Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-22
angels of Gods 1t is news, it is news!
Christ has found the lost.

And strike the sounding Tyre.
Whhn Napoleon talked of going into Italy,
| they said: ''YOu can't get there; if you
knew what the alps were you wouldn't talk
| about it or think of it. you can't get your
ammunition wagons over the Alps" Then
| Napoleon rose in his stirrups and waving
| his hand toward the mountains, he said:
''There shall be no Alps.'' That wonder
| full pass was laid out which has been the
wonderment of all the years since-the
wonderment of all engineers. And you
| tell ME there are such mountains of sin be-
tween Your soul and God, there is no
mercy. Then l see Christ waving his hand
toward the mountains: hear him say: 4
! will come over the mountain of thy sin and
| the hills of thy iniquity." There shall be
no Pyreneees; there shall be no Alps.
NOT MERE PHYSICAL PLIGHT.
Again, l notice that this resolution of
the young man of the text was founded
in sorrow at his misbehavior. 1t was not
! mere physical plight. 1t was grief that
he had so maltreated his father. II is q sad
thing after a father has done everything
for child to have that child ungrateful.
How sharper than serpent's tooth it is.
To have thaniEiess child"
That is Shakespeare "A foolish son is
the heaviness of his mother" That is the
Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of
US been cruel prodigals2 Have we not
maltreated our Father! And such
Father! So loving, so kind. If He had
been stranger, if He had forsaken US, if
He had fagellated US, if He had pounded
us and turned us out of doors on the COM
mons, it would not have been so wonderful
our treatment OF him; but He is
father so loving, so kind, and yet how many
Of US for our wanderings have nevar apol
ogized. We apologize for wrongs done to
our fellows, but some of us perhaps have
committed ten thousand times ten thousand
wrongs against God and never apologiZed.
remark still further that this resolution
OF the text was founded in a feeling of
inconsistencies. l don't know how long this
young man, how many months, how many
years, he had been away from his fathers
house; but there is something in the read
ing OF my text that makes me think he was
homesick. Some of YOU know what that
feeling is. Far away from home some
times, surrounded by everything bright and
pleasant-plenty of friends-you have
said: II would give the world to be home
tonight" Well, this young man was home
sick for his fathers house. l have no doubt
when he thought of his fathers house, he
said: ''Now, perhaps, father may not be
living"
NOTHING ABOUT MOTHER.
We read nothing in this story-this para
BILE founded on everyday life-we read moth
ing about the mother. 1t says nothing about
going home to her. think she was dead.
l think she had died of broken heart at
his wanderings. A man never gets over
having lost his mother. Nothing said about
her here But he is homesick for his
fathers house. He thought he would just
ike to go and walk around the old place.
He thought he would just like to go and see
if things were as they used to be. Many .
man, after having been off for long while,
has gone home and knocked at the door,
and stranger has come. 1t is the old
homestead, but a stranger comes to the
door. He finds out father is gone and
mother is gone, and brothers and sisters all
gone. l think this young man of the text
said to himself: perhaps father may be
dead" Still he starts to find out. He is
homesick. Are there any here to-day home
sick for God, homesick for heaven!
sailor, after having been long on the
sea, returned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to go
away again. She said: Now you had bet
ter stay at home; don't go away; we don't
want you to go; you will have it great
deal better here" But il made him angry.
The night before he went away again to sea
he heard his mother praying in the next
room, and that made him more angry He
went far out on the sea, and storm came
up and he was ordered to very perilous
duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and amid
the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice
that he had heard in the next room. He
tried to whistle it off, be tried to rally his
courage; but he could not silence that voice
he had heard in the next room, and there in
the storm and the darkness he cried: "Oh,
Lord what wretch l have been, what a
wretch / am. Help me just now Lord
God.n And | thought in this assemblage
to-day there may be some who may have
the memory of fathers petition or a
mothers prayer pressing nightly upon the
soul, and that this hour they may make the
al Y Rv,I axrtc
Il will arise and go to my father"
HAVE YoU wADED OUT TOO DEEP2
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe,
went out into the sea, went out 100 far, got
beyond his depth and he foated far away
A ship bound for Dublin came along and
took him on board. Sailors are generally
very generous fellows, and one gave him
cap and another gave him a jacket and an
other gave him shoes. A gentleman passing
along on the beach at Liverpool found the
lads clothes and took them home and the
father was heart broken, the mother was
heart-broken at the loss of their child. They
had heard nothing from him day after day,
and they ordered the usual mourning for
the sad event. But the lad took ship from
Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very
day the garments arrived. He knocked at
the door, and the father was overjoyed, and
the mother was overjoyed at the return of
their lost son. o! my friends, have you
waded out too deepl Have you waded
down into SIM Have you waded from the
shorea VIII you come back9 When you
come back, will you come in the rags of
your sin. or will you come robed in the
Savior's Righteousness l believe the lat
ter Go home to your God to-day. He is
waiting for you. Go home!
But remark concerning this resolution,
it was Immediately put into execution. The
context says, :" He arose and came to his
father" The trouble in nine hundred and
ninety-nine times out Of thousand is that
our resolutions amount to nothing because
we make them for some distant time. If l
resolve to become a Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve
to become a Christian tomorrow, that
amounts to nothing at all. If ! resolve at
the service tonight to become Christian,
that amounts to nothing at all. If resolve |
after go home to-day 10 yield my heart to
God, that amounts TO nothing at all. The |
only kind of resolution that amounts to any
thing is the resolution that is Immediately |
put into execution
WHERE Is YoUE BROKEN Vow |
There is a man who had the typhoid fe- |
yer. He said: sob! if ] could get over |
this terrible distress if this fever should |
depart, if ! could be restored to health. l |
would all the rest of my life serve God" |
The fever departed. He got well enough |
to walk around the block. He got well |
enough TO go oyer to New York and attend |
to business He is well to-day-as well as |
There is man who said long ago: eff |
could live to the year 1891 by that time !
will have my business matters arranged, |
4 how ina ~