Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-07
OLD TIMES RECALLED
Or. TALMAeE DELIVERS a DISCOURSE
ON REmlNlscsNcE.

ings.
BRooEfiE, Aug. 6.-Rev. Dr.. Talmage
has chosen a. the topic Tor today panora-
ma OF "Reminiscences appropriate to the sea-
son, the text selected being Palm xxx. 3,
"While was musing the fire burned"
Here i David, the psalmist. with the
foreinger Of his right hand against his
temple. the door shut against the world,
engaged In contemplation. Aud Il would
be well for ms to take the same posture
often. closing the door against the world,
while we sit down In sweet solitude to con
template.
In small island OF the coast once
passed Sabbath in delightful solitude, for
/ had resolved that ! would have one day
Of entire quiet before ! entered upon au-
tnmnal work Thought to have spent the
day in laying out plans for Christian work
hut instead Of that IL became a day Of ten
der "Reminiscences. reviewed ny pastor
ate I shook hands with an old departed
friend, whom shall greet again when the
curtains Of life are lifted. The days Of my
boyhood came back, and | was 10 ycnzs Of
age. and / was s, and was 3. There was
hut one house on the island. and yet from
Sabbath daybrcali. when the bird chant
woke me. until the evening melted into the
hay. from shore 10 shore there were ten
thousand mcmorcs, and the groves we've
album with voices that had long ago ceased
ASTIclPAT1ONs OF YOUTH
Youth IS apt too much 10 spend oil its
time IN looking forward Old age is mp, TOO
much to spend all Of its time IN looking
backward. People ia midlife and on tie
apex look both ways II would be well for
Us, think, however, to spend more time
in "reminiscences By the constitution Of our
nature we spcud most Of the time looking
forward. And the vast majority OF the pe0-
pie live not - much In the pr,sent as inthe
future find that you mean to makg a rep
utation, you mean to establish yourself, and
the advantages that you expect 10 achieve
absorb great deal Of your time Bnt sec
no harm In this II It does not make you dis
contenJed w!;h the present or disqualify
you for existing duties.
II is useful thing sometimes TO look
back aud 70 see the dangers we have -
capped, and 70 see the sorrows we have SUI
fered and the trials and wanderlngs Of our
earthly pilgrimage, ana 10 sum up our en-
joymcnts. mean today, so far us God
may help me, to stir up your memory OF
the past. so that Ia the review you may be
encouraged and BUNDLED and urged to pray.
There is Il chapel in Florence with fires
co by Guido. II was covered up with two
inches Of stuccO until our American and
European artists went there aud after long
toll removed the covering and rctraccd the
/ fresco And ! am aware that the memory
! Of the past with many Of you is covered up
/ with ten Thousand deliberations. and pro-
! pose this morning, 50 far ns the Lord may
{ help me, to take away the covering that
| the old picture may shine out again.
/ want to bind in one sheaf all your past
/ advantages, and want to bind In another
sheaf all your past nd ersitles II ia a
/ precious harvest ard must be cautious
how swing the fcythc.
HONE INFLUENCES.
] Among the create est s.dvnutAges Of your
past life was Rn early home aud it's sur
roundings The bad men Of the day, for
the most part. dip their heated passions
out OF the boiling spring Of an unhappy
home. We nru not surprised that Byron's
heart was - concentration Of sin when we
hear his mother was abandoned, ind TINT
she made sport Of his inlrnity and often
called him 1.-THE lame brat" He who has
vicious parents has 10 fight every inch Of
his way " he would maintain his integrity
and At last reach the home OF the good In
heaven
Perhaps your early homo was In the cit y.
II may have been In the days when Canal
street, New York, was far up town That
old house In the city may have been demol
ishod or changed into stores, and it seemed
like sacrilcgc to you, for there was NOR,
mcahiug In that pluin house, In that small
house, than there is In u granite mansion
or turreted cathedral. Looking back thi
morning, you see it MS though Il were yes
tcrday-thc sitting room, where the love-
ones sat By the plain lnmplight, themothe
at the evening stand, the brothers and sis
ters-perhnps long ago gathered into thu
skies-thcn plotting mischief on the floo
or under the table. your father, with firm
voice. commanding silence that lasted hal
amiputA
o.. t.t,e were good days II you ha,
yottr hurt, your mother always hnd
soothing salve to heal IT, II You wer
wronged In the street, your father was al
ways ready to protect you. The year wa
one round Of frolic urd inirth. Your great
est trouble WAS an april shower. more sun
shine than shower. The heart had not bytl
ransackod by troubles, nor had sickpes
broken In, aud no lamb Ind wnrme
shrcpfold than the home in which yoo
childhood nestlcd
Perhaps You We're brought upin the cour
try, You stand now today In memory vi
der the old tree You dubbed II for frui
not wait any longer You hear the broo
rumbling alouR tho pebbles. You ste
again into the furrow where your father /
his shirt sleeves shouted to the lnsy oxpI
You brighten the swallows from the mftci
OF the barn and take just one egg and q
leRce your conscience by saying they wi
not miss IT, You take n drink ugain out ,
, the very bucket that the old well fetche
/ up. You 10 for the cows Mt night and fin
them wagging their heads through I'll
bars Outlines in the dusty and bus
streets you wish you were home again o
!. that cool grass, or in the hall Of the farm
: house, through which there was the breut
Of new nown hay or the blossom OF bucl
, wheat
You may have In your windows no.
beautiful plants and flowers brought frol
across the seils, but not one Of them stli
IN your soul no much charm and memor
as the old ivy and the yellow sunaower thu
stood sentinel along the garden walk IN
the forgetmcnots playing hide, and see
mid the long grass, The father who us,
TO come in sunburned from the fields All
sit down on the doorsill and wipe the swei
from hla brow may have gone 10 his eve
!, lasting rest The mother who used 10 :
at the door little bent over, cap and spe
tacles on her face, melluwing with the '
ciSsitudea OF many years, may have pl
down her gray bend on the inflow In ii