The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-14

waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Why are some sermons a dead failure
Why are there songs that do not get their
wing under the people. Why are there
players that go no higher up than hunter 5
hallool Because there is missing Ink
that only the Holy Spirit can make. II that
Spirit should come through this assemblage
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, hike as
when 1900 souls were lifted out OF midnight
into midnoon at the Pentecost. DO you
notice that sometimes that Spirit takes an
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
Luthera It was that one verse:
THE JUST SHALL LIVE By PATH"
De you know what it was that brought
.<Augustine from his horrible designations
It was that one verse: Put We 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 soldier? 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! It was the one pas
sage: Now unto Him be glory forever
and ever
One Thanksgiving morning in church l
read my text, 30, 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 lie
Here, Lord, am thine forever BY that
one passage of scripture he was brought
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own experience, ] might tell how one Sab
bath afternoon 1 was brought TO the peace
of the gospel by reading of the Syro-PhG-
nician's cry to Christ where she said:
Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall
from the masters table Phiiosophic 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.
l 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 emaclated, he
stood and told the story of Christ to the
people. And in the great day OF eternity
it vii! be found that not so much the elo-
quent sermons brought men to Christ as the
story told perhaps by those who We're IN
known on earth, the simple story OF tho
Sayiours love and mercy. sent by the power
of the Holy Ghost straight to the heart.
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: NO
one cares for my soul" We do care
for it. You see 4 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.
TIE AIR Is FULL OF PRAYERS.
They are going up this morning from
this ass smbiy. Hundreds of prayers
straight TO the throne of listening God.
The air is full of prayerS-prayers ascend
ing noon by noon from Fulton street prayer
meeting, Friday night by Friday night al
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 III
this assemblace who would say if they
knew it: Make room for that man, make
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 a
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
COucitiXion carnage. Come into it. Come
into it. / do not pick out this man or that
man and say: you may come ! say all
pD1Dn--NynOSnnVpIs will 81 ono with
us and we will do you good. The Lord
hath promised good concerning Israel"
We are L garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
a little plot enclosed by grace
Out OF the worlds wild wilderness.
Do not say you have never been invited.
invite you now To the Kings feast. One
and all. All! All! But go 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
IL is very well for a man when he has Just
entered the ministry TO preach about
THE ANGELS OR HEAVEN,
but after he has gone on further it is
hardly worth while. My friends. there is
there is u Cod than that there are angels. Did
not they swarm around Jacobs ladder?
When Lazarus soul went up did they not
escort it, Did not David say: "Thc
Chariots of God are twenty thousand, even
of angels?'' Are they not repre-
SEN ed rs the chief harvesters of the jude-
ment day. Did not one angel in one night
Stay $50, 900 of SennachCrib's troops?, Oh,
yes, our world is in communication with
two other worlds. All that communication
is by angels. When bad man is to die, q
man VINO has despised God and rejected the
Gospel. the bad spirits come on sulphurous
win" and they shackle him, and try to push
him off the precipices into the ruin, and
they lift outlaw of diabolical eXultation.
But there is line of angels, bright and
beautiful and loving angels, mighty angels,
all the way from earth to heaven,
and when others gather like them | suppose
the air IS full of them. They hover,
THEY FLIT ABOUT.
They push down iniquity from your
heart. They are ready to rejoice. Look
There is an angel from the throne of God
One moment ago it stood before Christ and
heard the doxology Of the redeemed. 1t is
here now. Bright immortal, what news
from the golden city, Speak, spirit best
The answer comes melting on the air:
Come, come, for all things are now
ready" Angels ready to bear the tidings.
Angels ready to drop the benediction.
Angels ready to kindle the joy. All
ready. Ready cherubim and seraphim.
Ready, thrones and principalities and
powers Ready, Michael, the archangel.
Yes. go further and say that your glori-
fed kindred are ready l have not any