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

she watched all night ana gave yoH Ihe
medicines at Just the right time and frned
the pillow when it was hot, andtwitt hand
long ago turned to dust soothcd kouU pains,
and with that voice you will, 1Rvt hear
again. unless you Join her ira TIC tbettor
country, told you never mind Nyould
be better by and hy--and by hNdying
couch where she talked 50 slowlA Hching
her breath between the words-bA those
memories / ask you 10 come andNN tho
same religion. twas good enoughNW ker'
IL Is good enough for you MAN
Ave. | make "A better plea; by the NNnpds
and the death throo Of the Son Of GoANhc
approaches you this morning with M
brow and lacorated hands mud whiTM
back. crying, Come unto me, all ye IN
are weary aud heavy laden, and l will gSvy
you rest"
THE VICE or Ill TEMPER
Other persons apologize for not entertain
ing the Christian life because Of the inoor-
rigibility Of their temper Now, we admit
Il 10 hardcr for some people to become
Christians than for others, but the grace OF
God never cnme to a mountain that 10 could
not climb or 10 an abyss that IL could not
fathom or to a bondage that IL could not
break.
The widest horse that ever trod Arabian
sands has been broken to bit and trace.
Tho maddest torrent tumbling from noun
tain shelving has been harnessed TO the
millwheel and the factory band setting a
thousand shuttlcs all a-buzz and a-clatter
and the widest, the haughticst, the most
ungovernablo man ever created, by tho
grace Of God may be subdued and sent out
ON ministry OF kindness as God sends an
August thunderstorm TO water the wild
flowers down in the grass.
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
not effect the change 1t takes q mightior
arm and miehtier hand 90 bend evil haD-
its than the hand that bent the bow of
Ulysses, and II takes a stronger lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A
man cannot 20 forth with any human
weapons and contend successfully against
these Titans armed with uptorn mountain.
But you have known men into whose spirit
tho influence Of the gospel of Christ came,
until their disposition was entirely changed.
So IL was with two merchants IN New
York They were very autagonistic They
had done all they could TO iniure each
other They were in the same line OF bust
ness. One Of the merchants was converted
to God Having been converted, he asked
the Lord To teach him how TO bear himself
toward that business antagonist, and he
was impressed with the fact that It was his
duty when a customer asked for a certain
kind Of goods which he had not, but which
he knew his opponent had to recommend
him 30 60 to that store
/ suppose thatis about the hardest thing
the man could do, but being thoroughly
converted 10 God, he resolved TO do that
very thing, and being asked for certain
kind OF goods which no had not, he said
you 20 tosuch and such store, and you
will get it, After awhile merchant No. .
found these customers coming, 30 sent, and
he found also that merchant No. had been
brought TO God, and he sought the same
religion. Now they are good friends and
good neighbors, the grace Of God entirely
changing their disposition
"Oh, says some one, II have u rough,
jagged, impetuous nature, and religion
an'tdo anything for me- Do you know
that Martin Luther and Robert Newton
and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all
consuming natures, yet the grace Of God
turned them into the mightiest usufulness2
Oh, how many who have been pugnacious
and hard 70 please, and irascible and mos
bothered about the mote in their neighbour
eye than about the beam like ship timber
In their own eye, have been entirely chang |
by the grace OF God and have found out
that "godliness is profitable for the life that
now is as well as for tho lifo which is 10
come"
THE MPETUoUs APOSTLE.
Peter, with nature as tempestuous us the
sea that he ouce tried to walk, at one look
of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich
hGrvests OK grace may grow on the tiptc,
of the Jagged steep, and hocks Of Christian
graces may ind pasturage in fields Of BRAN.
bic and rock. Though your disposition
may DE all a-bristle with fretfulneSs, though
you have temper agleam with qulcl.
lightuings, though your ayarice be like
that OF the horse loech, crying, "Givel'
though damnable impurities have wrapped
you IN all consuming Ere God can dliye
that devil out OF your soul, and over the
chaos and the darkness he can say, 81 .et
there be light
Converting grace has lifted the drunkard
from the ditch, and snatchcd the knifp
from the hand OF the assassin. and tho
false keys from the burglar, and ia the DC +
titerous lanes OF the city met the daughter
OF sin under the dim lamplight and scs
tered her sorrow and her guilt with Tho
words, THY sins are forgiven go and SIN
no more" For scarlet sin a scarlet atone.
ment,
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because of theinconsistea,
cies Of those who profess religion. There
are thousands Of poor farmers. They do
not know the nature OF soil nor the uroner
rotation Of crops Their corn IL shorto,. g.,
the stalk and smaller in the eur They
have 10 less bushels TO the acre than their
neighbors, But who declines being a farm.
er because there are so many poor farmers
Thcre are thousands OF incompetent MGR.
chants. They buy at the wrong time. They
get cheated IN the sale Of their qoods E,,erv
bale Of goods is 70 them bale Of disaster
They fail AFTER awhile and 20 out OF bust.
moss. But who declines 70 be a mercbnnt
because thore are so many ineomnetpnt
merchantsl There arc thousands OF moor
lawyers They cannot draw a Aeolarot,o,
that viii stand the test. They cannot -
cover just damagos, They cannot heln !
defendant escape nom tho iniusace IN h,o
prosecutors. They airs the worst evi5encs
agains. any case inwhich they arc retained.
Bat who declines 70 DO a lawver becanss
there are 50 many inoompetent LAWYERS,
Yet there are tons OF thonsands az neonlo
who deelne being religious because tbsrs
are 20 many unworthy Chrlstlans Nov !
say Il Is illogical Poor LAWYERS ara noth,
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