Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-12

h,,,,,- 80 "iiihoHed u has a trreat dn,i
thrashers. mius"fd corn
you say, II | could ohoosa "a,
troubles; would be willing 10 h t,o,i,s ,' !,
A. my brother tatn il wopld No, n,,.''.
pic. You would choose snne1h;n, ~, ~.
WOULD not hurt, and unless h bnrts I, ~ ~
noe get sanctiiied Yourtripi nsrhs,,' -
DC ehildlessness You arr fond ~ ehtii .''S
,ou say, Why does God soma cb;ld,,s., ~ :.
that other household whe,e thsv s,,, ~, "
welcome and are beaten and hans.ed -
wheh would have taken them IN ~
OF my aifeclionsy You sav. aAny r r'.an
sli"i u9e THIS" Your trial perhans NAV
ulshgured countenanee or a 49,
.nht Is easily caricatuned. and Won ~.
On, could endure anything If only ~ ,'
good looking" And your trial nerj,ars u
violent temper, aud you have To drire 4,
lke SIX unbrolSen horses amid the ,,,,'
powder explosions Of a great holiday an
ever and anon 1t runs away with Won van.
trial Is the asthma You saw NOh h 4,
Were rheumatism or neuralgia or sr,..;,,
elias but 1t is this asthma. and Il IA
an exhausting thing to breathe - w..
sio vi ~ husband, short, sharp, snappy
anu cross about the house and raising a
sil1i, rloO because button is Oft How
could you know the button is OF,
Your trial is wife ever in contes, with
the servants, and she Is sloven. Though
sue was very careful about her appearance
IN your presence once, now she Is careless
because she said her fortune is madel Your
trial is a hard school lesson YOU cannot
learn and you have bitten your finger nnils
until they Were sight to behold. Every.
body has some yexation or ANNOYANCE or
trial, and he or she thinks 1t is the one least
adapted. Anything but this.p ali saw.
Anything but this
FAULT FINDERS REBuKRp.
Oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed N
be complaining all this time anninst Cod,
Who manages the affairs of this world any.
howl Is Il an infinite Modoc, or a sitting
Bull savage, or an omnipotent Mann SahibS
No; it is themost merciful and glorious and
wise Being in all the universe. You can.
not teach Omnlpotence anything. You
have fretted and worried almost enou,,h
Doyou not think sol Some of you aremak
ing yourselves ridiculous in the sight of the
angels.
Here is naval architect, and he draws
out the plan of a ship of muny thousand
tons, Many workmen are engaged on il
for long while. The ship is done, and
some day with the flags up and the air gor.
geous with bunting that vessel is launched
for southampton. At that time "a lad O
years OF uge comes running down the dock
with toy boat which he had made with
his own iackkniie, and he says: Here. nv
boat is better than yours. Just look at this
nd
braces And he drops his little boat be.
side the great ship, and there is roar Of
laughter on the docks
All, my friends, that great ship is your
life as God planned it-vast, million ton.
ned, ocean destined eternity bound That
little bout is your life as you are trying TO
hew 1t out and fashion 1t and launch H.
All, do not try to no rival Of the great
Jehovah God is always right, and In nine
cases out of ten you are wrong, He sends
Just the hardships just the bankruptcies,
just the cross, that IL is best for you to have
He knows what kind Of grain you are, and
be sends the right kind Of thrashing ma
chine 1t will be n rod or a staff or iron
wheel Just according as you are ftches or
cummin or corn.
Again, my subject teaches us that God
keeps trial on us until we let 60. The
farmer shouts "whoaln TO his horses NJ soon
ns the grain has dropped from the stalk.
The farmer comes with his fork and losses
up the straw, and he secs that the straw
has let go the grain and the grain is thor
oughly thrashed So God Smiling rod
and turning wheel both cease as soon as
we let 70. We hold on to this world with
It's pleasures and riches and emoluments,
and our knuckles are 40 firmly set that il
seems as Il we could hold on forever God
comes along with some thrashing trouble
and beats us loose. We started under tho
delusion that this was a great world.
We learned out Of our geography that IL
was so many thousand miles In diameter
and so many thousand miles IN circumfer-
ence, and we said, "Oh, my, what a worldp
Troubles came in after life and this trouble
sliced off Que part of the world and that
trouble sliced of another part OF the world,
and IL has got to be smaller world and in
some Of your estimatlons very insignifi.
cant world, and II Is depreciating all the
time us a spiritual property. Ten per cent
off, 80 per cent oil, and there are those here
who would not give 10 cents for this world
for the entire world-as a soul possession.
FRIENDSHIP.
We thought that that friendship was
grand thing. In school we used TO write
compositions about friendship. and perhaps
we made our graduating speech on com
mencement day on friendship. oh, 1t was
a charmed thing, but does IL mean us much
10 Won as il used TOY You have gone on in
life. and one friend has betrayed you and
another friend has misinterpreted you, aud
another friend has neglected YOU and friend
ship comes now sometimes to mean to you
merely another AK to grind.
So with money. We thought II a man
had n competency he was safe for all the
future but we have learned that a mort
gage may be defeated by an un..nown pre-
yIous incumbrance. that signing yourname
ON the back OF o note may be your business
death warrant that new tariff may
chnnpe the current OF trade; that a man
may be rich today and poor tomorrow. Aud
cod by all these misfort unes, is trying %
loosen our grip, but still we hold on. God
snites us with a staff, but we hold on. Ana
he strikes us with rod. but We hold on.
And he sends over us the iron wheel OF mis-
fortune, but we hold on,
There are men who keep their grip on
this world until the last moment who sng-
aest 10 me the condition and conduct OF the
moor Indian in the boat in the Niagara rap
la coming on toward the fall. Seeing that
he conid not escape, moment or two before
he got 10 the verge Of the plunge he lifted a
wine bottle aud drank IL of and then tossed 'i
the bottle into the air so there are men
who clutch the world, and they 90 down
through the rapids OF temptation and SUI
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