Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-05


o. kindness she gets the little one through
the ordeal. After q IL all over the mother
Is taken down. Brain or nervous fever scts
IN, and one day she leaves the ccnvalescont
child with mothers blessing and goes up
10 Join the three In the Kingdom Of heaven
Life for life. Substitution
The fact is that there are an unconnted
| number OF mothers who, after they have
novigatcd a large family Of children
through oil the diseases OF infancy and got
them fairly started up the Towering slope
! otboyhood and girlhood have only strength
enough left to die, They fade away. Some
call II consumption, some call It nervous
prostration, some call It Intermittent or
malarial disposition, nut call it martyr
dom of the domestic oircle. Life for life.
Blood for blood. Substitution
a MoruEn's SACRIFICE.
Or perhaps the mother fingers long
enough TO see a son get on the wrong road,
aud his former kindness becomes rough re-
ply when she expresses anxiety about him.
But she goes right on. looking carefully
after his apparel, remembering his every
birthday with some memeuto and when
he Is brought home worn out with dissipa-
tlon nurses him till he gets well and starts
him again and hopes and expects aud prays
and counsels and suffers until her strength
gives out and she falls She Is going, and
attendants, bending over her pillow, ask her
" she has any message to leave, and she
makes great effort to say something, but
ont of three or four minutes OF indistinct
uttennce they can catch but three words
My poor boyr' The simple fact is she died
for him Life for lifc. Substitution
About 30 years ago there went forth from
our homes hundreds Of thousands OF men
20 do battle for their country. All the poe
try Of war soon vanished and left them
nothing but the terrible prose. They waded
knee deep In mud They slept in snow
banks. They marched till their cut feet
tracked the earth. They were swindled ont
of their honest ratlons aud lived on meat
not III for a dog. They had jaws all frac.
tured, and eyes extinguishod, and limbs
shot away. Thousands Of them cried for
water as they lay dying on the field the
night after the battle and got Il not. They
were homesick aud received no message
from their loved ones. They died in barns,
in bushes, in ditches the buEzards Of tho
summer heat the only attendants on their
obsequies.
No one but the infinite God, who knows
everything knows the ten thousandth part
Of the length and breadth and depth and
height Of anguish Of the northern and
southern battlcfclds Why did these n
Tiers leave their Children and 90 to the
front, and why did these young men, post
pnning the marriage day, start ont into the
probabilities Of never coming backf For tho
country they died. Life for life. Blood for
blood. Substitution
But we need not 80 so far What is that
monument in Greenwood It Is TO the doc
tors who fell IN the southern epidemics
, Why goi Were there not enough sick &c
be attended in these northern latitudesi
, Oh, yes, but the doctor puts a few medical
, books Ia his Valse and some walls of medi
i cine, and leaves his patients here In thu
/ hands Of other physicians, and takes the
a rail train. Before he gets 10 the infected
= regions he passes crowded rail trains, regu
/, lar and extra, taking the flying and AZ
= frighted populations lie arrives In a city
i over which great horror Is breeding II,
: goes from couch 10 couch, feeling Of pulls
I, and studying Of symptoms, and prescribing
day after day, night after night, until Eel
low physician says; Doctor, you Ind bette
y 20 home aud rest. Hou look miserable"
- But he cannot rest while SO many are Huf
" iering. On and ON until some morninl
:. finds him In delirium, In which he talk
At Of home and then rises and says be must g
Is and look after those patients Hois told u
! It's NNMnt pNA ht u hsANN MN hAANAhhhNa AAAthi
y he falls back and is weaker aud wonke
10 aud dies for people with whom he had IA
liuship, and araway from his own family
-, and is hastily put away In stranger
al tomb, and Gully the fifth part Of a newi
~ paper line tells MS Of bis sacrinco-his nam
"a, lust mentioned among five, Yet he ha
~ touched the furthcst height Of sublimity !
nc TINT three weeks OF humanitarian seryic,
u He goes straight on as au arrow 10 tn
" bosom Of him who said, l was sick, md y
% visited me-" Life for life. Blood 70
g. blood. Substitution
~ Some of our modern thcolOgana VIII
nc want to gtys God lessons about the be-
way 10 save be world tell us they do nc
y wnnt any blood in their redemption. The
u want 10 take this horse by the bit and hui
~ him back On his hnunchos and tell thI
az rider from BoErah To 80 around some 9th,
u, way. Lock out, lest ye fall under the n!
70 inn hos Of this horse; lest ye go down NJ
10 der the sword Of this oonqueror from DO
70 rabl What meant the blood OF the pigeor
a. In the old dlspensAtion, the blood Of n
IN bullock. the blood Of the heifcr, the blCo
Us OF the lambf II meant 20 prophesy u
" cleansing blood, the pardoning blood, Il
~ healing blood Of this conqueror who CONT
ny nm from Bozrah, travelling in the grea
~ ness Of his strength
on catch a handful Of the red torrent thu
as PUSHES out from the heart Of the Lord, az
throw It over this audience, hoping thu
one drop Of It's cleansing power may con
upon your soul o Jesus, In that crimst
tide wash our soulsl We accept thy sacr
0cel Conqueror Of BozTah, have mert
upon usl We throw our garments in u
go yayl We fall into linel Ride on. Jesu
IL ride onl Travelling, travelling Is the grea
nu ness Of thy strength"
iat But after awhile the returning conquer
re, will reach the gate, and all the armies
lru tho saved will 10 with him. hope you wi
On be there and ] win be there. As We
rV' through the gate and around about u
iey throne for the review, "a great mnltitu'
lhe that no man can number'-all heaven O.
MIA tell without asking right away which Of
IA Jesus. not only becauseof the hrightne
Fly al his face, but because, while all the 9th
I'M inhabitants in glory ure robed in white
nat saints In Whit, oherubim IN white 'beraphl
usl IN wbite-his robes shall be scarlet. eyl
Der The dyed garments Of Bozrah. catch
I'M glimpse Of that triumphant joy, but &
as; oate opens and shuts 80 quickly can he
.all only half a sentence, and It Is this; Un
and Mn who hath washed US in his bloodi'