Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-13

| p.ssS, ihth anu young women ara
I cradle. '"' '"S
W. We In middle life are about midway
~ hvt now near the cradle seems and nov
| Gray haired men and women who
SIAM Ny me grave, how far away The
sraoie' yet how distant seems TO you g.ll
grave and how close the cradle
Some OF you stand within on, stcp o,
Sne grave. how careful. then, Should you
live. on, God awaken by Thy almighty
"A few weeks ago whei, homo win
my family ! said to my children: I m
s nyw !ns, The age tiS years. when my
up TO and leaned on their father as / did
, 10 mine. II is twenty-four years since
stood az his bedside and bade him good
bys' and remember his wrinkied iace
Mans life runs like n train. At first
We engine and cars move out slowly and
with Jerks. then they run smoother and,
gaining momentum. switter. Faster and
faster roes the train. and the time be-
Neen the poles along the track Is short-
ened and shortened until the fun sprad
Is reached and tho polos can hardly be
counted
In childhood Christmas seemed long
Ions way on, summer and winter were
ages Rpprt. but how now. In our ear y
manhood middle are and declining days?
Tue years are whirled more rapidly
around. the seasons seem closer together,
Il year In our childhood would hardly
count as a month with us now, and to old
age time is speeding by with awful vcloc-
lty as the grave and eternity Is reached,
Five hundred people here tonight will
not live to see the turn OF this century
Into the new one Young man, you are
nearer the grave than anv gray-halred
man In this house. The Opened bit OF
ground PUSHES forward to meet you and
you lie down TO sleep to be awakened by
the final trumpet.
'Tho grave shall encompass us and en-
hra,e US ~ H. appointed unto man once
to die Death Is n culver that VIII reach
the vital part Mt last.
There can be no knowledge. nor de-
vice. nor wonder. nor repentng In tho
grave, so all the time wo ave to get
ready ls between now and the grave.
"oh. how we waste these precious daysl
You don't count tho worth OF day or nm
hour. We forget God and the grave In the
pursuit OF the world.
II knew OF wealthy Engllshman who
had not prepared for the end. one day
he was stricken down with meningitis,
He sent for a famous phvaiclan and asked
him TO tell him truthfully how long he
had 10 live. Not more than two hours,
said the man OF medicine. with ter
rible wall OF mortal agony the stricken
man said; Doctor. keen M. alive until
~ o'clock tomorrow and III give you
800 O0o' To this the grave phynlGian mado
answer by saying Il can glVn you pre-
scriptions ana case YOUR condition, but
time belongs to God. and have none TO
"'fhat poor sinner passed away trni,rc-
pared to meet his God. yet IN the eleventh
lonr he offered "a fortune for a few moro
brlet hours cf life to mako What proparu-
tioii lie could.
"Nen arc foolirg away their time. nit
ering away the precious moments IN
Houston TO-DAY. The dea'h cNo~-'r,' 80 %
man unprcpared 10 SO Is <ho saddcst place
| have ever put tovt iIt,o. Avn s..--...
here tonight are ready for the grave ard
the judgment!
the cradle and tho grave fixes Us ana de-
termnes our destiny. Your ldst day IL u
awful day, when You bid
Roodbyo TO all u Is The supreme mo-
yet there Is a moment In tho future
more awtullN important tEun tho hirth-
day or the day OF death, the day at Tho
judgment bar Of God. IL Is indeed a ire
r'endously awful day to fnun OF sonse
anu thought, day when youll see people
v nkcd UP. We are sleeping today, but
We will be awatened.
Mother listen you arc indifferent now
about your children, hut up thcrO y0uu
be wide awake. fearful amt anxious"
The speaker related touching incl
dent Of muther-cnrc late awakened when
her boy was tried In his THE spcagers)
town for murd.t He graphically de-
aoribed the varying emotions Of fear ana
lopc that swept DER her face az the trial
progressed and Witnesses for and against
her son give their testimony He NiNidlg
portrayed the awful fear that Whitcncd
no mother-ince as the prosecuting nttor-
ley sfted and presented tho evidence
lad fairly enVeloped him In the cloak OF
murder. The labor OF her sons counsel
1issipated some Of the maternal pullor.
but when the jury placed their wrlten
Nefdlct In the clorka hands her anNloty
to know the conclusion was more tortuF-
ing than all the hours of the trial. Ages,
y seemed inst torn and trembling par
cnt, were REQUIRED to reach tho JOYFUL
words. Not guilty"
"lhlt trial would not have been nccos-
sary, said the relutor, had the mother
"a ~. hnD hoo
that eternity Of tho boys soul is at
sake. Al the jury could have done
would have been 10 have Killed his body.
Now, tonight this minute, 20 the time
10 awaken. God grant that tho people
may be aroused In Houston TINS week
You may not be afraid to die. but n
YOU are not afraid TO wax up to the
flaming bar OF God, you are Drawer than
ever want TO be.
-. Colonel Zachary of Newton county,
ieorgia, has been sheriff there for
thirty years. He is one Of the most thor
oughly courageous men In the world. The
people have given the office 10 him ~
u tribute to his magnificent courage. He
was once asked II he had given his heart
70 God, and no answered with nm I'M
lifting OF hts magnificent head that Nhe
wasn't WASH, afraid 70 de- But how about the
ton, and at that the man OF unboundou
Noruly courage turned palo and then
S! ns n snsws t I'm afraid of that
My one business IL to get ready for
that day. We are all on our way 10 The
Judgment. and some OF us are very near
there.
''l'hc final bar of God
I'VE have juat got from now till our
dying hour to get ready.
''ls there q man here who will get up
and say he will be alive at IL o'clock to-
"Thou fcoi, this night thy soul will be
required Of thee.
".rhe most tremendously awful expert
,nce ever related TO me was that 81 q
wounded soldier who, knowing lie was
doomed, sent for his brother. the brother
reached the bedside and for six inys
md nights nurscd the poor wounded man
Worn out with watching he lay down on
instant fell asleep. He dreamed that his
md deserving tho devil pcoring In at the
window shrieklngly new behind a nile OF |
Ire wood and hid The devil came In the |
DOM, hunted under tho bed, around the |
DOM and was approaching tho wood pile |
when tho brothers soul with a shrek OF |
lgony new out Of the window and the |
'evil with terrible oath followed, and |
/ frghtful wall from the soul told only /
90 plainly that the devil Lad salsed his |
,rey.
''The horrible climax to the dream start. |
d the worn-out watcher from his sleep,
Ia found the light had gone out, and |
Gaping from the bed, struck match, |
'elighted the lamp and fastening 10 his /
,rother's bedside found him dead-and his |
mouth Wide open.
God In his Infinite tenderness must
rave put sleep on that tired watcher that |