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

I AL Nala L.
pluehH any trnlt from its bourl hnt t,iset,si.
uiS ~, WE We are all planting frce., tbst
VIII yield iruit hundreds Of ye,r,' T., -
Of deadly upas. 7''''-'' ''0isor groves
am SO fascinated with the phoenhnr.
escence IN the track OF a shin tb1t L..
honle'imes watched for a long while and
laNe seen nothing on the face a. IN
aeep put blaekness. The mouth ~ ,e,,er,,
snnsms tfat looked Ike gapinR laws az
men. Noe spark as big as the ireiiy; not
WAiteseroll Of surf; not a taper to iilngri.
ha's the mighty sepulchets Of dead shin
uafhness 5VuV feet deep and nom ther,
sanas o. ieet long and wide. That is lin
kiha oil wake Tint bad man leaves behind
nun Us ne plows through the ocean OF fbis
future, Va 'ue great
TATE or THE scoFFsn.
1 Now, suppose a man seated In n oo.,,.
grocery or business Office among clsrl-s
1 gives himself % Jolly skepticism III
laughs at the Bible, makes snort 81 tia
l miracles, speaks OF perditlou Ia foxes nnd
laughs at reyiyals as frolic. and at tbe
| passage Of funeral procession. which Al.
! ways solemnizes sensible people saws
Boys, let's take drink Thereisin tbat
| group young man who Is making n great
struggle against temptation, and nravs
night aud morning, and reads his Bibie
and is asking God for help day BIZ day. mt
I that guifaw against Christianity makea
him loss his grip Of sacred things, and la
I gives up Sabbath and church and morals.
! and goes from bad to worse, tin hefallsup.
der dissipations, dies in lazdr house and
is buried In the potter's field.
Another young man who heard that Jolly
skepticism made up his mind that VI
/ makes no difference what we do or aay for
| we will all come ont at last at the rirht
/ place and began as consequence to pur.
! loin. Some money that came into his hands
/ for Others heapplied to his own uses think
( ing perhaps he would makeit straight some
| other time, and all would be well even IL
he did not mako It straight lie ends in the
| penitentinry. That scoiTer who uttered tho
4 jokes against Christianity never realized
what bad work he was doing, aud be passed
on through life and out of IL and into a fu.
ture that / am not now going to depict.
| do not propose with a searohlight to
show the breakers Of the awful coast on
which that ship is wrecked, for my bust
ness now is TO watch the sea after the keel
has plowed it. No phosphorescence in the
wake OF that ship, but behind It two souls
struggling in the wave two young men de-
stroyed 10y reckless skepticism, an uniliu-
mined ocean beneath and on all sides Of
them. Blackness Of darkness.
You know what glorious good man Rev
John Newton was the most Of his life, but
before his conversion he was a very wicked
sailor, and on board the ship Harwich in
stillod iniidelity and vice in the mind Of a
young man, principles which destroyed him.
Afterward the two met, aud Newton tried
to undo his bad work, but in vain. Tho
| young man became worse and worse and
died proAigate, horrifying with his pro
families those who stood by him in his last
moments.
Better look ont what bad influence you
start, for you may not be able to stop 1t, II
does not require very great force to ruin
.l-~others Why was 10 that muny years ago
great food nearly destroyed New Osleans
A crawlish had burrowed into the banks o
the river until the ground was saturated
and the banks weakened until the fl0ot
burst.
TIE PATH THAT SHINES.
But find here man who starts out il
life with the determination that he will
never see suffering but he will try TO ale
viate it, and never see encouragement bu
he will try to cheer it, and never meet Wit
anybody but he will try to do him good
Getting his strength from God, he start
from home with high purpose of doing al
the good he can possibly do in one day.
Whether standing behind the counter, o
talking in the business Office with pen bt
hind his ear, or making bargain with
fellow trader, or out in the fields discussing
| with his next neighbor the wisest rotatio
of crops, or in the shoemakers shop pound
ing the sole leather, there IS something j
his face, and in his phaseology, and in hi
manner that demonstrates the grace of Go
ia his heart. He can talk on religion with
out awkwardly dragging it in by the ears
He loves God and loves the souls OF nj
whom he meets and is interested in thei
present and eternal destiny
For 50 or 30 years be lives that kind G
life and then gets through with it and goe
into heaven ransomed soul, But / an
not going to describe the port into whic
that ship has entered. I am not going t
describe the Pilot who met him outside a
the 'lightship."
am not going to say anything about th
crowds of friends who met him on the chry'
talline wharves up which he goes on step
of chrysoprases. For God in his words
Job calls me to look at the path OF foam
the wake OF that ship, and tell you It
all agleam with splendors OF kindness don
and rolling with illumined tears tina
were wiped away and adash with oongra
ulations, and clear out to the horizon in a
directions is the sparkling flashing, billov
ING phosphorescence OF Christian In
"He maketh path to shine after him"
And here correct one OF the mean nj
tions which at some time takes possessio
of all of US, and that is as to the breyity
human life. When / bury some very US
! full man, clerical or lay, in his THIRTEEN
fortieth year, sayi What waste oil e.
/ erriesi 1t was hardly worth while for hi
, 10 get ready for Christian work, for he hH
/ so soon to quit ii. But the fact IS that
! may insure any man or woman VINO 90
, any good on large or small scale Tor u
, on earth as long as the world lasts SIC
: ness, trolley car accidents, desth user, ca
no more destroy his life than they can te'
i. down one OF the rings Of Saturn. You G.
; start one good word, one kind act, one chee
a full smile, on a mission that Will lasv uh'
!, Inc world becomes a bonfire, and out
I that blaze It will pass into the henNei
! never to halt as long as God lives.
J, INFLUENCE or coon DRRDs,
= Tbore were In the seventeenth oentu
+ mon and women whose NAMES you nev
heard Of who are today Influencing school
colleges churches, nations. You can
+ more measure the gracious results o. tht