Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-30

SengerS of sin: when fast clippers are laden
with opium and rum; when the night air Of
our cities is polluted with the laughter that
breaks up from the ten thousand
SALOONS OF DISSIPATION
and abandonment; when the fires of the
second death already are kindled III the
cheeks of some who, only little while ago
We're incorrupt. Never since the curse fell
upon the earth has there been a time when
it was such an unwise, such cruel, such
an awful thing for the church 10 sleep The
great audiences are not gathered in the
Christian churches, the great audiences are
gathered in temples of sin-tears OF IN
utterable woe their baptism, the blood of
crushed hearts the awful wine OF their
sacrament. blaSphemies their tiffany, and
the groans of the lost world the organ dlrge
OF their worship.
Again. if you want to be qualified to meet
the duties which this age demands of you.
you must on the one hand avoid reckless
iconoclasm, and on the other hand not stick
too much u things because they are old.
The air is full Of new plans, new projects,
new theories of government. new theolo-
gies. and am amazed TO see how so many
Christians want only novelty in order TO
recommend a thing to their confidence; and
so they vacillate and swing to and frG, and
they arc useless and they are Unhappy.
New plans-secular, ethical, Philosophical.
religious. cisatlantic TRANSATLANTIC. All.
my brother, do not adopt Il Ihing merely
because it IS new Try it " the realities
of "a judgment day.
But ON the other han1/ do not adhere to
anything because it sold. There is not a
single enterprise of NE church or the world
but has something's been scofTed at. There
was time whm men derided even Bible
societies; and when a few young men met
near
4 HAT-sTACK IN ASsACHUsETTS
nd orgInized the first missionary society
ever Organized in this country, there went
Laughter and ridicule al around the
ChTstian church They said the undertake
Ig was preposterous. And so also the
work of Jesus Christ wa assailed. People
cried out. Whoever heard of such theories
of ethics and government! Who ever no.
ticed such Il style of preaching as Jesus
has, :" Ezekiel had talked of mysterious
wings and wheels. Here came Il man from
Capemaum and Gennesarct and he drew
his illustrations from the lakes. from the
sand. from the ravine, from the lilies, from
the corn-s5alks. How the Pharisces scoffed
How Herod derided How Caidphas Kissed
And this Jesus they plucked by the beard,
and they spaJ in his face, and they called
him this fellow All the great enter
prises in and out of the church have at
times been suoffed at, and there have been
ii great multitude who have thought that
the chariot of Gods truth would fall 70
pieces if il once y out OF the old rut.
And so there are those who have no pa
thence with anything like improvement in
church architecture, or with anything like
good. hearty. earnest church singing, and
they deride any form of religious discussion
which goes down walking among everyday
men rather than that which makes an eX-
cursiOn on rhetorical stills. Oh, that the
church of God would wake up to an adaptG-
blity Of work We must admit the simple
fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in
this Gay do not reach
THE GREAT MASSES.
There are fifty Thousand people. in +. H.
burgh who never hear the gospel. There
are one million people i'll London who never
hear the gospel. There are 1T least three
hundred thousand souls in the city of
Brooklyi who come not under the in medi-
ate ministraliOn of Christ's truth; and the
hurch of God IN this day, instead Of being
Il place full OF living epiStles, read and
known of all men, is more like IA dead
letter poStoffiCe.
But say the people. 1.-The world is GO
ing to be converted: YOU m st be patient:
the kingdoms Of this world are TO become
the kingdoms of Christ" Never, unless
the church of Jesus Christ puts on more
speed and energy. Instead of the church
converting the world, tine world is convert
ing the church. Here is a great fortress.
How hall il be taken! An army comes
and sits around about il, cuts of the sup
plies. and says: Now we will Just wait
until from exhaustion and starvation they
will have TO give up Weeks and months,
and perhaps a year pass along. and finally
the fortress suIrendcrs through that starya-
ton and exhaustion. But my friends, the
fortreSSeS of sin are never TO lie ta-en III
that way. If they are taken for God it will
be by storm: YOU will have to bring up the
great siege guns of the gospel TO the very
wall and wheel the flying artillery into
heaven shall confront the battlements you
Will have to give the quick command,
FORWARD. CHARGE
All my friends. there is work for you to
do and for Inc TO do in order to this grand
accomplishment! Here is "A pulpit, and
clergyman breaches in it. Your pulpit is
the bank Your pulpit is the store. Your
pulpit is the editorial chair. our pulpit is
the anvil. Your pulpit is thee house-scaf-
folding. Your pulpit is the .-echanic's shop
] may stand in this place and, through cow
arGice or through self-seeking may keep
back the word | ought TO utter; while you,
with sleeves rolled up and brow besweated
with toll. may utter the word that will jan
the foundation of heaven with the shout of
a great victory. Oh. that to-day this whole
audience might feel that the Lord Almighty
is putting upon them the hands of ordina-
ton. Every one 60 forth and preach this
Gospel. You have Is much right 10 preach
as | have or as any man has. Only find out
the pulpit where God will have YOU preach,
and there preach Hedley Wears was
wicked man in the English army. The
grace Of God came to him. He became an
earnest and eminent Christian. They
scoffed at him, and said: You are hypo-
crit D.; YOU are as bad as ever you were"
Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after a
while. finding that they could not turn him
aside by calling him hypocrite, they said
to him: oh, you are nothing ut IA
Matte That did not disturb him. He
went on performing his Christian duty I'M
til he had formed all his troop into Bible
class, and the whole eucampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So Have
lock went into
THE HEATHER TEMPLE
in India while the English army was theIr
and put a candle into the hand of each
the heather gods that stood around
in the heather temple, and by the light of
these candles. held up by the idols, Gen.
Havelock preached Righteousness, temper
ance and judgment to come And who will
say. on earth or in heaven, that Gen. Have
lock had not the right TO preach!
In the minister's house where / prepared
for college there was man who worked by
the name of Peter Croy. He could neither
read nor write but he was man of God
Often theologians would stop in the house
grave theologianS-and at family prayers
Peter Croy would be called upon To lead:
and all those wise men sat around, wonder
struck at his religious efficiency. When he
prayed he reached up and seemed to take