Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-06

the moan.i'Oh, my child, my cniMn, Then
there are the filial tears. little children
soon get over the loss of parents. lhey are
easily diverted with q new toy: But where
IS the man that has come 10 thirty or lorty-
or fifty years OF age, who can tulnk OF The
old people without having ell the fountains
OF his soul stirred up? You may nave hao
to take care of her a GOOD many years, but
You never can forget how she used to take
care of you. There have been many sea-
captains converted in our church anu the
popularity OF them was that they were
nearly
ALL PRAYED ASHORE
by their mothers. though the mothers went
into the dust soon after they went TO sea.
Have you never heard an cid oman in de-
liriuIn Of some sickness, call for ms motherF
The fact is we get so used 10 calling for her
the first ten years of our life we never get
over 1t, and when she goes away from US 1t
makes deep sorrow. You sometimes, per-
haps, in days of trouble ana darkness, when
the world would say: You ought 10 De
abIe 10 take care of yourself YOU wake
up from your dreams finding yourself say
ing: 80, mother! mother" Have these
tears no divine origin7 Why, take all the
warm hearts that ever beat IN all lands,
and in all ages, and put them together ana
their united throD would DO weak
compared with the throo OF
bOC CNcIndi sympathy. ICS' 'ON ol'o
IS Father of all that rain of repentapce.
Did you ever see a rain of repentance Do
you know what it is that makes man re-
penti | sec people going around trying 10
repent. They cannot repent. Do you
know, no man can repent until God helps
him TO repentl How DO l know BY this
passage: Him hath God exalted TO be u
prince and Saviour to give repentance. >
o it is q tremendous hour when one wakes
up and says: Il am bad man, have not
Sinned against the laws of the land. hut
have wasted nv lif3 God asked me Tor my
services, and l haven't given those services.
o my sins, God forgive me- When that
tear starts
1T THRILLS ALL HEAVEN.
An angel cannot keep his eye off It, and
the church of God assemblies around, and
there is commingling of tears, ana God Is
the Father of that rain, the Lord, long suf-
fering, merciful and gracious. In relig-
ious assemblage Il man arose and said: Il
have been very wicked man; broke my
mothers heart; became an inEdel; but
have seen my evil way, and ! have surrend
dered my heart to God but 1t Is L grief |
never can get over that my parents should
never have heard of my salvation; don't
know whether they are living Or dead.
While yet he was standing in the audience
voice from the gallery said: Ion, my
son, my SON." He looked up and he recog-
IllZtu UtI II was HIS O4u ulOIuGT Die 4-siu
been praying for him great many years.
and when, at the foot of the cross, the
prodigal son and the praying mother en-
braced each other, there was rain,
tremendous rain. of tears, and God was the
father of those tears. On! that God would
break Us down with 4 sense Of our SIN ana
then lift Us with an appreciation OF his
mercy. Tears over our wasted life. Tears
over grievcd spirit. Tears over an in
jured father. On that God would move
upon this audience with great wave OF le-
igiOuS emOtionl
The king OF Carthage was dethroncd.
His people rebelled against him. lie was
driven into punishment. His wife and
children were
OUTRAGEOUSLY ABUSED.
Years went by and the king Of Carthage
made many friends. He gathered up d
great army. He marched again toward
Carthage Reaching the gates of Carthage,
the best men of the place came cut bare
footed and bare-headcd and with ropes
around their necls, crying for mercy. They
said: We abused YOU ana we abused
your family, but we cry for mercy The
king OF Carthage looked down upon the pco-
pie from his chariot and said: u came TO
bless, | didn't come 10 destroy. You drove
me out, but this day l pronounce pardon
for all the people. Open the gates and let
the army come in" The king marched in
ana look tho throne, and the people al
shouted: Long live the king" Ny friends
you have driven the Lord Jesus Christ. the
king OF the church, away from your heart;
you have been maltreating him all these
years; but he comes back to-day. He
stands in front of the gates OF your soul
If you will only pray for his pardon, he will
meet you with his gracious spirit and he
will say: Thy sins and thine iniquities |
will remember no more. Open wide the
gate. | will take the throne NV rt9pa |
give unto YOU" And then, all through
this audience, from the young and from the
old, there will be . rain of teaIs, and God
Ykl be The. fathsr Of that rain 81