Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-30

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TINS world "a oil It's brightness, and, consld.
eriny myself competent in judging what Ia
good cheer ] tell the multitudos al ,ot,,,
men in this house this morning thai tbers
is nothing in worldly association az s.-,rS
and 30 beautiful and 40 exbilarant M \.
Christian society.
know there is great deal Of tall sbo.,,
the self denlals OF the Christian bor.
10 tell You that where the Cbristis,, 49,
ono self deninl the man OF the world ~ Z !
thousand scif dcnials. Tho Christian 49,
commanded 20 surrender ANYTHING tbot n
worth keeping But what does r5op ,leoy
himself who denies himself the tplitrion ~
Christ. He denies himself par,ion for ain.
he denies himself peace of consoiencs. be
denies himself the JOY Of the Holy Cbosf.
he denies himself comfortable death al
low; hcdenies himself the glories of heaven
DO not talk TO me about the self DENNIS al
the Christian lifal where there ia one IA
the Christian life there are a thousand in
the life OF the world Her ways are ways
OF pleasantncss"
Again. / find great deal of rcHpious
sunshine IN Christian ana divine eypiana.
tion. 10 great many people life is an fla.
eXphcable tanglc. Things turn out dif
ieientiy ftom what was supposed There
Is useless woman In perfect health There
IS an industrious and cousecrated woman a
complete invalid. Explain that. There il
bad man with s30O0O Of income. There
Ia good man with (S00 VI income. WHY
Is thati There IL foe OF society who lives
on, doing oil che damage he can, to seventy
five years OF Bge and here Ia a Christian
fnther, faithful IN every department OF life,
at thirty-fye years OF age taken away by
death, his family left hclpess Explain
that. On, there IS no sentence that oftener
drops from your lips than this. If cannot
understand It, ! cannot understand It,"
II Is BETTER THAN EARTHLY FRIENDSHIP.
Well, no~, religion comes Ia lust Mt Tint
point with It's illumination and its explnra.
ton. There Is business men who has lost
his entire fortune Tho week before he loss
his fortune there were twenty carriages chat
stopped at the door OF lila mansion; tho
week after DO lost his fortune al tho cur
riagcs you could count on one finger lne
week before financial trouble began people
all took OH thcir hats to him as ho passed
down the street. Tho week his financial
prospects were under discussion pee %
just touched their hats without nnyv so
bending the rim. The week that be az
pronounced iHsOlyCnt people just iol 81
their heads ca they passed, not tipping
their hats mt all, aud the week the sheriff
sold him out all his friends were looking
In the store windows as they went down
past him.
Now while the world goes away from a
mun when hois In financial distress the
religion Of Christ comes to him aud says:
"Iou are sick, aud your sickness Is ~ DO
moral purihcation Nouare bereavcd God
wanted in some way TO take your family 90
heaven, and he must begin somewhere, and
so he took the one that was most beautiful
and was most ready TO 60" do not say
that religion explains everything In this
lie, but do say 81 lays down certain priu.
ciplcs which are Rnndly consolatory.
Nou know busiuesH men often telegraph
in ciphcrs, The merchant IN san Fmu-
cisco tolcgraphs TO the merchant IN New
York certain information IN Ciphers which
no Other man I'm chat line Of business can
understand, but the merchant I'm San Fran.
cisco has the key 20 tho cipher, and the
merchant ia New Yorl, has the key TO the
cipher, and on that information transmit
ted there are enterprises Involving hun
drcds OF thousands OF dollars
Now the providenues OF life sometimes
seem to be "a sOnseless rigmarole, "a mysteri
Gus cipher, but God has key 70 that cl
! pher, and tho Christian key 60 that ii
| pher, and though he m0y hardly be able &c
! spell ont the meaning he gets enough Vi
| the meaning to understand that IL IL fol
| the best. Now Is there not sunshine IN
| that Us there not pleasure Ia hat' baI
| beyond laughter, it IS nearer the fountain
| OK tears thnn boisterous demonstration
Have you mover cried Tor ioy' There ore
! tears which are eternal rapture In distilla
| ton.
no REAL LIFE WITHOUT RELIGION
There are hundreds OF people IN this
house who are walking day by day in the
sublime satisfaction that all IS Tor the beet
all things working together for good fol
their soul How man con got Glopl
through this life without the explanation
IS to me a mystery. What, is thai chilt
gone foreveri Aroyou neyCrto got 10 back
Is your property gone forever Is YOU
soul to DO bruisrd aud 30 DO tried forever
Have you NO explanation, no Christian OK
PLANTATION, and yet not amauinc' But wheI
you have the religion OF Jesus Christ n
your soul il explains everything 10 far as j
is best for you to understand. You lool
or in life, and your soul Is full OF thanks
giving to God that You are so much bette
oil than you might be
A man passed down the street without
INV shoes end said: ~ have no shoes
Isn't Il q hardship Tint ] have no shoe
Other people have shoes. No shoes, ''
shoes" until lac saw a man with no feet
Then he learned lesson. You ought u
thank God for what he does, instead o
aumbling for what be does not God ar
ranges an the weather In this world-th'
spiritual weather the moral weather. a.
well as the natural weather. what bin'
Of weather will IL be today said some ON
to farmer The farmer replied, 10 VA
be such weather as / like What do yol
mean by thatY' uslcd the other Well
said the farmer, ut will be such weather a
pleases the Lord, and what pieases Tn
Lord pleases me-
Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine Of Chris
tian explanation Hero Is some one bend
ing over the grave Of the dead. What
poing 20 be the coLsolationl The dover
YOU strsw upon the tomb Oh, no w
services read ot tho graye' Oh, no IN
chief consolation on that grave is VIVA
falls from the throne Of God. sunshine
glorious sunohiue. Resurrection sunshine
OUR JOY HERE nut FoRETAsrE
AGAIN. find great deal OF the sunshin
OF this Biblo and OF our religion in the cl
macteric Joys chat are 20 come, a man WI
gets up and goes out from concert ugi
aftor the opening voluntary has been plhye
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