Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-11

wing uuOef Tue peOpief why are tEert
players that go no higher up than hunter:
halloo' Because there is a missing Inl
that only the Holy Spirit can make If thai
Spirit should corue through this assemblagt
this morning, there would be power felt
like that when Saul was endorsed on the
road TO Damascus, like as when Lydia's
heart was broken IN her fine store, like 3s
when 5000 souls were lifted out of midnight
into midnoon at the Pentecost. Do you
notice that sometimes that Spirit takes al
Insignificant agency to save soul.
think it is very often that at Just one pas.
sage of Scripture, just one word of Scrip.
ture, a soul is saved because the Holy
Spirit gives it supernatural power. Do
you know what it was that saved Martin
Luther? 1t was that one verse:
THE Just SHALL LIVE BY FAITH
Do you know what il was that brought
Augustine from his horrible designations
It was that one verse: Put ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof Do you
know what it was that saved Hedley Wears,
the celebrated soldier2 1t was the one
passage: believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved" Do you
know what it was that brought Jonathan
Edwards to Christ? II was the one pas
sage: Now unto Him be glory forever
and ever
One Thanksgiving morning in church l
read my text, 20, give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good.' and young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself: Il
have never rendered one acceptable offer
ing Of gratitude TO God in all my life.
Here, Lord, | AIN thine forever" BY that
one passage of scripture he was brought
into the kingdom, and if l might tell my
own experience, might tell how one Sab
bath afternoon I was brought to the peace
of the gospel by reading OF the Syro-Phoe-
nician's cry to Christ where she said ::
Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall
from the masters table" Philosophic ser
mons never saved anybody. Metaphysical
sermons never saved anybody.
AN EARNEST PLEA
going right out of the heart blessed of the
Holy Ghost, that is what saves, that is what
brings people into the kingdom of Christ
! suppose the world thought that Thomas
Chalmers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says
he never preached at all until years after
he had occupied pulpit he came out OF his
sick room, and weak and emaciated, he
stood and told the story Of Christ to the
people. And in the great day of eternity
II VIII be found that not SO much the elo-
quent sermons brought men to Christ as the
story told, perhaps by those who were IN
known on earth the simple story of the
Saviour's love and mercy, sent by the power
VI inc IloIS bLoSI StId4gHt 10 tue HedfI.
Come, Holy Ghost. Ay, he is here this
morning. He fills all the place. l tell you
the Holy Ghost is ready.
Then go on and tell you the church is
ready. There are those here who say: mo
one cares for my SOUL We do care
for it. You see man bowling his head in
prayer and you say: That man is indif-
ferent." That man BOWS his head in prayer
that the truth may GO TO every heart.
THE AIR Is FULL OF PRAYERS.
They are going up this morning from
this assembly. Hundreds of prayers
straight TO the throne of o listening God.
The air IS full of prayers-prayerS ascend
ing noon by noon from Fulton street prayer
meeting, Friday night by Friday night all
over this land, going up from praying cir
cles. Yea, there is not minute of an
hour of any day that there are not supplica-
tons ascending TO the throne of mercy.
The church is ready. And if you should
this morning start for your Fathers house
there would be hundreds and thousands in
this assemblage who would say if they
knew it: Make room for that man, NIKE
room for him at the holy sacrament; bring
the silver bowl for his baptism; give him
full right to all the privileges Of the church
Of Jesus Christ.
Oh, know there are those who say the
church is
MASS OF HYPoCRITEs,
but they do not really think SO. 1t is glo-
rious church. Christ purchased it Christ
built it. Christ swung all its gates. Christ
curtained it with upholstery, crimson with
coucifXion carnage. Come into it Come
into il. do not pick out this man or that
man and say: .sYou may come" say all
may come-whosoever will. Come with
Us and we will do you good. The Lord
hath promised good concerning Israel
We are garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
i little plot enclosed by grace
Out Of the world wild wilderness
Do not say you have never been invited.
invite you now to the Kings feast One
md all. ALI All! But 90 further and
tell you the angels are ready. Some people
think when we speak about angels we are
getting into the region of fancy. They say
t is very well for man when he has lust
entered the ministry TO preach about
THE ANGELS OR HEAVEN,
but after he has gone on further it is
lot any more evidence in the Bible thatz3
here is God than that there are angels. Did
lot they swarm around Jacobs ladder?
When Lazarus soul went up did they not
escort it, Did not David say: 1.-THE
'hariots ofe God are twenty thousand, even
thousands Of angels2'' Are they not repre-
'enied as the chief harvesters Of the jude-
uSHl udNE blu uOl OHc auStl III ore ulgHL
LAY $50, 900 Of Sennacherib's troops, Oh,
res, our world is in communication with |
NO other worlds. All that communication
5 by angels. When a bad man is 10 die, q |
nan who has despised God and rejected the |
Gospel, the bad spirits come on sulphurous
wing and they shackle him, and try TO push |
lin off the precipices into the ruin, and |
hey lift 4 guffaw Of diabolical exultation. |
Sut there is a line Of angels, bright and |
beautiful and loving angels, mighty angels, |
md when others gather like them | suppose |
he air is full of them. They hover,
THEY FLIT ABOUT.
They push down iniduity from Your |
eart They are ready to rejoice. Look |
there is an angel from the throne of God |
)ne moment ago it stood before Christ and |
eard the doxology of the redeemed. 1t is |
lere now. Bright immortal, what news |
rom the golden cityl Speak, spirit blest. |
he answer comes melting on the air: |
Come, come, for all things are now
eady." Angels ready to bear the tidings. |
Angels ready to drop the benediction.
lngels ready to kindle the Joy All |
eady. Ready cherubim and seraphim.
teady, thrones and principalities and |
overs. Ready, Michael, the archangel
Yes, l go further and say that your glori-
ed kindred are ready. 1 have not any
ympathy with modern spiritualsm.
BELIEVE 1T IS BORN IN PERDITIoS.
When ! see the ravageS it makes with
uman intellects, when l see the homes il
as devastated when | see the bad morals
hat very often follow in its wake, / have
o faith in modern spiritualism. l think If
Ohm Milton and George Whitefield have