Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

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and beloved wife The bond that bound US
is severed. Thou art in glory, and | am
here on earth. We shall meet again Fare
WE'LL FAREWELL To lean on prop for
fifty years. and then have it break under
you. There were only two years differ
ence between the deaths of my father and
mother. After my mothers decease. my
father used to 90 around as though looking
for something; and he would often get up
from one room, without any seeming
reason, and go to another room; and then
he would take his cane and start out and
some one would say: Father, where are
you going?" and he would answer: Il
don't know exactly where l am going.
Always looking for something. Though ne
was tender-hearted man, l never saw him
Cry but once, and that was at the burial of
my mother. After sixty years living to-
gether, it was hard 20 part. And there are
aged people to-day who are feeling just
such pang as that. | want tell them
there is perfect enchantment in the
promises of this gospel; and come to them
and l offer them my arm, or l take their
arm, and [ bring them to this gospel well
Sit down. father, or mother, sit down.
See if there is anything at the well for you.
Come. David, the psalmiSt, have you any
thing encouraging to offer them! Yes"
says the psaimiSt; they Shall still bring
forth fruit in Old age; they shall be fat and
fourishine, TO show that the Lord is up
right; he is my rock, and there is no I'M
righteousness in me-" Come, Isaiah, have
you anything to say out of your prophecies
for these aged people2 Yes, > says Isaiah;
Down to old age l am with thee. and to
hOary hairs viii | carry thee" Well, If the
Lord is going TO carry you, you ought not
to worry much about your failing eyeSighJ
and failing limbs. You get little worried
for fear sometime You will come TO want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp AZ you be-
cause of your ailments. The Lord will not
speak sharp. Do you think you will come
to want! Who do you think The Lord is?
Are his granaries empty: Will he feed the
raven and the rabbit, and the lion i'll the
desert. and forget you? Why, naturalists
tell US that the pOrpoiSe will not forsake
its wounded and sick mate. And do you
suppose
THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
the fish of the sea- But you
say: Il am so near worn out, and am
OF no use to God any more | think the
Lord knows whether you are of any more
use or not; il you were of no more use he
would have taken you before this. Do you
think God has forgotten you because he
has taken care of you seventy or eighty
years! He thinks more of YOU to-day than
he ever did, because you think more of him.
May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and Paul the aged be your God for
ever,
But gather all the promises to-day in
group, and | ask the shepherds to drive
their tiOcks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply Behold, happy is the
man whom God cOrrecteth." Though he
cause grief. yet Will he nave compassion
"Many are the Affections of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them
all" weeping may endure for night,
but JOY cometh in the morning. | am de-
termiced to-day that no one shall go away
Uncontrolled. Gonder is tiuid and
shrinking soul who seems TO hide away
from the consultations | am Uttering, as Il
child with sore hand hides away from the
physician lest he touch the wound too
roughly, and the mother has to go and COM
pei the little patient 10 come out and see the
physician. So | come TO your tinid and
Shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to
come out in the presence of
the Divine Physician. He will
not hurt you, He has been heal
ing wounds for many years, and he will
give you gentle and omnipotent medical
ment But people, when they have trouble,
90 anywhere rather than to God. De
Quincy took opium to get rid of his trou-
bles. Charles Lamb took to punch. TheO-
dore Hook took to something stronger.
Edwin Forrest took 10 theatrical dissipa-
ton. And men have run all around the
earth, hoping in the quick transit to get
away from their misfortunes. 1t has been
Il dead failure. There is only one well that
can Stake the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and ineXhaustible well
of the gospel.
But some one says, in the audience:
Notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, | find 10 alienation for my trOu
Dles.'' Well, l am not through yet I
have left the most potent consideration for
the last. l am going to soothe you with
THE THOUGHT OF HEAVEN
However talkatiVe we may be, there will
come time when the Stoutest and most
emphatic interrogation will evoke from US
10 answer. As soon as we have closed our
lips for the final silence, no power on earth |
can break that taciturnity. But where, o
Christian. VIII be your spirit! In scene |
of infinite glaGneSs: The spring morning |
of heaven waving its blossoms in the bright |
air. Nictors from battle showing their |
scars. The rain of earthly sorrow struck |
through with the rainbow of eternal JOY. |
In one group God ard angels and the re- |
and Silas, Latimer and Rid |
ley. Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John |
Milton. Gabriel and Michael the archaugel. |
Long line Of chorlsters, reaching across the |
hills Seas of JOY dancing to the white |
beach. COnquerorS marching from gate to |
gate. You among them.
On what a great flock of sheep God will |
gather around the celestial well. No stone |
on the wells mouth, while the shepherd |
waters the sheep. There Jacob will recog |
nize Rachel the shepherdess. And standing |
on one side of the well of eternal rapture, |
your children, and standing on the other |
side of the well of eternal rapture |!
your Christian ancestry, you will be |
bounded on all sides by a Joy so keen and |
grand that no other world has ever been |
permitted to experience it. Out of that |
one deep well of heaven, the shepherd will |
dip reunion for the bereaved, wealth for the |
poor, health for the sick, rest for the weary. |
And then all the flock of the Lords sheep |
will lie down in the green pastures, and |
world without end we will praise the Lord |
that on this first autumual Sabbath of 1891 |
we were permitted to study among the
bleating aocks and lowing herds of this fair
ground the story of JACOB and Rachel the
at the well in AIesOpotamia.
Oh, plunge your buckets into this great |
gospel well and let them come up dripping |
with that water of which if Il man drink he
never again shall thirst.