Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-17

sinking in saffron goes to rest. VIVA
| a flower bed, wheat fields stretching
from east 10 west and from north T.
south. What a hylse and the rent i
| due. Can you pay IL this Sunday morn
ing?
The next Item Is how much owesl
thou unto my Lord for clothesY Ever
| since Adam and Eve were cast out OF
the Garden OF Eden We have had 10
have our frail bodies clothed Yonder
In Paris is said 10 be one factory that
| weaYes the fabrlc1 for the kings chill
dfen. But God has thousands OF
factories working day and night to
weave clothes for US. the kings chill
dr-n.
Coming down from Texarkana to this
point, stood on the rear platform OF
the car, looking out on the boundless
stretches OF the cotton fields. Cotton,
cotton, King Cotton. From the cotton
nelds come all our cotton clothing In
INFINITE variety, and from the fax fields
come our linen. and the hemp supplies
US rope, all things mlnisterng to our
wants. Say, can you clothe yourself
az 700 n year? Well In forty years
mat ~ $4,000. or in sixty years $4,000
The bill Is due. Can you pay it?
=. Ana the next item Is. what we owe
Goa Tor table board. From the apples
you ate In the orchard when you were
boy to the luxuries spread on tht
breakfast table when the silvery bell
tinkled this morning. every mouthful
you nave eaten is out Of the same UNI
seen hand. ana the luxurles are greater
today than ever before. You have
eleven trains coming into Fort Worth
every day to lay on the table the luxu-
rles OF every climate, from the frlgid,
the torrid and temperate zones. Put
the board down low. Can you board in
Fort Worth at 81 a week? For forty
years that Is SG240 for every person In
this house who is 40 years old, and
greater in proportion II you are so. g
or 20; less II You are under 40 Just
think of it, Every person in this house
mas consumed whole fields of wheat
and corn. whole droves of cattle and
sheep, whole covles OF partrldges and
quails. Now. stop and think of IT,
you stop to pay the butcher and baker
out never stop to pay God, who fur
nlshes YOU more than all. How much
owest thou to my Lord for all the
things that crafty your appetite and
nourlsh your body?
How much owest thou unto my Lord
for your families? Who gave you,your
families? Have you n loving, true,
sympathetic companion? Who gave
her to you? The sleigh ride or Sunday
evening courtship. burning your pros
pectlHe father-in-law's gas and fucl1
Who gave you that sweet, loving COM
panlon you call my wife?" / ask you
husband. as IA fellow husband And
dear wife. who gave you the loving,
strong. manly heart that has taken
care OF you and foreseen your needs
ana provided for you day Nv day?
When you stood beneath the marriage
bell and the words were spoken, ~
take thee for better or worse. for rich
er or poorer. in sickness or in health.
leaving all others, clinglng to thee
only, till death do us part" God gave
you to each other. You have read OF
a great ocean steamer moving out from
the wharf, bound to London or Liver
pol. with no sail spread, no movement
OF the great wheels, and you wondered
how she moved, but here on the other
side. nesting down close to the great
steamers side Is a little steam tug.
moving 1t out to the deep sea. Here
ia great, strong man moving SUCCESS.
iully through life, In law, In business,
IN medicine. and you wonder what Is
the secret of his success, and the Sc
cret Is the little wife at home, nesting
down by his side. Oh husband, who
gave you that loving, helpful wife2 on.
wlfc, who gave you that strong, loving
husband2
How much owest thou to my Lord
for those bright-eyed children? There
are so many born blind. For those
romping, healthful chlldrcn2 So many
arc born weak and sicltly. Those chill.
dren intellectually bright? SO many
are born idiotic. Now II should offer
you the crown Of Queen Victoria for
enc OF your children You would laugh
me to scorn. IL | should offer Won the
greatest diamond tine world has ever
known, the Kohinoor you would laugh,
me to sCorn. II l should offer you tile
broad flelds OF Texas Cor one OF your
children you would laugh me to scDrn.
You would not sell the eldest; It Is the
hrst born. You would not sell the
youngest; II Is the queen OF the family.
You would not sell the little cripple.
because 1t Is crippled at llfe's frst
care.
There was Colonel Bennett OF Lon
isvllle and his lovely wife, possessed
OF ample means. and God gave them
little Josephine, spinally diseased from
her birth Mrs Bennett said. IL am SO
thankful God gave us this little Grip
pied child where we have abundant
means to take care of her and not 10
some one who had not the means.
Motherl Father! II God gives Won
these children, healthful strong of
limb, intelligent In intellect loving Of
heart, how much owest thou 10 nv
Lord? And for the little ones who
have gone before: they are awaiting
You up there. You know how God
Kept your heart from breaking when
disease attacked the little tender form
and He spared the child: nay. 1T NAV
be that He took that child away from
You. but 1t is waiting up there, and one
OF these days that little one with infant
feet VIII come out ON the battlements
OF heaven and say. "Oh, guardian an
Eel, father IL come. mother Is come
They are just rs much yours up in
heaven as those In the nursery this
morning. How much owest thou to
my Lord?
And the next item notice n your
hook bill. What Is VOW Bible worth?
What Is this Book worth? My father
loved It and preached from It fftv
years, my mother read 1t every morn
Ing, my brother While had II IA his
breast when he fell on the battlefield
or Gettysburg, and my brother John
had II In his outside pocket when he
fell on the 9th of June, 1864, at Mount
sterling, Ky. and have tried to preach
II the best know how for fifteen years
or moro, and YOU ask me how much
is the Bible worth? fling back the
question TO You, you sons and dauyh-
ters OF the British covenanters; You
sons and daughters OF those who hled
and died on Ireland's soil In defense
or Its doctrines; you sons and dauCh-
tiers OF the Huguenots. who died rather
than TO give up this Book on the bloody
night OF 81. Bartholomew. l ask YOU