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

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letter that ought mover to have bcon writ. |
yen, printed In newspaper, makes mora |
yak imam tho millions Of letters that crowd
the postoillces and weigh down the mail |
carriers with expressions Of honest love
iinrk. From the Tombsi
Tolstoi the great Russian author IA
wrong when he prints book for the dc.
probation of marriage II your obseryn
ton has put you in an attitude of deplora. I
ton Tor tho marriage state, ono Of two
thlngs is truo In regard to you-yuu have
| eltner been unfortunate In your auruaint.
anceshlp, or you yourself arc morally rot.
ten. Inc world, not as rnpid ~ We would
like, but still with long strides, is on tho
way to the scenes Of beatituds and felicity
which tho Bible depicts. The man who
cannot SEQ this is wrong, either In his
heart or liver or spleen
Look at tho great Bible picture gallery.
| where Isaiah has set up the pictures OF
aborescencc, girdling the world with cedar
aud fir and pine and lockwood, and tho lion
led by child, and St. Johns pictures of
waters and trees, and white horse cavalry,
and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown,
and harps struck, and nations redeemed,
| While there arc ten thousand things L do
| not like, / have not seen any discourage
nont for the cause Of God for rs years
Tho kingdom Is coming. The earth IL pre-.
pairing TO put ON bridal array, We need to
be getting our anthems and grand marches
ready. In our hymnology we shall have
mora use for Antioch" than for wind
ham" for 'ArIel" than for NAOMI" Let
"Hark, From tho Tonbs Doleful Cryl"
be submerged with Joy to the World, the
Lord Is Gomez! Really, II thought the
human race were as determined to be bad,
and getting worse, as the possmists repre-.
sent, would think it was hardly worth
saving II after hundreds Of years OF
pospclization no Improvement has been
made, let us give IL up and go at some
thing else besides praying and preaching.
My opinion is thnt II we had enough faith
in quick results and could go forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call the battle
for God and righteousness would end with
this nineteenth century, and the twentieth
century, only five or six years off, would
begin the millennium, and Christ would
reign, either in person on some throne sot
up between the Alleghauies and tho
Rockies, or In the institutions of mercy
and grandeur set up by his ransomed peo-
pie. Discouraged work will meet with de-
feat. Expsctant and buoyhnt work will
gain the victory. Start out with the idea
that all mon are liars and scoundrols, and
That everybody Is as bad as he can be, and
that society, and the church, and the
world arc on the way to demolition, and
the only use you will ever DO to the world
will be to increase the value of lots in
cemetery. We need moro cheerful front
in all our religious work. People have
enough trouble already and do not want
to ship another cargo Of trouble in the
shape Of religloslty.
Tho Gospel of Choerfulness.
II religion has been to you peace, n
defense, un inspiration and joy, say so,
shy it by word of mouth, by pen in your
right hand, by face illumlnod with u di-
vino satisfaction. II this world Is ever to
be taken for God, it will not he by groans,
but by halleluinhs. II we could present
tho Christian religion as it really Is in its
true attractlyenoss, all the people would
accept it and accept it right away. The
cities, tho nations would cry out; Give
us thatl Give 1t TO us in all Its holy mag
netism and gracious powerl Put that
salye on our woundsl Throw back tho
shutters for that morning light Knock
of these chains with that silver hammer
Give us Chrlst-his pardon, his peace his
comfort, his heaven Give us Christ in
song, Christ IN sermon, Christ In book,
Christ in living exnmplel'
As a system of didaCtios religion has
never gained one inch Of progress. As
toohnioalty it befogs more than 1t irrndi-
ntes. As u dogmatism II Is an awful fall
ure. But M fact, AS a re enforcement MS
TRANSPORTATION, 10 is the miehtiost thing
that ever descended from the heavens or
touched the earth. E1emplify II in the
lifo of good man or good woman, and
no one can help but like 1t. A city mis-
sionary visited house in London and
found sick and dying boy, There was
an orange lying on his bed, aud the mis-
sionary said, where did you get that
orango?" He said "A man brought 1t to
, me. He comes here often and reads the
Bible to mo and prays with mo and
brings me nioo things to cat" What Is
his nameY' said the city missionary. II
forget his name, said the sick boy, "but
| bc makes great speeches over in TINT great
building" pointing TO the parliament
house of London. The missionary asked
WAS his namo Mr.. Gladstoncy" oh
yes, " said the boy that is his namo, ME-
Gladstone" Do you toll me man can
sec religion like that and not like III
An Illustration.
There is an old fashioned mother In n
farmhouse Perhaps sho is somewhere in
| the seventies; perhaps 20 or '0' IL Is the
carly evening nOuf. lnloHBh hIVu'uN''9
No. s she is reading newspaper until To-
ward bedtime, when she takes up well
worn book, called tho Bible. know from
= the illumination in her face she is reading
, one OF tho thanksgiving psalms, or in
/ Revelation the story of the IL peariy
: gates. After awhile sho closes the book
, md folds her hands and thinks over the
= past and seems whispering the names OF
. her children, some Of them on Garth and
= some of them in heaven. Now a smile Is
D on her face and now a tear, and sometimes
t the smile catches tho tear. The scenes OF
0 a long life come back toher. One minute
8 she secs all the children smiling AROUND
= her, with their toys and sports and STRANGE
( auestionings. Then she remembers SOW
I eral of them down sick with infanlilo aus.
y orders. Then she secs short grave nut
/, over It cut I'm marble, Suffer them 10
0 come to me" Then there Is the wedding
r hour, and tho nelghbors in, and the prom
o Use Of II will" and the departure IRON,
4 tho old homestead. Then scene oil marc
o times and scnnt bread and struggle !hen
t sho thinks of few years with gush OF
4 sunshine and Fittings OF dark shadows
A n,,d yIcissitudes Then sho kncels down