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

yong Jan. 27.-When Rov. DIR.
B" : amer pon the stage In the Acnd'
na gs,tnsIc this afternoon, he found be-
q ~ an audience such as is seldom
1 1n any public building in America.
. q. space was crowded from audito.
' ~ tonmost gallery, and tho nisles and
~ y literally blocked, while innny
10 s who had coma TO hear him
s = 1-s,vded Fourteenth strcet and Iry-
~ ,.s : unable to gain admission. He
piav hls subject 1.-THE Dangers OF
,m,.m . the text selected being Psalm
IL II said in my haste, All men arc
.,usl,d. betrayed, prosecuted, David,
na,orvsru Of petulan9e and rage thus
- ,Ss human race. David himself
,n.s wbsn no sui, GAN mon are
= He apologies and says no was
'.,,llv provoked, and that ho was has
Nm he hurled such universal denunci-
~ said in my haste" and so on.
IN him only momentary triumph
...,mism. There Is ever and anon,
,sver more than now, disposition
"a n distrust everybody, and because
hank employees defraud to disrust
mi employees, and because some po-
aescprs have taken brides to believe
iii pollcenen take brides, and be-
d,vsrce cases are in tho court to be-
,hst most, II not all, marriage rela-
aro unhappy
hero arc men who seem rapidly com
IA adopt this creed: All men arc liars,
Indrels thieves, libertlnes. When a
,,so Of perildy comes to the surface,
psople clap their hands In glco. 1t
piouanoy to their breakfast II the
,lna newspaper discloses a new ox-
n or a now arrest. They grow fat on
Nm. They join the devils in hell in
alton over recreancy and pollution,
me one arrested is proved innocent, 1t
them Disappointment. They would
Il believe evil than good, They are
urcs preferring cnrrion. They would
10 b on a committee to find some
wrong. They wish that, as eye
q have boon invented to improve the
and car trumpets have been invent
! help the hearing, a corresponding in
:nent might be invented for the nose
hing nearer q malodor.
A Glowing View.
&s;Inlsm says Of the church, "The
Itrlty Of the members are hypoorites,
hugh 1t is no temporal advantage to
member OF tho church, and therefore
is no temptation TO hypocrisy.
mism says that the influence OF news
b is only bad, and that they are cor
ne tho world, when tho fact is that
are the mishtiest agency for tho ar
y crime, and tho spread of intelll-
and the printing press, secular and
ous, Is setting the nations free. The
tendency OF things is toward cynic-
md tho gospel Of Smashup. We ex,
David Of the text for paroxysm OF
s, because ho apologies for It to all
nturies but It Is deplorable fact
many have taken the attitude Of por'
distTust and anathomatization.
are, we must admit, deplornblC
and We would not hide or minify
We are not much encouraged &c
bat the great work Of official reform
" York city begins by proposition
liquor dealers to break the law by
ng their saloons open on Sunday
In tho afternoon TO IL at night
since America was discovered la:
been worse insult TO sobriety nnd
|ryand religion than that proposition
III proposition is equal to saying
law and order and religion have &
on Sunday forenoons, but Sunday
roons open all the gates TO gin ant
and schledam sohnapps and soul
and Jersey lightning, and the vario
swill OF browories and drunkenness
3 ine Consecrato the first half of tn,
to God, and tho last half to thu
W Let the children ON their way L
~ schools In New York at 3 o'clocl
m afternoon meet the alcoholism tina
Pore than all other cnuses combineC
children Of their fathers and moth
q stfew the land with helpless or
es Surely, strong drink can xii
people and destroy enough familio
nelently crowd tha almshousos ant
uAfles In six days of tho week
giving 1t an extra half day 70
sm and assassination.
Pestimlsm n Sin.
ough We arc not very jubilant owe
4. ic'pal reform that opens tho exer
doxology to rum, we have full
u 900 and in the gospel, which will
\ aii iniquity as the Atlantic ocoal
lake Of snow. What we want AM
peneSe we will hnvo is a great TO
aNakening that will mornlize ant
a''o our great populations ant
superior to temptations, wheth
winl or legalized. So 1 sec III
\. ,uisheartenment. Pessimism is
lnose who yield to 1t cripple them
% hewar on one side OF which ar
~ Tvs OF darkness, led on by Apoll
on tho othor side of which ar
h 'ss OF light, led on by the ON
1 risk tho statement TINT th
WITTY OF people are doing tito hes
Nine hundred and ninety min
thousand of the officials of tn
M = ana the United States govern
u honest Out Of thousand ban
M n ana Cashiers, nlno hundsad an
- 'a o are worthy the position tho
. ont Of thousand merchants
- ana professional men, min
e. snu ninety-nino are doing thai
y s"ey understand 1t. Out of on
~ snglneer' and conductors an
- nine handrod and ninety.nin
Nv " , snoir responsible positions. ]
MIA, ,nal people arrive at positions {
my ", until they have been teste
on Ieory Of the pessimlst were &C
Su5 - 's s, would long ago have gou
~ n ~ aug civilization would have bee
r NJ win harharisrn, and the who,
ls l's a would have turned hack
IN a ' KS A wrong impression
4, .asn VeSa9ss two men falsify the
" Ivy, those two wrongdoers a
)3h J Drs1D The world, while nothin