Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-03

season Of the year at MONDAY is not SO busy
rs heaven is all the time Grand projects
Of mercy for other worlds. Victories 10 bt
celebrated The downfall Of despotisms or
earth TO be announced. Great songs TO b,
learned and song. Great expeditions or
which God shnll send forth his children
Plenty to do, but no fatigue. II you are
seated under the trees Of life, It will not bS
TO rest, but 10 talk over wish some old com
rade old timcs--the battles where you
fought shoulder TO shoulder.
Sometimes ia this world we feel we would
like TO have such body Us that. There is
so much work to be done for Christ, there
are so many tears TO be wiped away, there
arc 30 many burdens TO lift, there Is "a
much 70 be achieved for Christ, we some
times wish that from the first Of January
to the last OF December we could toll on
without stopping to sleep, or take any rec
rention, or TO rest, or even TO take food
that we could toll right on without stop.
ping u moment IN our work OF commanding
Christ and heaven 70 all the people But
we all get tired
1t Is characteristic Of the human body in
this condition; we must get tired. Is IL
not n glorious thought that after awhile
wo are going to have body that will never
get weary? Oh, glorious resurrection day
Gladly will ding aside this poor body OF
sin and fling IL Into the tomb IL at thy
bidding / shall hive a body that never
weArioa Tint was q splendid resurrection
hyInn that was sung at my fathers burial;
So Jesus slept; aodB dying Son
Fhased through the grave and blessed the bed
Rest here, blessed saint, till from his throne
The morning breSlls 10 pierce the shade.
AHAPPY THOUGHT.
Oh, blessed resurrection Speak out, sweet
flowers, beautiful flowers while you tell Of
. risen Christ and tell of the righteous who
shall rise. May God ill you this morning
with anticipation
heard Of father and son who among
Others were slipwrecked at sea. The father
and the son climbed into the rigging. The
father hold on, but the son after awhile lost
his hold IN the rigging and was dashed
down. The father supposed be had gone
hopclcfsiy under the wave. The next dhy
the father was brought ashore from the rig.
cling In an exhausted state and laid In
bed In a hshermSu's hut, and after many
hours hnd passed he came TO consciousness
and saw lying beside him on the same bed
bis boy
o my friends, what glorious thing Il
will be when we wake up Mt last to find our
loved ones beside usl Coming up from the
Slmo plot In the graveyard, coming up IN
the same morning light-tho father and
son alive forever, all the loved ones alive
forever, never moro to weep, mover more &c
part, never moro TO die.
May the God Of peace, that brought again
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
Shepherd Of the sheep, through the blood OF
the everlasting covenant make you perfect
in every good work, 70 do his will And let
this brilliant scene OF the morning trans
port our thoughts 10 tho grander Assem-
blage before the thro3e This august as
semblnge is nothing compared with Il. The
QUO hundred and forty and four thousand
aud thu great multitude that no man cs.u
number" sufne Of cur best friends aInona
them, We Gfter awhile to Join the multi
tude, Blessed anticipation
Ny soul anticipated tho day,
Would stretch her wings and scar away.
To aid the song, the palm 20 bear,
And bow, the chief OF sinners there