Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-20

creature that lasts season aud leave
without homo q soul that takes bold on cen
turtles and cUnaf
Hugh Miller found "the footprints Of the
Creator in the old red sandstone and
herr the harnicnies ~ God in the tinkle 81
The scashells whom the tides come IN. The
eame Christ who drew lesson o. pr0vidcn
tial care from the fact that God clothes with
gnss tie field indructs me TO draw the
same lesson from the shells.
qnfnuLArioy SHOULD WORK PATIENCE
In almost every mans life, however well
born and prosperous for years. and III AZ
most every woman's lie there comes a
very dark tirne-at least once a commune
ton OF circumstances will threaten bank
ruptcy aud homolessness aud starvation
Il mny De that these words viii meet the
eur or will meet the eye OF those who are
Ga such n stste OF foreboding Come, then,
and we how God gives an ivory palace to a
water animal that you could cover with
lO.cent piece and clothes in armor against
all attack a coral no bigger than snow
cake do not think that God will take
better cnre Of a biyalyo than OF one Of bic
own children.
rake TO your feet with the gospel rake
the most thorough evidences Of Gods cap
Tor bis creatures ] pile around you rfcat
mounds Of shells that they may teach you
most comforting theology. Oh, ye Of
little faith. walk among these agbors Of
coraline. and look at these bouquets OF
she'll NJ to be handed a queen on her coro.
nation day, mud bee these fallen minbows
Of color, and examine these lilies in stone,
these primrusos in stone these heliotropts
ia stone, these cowslips IN stone, these 90
raniums in stone these juponicas in stone.
Oh, ye who have your telescopes ready
looking out on clear nights trying 10 sec
whut Is transpirug Tn Mars Jupiter and
Mercury, know that within few hour
walk or ride OF whore you now are there
are whole worlds that you might explore
bat Of which You are unconscious, aud
among the most beautiful and suggestive
OF these worlds Is the Genealogical world
Take this lesson Of a providential care
How does that old hymn go'
We may, like ships, by tempest be- tossed
on rcrilous dceps, but cannot DO lost.
Though satan cnrages tho wind and the tide.
Tho promise assures us, the Lord VIII provide.
COPS HELP TO sELr HELP.
But while you get this pointed lesson Of
providtntial care from the shellcd crca
lures Of the deep, notice IN their construc.
solves This house OF stone In which they
live is not dropped on them and IL not
built Ground them. The material for it
exudes from their own bodies and Is adorned
with colored nuid from the pores OF their
own neck. Il isamost interesting thing
10 see these crustgcegu animals fashion
their own homes out OF carbonate OF lime
aud membrane
And all OF this is q mighty lesson 20
those who aru waiting for others to build
their fortunes, when they ought TO 20 10
work aud, Ike the mollusks, build their
own fortunes ont Of their own brain, out 81
their own sweat, out OF their own indus
tries Not n mollusk on all the beaches OF
all the seas would have a house OF shell "
10 had not Itself built one Do not wait FOR
others TO shelter you or prosper you. All
the crustacgcps creatures Of the earth, from
every fake OF their covering and from every
ridge oftheir tiny CASTLES on Atlantic and
Pacidc and Mediterranean coasts, sag,
Help yourself while God helps you to help
yourself"
Those people who are waiting for their
father or rich old uncle to die and leave
them a fortune are as silly as a mollusk
would be TO wait for some other mollusl, TO
drop on II n shell equipment Itwould Kill
Che molluSk, as IN most cases it destroys u
man. Not one person out Of hundred ever
was strong enough TO stand n large estate
by inheritance dropped on him In a chunk.
Have great expectations from only two per.
sous-God and yourself Let the onycha OF
my toNt become yourpreceptor
But tho more examine tho shells the
moro ! ANA impressed that God SIS u God OF
emotion Many SCOT at emotion and seem
Co think that God isG God OF cold geometry
and iron laws aud eternal apathy and On.
thruuci stOiciam. mol MOI Tho shels.
with empowering emphasis deny it.
While Law and order reign n the universe.
you have but to sec the lnviahncss OF color
ON the crustncCa, all shades OF crimson from
lalutgt blush 10 blood of battlefield, all
shades of blue, all shades OF uecu. all
shades OF all coloTs from deepest black td
whitest light, just called OUT ON the shells
with no more order than q mother Pre-.
medltates or calculates how many kisses
and hugs she shall give her babe waking
up In tho morning sunlight
Yea, my God rs m emotional God, and
he says, I'VE must have colors and lot tho
sun paint all Of them on the scroll OF thas
she'll, and We must have music aud here ~
carol for the robin, and psalm for man.
sAfNA ~ NNAAANAg lbA hiAt anu n
direction cull for the archangcl" Aye he
showed himself God OF sublime emotion
when he flung himself ON this world in tho
personality Of Christ TO save il without re.
gard 70 the tears it would take, or the blood
It would exhaust, or the ngoniea It would
crush ont.
When ! see the Louvres, and the Iuxem.
hourgs, and the Naticans Of Divine paint.
ing strown along the 5000 miles OF coast.
and hear In forest on summer morn.
! ing musical academies and HRndels soc-
etlos OF full orchestrps, soy God les q God
/ OF emotion aud II he observes mathemat.
4 les IL Is mathematics set TO music, and his
| figures are written not IN white chalk on
blhekboaIds, hut written by finger OF sun.
hight on wallis OF jasmine aud trumpet
crtopor
TIP EYEWITNESS or RELIGION
In my study OF the oonchology Of tho
/ Bible, This onycha of the textalso imprrssos
/ me with the fact that religion Is pcrfumed.
! What else could God havo meant when he
said TO Moses, Take unto thee swees
I spices, stacta and onychaW Moses took
that shell OF tho onycha put II over the
| hsv, and as 1t crumbled into ashes IL ex.
hailed an odor that hung In every curtain
and filled tho ancient tabernacle, and rs
sweet smoke escaped from the sacred pre-.
oinets aud saturated the outside af
Porhimel That s. what religion "a. But
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