Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-01
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4practice fraud on God Almighty. BE knows you
#through and through and every act Of your lie
4ts spread out before Him. You needn't go
around and turn up your nose at Coo. he
Knocked. That is one of the truisms! It's one
of the truest truisIns of the moral world. BE Dot
deceived-that would have been. true If you q
you found it in Socrates. 1t would have been
true whether there were heaven or neil or
anything else That is one of the texts on wh1ch
all creeds must meet-Jew and GENTLE, ChT1s-
\ tian and atheist. It's one OF Bob lngersoll.s
favorite texts and can take it and put all oil MS
kind in hell in fifteen minutes.
1'Be not deceived, God is not Knocked. The
Shole physical world is but photograph OF the
spiritual. 1t is only material illustration OF
what is inmateriaI of the moral world. You
caIA find an illustration OF any truth in the pne-
nomena OF the material world, but for an illus
tration of lie you've got to 60 out OF it. Christ
found sermon on every flower thai doomed,
in every pebble in the brook, and boundless IL
lustration in the things OF nature. 1t IS put
a material manifestation OF moral truth.
10 preacher may lack for illustration OF a
truth, for God has filed the world with theIn'
but for lie you must go out or the u nIFeIss'
Nothing God has ever made viii illustrate a he:
t''Be not deceived, GOD is not Knocked. 1
want to talk simply and plainly, ana De s'L4tsntt
forward. If you SOW wheat, you II reap Whess'
If you plant Irish potatoes, you Ii reap iEisa
potatoes. No man ever sows one thlng
and expects another. You always reap
just what you sow, but hundred told
more. plant a kernel OF corn and up
comes g stalk, and it grow two
ears and en- them are 1900 kernels OF corn, not
oats. I plant kernel OF oats and up spring
I get two handsful of oats-not potatoes. SIX
thousand years ago Adam dropped a seed OF
sin in the Garden of Eden and to-day the
world is foul with sin and full OF woe ana we
still continne to produce and reproduce JUST
what we sow. Nothing ever happens IN the
world, nothing happens in Fort Worth but 1t Is
the result Of seed sown by somebody. What an
awful sowing there has been and what sowing
there is to-day! The text is logical whether
you are a Christian not. It's logical II you
SBe not deceived, God is not Knocked. It is a
eFTT-E so
sowing and every hour is seed tune, every
act is sowing, ana every deed. Men ana ana
women 90 along the ways of life with moral
basket on their arm, and every time the hand
goes forth TO the right and left fall the seeds OK
the sowing. And we produce just what we SOW:
4 woman once went to the priest and confessed
that she had been tattlIngs ana had
set the neighborhOod by .,s the he nt ears
'and scatter q basket of thistle seeds on
every path between those homes She went
said. Now before absoIve you, he said, 'goI
gather every no seed and bring them to me.
The woman turned pale. That can never do,
She said Neither can YOU ever undo the evil
you have done with your tongue ten you
wherever you put IN seed lt returns lps NE;
and whenever you sin il goes on and on BE not
deceived, GOD is not Knocked. How aTTful4y true
that is! ...,,.
tion and TN give you some principles to tn nk
out when you get home, and IN announcing
them want to be aight[orEaFc- n ere - one,
Sow whisky and reap drunkards. NO man soWs
wheat and in the harvest expects anything else
but wheat. It's the legitimate outcome OF the
sowing. And isn't drunkards the leslUlnlaIe
outcome of sowing whisky, There is a use for
wheat-it makes bread-but what in the world
do we want of drunkaFds? What use are they
What are they good for9 What can we do
with them? Does the law want themr Does
medicine want them, do railroads want them, 40
the saIoonkeepers themselves want them. NO.
I tell you they want a decent, sober fellow 10
deal out the death to others. What shall we 90
with them? We all differ about that, but tell
vou something must be done or God will take It
in His own hands. You don't like the third
party? It's not practicable you say. You would
license it high! But I tell you the higher you
license it the more respectable you MAKE
it, and the more respectable, y0n make make
it the longer lived IL VIII De, IN, aIo
the longer lived it will be the more it VIII XIII.
