Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-11

49,. -, - ~" IVA upon your goods, look
upon your profession, you look upon your
memorandum books and you 500 the de-
inhnus that are inndc this very week upon
your uinc and your patience and your
u.oney, ana while l am cntreating Won
apout your soul and the danger Of procras.
.ina'ion you say' GO thy way for this
Vine When have convenient season,
"ii cal Tor thee. T" o Felix, why DO
pothered about the affairs OF this world "a
much more than about tho affairs OF etcr.
hity' Do You not know that whan death
eomes you will have to stop business,
though II DO in tho most exactina period
OF it--petwocn the payment OF the money
and The taking OF the receipt The mo-
mcnt he comes you viii have to 10. Death
waits for no man, however high, however
low. VIII you put your Office, will You
put your shop In comparison with the AZ
iairs OF an eternal world, affairs that in
volye thrones, palaces, dominions otcrnali
Miii YOU put 200 acres OF ground against
immensityi WIN you put 40or 80 years of
your LIFE against millions Of ngesf
o Felix, you might better postpone cy.
srything elscl For do you not know that
the uphnlstering Of Tyrian purple in your
palace will fade, and the marble blocks Of
Cesarea will crumblc, and tho breakwater
at the beach, made of ereat blocks OF
stone GO fecs long, must give way before
the perpetual wash Of the sea, but the no
demption that Paul offers you will 30 for.
evcrs And yet and yet and vet you wave
him hnck to tho guardroom, saying; 60
thy way for this time Whom have con-
vonient season, will call for thee. /"
Honors of tho World.
Again, Felix adjourned this subject Of
religion and put on paul's argument bo-
cause he could not, give up the honors Of
tho world. lie was afraid somehow he
would be compromised himself in this
matter. Remarks no made afterward
showed him to be Intensely ambitious. oh,
how he Rugged the favor of menl
mover saw The hunors Of this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy so much IA
In the life and death OF that wonderful
man, Charles sumner, AS he went toward
the place of burial even Independence
hall Ia Philadelphia asked that his re-
mains stop theu on their way to Boston.
The flags were at half mast and the min
utn guns on Boston common throbbcd aft
err his heart had ceased to beat. Was it
always sol While he lived, how censurcd
Of legislative resolutions, how carlcatured
Of the pictorlals; how charged with every
motive mean and ridiculous; how all tho
urns of scorn and hatred and billingsgate
emptied upon his head; how when struck
down in senate chamber, there were hun
drcds Of thousands OF people who said,
"Good for him; serves him right how he
had put the ocean between him and his
mallgnors that he might have little
peace, and how, when he went off sick,
they said he was broken hearted because
he could not get to be president or secre-
tary Of state,
o commonwealth of Massachusetts, who
Is that man that sleeps in your public hall
covered with garlands and wrapped in the
stars and stripesY Is that the man who
only few months before, you denounced
as the foe Of republican and democratic
Institutions Is that the same mani Ye
American people, ye could not, by one
week Of funeral oulogium and newspaper
leaders, which the dOad senator could
neither read nor hear, atone for go years
of maltrcatinent and caricatufe, When l
SEQ man like that, pursued by all the
hounds Of the political kennel so long as
he lives and then buried under great
pile of garlnnds and amid tho lamenta'
tons of whole nation l say to myself;
What nm unutterably hypocritical thing Is
oil human applause and all human favor
You took go years in trying to pull down
his fame and then take 20 years In trying
to build his monument.
My friends, was thcre ever better com
mentAry on the hOllowncss OF all earthly
fayori II thore are young men who read
this who are postpuning religion In order
that they may have tho fayors OF this
world, let me persuade them of their com
plete folly. II you are looking forward 70
gubernatorial, senatorial or presidential
chair, let me show you your great mistake.
Can it be that there is now any young
man saying: let me have political Office,
let mo have somo Of the high positions Of
trust and power, and then will attend te
religion, but not now. Go thy way for
this time. Whom have n convenient sea
son, Will call for iheel'
A Dangerous Delay.
And now my subject takes deeper tone
and It shows what dangerous thing il
this defcrring OF religion. When Paul's
chain ratified down tho marble stairs Of
Felix, that was Felix's last chance for
heaven Judging from his character after
ward, he was repr0bate and abandoned
And so was Drusilla.
ono day In southern Italy there was a
trembling OF the earth, and Tire air got
black xith smoke intershot with liquid
rocks. and Vesuvius rained upon Drlsilin
and upon her son horrible tempest OF
ashes and Are. They did not reject rcli.
gion; they only put It or. They did not
understand thnt that day, that that hour
whom Paul stood before them, was the
pivotal hour upon which everything was
poised. and that it tipped tho wrong way.
| Their convenient season came when Paul
and his guardsman entered the pnlaoe--ii
went away when Paul and his guardsinan
left Have you never seen men waiting
for n convenient season. There ia such q
great fascination abou. It that, though you
may have great respect TO the truth Of
| Christ. yot somehow there Is In your SOU
tho thought: Not quito yot. II Is not time
| Tor mo 10 become Christian" say TO 2
boy .'seck Christi He says, NO war;
until get to be young man" say 70
the young man, Seek Christ" Ho says,
await until / come to Inidlife." meet
Tho same person in inIdlife, aud say, stsek
Christ" lie says, Walt until l get Old
/ meet the sumo person in old age and say
10 him. seek Christi He says, Wat
until / am on my dying bed" an called
10 his dylug couch. His last moment, haS.
/ come. / bend over the couch ann nsten