OWE capitalist. ''Why, l only have
$500 income year, saws some oae
Then spend Si0G of il in lug aud 10 per
cent. OF IL or $50 in benevolence and the
other $50 in beginning 10 dig your own
well. Or, If you have $1,000 year
spend $500 OF it in living-l0 per cent. or
500 i'll benevoleuce and the remaining
SlO0 10 beginning to dig your own we'll.
Tho largest bird that ever flew through
tine air was matched out of Que egg and
the greatest estate was prooded out of
81.
u
| suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well on whose curb We are now seated
this December noon it was e dry season
then as now, and some one comes up and
says: NOV, Jacob, suppose you get
the we'll fifty feet deep or 200 feet deep
and there should be no water TO fill it,
would you not feel slly?'' People pass
ing along the road and looking down
from Mount Gerzlm or Mount Ebal near
by would laugh and say: 'That is
Jacobs 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
ouGhiy dug was not sooner or later filed
from the clouds. and this will be no ex-
ceptlou.' For months after Jacob had
completed the well people went by, aud
out OF respect for the deluded old man
put iheir hand over their mouth to hide
L sucker, and the well remained as dry
Us the bottom of q kettle that has been
hanging over the fire for three hours.
But one day the sun was drawing water
and the wind got round to the east and it
began 70 drizzle and then great drops