Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-15


| meath the timbers of the crushed rail train.
| In little while it will be too late. Come,
for Gods sake! Come right awaym mo, -
says doctor, mot until we have settled
| whether the medicine ON that top shelf was
| rightly mixed. ! say there were too many
| drops of laudanum in it, and this other man
1 says there were too many drops OF cam
| phire, and we must get this question set
tied before we can attend to the railroad ac-
| cident" And one doctor takes another
doctor by the collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one Of the drug
| gists says: "H you will not admit that
| am right about that bottle, will smash
| every bottle in your apothecary store" and
| he PROCEEDS TO SMASH.
| Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly
marked and within easy reach are all the
medicines needed for the helping of the
| sufferers by the accident, and in that
| drawer, easily opened, are bandages and
splints, for the lack of which fifty people
| are dying outside the drug store. Before [
| apply this thought, every one sees its appli-
cation. Here is the old world, and it is off
\ track. Sin and sorrow have collided with
| it. The groan of agony is fourteen hundred
million-voiced. God has opened for relief
| and cure great sanitarium, a great house
of mercy, and all its shelves are filled with
balsams, with catholicons, with help,
| glorious help, tremendous help, help so
| easily administered that you need not get
| upon any step-iadder to reach it. You can
reach it on your knees and then hand it to
| all the suffering and the SHINING and the
| dying Comfort for all the troubled! Par
| don for all the guilty! Peace for all the
| dying! But while the world is needing the
| relief and perishing for lack OF it, what of
| the church? Why, it is full of fighting
| doctors. On the top shelf are some old
| bottles which several hundred years ago,
| Calvin or Arminius or the members of the
synod of bort, Or the formers of the Nicene
| creed filed with holy mixtures, and until
| we get q revision of these old bottles and
| find out whether we must take a teaspoon
ful or tablespoonful, and whether before or
after meals, let the nations suffer, and
groan, and die. Save the bottles by all
means,
IF YOU CANNOT SAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
Now what part shall you and l take in
this controversy which fills all Christen-
dom with clangor? My advice is, take no
part. In time of riot all mayors of cities
advise good citizens to stay at home or in
their places OF business, and in this time of
religious riot advise you to go about your
! regular work for God. Leave the bottles
on the higher shelves for others to fight
| about and take the two bottles on the shelf
within easy reach, the two bottles which
| are all this dying world needs; the one
| filed with potion which is for the cleans
ing OF all sin, the other filed with potion
| which is for the soothing Of all suffering.
Two gospel bottles Christ mixed them
out of his own tears and blood. In them is
no human admixture. Spend no time on
the mysteries, You, a man only five or six
feet high, ought not to try to wade an ocean
thousand feet deep. My own experience
has been vivid. ] devoted the most of my
time for years in trying TO understand
Gods eternal DEGREES, and was determined
to find out why the Lord let sin come into
the world. and ] set out to explore the doc
triue of the Trinity and with yardstick
TO measure the throne of the Infinite. AS
with all my predecessors, the attempt was
dead failure. For the last thirty years I
have not spent two minutes in studying the
controverted points of theology, and if
live thirty years longer will not spend the
thousandth part of a second in such explor-
alton. ] know two things, and these | will
devote all the years of my life in proclaim
ing: God will through Jesus Christ pardon
sin
AND HE WILL COMFORT TROUBLE.
Creeds have their uses, but Just now the
church is creeded to death. The young men
entering the ministry are going to be
launched in the thickest fog that ever set
tied on the coasts. AS I am told that in all
our services, students of Princeton and
Union and Drew and other theological SEM
inaries are present and as these words will
come to thousands of young men who are
soon to enter the ministry, let me say to
such ard through them to their associates,
keep out of the bewildering, belttling,
destroying and angry controversies abroad.
The questions our doctors of divinity are
trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of judgment II is such
poor economy of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the uufathomab BILE,
when in five minutSS in heaven we will
know all we want to know. Wait till we
Tait hn 1Isrht Of
eternity flashes upon our newly assembled
spirits. II is useless for ants on different
sides of mole-hill to try to discuss the
comparative heights of Mount Blanc and
Mount Washington. Let me say to all
young men about to enter the ministry
that soon the greatest novelty in the
world will be the unadulterated religion of
Jesus Christ. Preach that and you will
have crowd. The world is sick to regurg-
itation with the modern quackS in religion.
The world has been swinging of from the
old gospel, but it will swing back, and by
the time you young men go into the pulpits
the cry viii be coming up from all the
millions of mankind Give US the bread of
life; no sweetened bread, no bread with
sickly raisins stuck here and there into it,
but old-fashioned bread, as our
MOTHER MIXED AND BAKED IT,'
You see, God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He has
not learned single tnlng IN SIX unOuSanu
years. He knew at the start that the
human race would go wrong and what would
be the best means of its restoration and re-
demption. And the law which was thuu-
dered ON Mount Sinai, from whose top l had
the two tables of stone in yonder wall
transported, is the perfect law. And the
gospel which Christ announced while dying
on that Mount from which l brought that
stone in yonder wall and which Paul
preached on that hill from which l brought
yonder granite, is the gospel that is going
to save the world Young man, put on that
gospel armor! No other sword will
triumph like that. No other shield will
protect like that. No other helmet will
glance off the battle-aXes like that Our
theological seminaries are doing glorious
work, but If ever such theological semi
naries shall cease to prepare young men
for this plain gospel advocacy, and shall be-
come mere philosophical schools for guess
ing about God, and guessing about the
Bible, and guessing about the soul, they
will cease their usefulness, and young men,
as in olden time, when they would study
for the gospel ministry, will put themselves
under the care of some intelligent and
warm-hearted pastor, and kneel with him
in family prayer at the parsonage, and go
with him into the room of the sick and the
dying, and see what victories the grace of
God can gain when the couch OF the dying is
the Marathon.
THAT IS THE WAY
the mighty ministers of the gospel were
made in olden times. Oh, for great wave