Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-17

VA Jaundico Indigestion, Sick Headache.
NSHE WILD FANCIEs or sKEPrIcrsM.
NActimos you have been riding along
on NNmmer night by swamp and you
hayV kcn lights that kindled over decaysd
vegdWA on-hghts which are called jack-o'-
lanteANr wili-o'-the-wisp. These lights are
mereiSkl\ pisonous miasrnata. My friends,
on yotVGNpy to heaven you will want a bet
ter ligMKan the will-o'-the-wisps which
dance oNM rotten character OF dead Chris
tians. Mutations from poisonous trees in
our neigMoNs garden will make = very
poor balmN our wounds.
Sickness Nj come, and we will Zoe pushed
out toward be Red sea which divides this
world from the next, aud not the inconsist-
ency Of Christians, but tho rod Of faith
will wave back the waters as a commander
wheels his host Tho Judgment will como,
with its thundershod solemnities, attended
by bursting mountains and the deep laugh
of earthquakes, and sans viii ny before tbs
feet Of God Ike sparhi from the anvil, and
ten thouSand burning forlds shall blaze like
banners In the track lof God omhipotent.
Oh, then we will not atop and say, "The-o
was mean Christian; sere was a cowardiy
Christian; there was Z lying ChriBtia !;
there was an impure Christian" In that
day, as now, II thou be wise, thou shalt
be wise for thyself, but,h thou soonest
thou alone 81 III bear it.pN
Why, my brother, the Inconsistency Of
Christians, so far from beinN an argument
TO keep you away from God ,Aught 10 be an
argument TO drive you TO hip. The best
place for a skillful doctor Is inNR neighbor-
hood where thoy are all poor Motors; t..e
best place for an enterprsing neNhant to
open his store 10 In place wherA the bar
gain makers do not understand their bust
moss, mad the best place for you WE want
10 become the illustrious and cHpplete
Christian, the best place for you IL tHpoma
right down among us who are so incSlnpe.
tent and so inconsistent sonetimes r
Other persons apologize for not be6om-
ing Christians because they lack time, IS
though religion muddled the brain OF the
accountant, or tHpped the pen OF the
author, or thicllened the tongue OF the or.
stor, or weakened the arm OF the mechanic,
or scattered the briefs Of the lawyer, or in.
terrupted the sales OF tho merchant. They
bolt their store doors against Il and fight Il
back with trowels and yardsticks aud cry.
Away with your religion from our store,
our office, our factoryW
They do not understand that religion In
this workaday world will help you to do
anything you ought TO do. IL can lay a
keel it can sail a ship; IL can buy cargo;
it can work a pulley; it can pave street;
II can at a wristband; It can write a consti.
tuition, It can marshal host. II is as an
propriate 70 the astronomer as his telescope;
to the chemist as his laboratory; to the ma
son as his plumbline; 10 the carpenter az
his plane; TO thechlld as his marbles; to the
grandfather as his staff.
RELIGION ADDS TO oNR's ENERGIES
No time to be religious hare You have
no time not to be religious. You might as
well have no clerks in your store, no books
in your library, no compass on your shin.
no rifle IN the battle, no hat for your head
no coat for your back, no shoes for your
feet. Better travel on toward eternity bare.
headed and barefooted and houseless and
homeless and friendless than 70 20 through
life without religion
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
statesman, or Hayelook any less of a sol.
der, or Grinnell any less OF a merchant or
West any less Of = painter Religion "a the
best security in every bargain. Il Is tho
sweetest note in every song It is the bright.
est gem IN CIV ~ coronet No time to be reii.
Rousf VIII. you will have TO take time I'd
be sick, 70 bo troubled, TO die. Our world
Is only the wharf from which we are to EN-.
bark for heaven. No time 10 secure tina
friendship Of Christi No time to buy a
lamp ana trim it for that walk through tho
darkness which otherwise will be illunlined
only by the Whlteness OF the tombstones,
no time to educate the eye for heavenly
splandors. or he hand for ehoral harps. ~
the ear Tor everlasting songs, or the soul for
honor, glory Ind Immortality One would
thlnk we had time for nothing else.
Otner persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because IL Is time enough
yet That Is very like those persons who
send their regrets and shy; ~ viii como In
perhaps at ii or ~ o'clock. will net a
there at the opening Of the banquet but I
Wlil be there at the close.n Not yeti Not
yeti A'''
Now, | do not give any doleful view Of
this life. There Is nothing In my nature
nothing IN the grace Of God, that tends TO.
ward dolefnl view OF human life. have
not much sympathy with Addison's de.
seriptioa Of the Vision OF Mira. . where
no represents human life as being a bridgo
OF hundred arches, and both ends OF tho
bridge covered with clouds, and the race
coming on, the most Of them falling down
through the first span aud ali Of them fsll.
ing down through the last span. Itisa
very dismal picture. have not much avn.
patty vita the Spanish proverb wrhieh sava
The SKY Is good, and tho earth Ne oood =
that which Is bad Is between tha saysh snd
the sky - anu
but while we as Christian people ara
bound 70 take a cheerful view az life We
must also confess that life is a great une !.
sainty' ana that man who says. Il can't
become a Christian because there q lima
enough yet, . running risk inanibe. Y.a
90 not perhaps realize the fact that thia az.
sssndlpggraae Il sin getasteensr epd steOD.