Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-11
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ENCOURAGING THOUGHTS.
But my subject shall no longer be defen-
siye-it must be aggressive. must show
YOU that instead Of Christianity falling
back II IA on the march and that the com
ing religion OF the world is to be the religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ 1000 times inten-
sifed. 1t Is to take possession OF every
! thing---of all laws, all manners, all Gus
toms, all cities, all nations. II Is going TO
be so mighty as compared with what IL has
been.-so much more mighty-that 1t will
seem almost like a new religion.
| adopt this theory because Christianity
has gone ON straight ahead notwithstand'
ing all the bombardment, and inndelity
has not destroyed church or crippled
minister or rooted out one verse OF the 81
bic. and now their ammunition seemsto be
pretty much exhausted They cannot get
anything new against Christianity, and IL
Christianity has gone on under the bonn
bardment Of centuries and still continues
to advance may VIC not conclude that, as
the powder and shot Of the other side seem
TO DO exhausted, Christianity is going on
with more rapid stridei
find an encouraging fact In the thought
that the secular press in this day and the
pulpit seem harnessed Ia the same teamfo
tho proclamation Of the gospel. Tomorrow
there will not be banker on Wall street OF
State street or Third street who will not
have in his pocket or on his table treatises
on Christianity. calls to repentance and
Scripture passages, 90 or 90 OF them, in the
reports Of the Christian churches OF this
city and other cities. Why, that thing
would have been impossible few years
ago. Now, on Monday morning and Mon
day evening. the secular press spreads
abroad more religious truth than all the
tract societies OF the country spread in the
other six days. Blessed he the tract socie.
tiesl We hail them, aud we hail these
others.
| say II would have been impossible a
few years ago. Hundreds Of letters would
have come to the secular newspaper offices;
stop my paper We have religion on Sun.
day. Don't give US any through the week.
Stop my paper" But have been told that
many Of the secular newspapers have their
largest circulation on Monday morning,
and the whole population OF this country
are becoming sermon readers. Besides
that, have on not noticed that papers pro.
claiming themselves secular almtkt every
week have religious discussion in themf
Go back few years, when there was not
decent paper In the United States that
had not discussion on the doctrine OF
eternal punishment. Small wits made
merry, know, but there was not IN intel
ligcnt man In the United States that as a
result Of controversy in regard TO eternal
punishment did not ask himself the ques.
tlon, what rs to be my eternal destiny"
And so some years ago, when Typdall
offered bis prayer gauge, there was not a
secular paper in the United States that did
not discuss the question: Does God ever
answer prayer May the creature impress
the Crcator"
Are not all these facts encouraging to ey.
cry Christian aud every phianthropstg BE.
sides that the rising generation are being
saturated with gospel truth as no other
generation by this international series OF
Sunday school lessons. Formerly the chill.
dren were expected only TO nibble at the
little iniantile Scripture stories but now
they are taken from Genesis to Revelation,
the strongest minds Of the country explain.
ing the lessons to the teachers, and the
teachers explaining them to the classes,
and we are going to have in this country
100000 youth forestalled for Christianity.
Hear III Hear III
Besides that, you must have noticed il
you have talked on these great themes that
they are finding out that while science Is
EEtHh ~ AtGulAI ulTtGkloIls, worldly pnl@
losophy grand In secular directions, they
cannot give any comfort to soul in trou-
bic.
Talking with men on steamboats, and In
rail cars, find they are coming back to the
comfort OF the gospel. They say, Some
how human science doesn't comfort me
when | have any trouble, and | must try
something else" And they are trying tho
gospel
Take your scientific consolation TO that
mother who has Just loss her child. Apply
the doctrine OF the Survival OF the Fit
est" tell her that her child died because
It's life was not worth as much as the lifeof
one that lived. Try that, II you dare. Go
to thnt dying man with your transcendent-
al phrascology and tell him no ought TO
have confidence In the great ITO be- aud
the everlasting now" and the eternal
what Is ny and go on with your consola.
tion and see u he is comforted.
Go to that woman who hRa lost her hus.
baud and tell her IL was a geological neces.
slty that that man passed out Of existence
Just as the megatherlum disappears in OF,
der to make room for higher style OF ere.
alton, and go on with your consolation and
ten her that there Is possibility that 10,
OOOOOO years from now we ourselves may bt
NhfANlaa'NA alNhAAAthe vi lut EtOlNklChl
shelf, petrided specimens OF the extinct hui.
man racel
And after you have got all through with
your consolation. II the poor afflicted soul
Is not utterly Graz i, will send out ths
plainest Christian from my church, and
with one half hour Of prayer and the read
ing OF Scripture promises the tears will be
stHid, and the consolation ard the 10y Il
that house will be like che cannes OF ur
Indian summer sunset There will be {
glory nooding the house from floor TO cupo
Ia. oh, people are finding out themselvci
and they ak have troubles--they find that
philosophy and science do not help then
when there Is n dead babe IN the house
They are coming back to our glorious ole
fashioned sympathetic religion
RMANuEl's BANNERS.
Oh, young man, do not be ashamed TO b,
found on thu SIDE OF the Bible, Donot ioif
those young men who In this day put thcl
thumbs In their vest and swaguer aboul
the streets and the stores, talking about th,
glorious nineteenth century, about its ligh
being ,ufiicient without any Bible, ant
without any Christ, aud without any God
The time is coming we may not live Ia sc,
1t, be; should not be surprised II we dlt
see tt-when this whole country is TO b
one great church, the forests the aisles. III,