Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-19
'lsF TABE RNACLE.
..ee SPEAKS OF CON-
I'm OF CHRISTIANITY.


.r June le.--Rev. DR.. Tai
..lecting theme for today's
4. Lax Brool,lyn tabernacle chose
.spsriy suitable tAt1c season Of
~ g itle being Grapes From
= .nd the text Numbers xiii. 20,
,,..y eanio unto the brook of Es-
srs, down from thence n branch
M, 4, eluster Of grapes, and they
III h..ween two upon a staff"
ia trndgo of the lsraelites across
n .1srness was almost ended. They
to the borders of the promised
M,be 800, 900 adults who started
Mrsrrt for Canaan. how many do
ii srese got there2 Five hundred
49,, oh. no. Not 100000. not
a nor 50, nor 20, nor 10, but only
Oh. It was Il ruinous march
Meoss people made, but their chill
~ living. and they We're on the
h md now that they had come up
~ hcriers OF the promised lund they
nv curious to know what kind of
sIfvas and whether it would be
nover. So n scouting party is
NJ = "a recouuuiter, and they exam
III !. lind. and they come back bring
#rrinsns Of its growth
pyou came back from Califor-
II ringing to your family u basket of
M pluhs or apples to show what
'B,,nsrs fruit they have there, so this
I, par.y cut off the biggest bunch
Hrres they could find. 1t was so
itat one man could not carry it,
An thrust a pole through the clus-
IA N there was one man vt either end
mle aud so the bunch Of grapes
r1Esported.
~ some time ago in Il luxuriant
nh. The vine dresser had done his
The vine had clambered up and
y 10 wealth all over the arbor. The
nd shower had mixed a cup which
t,A dnnk until with flushed cheek
II Numbering in the light, cluster
4 the cheek of cluster. The rinds
q grapes seemed almost bursting
TIE Juice in the warm lips of the
.rlal day. and it seemed as If all
IA to DO was to lift a chalice
hi tie cluster and its likelihood
n pegin to drip away. But, my
ID IN these rigorous climes we know
dig about large grapes.
ElOsiates that in Bible times and
ne Glands there were grapevines so
2 hat it took two men with out
sissl arms to reach round them, and
r y. there were clusters cubits in
ID CT twice the length from the ell
bihe tip of the long finger. And
a dwelling in those lands, tells
IT during the time lie was smitten
iEer one grape would Stake his
3 ior the whole day. No wonder,
4 b these Bible times two men
ityorth their while to put their
y together to carry down one
: Of grapes from the promised
TIE DIVINE IDEA.
AAls morning bring you a larger
~ iloin the heavenly Eschol-a clus-
alopes. q cluster of prospects, clus-
q Christian consultations, and | am
saas that one taste Of it will rouse
lol appetite for the heavenly Ca
During the past winter some of
coagegation have gone away never
H'un The aged hnye put down
~ STAT and taken up the scepter.
r. ~ ridhfe came home from office or
top and did not 90 back again and
n rillgo back again. And the dear
lilier, some OF them, have been gath
n y Carists arms, He found this
lna 100 rough place for them, and
= las gathered them in. And, oh,
many wounded souls there are
s1ai Tor which this world offers no
1l'Anent-and unless from the gospel
su Lord Jesus Christ there shall
"a consolation there will be no con-
won at all. Oh. that the God of all
4 ~ Y would help me while preach
nat the God Of all comfort would
sion while you heart
wv l console you with the diyinely
-.l0ued idea that your departed
NJ are as much yours now as they
aseFe know you sometimes get
I IN your mind when you have
s'aa Of trouble that your friends
" oil from you and they are no
I, Nv yVurs' but the desire TO have all
.'ea ones in the same lot in the
4. 'y i natural desire, universal
ana therefore God implanted
IAN ~ ana is mighty suggestive Of the
M "a Death has no power to break
h lamily relations.
~ lo'sd ones go away from our
, a why put fence around
N, In tho eemeteryi Why the
nag Of four or FIVE names on
!, .,ilily monument? Why the plant
. " One cypress vine so that it covers
u cluster Of graves? Why put
husband beside the wife and the
. -. at their feet? Why the bolt on
~ o. our lot, and the charge to
I pers of the ground to see that the
n eut and the vine attended to and
us plantedy Why not pat our
~ ~ friends in one common field and
~, vh, II is because they arc ours.
- snia, . stricken mothcrl is as
=, ! . this morning as in the solemn
4, xsea God put It against your
.l,. sla sad as Of old, Take this child
49,. -.'o It for me. and sill give thee
IL is no nero whinl. II Is