Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

take. OF what constitutes it. You place
it in riches and honors, we in some
thing very different. Our faith tells us
that bliss is to be found not in violence,
but in submission; not in riches, but in giving
everything away. And even as the flowers
struggle upward toward the light, so do we moev
onward toward what we see to be our happiness
We do not carry out everything that We should
like to do for the attainment of our happiness
that is to say, we have not quite succeeded in
casting OF every habit of violence and property.
This is true. But could it be otherwise? Take
yourself, for instance: you strain every nerve to
obtain the prettiest wife, to acquire the largest
fortune-but do you, does any one, succeed in
this? II an archer does not hit the target will he
because he has missed it many times in success
sion, cease altogether to aim at it? We are in
exactly the same position. Our happiness is
according TO Christ's teaching-in love: but
love excludes violence, and property which
flows from violence. We are all OF us bent on
seeking our happiness, but do not fully sue
coed: moreover we do not all set about it in pre-
clsely the same way; nor do we all attain it to
the same EXTENT
Eyes, but why do you refuse to listen to the
accumulated wisdom OF mankind; why 90 you
turn away from it and give ear only 70 your
crucifed Master? Your thraldom, your
servile submission to Him is presjssIY what
''You are again mistaken, as - ~ fSoss> Tho
imagine that while professi2 the teachfgs
which we do. we believe in - only becad p
the man in whom we trust 6nanded US to 4
so. On the contrary, all 49, who with the
communion with the FAM all who yearn III
true happiness, involuItafily and without con
scious effort find themselves trave ing along Il
same road that Christ traversed, and instin6
lively taking their stand behind him, are
aware that he is leading the way. Ali whSfBtB
God will converge towards and finally 49, II
this road-yourself among the numbeSs@HeA
the Son of God, the mediator betwespGGbd : "a
man; it is not that have been 81 thisk5y
some one and therefore blindly bsfBTe it. but
God find His Son before them a1fouly th 3ugh
God.n ~
Julius made no reply, and tlsy bothaIt for a
considerable time in unbroke &bilenSa&
Are you happy?" he asked&t ls6h.
81 desire nothing better tha &YH1 have and
encing feeling OF perplexity, dim conscious
ness OF injustice somewhere. Why is it that
am so unsPeakabiy happys'' exclaimed Pam
Yes, !" sighed Julius. sit may be that I, too,
should have been happy, happier than I am,
had not met the stranger told you of, and had
l gone over to you
III you think So what is keeping you back?''
How about my wifef'
'You say that she has leaning towards
Christianity. II SO, she will join US along with
you.'
True; but we have just begun a different
kind OF life. Would it be wise to break it up
thus suddenly? We have begun now and we had
better live it out to the end,'' said Julius.
wildly picturing to himself the disappointment
OF is father. his mother, his friends, il he
were to become Christians, but wildly still
the continuous and painful effort it would cost
him to effect this revolution.
AT this moment the young girl-Pamphilius'
friend, accompanied by youth, came up to the
shop door. Pamphilius went out to them and
the youth told him, in the presence of julius,
that he had been sent by Cyril TO buy some
leather. The grapes were already sold and
wheat purchased with the money received
Pamphilius proposed that the youth should rsuuz1
turn home along with Magdalen, bringinaz 543
wheat with them, and undertaking him 10
buy the leather and carry it home.
1t VIII be better for you. - he urge<
mo, 1t is better for Magdalen that u E Should |
20 with her" the youth answered and went |
tore OF merchant with whom he was ac-l
luainted, where Pamphilius filed the saclk
With wheat and handed over q small portion II
hagdalen, slung his own heavy burden over
houlder, said goodbye to his friend, ~
Walking side by side with the young girl, ~
he city.
At bend in the street Pamphilius looked back |
ng still more joyfully made soma remark to
dagdalen as they disappeared from JuiIus,, !
lorizon. 90
Yes. it would indeed have been better6DY1
ne had l then gone over to the Christian91 yex-
laimed Julius to himself. And in his tina.
lou arose two pictures which kept al Mating
nth each other; now he beheld to robust
with the tall, strong girl, Carrying
askets on their heads their faces radiant with |.
andsiness and joy; now he saw his own domss-
ic hearth.which he had Quilted that morning.
nd to which he would return that highland z 81
pretty wife, whose charms Ia
lready begun to pail upon him. decked out 10
ne apparel, adorned with wristbands and Id
ng on rich carpets and soft yielding cushionsw
ccosted first by some merchants who had come |