Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-02
BEAUTIFUL EASTER.
Bab's Panegyric Of Spring, Ma
lures Anniversary.
EARTH'S TIME-WORN PILGRIMS
MankInd's Blessed Redesmers Victory Over
Death and the Grave -AfectIonale Re-.
membranes Of Caoarys
Christ, Etc., Elc.
EARTH'S TlME-WORN PILGRIMS
Copyright 1898, by the Box Syndicate
Press, New York;

Press, New York;
Vrom Our Special Correspondent
New York, March %, 1893.
Even the man, God help him! whC
has no belief finds his heart gives an eN
ira thump on Easter day, for he seem,
10 discover something finer and better
aud purer In the sunshine itself. and h,
claims that It is because, all Of sud
den the flowers seem 10 have sprunl
mp. My friend, Il isn't only the flower,
that are resurrected on Easter day. II
IS the hopes, the loves, the joys Of hu
n0nity Suddenly there comes up be
fore us as If from tomb, the ghost Of
u man or woman that used TO live. That
ghost that has about II Il. halo of youth
md hope, aud on each side of which
stands an augel-the angel Of faith and
the angel OF love We time-worn pill
frims find Il hard 60 look this ghost in
the face. IL Is the ghost of buried am
billions, Of sweet loves, and Of beauti.
full unseltshness, aud It comes forward 10
face you today when you lack belief;
when you scoh at love, aud when you,
most OF all, worship yourself But this
ghost of the past is good 10 meet once
aud awhile, because sometimes he makes
the man of today Take the leaf In the
Book Of Life, that leaf on which there
are so many blots and 80 little that IL
fair and beautiful, he 1nakes him turn
1t over and, having fresh page, teach
es him TO write upon Il. only the story
OF kindness and consideration.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
When the sun dances on Easter morn
ing II is glad because you and have met
these ghosts-it Is because the old h
dead and the new Is alive, and the new
means JOY TO everybody. Did you ever
meet the ghost of your past? Did YOU
ever meet the man you were twenty
years ago. It is 1l:45 O'clock, take up
the mirror and look at yourself. You
see the face of q man whose eyes tell
OF nights spent in dissipation. the firmly
set mouth whispers of determination, Of
greed, and, when the lips loosen a lit
Tie, of unbelief. You see man who has
been successful. whose clothes are made
by the best tailor, and whose waist
coat Of the most fashionable material is
over "A heart that, when II beats at all
because OF an emotion, beats for fear
STOCKS VIII go up or down, beats with
delight because you have gotten the bet
Yer OF your enemy, or beats with pride
because your wife or your daughter do
credit to your name and your millions.
The bells are ringing at II o'clock as
they chime out the news of the resur-
reeti0n; every Hover in the land Joins In
with It's sweet chime, and into your
room there comes the man you buried
twenty years ago His eyes are bright
and flash with hope; his lips show gentle
ness and consideration In their shape
and oil over the face there Is BELIEF
belief in mankind belief in heaven. His
clothes are not as fine as yours, hut the
heart that beats under them Is brave and
honest, and couldn't even give one beat
IN approval OF u mean thing. How cnn
you face your other self? You mutter
somtheing about a woman who made
you lose belief, you mutter something
about how hard IL Is TO be hungry, and
you mutter something about getting on
In the world. My friend, you deliber-
ntely and coolly buried your better self.
aud now II has come to ask for account
ing. Are you prepared TO give Il? Can
you sit down whit this other self and.
taking the Book of Life In your hands
decide with II what the future shall be?
All the angels In heaven are singing:
death Is no morew There is your on
portunity, take from the grave the man
you ought to be, and make him the
man who Is, then indeed will your Bas-
ter be u joyful resurrection. A bring
ing back from that tomb Of foreetful-
ness, the great virtues, and, most of all.
that greatest Of all blessings-belief.
BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFII.
And you, my friend. who are n wnmon
you are alone before the bells begin to
chime. AT the shrine of vanity. pride.
greed and selhshness you have worsbin,
ped, and there you have buried tbe otb.
err woman. What will she think az Won
when she sees your She was younG I'm
heart as well as in body. She didn't
fear growing old in years, hut YOU have
hiaue her old IN soul She thought moth
ing OF the outward garb Of people, and
you nave made worship what you call
OF trouble to do a Kind act. And Won
nave concluded that only fools are kind
ohe believed In a God who had mazda
her in a Holy Spirit that had sancH-
hed her, and IN a Christ who redeemed
her' You have listened 10 the yulgor
words OF men who have made dollars Inv
theI ignorance, and you think there Is
f aotn'ng gr greater than yourself Poor
tOoi' 1nls glrl mas come from her grave
70 ASK an accounting Of you. What right
had you TO bury her? Are you the han.
pier Womanl Is the world the better
Tor ltF AS she enters and looks M Won
set Gown on your knees and pray 10 Tho
Tod whom you have tried not TO believe
70 make you the woman you used TO he
70 make this Easter day one of per,
llssct resurrection for you, to raise from
W. W. ueau me woman you We're, and 70
u 49, AhAANa ANtus indeed. md
then only, win you be Of service ~ tbi s
world and the next.
KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION
And the little children aud the dumb |
animals can all see the angels on Raster |
4 AolIhins, ana they are the only ones. |
~ way uptown, where some kind peo- |
l,e nave made resting.plaee for The |
i ,lna who are sick and weary. Is n
NILS l,s boy lie might be your son. or ne |
might be mine. He losses about ON liz
bed, and signs about his pains ana u" 4
,eems as II relief would never come
y young girl comes In, and he begs
y ner to tell him Of boys who can S rnn
bout and with tears in her voice sba
y, as he asks, and be hears wander
~ Se tories 81 the boys who are playing
ogs down "a the square, and ne 6oys
Who are going 10 the circus ana pbo MN
Men he gets well he shall 70, Ana |
w tb Iae b goes away she kisses him good.
bunch OF lilies ia his hand. And tSsp
.ai,s comes TO see him an old man. lie |