Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-07

have i,ean AM bcndlong, and where yon
once disnenafi lr.at charities now ynl
have hard work TO make the two ends
ment.
Have YOU forgotten to thank God for
your days Of prosperity, and that through
your u. ia some u you have made invest
ments which will continue after the last
bank Of this world has exploded and the
silver and gold are molten in hrs oil ourp-
Ing worldf Have you, amid all your losses
aud discouragements, forgot that there was
bread on your table this morning, and th't
there shall be a shelter for your head from
the storm. and there Is air for your lungs,
and blood for YOUR heart, and light for your
eye, and elad and glorious and trium-
phant religion for your soulf
BEREAVEMENT.
Perhaps your last trouble was bereave-
ment. That heart which in childhood was
your refuge. the parental heart, and which
has been source Of the quickest sympathy
ever since, has suddenly become silent for
ever. And now sometimes, whenever In
sudden ANNOYANCE and without deliberation
you say, II will 60 and tell mother tho
thought flusheso on you, "Ihave no mothei
Or the father, with voice less tender, but nj
heart rs earnest and loving Of
all your wavs, exultnnt over your success
without say.ug much, although tine old pco.
pie do Talk IL over by thcmselves-is taken
away forever.
Or there was your companion in life,
sharer Of your Joys and sorrows, taken,
leaving the heart IN old ruin, where the III
winds blow over a wide wilderness OF desc.
lation, the sands Of the desert driving across
the place which once blOomed like the gar.
den Of God And Abraham mourns foi
Sarah at the cave Of Machpelah. Goin3
along your path IN life, suddenly right be
fore you was an open grave.
People looked down, and they saw it was
only a few feet deep and few feet wide,
but to you it was achnsm down which went
all your hopes and all your expectations.
But cheer up in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not 20
ing to forsakc you. Did the Lord take
that child out Of your arinsi Why, he i1
going to shelter It better than you could.
lie is going to array IL in white robe and
give il palm branch and have 1t all rcadj
to greet you ut your coming home Blessed
the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed
the importu-.Ite cry that Jesus compassion
ntes. Blessed the weeping eye from which
the soft hand OF Jesus wipes away the tear.
0ollt lchTs hLp was NAMING ipM Al wv
st. John river, which is the Rhine and the
Hudson commingled in ono scene Of beauty
and grandeur, aud while was on the decE
Of the steamer gentleman pointed out 10
me the places Of interest, and he said "All
this is interval land, and it is the richest
land in all the provinces Of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia"
"What," said /, do you mean by inter
val lnnds" well, he said, this land Il
submerged FOR part of the year. Sprint
freshets come down, and all these plains
are overhowed with the water, and the wa.
ter leaves rich deposit, ard when the wa.
tiers arc gone the harvest springs up, and
there is the grandest harvest that was evet
reapcd" And instantly thought, at Is
not the heights Of the church and it is not
the heights Of this world that are tho
scenes Of the greatest prosperity, but tn
soul over which the foods of sorrow have
gone, the soul over which the freshets OF
tribulation have torn their way, that yields
the greatest fruits OF righteousness, and
the largest harvest for time, and the rich.
est harvest for eternity" Bless God that
your soul IS interval land.
THE FINAL "REMINISCENCES.
But these "reminiscences reach only Ia
this morning. There Is one more point Of
tremendous Renaissance, and that Ia the
last hour OF life, when we have to look owe.
all our past existence. Whnt n moment
that will bel | place Napoleon's dying
reminiscenceon st. Helena beside Mrs j nd
sons dying "reminiscences in the harbor Of
st. Helena, the same island, 20 years after
Napoloon's dying "Reminiscences was one Oi
delirium as he exclaimed, Head of I'll,
army" Mrs Judson's dying "Reminiscences
as she came home from her missionary toll
and her life OF self sacrifice for God, dying
| in the cabin IT the ship In the harbor of ST
| Helena, was, ~ always did love the Lore
| Jesus Chris ~ And then the historian
says sho fell into a sound sleep for an hou
and woke an d the songs Of angels.
| place the dying rcminiscence of Angus
| tus Caesar against the dying reminiscenc'
OF the Apostle Paul. The dying reminis
cence OF Augustus Cesar was, addressin
his attendants. Have | played my par
well on the stage OF life'" and they nn
swered in the affirmative, and he said
"why, then, lon't you applaud mo'" TIL
diving remin's cence OF Paul the Apostl
was II have fought good fight. ! hay
finished my course have kept the faith
Henceforth there is laid up for me crow
Of righteousness which the Lord the right
eous Judge, will give me in that day, an
not to me only, but to all them that Low
his appearing"
Augustus Caesar died amid pomp an
great surroundings. Paul uttered his dyin
"Reminiscences looking up through the rot
Of dungeon God grant that our dyi
pillow may be the closing OF useful III
and tho oranina, of A glorious eternity.