Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-29

| harbor, throwing glare upon the tremb-
| ling fortress: aud some of you are standing
| in the night of your souls trouble. The
cannonade and the confagration, the multi
| pllcation of your sorr0ws and troubles l
| think must make the wings Of Gods hover
| ing angels shiver to the tips
But the last part os my text opens a door
wide enough to let US all out and to let all
heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all
| the stops out Thrum it on the harps with
! all the strings atune. With all the melody
| possible let the heavens sound it to the
earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens.
| The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of
| US all / am 81 ad that the prophet did not
| stop TO explain whom he meant by '.him. -
Him of the Manager, Him of the bloody
| sweat, him of the resurrection throne, Him
/ of the cruciixion agony. Son Him the
Lord hath laid the iniquity of US ALL,
s'Of' says some man, "that is net gener-
Gus, that is not fair; let every man carry
| his own burden and pay his own debts. y
That sounds reasonable. If 1 have an OBJ
legation and / have the means to rseet it,
and I come to you and ask you to settle
! that obligation, you rightly say,
''PAY YOUR OWN DEBTS
| If you and l, walking down the street,
both hale, hearty and well, ask you to
on your own feet!'' But suppose you
and / were i'll a regiment and I was
wounded in the battle and ! fell uncon-
scious at your feet with sunshot fractures
and disloeations, what would you do, You
would call to your comrades, saying, "Come
| and help, this man is helpless: bring the
ambulance; let US take him to the hos
arms, and you would lift me from the
| ground where I had fallen and put me in
the ambulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anything mean in your doing thatl
Would there be anything bemeaning in my
accepting that kindnesss o! no. You
would be mean not to do it. That
is what Christ does. If we could
pay our debts, then it would be bet
ter to go up and pay thenl,= saying
Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here
are the means with which mean to settle
that obligation now give me receipt;
cross it all out" The debt is paid. But
the fact is, we have fallen in the battle, we
have gone down under the hot fire of our
transgressions, we have been wounded by
the sabers of sin, we are helpless, we are
undone. Christ comes. The loud clang
heard in the sky on that Christmas night
was only the beli, the resounding
BELL OF THE AMBULANCE.
Clear the way for the Son of God. He
comes down to bind up the wounds, and to
scatter the darkness, and to save the lost.
Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ
comes down to us, and we are dead lift.
He does not lift US with the tips of his
fingers. He does not lift US with one
arm. He comes down upon his knee, and
then with dead lift, He raises US to honor
and glory and immortality. THE Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us ALL"
Why, then, will no man carry his
sinsa You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
might as well put the Apprentices on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other-how
much less can you carry all the sins of your
lifetime. Christ comes and looks down in
your face and says: 81 have come through
all the decorations of these days, and through
all the tempests of these nights; have
come to bear your burdens and to pardon
your sins, and to pay your debts. Put
them on my shoulder; put them on my
heart" son Him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of us ALL
some of you. At times it has made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace
of your nights. There are men who have
been riddled OF sin. The world gives them
no solace. Gossamer and volatile the
world, while eternity. as they look forward
to it,
Is BLACK AS MIDNIGHT
They writhe under the stings of con-
and no rest hereafter; and yet they do not
repent, they do not pray, they do not weep.
They do not realize that just the position
they occupy is the position occupied by
scores, hundreds, and thousands of men
who never found any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling experiences
we should hear on all sides There is a man
in the gallery who would say: 81 had
brilliant surroundings. 1 had the best edu-
cation that one of the best collegiate insti-
buttons of this country could give, and OBJ
served all the moralities of life, and l was
self-righteous, and 1 thought was all right
before God as l am all right before men
but the Holy Spirit came to me one day and
said, You are sinner the Holy Spirit
persuaded me of the fact. While had es-
capped the sins against the law of the land,
had really committed the worst sin man
ever commits-the driving back of the Son
of God from my hearts affections. And |
saw that my hands were red with the blood
of the Son of God, and | began to pray, and
peace came to my heart, and l know by ex-
perience that what you say this morning is
true On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of US ALL
wIFE's LETTER.
Yonder is man who would say: 81 was
the worst drunkard in New York: | went
from bad to worse, destroyed myself, Ide-
stroyed my home; my children covered
when | entered the house; when they put
up their lips to be kissed 1 struck them;
when my wife protested against the NAL
treatment, kicked her into the street. /
know all the bruises and all the terrors of a
drunkard's woe, went on further and fur
Their from God until one day got letter
saying:
my DEAR HUsBAND-I have tried every
way, done everything, and prayed earnestly
and fervently for your reformation, but it
seems of no avail. Since our little Henry
died, with the exception of those few happy
weeks when you remained sober, my life
has been one of sorrow. Many of the nights
1 have sat by the window, with my face
bathed in tears, watching for your coming.
/ am brohen-hearted, l am sick Mother
and father have been here frequently and |
begged me to come home. but my love for |
you and my hope for brighter days have al |
ways made me refuse them. That hope |
seems now beyond realization, and / have |
now returned to them. 1T is hard, and bat
tied long before doing it. May God bless |
and preserve you, and take from you that |
accursed appetite and hasten the day when |
we shall be again living happily together. |
This will be my daily prayer, knowing that |
He has said: Come unto Me all We that |
labor and are heavy laden, and l will give |
you rest From your loving wife.
MARY"
'tAnd so l wandered on and wandered on"
says that man, until one night passed
meeting house, and said to my |
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