That's it. Do you sect .,ooo.
Listen, high license is like paying $1,000 to
he bites your child and he dies with the hydro-
pbobia Won saw don't weep over your son. Hes
6eaS' byt tbe bydrophobia was licensed high.
You say that don't illustrate it,. No, 1t don't;
there's nothing that will. The bite OF the I MAD
straight to heaven. The bite Of whisky
kills body and so1l together. I'D Ia
salooned to death. The saloon is the recruiting
officer for hell to fill up the ranks that have
fallen to everlasting ruin. Soy waisSy KY ana md
what he does not want? The most awful thing
in the world is to get drunk. man IN that
tenths of ali crime is bottomed on that. Some
one says, 1 don't drink, and it's none of
nc y Ous and your life not safe a
moment. and your precious wife and
sweet daughter not safe moment: business!
It's the business of every man God ever made.
And let me tell YOU every brewery and distillery
and saloon is the seed OF that awful sin. May
God paTalyze the arm that scat1ers the SEED
'sSow profanity and reap profanity Swear
ingl Big men and little men, meTch ali Jaw
yers, the whole business from top to bottom! l
tell you, you not symmetrical man: You may
be brilliant in a dozen ways, but II You swear
and cuss you are weak IN that point EoQ
old rebel against God, cussing and swearing all
the week, and boarding yourselves, TOO! what
for? oh, Just to be cussing and swearing! Here's
some logic You may differ from me on the
premises but the logic is good: A man who VIII
Now, a man who will swear will drink and
steal! No, no, you say. That ism rightl But
I've heard hundred times that its
ways. And 1 tell you a man who win
swear will break all the other laws, other things
being equal. Hear me! If you could see the
rottenness Of human nature engendered by
constant breaking of Gods law you'd stop
swearing. Now don't go away and say SAID
man who'd swear would steal. didn't say 1t.
Just most said il.
t'sow cards and reap gamblersl I'm sticking
to the text. Nine-tenths of the gamblers ever
met were nice, gentlemanly fellows, brought up,
maybe, in Christian families. And tell you,
men and women, every time You pull down
nsck Of cards and begin to shuttle them before
your children you are sowing seed tnat ought TO
make you turn pale. Some OF you old Fellows,
If your sons don't grow up gamblers 1t won Z oe
your fault You've done your best. Sowing,
sowing! I've often wondered whether it were
the most nOTTJDle 70 DC SesIuo4SA WIZ VA ASs'N
= gamblers life.
SAgain. SOW little party and reap big
party. It's surprising how fast they grow. Sow
q little party and reap big one; SOW big party
and reap parlor dance; sow parlor dance and
reap bail; sow ball and reap dudes and
Ciudenes; sow dudes and dudenes and resp half
a thimble full OF calfs foot jelly. Nou little
dude, you'll You're a barnacle, mole, pimple!
You don't belong to anything st all. You just
stick ont. Sow and Teapl Sowing, sowing!
''These are general principles want you 70
take home and think over. Sow whisky and
reap drunkards, SOW cards and resp gamblers,
sow sin and reap DEATH sow to the spirit and OF
the spirit reap life everlastingi''
The evangelist then left his text and spoke OF
the blessings of home life and the joys OF hap
Ty home. As nearest to himself he spoke Of his
own home, and gave humorous sketch OF the
Zones family. Then he closed, with
an earnest appeal for the right
viii oh brought many to the altar. Afterwards
he referred to the election and said he knew
neither candidates and was only Interested IN a
victory for the party that would give the best
government. After a little eulogy upon the
ministers who have helped him In the work the
congregation was dismissed.
Meetings to-day will be at the First Baptist
. church morning and afternoon and at the tent In
the evening unless the weather Is more inclem-
- rranc Incf MIC