Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-11

nut see there are some who are freczIn,
IN the rigging Of sin and surrounded inv
pefiious stosms. Pun away, my ladsl let
us reach them. Alas, one is washed IN
and gone There is ono more to be saved
Let us push out for that one. Clutch the
rope. Oh, dying man, clutch it as with a
death gripi Steady, now, on the .lipperv
ploccsl Steady Therel Savodi saved
Just as thought, for Christ has declared
tnat there are some still In the breakers
VINO shall come ashore. "Other sheen
have which are not OF this fold"
Christ commands his ministers 10 bs
fishermen, and when I 90 fishing do no,
want TO go among othor churches. INIT
into the wide world, not sitting along
Hohokus creek, where eight or ten other
persons arc sitting with hook and line.
but, like the fishermen OF Newfoundland
sailing of and dropping net AWAY outslde
80 or 90 miles from shore. Yes, there ara
nonohurchgoors here who will come in
Next Sabbath they will be here again or
In some better church. They arc this mo-
ment being swept into Christian associa.
lions. Their voice will be heard In public
prayer They will die In peace, their he'd
surrounded by Christian sympathies and
to be carried out by devout men to bs
buried and on their grave be chisoled the
words, Precious in tho sight Of tho Lord
Is the death OF his saints" And on resnr.
rootion day you will get up with the dear
children you have already buried and
with your Christian parents who have al.
rOady won the palm. And all that grand
and glorious history begins this hour.
"Othor sheep have which arc not Of
this fold.
Free TO All who Accept.
I remark again, the heavenly Shepherd
is going to find great many Of his sheep
among those who arc positive rejectors Of
Christianity. ! do not know how you
came TO reject Christianity. II may have
been through hearing Theodore Parker
preach, or through reading Remains Life
OF Jesus, " or through the infldel talk Of
some young man in your store. Il may
have been through the trickery Of soma
professed Christian man who disguised you
with religion. do not ask you how you
became So but you frankly tell mo tina,
you do reject It, You do not believe that
Christ Is divine being, although you adj
NIT that be was very good man. You
do not believe that the Bible was inspired
of God, although you think there are
some very fine things in it. You believe
that tho Scriptural description OF Eden
was only an allegury. There ane so things
that ] believe that you do not believe
And yet you are an accommodating man.
Everybody that knows you says that OF
you. II / should ask you to do a kindness
for mo, or II any ono else should ask OF
you kindness, you would do 1t, Now,
have kindness to ask Of you today "
~ something that will cost you nothing
and will give me great delight. want
you by experiment to try the power OF
Chrlst's religion.
II / should come TO you, and you were
very sick, and doctors had given You up
and said there was no chance for you. and
should take out bottle and say; Here
is medicine that will euro you. 1t has
cured 80 people, and IL will cure you, -
you would say, ~ have no confidence in
it," would say, Wont you take it To
obliRo mei" well" you would say, III
It's any accommodation TO you, III take
It," My friend, will you be just us accom-
modating in matters Of religloni There
are some OF you who have found out that
this world cannot satisfy your soul. You
are like the man who told me one Sabbath
after the service was over 81 have tried
this world and found 1t an insufficient por-
tion. Tell me Of something bettor." You
have como to that. You are sick for the
need Of divine mediehment. Now CONT
and tell you OF physician who will cure
you. who has cured hundreds and hundreds
who were sick as you ara. "Oh, you say,
1T have no confidence in him" But will
you not try himi Accommodate me In
this matter. obllge me in this matter.
Just try him. l am very CERTAIN he will
cure you. You reply, 81 have no especial
confidence In him, but II you ask me as O
matter Of accommodation introduce him. u
SO 1 do introduce him--Christ, the ply
sioian who has cured more blind eyes, and
healed morn CHASTITY wounds, and bound
up more broken hearts than all the doc
tors since the time OF lEsoulaplus That
divine physician is here Are you moi
ready to try hint Will you not as pure
matter Of experiment try him and state
your case before him this hourf Hold
nothing back from him. II you cannot
pray, II you do not know how to pray any
other way, say: 30 Lord Jesus Christ
this is strange thing for mo to do
know nothing about the formulas OF re
ligion. These Christian people have beer
talking so long about what thou canst dc
for me 1 am ready 10 do whatever thou
commanded me 10 do. j am ready TO take
whatever thou commanded me to take.
II thero DO any power In religion, as these
people say, let me have the advantage oil
it"
A Clarion Call.
viii you try that experiment nowi
do not at this point of my discourse say
that there is anything in religion, but
simply say try it--.try IT. Do not take my
counsel or the counsel Of my clergyman II
you despiso clergymon. Perhaps we may
be talking professionally. Perhaps We
may be prejudioed in the matter Perhnpi
we may be bypooritloal in our utteraneeS
Perbsps our advice is not worth taking
Then axe the counsel Of some very respect
sble layinen, as John Milton, the poet az
William wilberforce, tho statesman al
Isnno Newton, tho astronomer, as hoper
BOYLE, the philosopher as Locke th'
metaphysiclan. They mover preached oil
pretended to preach, and yet putting uown
ono his telescope, and another MS parma
mentary scroll, and another his eleotri
Giants wire, they all declare the adapted
I ncss az Christis religion to the wants ane
/ tronhles Of the world II you VIII no
take tho recommendation OF ministers O
] the aospel, then take the recoinmendatlot
/ Of hlrbly respectable laymen men
1 skantcni and stuck through with unrest
would Won not not like TO have some O
I t,-aoIg 0Nqr OlIr bOulS TO