Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25

| that he had heard in the next room. He
tried to whistle it off. he 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 a wretch 1 have been, what a
| wretch l am. Help me just now, Lord
| God.'' And l thought in this assemblage
to-day there may be some who may have
| the memory Of a fathers petition or a
mothers prayer pressing nightly upon the
same resolution 1 find in my text, saying
81 will arise and go to my father"
HAVE YOU wADED OUT TOO DEEP2
| A lad at Liverpool went out to battle,
| went out into the sea, went out too far, got
| beyond his depth, and he floated far away.
| A ship bound for Dublin came along and
| took him on board. Sailors are generally
very generous fellows, and one gave him a
| 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 deep' Have you waded
down into sin? Have you waded from the
shore? Will you come back2 When you
your sin. or will you come robed in the
Savior's righteousness 1 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 a thousand is that
our resolutions amount to nothing because
we make them for some distant time. If
resolve to become Christian next year,
that amounts to nothing at all If l resolve
to become Christian tomorrow, that
amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at
the service tonight to become a Christian,
that amounts to nothing at all. If l resolve
after go home to-day 70 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 YOUR BROKEN vOw2
There is a man who had the typhoid fe-
yer. He said: "Oh! if l could get over
this terrible distress if this fever should
depart, if 1 could be restored to health, 1
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 over to New York and attend
to business. He is well to-day-as well as
he ever was. Where is the broken vow2
There is man who said long ago: stIf
could live to the year 1891. by that time
will have my business matters arranged,
and 1 will have time to attend to religion,
and 1 will be good, thorough consecrated
Christian, The year 1891 has come. jan
uary, February, March, April, May, June,
almost half of the year gone. Where is
your broken vow2 ''O!' says some man,
ssI'Il attend to that when get my charac-
ter fixed up; when can get over my evil
habits: I am now given to strong drink
or, says the man, 81 am given to unclean-
ness,'' or, says the man, 81 am given to
dishonesty. When get over my present
habits, then I'll be thorough Christian
My brother, you will get were and worse
until Christ takes you in hand. esNot the
righteous; sinners, Jesus came to CALI
all that, but l must put it OF little
longer" Do you know there were many
who came just as near as you are to the
kingdom of God and never entered it2 I
was at East Hampton, and went into the
cemetery to look around, and in that
cemetery there are twelve graves side by
side-the graves of sailors. This crew,
some years ago, in a ship
WENT INTO THE BREAKERS
at Amagansett. about three miles away
My brother, then preaching at East Hamp-
ton, had been at the burial These men of
the crew came very near being saved. The
people Of AmAeensett saw tbs vessel, and