Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03

from lef great fortunes DEllu1ng pQDllC
baths in Constantinople and toiling for the
alienation of the masses. Queen Clotilda,
leading her husband and 5000 Of his armed
warriors to Christian baptism Elizabeth of
Burgundy. giving her ieweled glove to a
beggar and scattering great fortunes among
the distressed; Prince Albert, singing
Rock of Ages" in Windsor castle, and
Queen Victoria. incognita, reading the
Scriptures 90 dying pauper.
bless God that the day is coming when
royalty VIII bring all its thrones, and music
all its harmonies, and painting all its pict-
ures and sculpture all its statuary, and
architecture all its pillars. and conquest all
its scepters; and the queens Of the earth,
in long line OF advance, frankincense filling
the air and the cameis laden with gold,
shall approach Jerusalem. and the gates
shall be hoisted, and the great burden of
splendor shall be lifted into the palace Of
this greater than Solomon.
Again, my 81 beet teaches me what IS
earneStuess in the search OF truth. Do you
know where Sheba wasl 1t was in Abys-
sinia, or some say in the southern part of
Arabia Felix. In either case it was great
way OF from Jerusalem. To get from there
TO Jerusalem she had to cross country in
Tested with bandits, and go across bHstering
deserts. Why did not the queen OF Sheba
stay at home and send committee to in
quire about this new religion and have the
delegates report in regard TO that religion
and wealth of King Solomonl She wanted
TO see for herself and hear for herself. She
could not do this by work Of committee.
She felt she had a soul worth ten thousand
kingdoms like Sheba and she wanted robe
richer than any woven by oriental shuttles,
and she wanted a crown set with the jewels
of eternity. Bring out the camals. Put on
the spices. Gather up the jewels OF the
throne and put them on the caravan Start
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camels. When ] see that caravan, dust
covered, weary and exhausted, trudging on
across the desert and among the bandits IN
til it reaches Jerusalem, I say, There is an
earnest seeker after TRUTH
But there are a great many OF you. my
friends, who do not act in that way. You
all want to get the truth, but you want the
truth to come to you; you do not want to go
to it. There are people who fold their
arms and say, Il am ready to become
Christian at any time; if l am to be saved
I shall be saved, and if | am to be lost |
shall be lost" AMI Jerusalem will never
come to you; you must go TO Jerusalem.
The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ will
not come to you; you must go and get re
ligion. Bring out the camels; put on all
the sweet spices, all the treasures of the
hearts affection. Start for the throne. Go
in and hear the waters of salvation dashing
in fountains all around about the throne.
Sitdown at the panquet-the wine pressed
from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the
angels of God the cup bearers. Goad on
the camels; Jerusalem will never come to
you; you must 60 to Jerusalem. The Bible
declares it The Queen of the Southn-that
is. this very woman am speaking of-"the
Queen of the South shall rise up in judg-
ment against this generation and condemn
it; for she came from the uttermost parts
Of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solo
mon; and, behold! a greater than Solomon
is here" God help me to break up the in
fatuation of those people who are sitting
down in ldlenesS expecting TO be saved.
''Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and We
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to
you" Take the kingdom OF heaven by vio-
lence. Urge on the camels!
Again, my subject impresses me with the
fact that religion is a surprise to any one
that gets it. This story of the new religion
in Jerusalem, and of the glory of King
Solomon, who was type of Christ-that
story rolls on and on, and is told by every
traveller coming back from Jerusalem. The
rews goes on the wing of every ship and
with every caravan, and you know j story
enlarges as it is retold, and by the time that
story gets down into the southern part of
Arabia Felix, and the queen Of Sheba hears
it, it must be tremendous story. And yet
lulo uuEGl OGO1dACS III oIt " dAlAOuSf
she had heard so much and had her antici-
pations raised so high, the half-the half
was not told her.
So religion is always a surprise to any
one that gets it. The story of grace-an
old story. Apostles preached it with rattle
of chain; martyrs declared it with arm of
FIRE: death-beds have affirmed it with
visions of glory and ministers of religion
have sounded it through lanes, and the
highways and the chapels, and the cathe-
drals. 1t has been cut into stone with
chisel and spread on the canvas with PEN
Gil; and IL has been recited in the doXology
of great congregations. And yet when
man first comes to look on the palace of
Gods mercy, and to see the royalty of
Christ, and the wealth of his banquet and
the Insurance of his attendants, and the
loneliness of his face, and the Joy of his |
service, he eXclaims with prayers, with |
tears, with signs, with triumphs 1.-THE |
half-the half was not told mer'
! appeal to those in this house wfo are |
Christians. Compare the idea you had of
the Christian life before you became q
Christian with the appreciation of that joy |
you have now, since you have become a |
Christian. and you are willing to attest be- |
fore angels and men that you never in the |
days of your spiritual bondage had any ap-
probation of what was TO come. You are |
ready to-day to answer, and if l gave you
an opportunity III inc uiuSI Ol ILLS assem- |
blage, you would speak out and say in re- |
gard to the discoveries you have made of |
the mercy and the grace and the goodness |
of God. 1.-THE half-the half was not told |
me-"
Well, we hear great deal about the
good times that is coming to this world |
when it is to be girded with salvation.
Holiness on the bells of the horses. The |
lions name patted by the hand of a babe |
Ships Of Tarshish bringing cargoes for |
Jesus, and the hard, dry, barren winter
bleached, storm-scarred,3, thunder-split,
rock breaking into floods of bright water.
Deserts into which dromedaries thrust
their nostrils, because they were afraid of |
the simoon-deserts blooming into carna- |
ton roses and silver-tipped lilies.
1t is the old story Everybody tells it.
Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul told it. |
Ezekiel told it, Luther told 1t, Calvin told |
it. John Milton told it-everybody tells it: |
and yet-aud yet when the midnight shall |
ly the hills, and Christ shall marshal his |
great army, and China, dashing her idols |
into the dust, shall hear the voice of God |
and wheel into line, and India, destroying |
her Juggernaut and snatching up her little |
children from the Ganges, shall hear the |
voice of God and wheel into line; and vine |
covered Italy, and all the nations of the |
earth shall hear the voice OF God and fall into |
line: then the church which has been tSii-
inc and struggling through the centuries,
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