Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-19


oerhQlts out Of sparks. and out OF the small
wosas and deeds Of small liin De eau
MUNICH power thatwll tlasha and
thunder through the eternilios.
How do you like this pgalongation OF
your earthly life by deathless influence,
Many babe that died at months OF age
BY the anxiety created in the uarent's heart
TO meet that child in realms scramble il
llYing yet In the transformed heart and life
OF those parents and will live on forever In
the history Of thet family. II this be the
opportunity Of ordinary souls, what is Tho
opportunity Of those who have especial In.
telieotual or social or monetary equipmenta
Have you any arithmetic capable Of esti-
mating the influence OF our good and gra.
clous friend whOa few days ago went up to
rest-George w. Childs Of Philadelphia
IRON newspaper that was printed for 50
years without one word Of defamation or
scurrility or scandal and putting chief eni-
phasis ON virtue and charity and clean IN.
telligence lac rcaped a fortune for himself
and then distributed vast amount Of Il
among the poor and struggling, putting his
invalid and aged reporters on pensions, UNI
" his name stands everywhere for largo
heartedness and sympathy aud help and
highest style Of Christian gentleman.
ln an era which had in the chairs Of It's
journalism Horace Greeley, and Henry
J. Raymond, and James Gordon Bennett.
and an Erastus Brooks, aud a George VIII.
liam Curtis, and mn Irenacus Prime. mono
Of them viii be longer remembered than
George w. Childs- Staying away from tho
unveiljng OF the monument lie had reared
at lurgo expense in cur Greenwood in mem
CRY Of Professor Proctor, the astronomer,
lest should say something in praise Of tho
man who had paid for the monument by
an acknowledged Il representative of tho
Z highest American journalism.
II you would calculate his influence for
| good, you must count how many sheets Of
1 his newspapers have been published in tho
last quarter of century, and how many
people have read thcm, and the effect not
only upon those readers, but upon all whom
[ they shall influence for all time, while you
add TO all that the work OF the churches lao
I helped build, and Of the institutions Of
/ mercy be helped found Better give up
before yGu start the measuring of the phos-
/ phorescsuoe in the wake Of that ship OF the
1 Celestial line. Who Gun tell the post NOR
ten influence OF Savouarola, Il Wrinkle
reid, Gutenberg, Marlborough, Deca-
tur, Toussaiut, n Bolivar, Clnrkson, a
I Robert Baikes, a Harlan Page, who had
1876 Sabbath scholars, 81 Of whom became
! Christians and six Of them ministers Of the
gospel
With gratitude and penitence and wor-
ship mention the grandest life that was
ever lived. That ship OF light was launched
from the heavens nearly 800 years ago, an
gelic hosts chanting, and from the celestial
wharves the ship sprang into The toughest
sea that ever tossed. Its pillows were made
up OF the wrath Of men and devils, Herodiu
and sauhedrinlo prosecutions stirring the
deep with red wrath, and all the hurricanes
Of woe smote IL until on the rocks Of Col
gotha that life struck with resound OF
agony that appalled, the earth and the heay-
ems But In the wake of that life what a
phosphorcscencc Of smiles on the cheek Of
souls pardoned, and lives reformed, and ma
lions redeemed. The millennium itself Is
only one roll of that irradiuted wave OF
! gladness and benedlction. In the subimest
Of all senses it may be said Of him, He
maketh path to shine after him"
GOD IS NOT a HARSH CRITIC.
But cannot look upon that luminosity
! that follows ships without realizing how
fond the Lord is Of life That fire OF the
deep Is life, myriads of creatures all a-swim
and a.play and a.romp in parks Of marine
/ beauty laid ont and parterred and roseated
. and blossomed by omnipotence, What Is
3 the use of those creatures called by the nat
! uralists "crustaceausN and "copepods
not more than one out of hundreds OF bill
= lions Of which are ever seen by human eyel
God created them for the same reason that
= he creates flowers in places where no humnr
: foot ever makes them trenible, and no hui
! man nostril ever inbales their redoleDce
r and no human eye ever sees their charm
4 In the botanical world they prove that Coo
s loves flowers, as in the marine world thl
l phosphori prove that he loves life, aud HI
: loves life in play, life in brillianey Of glad
ness, life in oXuberance.
| Aud so am led to believe that he love
r our life II we fulhll our mission as fully a
the phosphori fulfill theirs. The Son o
I God came that We might have life, an,
5 have It more abundantly," But am glat
4 to tell you that our God is not the Coz
A sometimes described as "A harsh critic at tn
. head Of the universe, or an infinite scold
t or a God that loves funerals better thai
weddings, or God that prefers tears 1
Q laughter, an omnipotent Nero a ferociou
r Mana Sahib, but the loveliest Being in tn
5 universe, loving flowers and life and play
0 whether OF phosphori in the wake OF tn
n Majestic or OF the human race keeping
holiday
9 HELP THE ugFoRTUHATE-
But mark you tbHt the phospnorehcenc
Z has glow that the night monopolizes AM
! / ask you not only what kind Of infiuenc
: YOU are going TO leave In the world as yo
!. pass through Il, but what light are you &c
ing TO throw across the worlds night Of si
, and sorrowf People who are sailing o.
n smooth sea and at noon do not need muc
u sympathy, but what are you going 20 d
g. for people IN the night Of misfortunet vii
" you drop on them shadow, or will you kin
Z die for them phosphorescencei
n At this moment there are more peopl
d crying than laughing more people on th
] round world this moment hungry than wei
= fed; more households hereft than homes III
g broken. What are you going 70 do abon
& III well" says yonder soul II woul
n Ike TO do something toward illnmining th
II great ocean Of human wretchedness, but
n cannot do much"
r. Can you do as much as one OF the pho
Il pbori in the middle OF the Atlantic ocean
u creatures smaller than the point OF a shar
IS pinp "oh, yes, you say. Then do that
sbinel stand before the looking glass All
experiment 20 see II you cannot get thu
y seowl of your forehead, that peevish loo
er ont OF your lips Have at least one brigh
S, ribbon IN your bonnet. Embroider az leas
10 one white cord somewhere in the midnigh
If Of yonr apparel. Do not any longer impe'