Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-28

'NfNf 'Ah VIZ NbNtIh VI llD INu
smooth, and the face Is calm, her white |
hnir on the white pillowcaso like snow on
snow already fallen. But her soul is CONS |
up to look upon the things Ihat the night |
before she had been reading Of In tho |
Scriptures. What IA transporting look on |
her dear old wrinkled fncei She has seen |
tho king in his beauty" She has been
welcomed by tho Lamb who was slnin."
And her two Oldest sons, having hurried |
up stairs, look and whisper, Horny to
George, THAT Is rcllgionl' and George d,
Henry, Eyes, that is rclieionl''
Religion Defined.
There Is New York merchant who has
boon In business l should say 40 or 90
years. During an old fashioned revival Of
religion In boyhood ho gavo his heart TO
God. He did not make tho ghnstly and
infinite and everlasting mistake Of sowing
wild oats" with the expectation Of SOW
ing good wheat later on IIo realized the
fact that tho most Of those who SOW wild
oats" never reap any othor crop. Ho start
cd right and has kept right He went
down ~ 1857 when tho banks failed, but
he failed honestly and mover lost his faith
in God. Ups and downs-ho sometimes
laughs over thom--but whether losing or
gaining he was growing better all the
NAluNs iAt llhH uFtll III lllllN DuklnNhh ft0s
lures, but he mover ventured tho expert
mcnt of gaining the world and losing his
soul. His name was n power both In the
church and In tho business world He
has drawn more checks for contributions
to nsylums and churches and schools than
| amy one, except God, knows. lo has kept
many business man from falling by
/ lending his name on the back Of a note
4 till tho crisis was past, All heaven knows
| about him, for tho poor woman whose
ront ho paid In h0r last days and the man
! with consumption IN the hospital to whom
he sont flowers and tho oordnls Just before
ascension, and tho people he encouraged
in many ways, inter they entered heaven
kept talking about 1t, for tho immortals
are neither deaf nor dumb.
Well, 1t Is about time for tho old NOR
chant himself to quit earthly residence.
As 1t is toward evening hu shuts the safe,
puts the roll OF newspapers In his pocket,
thinking that the family may like to read
them after no gets homo. He folds up So
bill and gives it to the boy to carry to one
OF the carmen who got his leg broken and
mny be In need Of little money; puts
stamp on letter to his grandson at col
lego, q letter with good advice and an in
closure to make the holidays happy, then
looks around the store or office and says TO
the clerks, Good evening and starts for
home, stopping on the way at n door to
ask how his old friend deacon in the
same church, is getting ON since his last
bad attack Of vertigo. He onters his own
home, and that is his last evening on earth
He does not say much. No lnstwords are
necessary. His whole life has been tes.
tlmony for God and righteousness. More
people would like to attend his obsoquies
than any house or church would hold
Tho officiating clergyman begins his re-
marks by quoting from the psalmist
Help, Lord, for the cody man ceasoth,
for tho faithful foil from among the chill
drcn Of men" Every hour in heaven for
all the million years of eternity that old
merchant will see the results Of his earth
ly bcnenccnce and fidelity, while ON tho
street whore he did business, and in tho
orphan asylum in which no was direct
or, and in tho church of which he was AN
officer, Whenever his gcninlty and bonef.
ioenca and goodness arc referred to, bnnk
director will say to bank director, and
merchant to merchant, and neighbor to
ncighbor, and Christian to Christian:
"That is religion. Yes, TINT Is religion"
Changed Man.
There Is a man seated or standing very
near you. Do notlonk at him, for IL might
be unnecessary embarrassment Only u
few minutes ago he came down of tho
steps of as happy home ms there is in
this or any other city. Fifteen years ago,
by reason Of his dissipnted habits, his home
was a horror TO wife and children. What
that woman went through with in order
to preserve responsibility and dc her hus-
bands disgrace is Il tragedy which itwould
require n Shakespeare or Victor Hugo TO
write out in five tremendous acts. Shall
/ tell itl He struck hcrl Yes, the one who
at tho altar no had taken with vows so
solemn they made tho orange blossoms
tremblcl He struck horl He made the
beautiful holidays "a reign Of terror
Instead OF his supporting her, she support
cd him Tho children had often heard
him speak the name of God but never in
prayer, only in profanity. 1t was the sud
dest thing on earth that / can think OLA
destroyed home Walking along the
street one day, an representation OF all
wrotuhudness, he saw sign ut the door OF
Young Mems Christian association,
injecting For Men only" He went In,
hardly knowing why ho did so, and sat
down by the door, and young man was
In broken voice and poor grammar telling
how the Lord had saved him from n dissi-
mated lifo, and the man back by the door
said 10 himself, why cannot have the
Lord do the same thing for mef' and he
put his hands, all a-tremble, over his hloat-
ed face and snid; 20 God, want thatl
must have thatr' and God said, You
shall have it, and you have it nowl" And
tho man camo out aud went homo a
changed man, and though the children at
first shrunk bnck and looked to the moth
or and began to cry with frislt they soon
saw that tho father was changed man.
That homo has turned from Paradise
Lost" to Paradise Roganed."
The wife sings all day long at her work,
for she is so happy, and the children rush
out into the hall at the first rattle of the
fathers key In the door latch to welcome
him with carcsses and questions of"What
have you brought me-" They have family
prayers They are altogether on the road
TO heaven, and when tho journey of life is
over they will live forever in each others
companionship. Two Of their darling chill
dron are there already, waiting for father
and mother to come up What changed TINT
mani What reconstructed that homer
What took that wife who was slave OF
fear and drudgery and made her queen
on a tbrone Of affection hear whisper