Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-04
FORT WORTH CHURCHES.
REV. j. MORGAN WELLS SER
MON LAST NIGHT


The Rev 7 Morgan Wells preached ut
the First Baptist church last night He
text was from chapter 6. verse Il o;
jercminh;
And their houses shall be turned unto
others with their fields aud wiyc3 to.
gethcr; for | will stretch ont my hand
upon the inhabitants of Che land, saith
the Lord
What ia ours, said Mr.. Wells, ought to
be ui our disposal II we have
honestly got money, It ought to
hc our privilege 10 dispose of 1t
os We elect; but Il rs not ia our power
To dispose Of 10; it Is not our priyilogci
we unupt do IL, II Is simply che state.
mont ut u cold fact a very cold, uncJm'
fur'ublr fact
This morning ! was reading the Ga,
avitg and came across Hide head line
reading. His Hour Of Doom" The mr.
ilclr read that % man would Doe electro
cuted at Sing Sing tomorrow ut IT
o'clock THE ~ Ibis hour ot DOOM when
hlH Possessions must he turned iuiu Other
hands II was d sad Thought tn me,
suppose the unr should come when some
one Who has Tile power shall say To you
and me, "NOur hour Of doom hug come,
O NV ANNA va NNNNNN ~ lANtlA UNIV w NlAAhN
sou VIII separate yourselves from what
YOU have, your home, tpmily, church aud
friends will he separated from YOU: ID g.
the hour when that which YOU pls.cat
will be- turned into other hands. We are
all coming 10 that hour sooner ur later
10 YOU know the siddcst word In the
English Language Is "fQrewolY When
say farewell | mean fare You wcll
l hope everything will 10 well with YOU
Yet 10 IL one Of The suhlImcst curses That
can be uttcrrl, because % Is death &c
friendship, 10 Joy and peace Why when
| say farewell TO yuu aud 90 TO some
other place h is death In our associations
u Is death 20 our conversations AMI ON
conversations with God; n N death Ia the
peace and prosperity That comes from
our cooperation. 80 farewell " which
Is intended TO give blessing, becomes a
curse, Imagine the hardest struggle
the prodrnl son had was the night be.
fore he wns TO leave, when he went oul
To that littlc rOUm and locked &c the
pictures for the las, time lilo had often
wondered why his mother had put them
there, but yot that night he saw beauty
IN them, simply because he had 10 say
farewell, When you come 10 saw
farewell 10 your friends you see only
thc beauty uf their characters; the crrore
and faults are all hidden.
Yet this text t'lls us the time will
come when your houses shall ho turned
into uthor hands and YOU must say fare
WELL Whom that day COMICS Il means
that you are going 60 mingle with strnug-
rrs When you give IN your possessions
here aud The day Of doom comes Won arc
gong ont into place Among strangers.
Now, " thore Is anything | 10 not like
60 do 10 is to minele with strangers. l
love strlngers, hui | DO not want 10 he
where every body " strauwt, and have
no companion. Why, sometimes 1 70 10
New York and walk about two or three
days and won't see a soul that l know.
won't to New York once, and after going
thrive days without meeting anyone that
| know, I met a litHr boy that hnd
known The thoughts That his presence
brought TO nv SO Oiled ine with loy that
/ grabbed Tim up IN my arms.
Now, when you go QUE OF this world
Ven arr gping amoug utter strangers, and
not only That nut you are going into a
stmuEe land; You look about You and
| you say; Did 1 ever see thlsf Did |
ever see that} No; il "a strange land.
| and | do not know anyb0dy.n II Il N
| chilling Lh0ught You como to a cify an
a beautiful sabbath morning. The snircs
are reyerherniihg with their nslhdions
chimes, bui when You look around and
SEQ SHAT everybody Is stranger Won Nv
u would rather be at homo and bcSr ~
old car heN ringing"
/ What aro yon going to DO ab,nt M
| IL Is n condition which we cannot holm,
We have rot TO stop over the lne. What
are You going to do ahont ity / ho,l yon.
/ it Is time to consider it, II Christianitr
/ y not lie Can We set about 40 eon6.
teraet the inilncncef ! say we mugt rivc
np what we have Whist are We roinr
| 20 dof Gnu W. counteract the inAnence
Can we prevent ~ An echo answer.
what Il the next besty | ask history
| 'hislory, tell INC what I am ,.Dipr IA
\ do when ! 50 out into doom, and what /.
thc hessi thing for meY History. you have
been down the path Of ayes. an me wlisl
History 4 az sileNf as n rr,,e
70 TO philosophy. "phiioso,hv Va,
~ uron high hills, yon 1T your Ughi
a'ane over ny valleys cSd streams