Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-24
IRE COLLECTOR OF. TAXES.
r.LM.GE's MESSAGE FROM
THE ANTnoDEs.
!. znccheu- Was Converted and
.ac Hestitution--rhe Coincidence
Ind of the Treasury Department.
Transformation OF II Family.

.,,a for Indin on his round the world
"a, has selected as tho subject for 10.
~ sermon through the press THE Tax
csllectors Conversion" the text being
,..,n from Luke xix, o, "This day i
'.lration como TO this house"
ysecheus was a politician and a tax.
-.tberer. He had nm honest calling. but
x opportunity for "stcalingsn was SO
,,se the temptation was too much for
H. The Bible says no was sinner.
.s.ti 4, in the public sense. How many
"a men have been ruined by official posi.
Ami It is an awful thing for any man to
~ office under government unless his
,lpcIples OF integrity are deeply fixed.
Tapy man upright in an insignificant
,reItion has made shipwreck In great
- As far ns can tell, in tho city OF
Isrirho this Zacchcus belonged to what
.rht bo called tho ring" They had
Alngs their own way, successfully avoid.
ins exposure, IL by no other way PERTAINS
4, hiring somebody 10 break In and steal
81 vouchers. Notwithstanding his bad
r,putation, there were streaks Of good
about him, as there are about almost every
nan. Gold is found In quartz. and some
times in very small percentage.
Jesus was coming to town. The people
turncd out en- mnsse TO sec him. Here no
comes, tho Lord Of glory, on foot, dust COW
md and road weary, llmping along the
way, carrying the griefs and woes of tho
world. He looks to DO 80 years of age
a vben he is only about 80. Zaocheus was
short man and could not sec over the
psoples heads while standing on the
rround, so he got up into a sycamore tree
hat swung it's arm clear over the road
Jesus advanced amid the wild excitement
4 the surging crowd. The most honor
,ble and popular men OF the city arc look
ing on and trying 20 gain his attention.
Jesus, instead of regarding them, looks up
Al tho little man In the troo and says
zAcchcus, come down. am going home
With you" Everybody was disguised to
think that Christ would go home with SO
Memorable man.
Christ and the Publican.
| SEQ Christ entering the front door Of
. lie house Of Iaccheus. Tho King of heaven
end earth sits down, and as he looks around
4 On the place mud the family he pronounocs
,ho benediction of the text, This day Is
& aviation come to this house"
zaccheus had mounted the sycamore
the out OF mere inquisitiveness. He
wanted to SEQ how this stranger looked
Tie color Of his eyes, tho length OF his hair,
tho contour of his features, the height Of
( BIZ stature "Come down." said Christ
And SO many people in this day get
up into the tree Of curiosity or speculation
70 500 Christ. They ask thousand queer
questions about his divinity about Coda
tveroignty and the eternal DEGREES. They
ipeculate and criticise and hang onto the
outside limb OF a great sycamore. But
they must como down from that II they
want 10 DO saved. We cannot be saved as
. Philosophers, but ns little children. You
cannot go TO heaven by way Of Athens,
but by way OF Bethlehem. Why bo per
. Picked about the way sin came into the
/ world when tho great question Is how We
| shall got ain driven out OF our hearts.
How many spend their time in criticism
and religious speculation They take the
rose OF Sharon or the lily OF the valley,
pull out tho anther, scatter tho corolln
md say, as that the beautiful flower OF
. nligion that you are talking aboutw No
Bower Is benutifu after you have torn 1t
al to pieces, The path to heaven is 80
fhn that fool need not mako any mis-
hkc about it, and yot mon stop and cayil.
Suppose that, going toward the Pacific
lope, l had resolved that would stop
mul could kill all the grizzly bears and
the panthers ON either side Of the way.
! WOULD mover hayo got TO the Pacific coast.
J. When went out to hunt the grizzly bear,
iho grizzly bear would have come out to
hunt me. Hero is plain road to heaven
Men say they will not take q step ON II un'
4 III they uan make game OF all the theories
that bark and growl Mt thom from the
hickots, They forget the fact that, as they
90 out to hunt tho theory, tho theory
comes out to hunt them, and so they per
. Nh We must receive tho kingdom oil
heaven in simplicity.
A statesman's Example,.
William Pennington was one OF thu
vsest men Of this country-a govern
or OF his own state and nfterwnrd
peaker Of tho house of representatives
Yet when God called him to be Chris
tan, he went In and sat down among
some children who were applying iol
ihurch membership, and he said TO biz
pastor, Talk to me just as you do Il
these children. for l know nothing abou
IT," There is no need OF bothoring our
ELVES about mysteries when there arc 81
many things that are plain. Dr. LUDLOW
ny professor In the theological seminary
taught me a lesson have mover forgotten
While putting a variety OF questions u
him that were perpleSing he turned upoi
ne somewhat In sternnoss, but moro u
loye, and said, "Mr. Talmage, you VII
have to let God know some things tina
iol don't" We tear our hande on TN
iplnes Of the cactus instead OF ieastini
lur eye on its tropical bloom. a grea
tompany Of people now sit swinging them
klycs on tho sycamore trco Of their priue
md cry TO you: "zaooheus, come down
Tome down Out OF your pride, out o
hour inquisitiveness, out Of your speouiA
uon. You cannot ride into the gate 0
heAyen with coach and four, Ppstiiioi
aaead and lnokey h'hlnd. Except ye pc
come as little children, 20 cannot ehte
ue kingdom of God. God has chosen ~
Weak things Of tho world TO oonfound Tn
mighty. Zacchous come down. com
townl"
RESTITUTION Necessity
notice that this taxgatherer accom-
Panied his surrender TO Christ with gu
feAioratlon of property that did not y
oag to him. Ho says, III l have takei
hything by false accusation roster
@uffold '-that IL, II l hayo taxea ~,
nan for $40, 600 when he had only sSiVV
worth Of property and put In my oM,
p0eket the tax for tho last so,VOo, ! w,
ns'ore to him fouriold. II ] TOOK iioi III,
nm $40, l viii give him $40. II l 'oo'