Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05
BISHOP CROOKS,
His Style as q Preacher TALKING Direct al
snunBss.

TVS oYe as Preached TALKING Direct at
Snunuss
4 few detached passages viii give the
rcudrr some idvl of thp manner of liish-
up brooke preaching The theme was
"Fuith,' and the preacher gave many
familiar pNuuploH of ihut grace, among
them % mans faith iu the institutions ~
must hr first Ia sympathy with hiA couu.
tty's iIstitutiOnH,' said ho; "uthprNlHp Do
iN merely hw cuuutN's subject and not
her Guild not a Vnl part of hiR c0uutrya
lie We are thunkW for two things
that the souls doors viii not stay shut
powerful than evils that God h strong
or than the devil 80 while the evil win
surely present ITSELF the good will also
come with efficiency.
III You know whit II " for one nature
tn lead aud lill another nature with IT,
self, then you w Ow what a the result
Of u mun's coming 20 believe In God,
whntovrr hu the process. Tho man Ia
lillpd with God. lie comes Ia live in sub
limo Independence OF his fellow men aud
local judgments. lie h lifted up 10 that
which II eternal The nature which over.
flows this ntturo by the open channels
of ita faith b. one 10 which the nature that
is ovOrilowcd essentially bclonga Have
you ever watched u rock hy the ucenni
Tho grcnt SEA comes with slow, cnlm
movement, finding channels IN the rocks
hard face, not resting until 10 has taken
possession of the rock and covered t.
Cnn we not rcpdIly say Il turned the roclf
into itsrlfy Whore the rock was there
iH the sea,
1T may be- that we hesitate nc the
immense scope ui the words Of Jesus.
An things rs AN immense phrase The
words described. us ! suppose, the uulim-
tied possibilities of the nNn who shall
upeu biz life 10 the inflow of God. IL
there are still limits 90 his capacity be.
cause hc is finite. they are 40 fur away
that thuy are NOT Ia sight and they need
not DO taken into account. w hen Il mhu
receives the divine power fully into his
life hc shull DO aud Dc Infinitely more
thnn hc DOES and W
1T !. not unhcliof that makes amy
man strong Not by the shutting out Of
anything. not by ihc)ahuttng out OF n lie,
does power come. II cannot come by
the fals0hnod with hll your power and
voice. That u your duly, But that DOS
rot make Won strong, II only makes you
ready TO be strong. Having turned
the he out Of doors, you throw those
Same dOOr8 open 10 the truth The
strength will come pouring IN. IA hnA
always heen through men o. belief not
unboliuf that power from God has pour
cd into man. II is not the discrmiuat-
ing critic, but be- whose Boating, throb-
hing life offers itself u channel for the
divine force, be IA the man through
whom the world grows rich and whom
II remembers with perpetual thankegly-
ing What ~ there % compare with
faithl ~ u not The very glory of the
life of MANI Tho great question 10
How shall men attain IN The one great
answer 10 that Is, God h always seeking
every life Man has not 30 seek God,
but 10 admit God. Remember, II Is not
merely sin resisted aud duty done, but
sin r'sistod and duty. done In the. hope,
the desire of the higher life Of God, Il
" that which makes the higher life
possibility, q certainty.
You SAY. u wnnt God How shall l
have faith in Him 40 TINT ] can receive
Him 10 my lifeT God wants you vast
ly moro than YOU want Him, but you
cannot come 70 him 80 long "a. your lust,
cfuolty fnlsehOud. friYolity lie like a
heavy stone IN the very way by which
he must come Cast ont uiat sim not
because itself II II hateful, bnt because
Il shuts ont the higher life. lhen End
duty 10 do, no II 10 wave 9 signal 70
your God that Won nre ready Tor hla
cOmlng-nay, lie has come. Tor II Is His
power IN You that makes you brst want
Him We get confused when We Try
10 set forth chrOnOloglcally the occupa-
ton Of life by God, the most natural,
the most necessary process w the unl-
verse. II Us Christ the expression. the
ntterance If God, who shows ua how nn-
turai and how necessary that process vs..
Once moro iet the picture nc the
mountnin's foot shine out before rs
tha father III his misery. the son IA his
iusaniis aud Jesus, who IL God says
~ ron want me open 20 me; and not
nng so shall have me, you have me:
NOT marliy will be yours, I
am yonfs and what II WI bo
for me to live within yon only
eternity can show" And Tho man cries
hack. i am open; ! am onen. Open me-
more. Lord lord, J believe. Help Thou
mine unhellef
ooh. open your ne To Christi Open
your life 10 God and live: for III the ocs
eunaii0n ~ the soul hy Him there, ana
there alone 4 life for man,
Natural affection manifests isslf even