Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27

doing that honorable and very important
workout which is little appreciated
keeping boarding house. where all the
guests, according as they pay small board,
or propose, without paving any board at
all to decamp, are critical of everything
and hard to please, busy yourselves IN try
ing to get her more patrons, and tell her OF
divine sympathy. Yea, if you see a woman
favored of fortune and with all kindly sur
roundings, finding in the hollow batteries
of the world her chief regalement, living
for herself and for time as if there were no
eternity, strive to bring her into the king
dom of Cod. as did the other day Sabbath
school teacher, who was the means of the
conversion of the daughter of u man of i'm
mense wealth, and the daughter resolved
to Join the church, and she went home and
said Father, l am going to join the church
and I want you to Gomez "Oh, no" he
said. II never 60 to church." Well" said
the daughter, ''if l were going to be mar
ried. would you not &C to see NE married."
And he said: "Oh, yes.' Well" said she,
this is of more Importance than that" So
ne went, and has gone ever since, and loves
TO 90. do not know but that faithful Sab
bath-school teacher not only saved woman,
but saved a man. There may be lit this
audience, gathered from all parts Of the
world. there may be man whose behavior
toward womanhood has been periiGiouS.
Repent! Stand up,
THOU NASIERPlECE OF SIN
and death. that | may charge you! As far
as possible, make reparation. Do not boast
that you have her IN your power, and that
she cannot help herself When that fine
collar and cravat, and that elegant suit of
clothes come of and your uncovered soul
stands before God, YOU Will be better of if
you save that woman.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save child. y child does not
seem TO amount to much. II IS nearly
year old before II can walk AT all For the
first year and half il cannot speak word.
For the first ten years it would starye If
il had TO earn its own food. For the first
fifteen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely valuelcss. And then there are
so many of them. My. what lots Of
children! And some people have contempt
for children. 1heycare good for nothing
but TO wear out the carpets and break
things and keep you awake nights crying.
Wei, your estimate Of a child is quite differ
ent from that mothers estimate who lost her
child this summer. They took it to the salt
air of the seashOre and TO the tonic air Of
the mountains, but no help came, and the
brief paragraph of its life IS ended. Sup
pose that life could be restored by purchase,
how much would that bereaved mother
give? She would take all the Jewels from
her fingers and neck and bureau and put
them down. And if told that that was not
enough, she would take her house and
make over the deed for it, and if that were
not enough, she would call in all her invest
ments, and put down all her mortgages
and bonds, and if told that were not enough,
she would say: Il have made over all my
property, and if l can have that child back
will now pledge that viii toll with my
own hands and carry with my own
work, and live in cellar
AND DIE IN GARRETT
Only give ME back that lost darling" |
am clad that there are those who know
something of the value of child. Its pos
sibilitics are tremendous. What will those
hands yet do' Where will those
feet yet walk. Toward what destiny will
that rever-dying soul betake itself} Shall
those lips be the throne of blasphemy or
beuediclion! Come, chronOlo%ists, ana cal
cuiate the decades on decades, the centu-
ries on centuries, of its lifetime. On, to
save 4 child! Am I not right in putting
that among the great exploits!
But what are you going to do with those
children who are worse off than if their
father and mother had died the day they
were born. There are tens OF thousands of
such. Their percentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The structure
Of their skulls against them. Their nerves
and muscles contaminated by the inebriety
or dIsSOlLteness Of their parents: they are
practically at their birth laid out on a plank
in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, in an
oquinoctical gale, and told to make for
shore. What 10 do with them is the ques-
ton ofte@ asked. There is another ques-
ton quite rs pertinent, and that is, what
are they going to do with us2 They viii,
ten or eleven years from now. have as many
votes As the same number of Well-b0rn
children, and they will hand this land over
to anarchy and political damudtiOn just as
sure as we neglect them. Suppose we
pb 0I va q bGy m ..- va Pl on
can do it. VIII your l will.
HOW SHALL WE GET READY
for one or all of these three eXploits2 We
shall make dead failure if III our own
strength we try to save mai or woman or
child. But my text suggests where we are
to get equipment. The people that do
know their God shall be strong and do ex-
plots" We must know him through Jesus
Christ in our own salvation and then we
shall have his help in the salvation of 9th
ers. And while YOU are saving strangers
You may save some OF your own kin. You
think your brothers and sisters and children
and grandchildren all safe, but they are not
dead, and 10 one is safe till he is dead. On
the English coast there was wild storm
aud wreck in the ching and the cry was
Man tie ifGbOat!' But Harry. the usual
leader OF the sailors crew, was not TO be
found and they Went without him and
brought back all the shipwrecked people
but one. By this time Harry, the leader Of
the crew, appeared and said: Why did
you leave that one!" The answer was:
He could not help himself at all and we
could not get him into the boat" Man
the lifeboatl" shouted Harry, aud we viii |
go for that one" No" said his aged
mother, standing by, "you must not go. l
lost your father in Il storm like this and
your brother VIII went or six Years ago
and have Rot heard word from VIII
since he left. and l don't know where he
is, poor VIII, and l cannot let you also
20, for am old and dependent on YOU His
reply was Mother, | must 90 and save
that one man, and if I am lost, God viii
take care of you in YOUR old days"
The life-bOat put out. and after an awful
struggle with the sea, they picked tde poor
fellow out OF the rigging Just in time TO
save his life, and started for the shore
And as they came within speaking distance
Harry cried out: I'VE saved him. and tell
mother it was Brother Will" oh, yes, my
friends, let Us start out to save someone Tor
time ana or eternity, some man, some
woman, some child. And who knows but
ii may, directly or indirectly, be the saliva
ton of one Of our own kindred, and that
viii be an exploit worthy OF celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked, and
the sun has gone out like i spark from
smltten anvil, and ali the stars are dead
INTERESTING DIVORCE SUIT. |