Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-27

enact the same scenes that were enacted by
him when he landed in the Orient; ard
there will be such an opening of blind eyes,
and unStopping of deaf ears, and casting
out of unclean spirits-such silencing be
stormed Gennesarets as shall make this
house memorable 800 years after you and /
are dead and forgotten. Oh, my friends,
we want but one revivalin this church, that
beginning now and running on TO the day
when the chisel of time. that brings down
even St. PauliS and the Pyramids, shall
bring this house into the dust.
Oh, that this day of dedication might be
the day of emanCi patton of all imprisoned
souls. My friends do not make the blunder
of the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who
helped TO build the ark, but did not get into
it. God forbid that you who have been so
generous in building this church should not
get under its saving influence. Come thou
and all thy house into the ark Do you
think a man is safe out of Christi Not one
day, not one hour, not one minute, not one
second. Three or four years ago you re-
member a rail train broke down a bridge
on the way to Albany, and after the cataS-
trophe they were looking around among the
timbers of the crushed bridge and the fallen
train and found the conductor. lie was dy-
ing and had only strength to say one thing,
and that was: 'hoist the flag for the next
train" So there come to us tonight from
the eternal word voices of God, voices of
angels,
VOICES OF DEPARTED SPIRITS,
crying: Lift the warning. Blow the
trumpet, give the alarm. Hoist the nag
for the next train
Oh, that tonight my Lord Jesus would
sweep his arm aroung this audience ana
take you all 10 mis- holy heart. You will
never see so good time for personal con
secretion as now. What mean you by
these rnnaS2'' We I'M raUpfOnflOn
from sin, and death, and he'll, by the
power of an omnipotent Gospel
Well. the Brooklyn tabernacle is
erected again. We came here tonight not
to dedicate it. That was done this morn
ing. Tonight we dedicate ourselves. In
the Episcopal and Methodist churches
they have railing around the altar, and
the people come and kneel down at that
railing and get the sacramento blessing.
Well, my friends it would take more than
night TO gather you in circles around
this altar Then Just bow where YOU are
for the blessing. Aged men, this IS the
last church that you will ever dedicate.
May the God who comforted Jacob the
Patriarch. and Paul the aged, make this
house to YOU the gate of heaven; and when
in your old days, you put on your spec
tacles to read the hymn or the Scripture
lesson. may YOU get preparation for that
land where you shall no more see through y
glass darklv. May the warm sun
shine of heaven thaw the snow
of your foreheads, Men in mid-life, do YOU
know that this is the place where you are
going TO get your fatigues rested, and your
sorrows appeaSed, and your souls saved ,
DO YOU know that at this altar your sons
and daughters will take upon themselves
the vows of the Christian, and from this
place you will carry out some Of YOU, your
precious dead Between this baptismal
font and this communion table, you will
have some OF the tenderest of life's eXpe-
riences. God bless you. old, and young, and
middle-aged. The money YOU have given to
this church to-day will be, | hope, the best
financial investment YOU have ever made
Your worldly investments may depend upon
the whimS of the money market, or the
honesty of business associates; but the
money you have given to the house of the
Lord shall yield you large percentage, and
declare eternal dividends long after the
noon-day sun shall have gone out like q
spark from d smitten anvil and all the stars
are dead