Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-03

| spread out their color in the morning hour
but they are always asleep when the sun i:
going down. Job had plenty of friend:
when he was the richest man in Uz: but
when his property went and the trials
came, then there were none so much that
pestered as Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bill
dad. the Shuttle, and Zophar the Mama,
thite.
Life often seems to be a mere game,
where the successful player pulls down all
the other men into his own lap
LET SUSPICIOUS ARISE
about mans character and ne becomes
like bank in panic, and the imputationS
rush on him and break down in day that
character which in due time would have
had strength to defend itself. There are
regulations that have been half century
in building, which so down under some
moral exposure, as q vast temple IS con-
sumed by the touch of Sulphurous match.
A hog can uproot century plant. In this
world, so full of heartlessness and hypoc-
risy, how thrilling it is to find some friend
as faithful in days of adversely as in days
of prosperity! David had such a friend in
Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Nor
decai, who never forgot their cause; Paul
had such a friend in Onesiphorus, who
visited him in jail; Christ had such in the
Marys, who adhered TO him on the cross;
Naomi had such one in Ruth, WHO cried
out: 'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee: for
whittier thou goest will go; and where
thou lodgest l will lodge; thy people shall
be my people. and thy God my God; where
thou diest will ! die, and there viii | he
buried; the Lord do so to me, and more
also if aught but death part thee and me. :"
Again, l learn from this subject that
paths which open in hardship and darkness
often come out in places of JOY. When
nth cta tod hi nd 1E1laro
to go along with her mother-in-law, l sup
pose the people said: ''Oh, what foolish
creature to. go away from her fathers
house, to go off with a poor old woman to-
ward the land Of Judea! They won't live 10
GET ACROSS THE DESERT.
They will be drowned in the sea or the
jackals of the wilderness viii destroy
them 1t was very dark morning when
Ruth started off with Naomi but behold
her in my text in the harvest-held of Boaz,
to be aftianced 10 one OF the lords of the
land. and become one of the graudmothers
of Jesus Christ, the lord of glory. And so
it often is that n path which starts very
darkly ends very brightly.
When You started out for heaven, OH
how dark was the hour of convictior-how
Sinai Numbered. and devils tormeuted, and
the darkness thickened, All the sins of
YOUR life pounced upon you, and it was the
darkest hour you ever saw when you first
found out your sins. After awhile you
went into the harvest-field of God S mercy:
you began TO CLEAN in the fields of divine
promise, and you had more SheaveS than
you could carry, as the voice of God adj
dressed you, saying: Blessed is the man
whose transgressions are forgiven and
whose sins are covered" \ very dark
starting in conviction, very bright ending
in the pardon and the hope, and the tri-
umph of the gospel
So, very often in our worldly business or
in our spiritual career. we start off on a
very dark path. We must go. The flesh
may shrink back but there is voice within,
OF Il voice from above. saying: You must
go;" and we have to drink the gall and we
have TO carry the cross, and we have to ira
verse the desert, and we are pounded and
failed of misrepresentation and abuse. and
we have TO urge our way through ten thou
sand obstacles that have to be slain.
BY OUR OWN RIGHT AKIN.
We have to ford the river, we have to
climb the mountain, we have TO storm the
castle; but, blessed be God, the day of rest
and reward will come. On the tip-top of
the captured battlements we Will shout the
ii not in this world, then in that
world where there is no gall TO drink, no
burdens to carry, no battles 10 fight. How
do l know it, Know il! | know it because
God says so: They shall hunger no more,
neither lulFSI any LlDES, HelIuCE Sudu Tie
sun light on them, nor any heat, for the
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them TO living fountains of water,
and God shall wipe all tears from their
eyes,
1t was very hard for Noah to endure the
soothing Of the people in his day, while he
was trying to build the ark, and was every
morning Quizzed about his old boat that
would never be OF any practical use: but
10 nalllua al and tho of hn
disappeared like the backs of
sea monsters, and the elements, lashed up
IN fury, clapped their hands over d drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in
MS own safety and in the safety of his fam
ly, and looked out on the wreck Of q ruined
earth.
Christ. bounded of prosecutors, denied a
pillow. worse maltreated than the thieves
IN either side of the cross, human hate
'macking its lips in satisfaction after it had
oeen draining his last drop of blood, the
,heeted dead bursting from the sepulchres
II his cruxifXion. Tell me, o Gethsemane
md Golgothal were there ever darker times
han those2 Like the booming of the mid
light sea against the rock the
sURGES OF CHRIST's ANGUISH
,eat against the gates of eternity, to be
choed back by all the thrones of heaven
nd all the dungeons of hell. But the day
# reward comes for Christ; all the pomp
nd dominion of this world are TO be hung
N his throne, uncrowned heads are TO bow
'efore him on whose head are many crowns.
nd all the celestial worship is to come up
I his feet, like the hummiug OF the forest,
ike the rushing of the waters, like the |
of the seas, while all heaven, |
Using on their thrones, beat time with their |
ceptreS: - Hallelujah, for the Lord God |
mnipotent reigneth! Halleluiah, the king |
Oms of this world have become the king !
oms of our Lord Jesus Christ"
That song of love- now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star TO star:
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden-spired Apocalypse.
Again. l learn from my subject that \
vents which seem to be the most insigniti-
ant may be momentous. Can you imagine |
nything more unimportant than the COM
10 of 4 poor woman from Moab to Jud8a! |
an YOU imagine anything more trivial than |
he fact that this Ruth Just happened 10 |
light-as they say-just happened to
light on that field of Boaz! Yet all |
ges, all generations, have an interest in
ne fact that she was 10 become an ances-
'ess of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all na-
ons and kingdoms must look al that one
tile incident with thrill of unSpeakable !
nd eternal satisfaction. So it is in your
iStory and in mine: events that YOU
fought of no Importance at all have been
great moment That casual conyerSa-
on. that accidental meeting-you did not
link OF it again for 4 long while; but how
changed all the current of Your ifel
1t seemed 10 be of no importance that
lbal invented rude Instruments of music.
iling them harp and organ: but they were
le introduction Of all the worlds min