Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-26

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town and turned It upside down. Right
side up. should say, for II was wrong
before. | heard OF a man once who
| said he had q good well with two eN-
| ccptions. II would freeze up In winter
and dry up In summer. That's the way
some OF you church members are.
Would that there were more Rachelsl
Would that the church OF God was
filled with women like herl Now go to
to the seventh chapter OF John and
take up the third type-the higher type
of the character | am showing you.
One that was filled with the Holy
Ghost, from whom rivers OF righteous
influence fairly ran. You haven't got
TO go back to John Wesley and Charles
Whitfield and Martin Luther TO find
this kind OF modern Chris
tan. Go with me TO London. Let
us seek out and study the life and
character of one ot the greatest men
England ever bore. For forty years
Charles Spurgeon labored In the worlds
metropolis.
Filled with the love OF God. the wine
OF life, his influence and strength wild
ened and grew greater. Every Thurs
day sermon from his pen would 70
to the press. Wherever the light OF
Christianity has been there those SER
mons were read. They were translated
IN many different languages. They did
lnNAluhult ENNl NNtbuku Al'H DNhhl
many an erring sinner has been led to
stop his hell-bent career and turn to
the cross of calvary for mercy and sal
walton. Rivers OF religlOn-aye, whole
fivers-sparklng and strong, flowed
from Charles SpurEenn. Hts was one
OF the grandest souls recalled in the
history OF the church OF God. Though
the spark Of his life passed to It's ce-
iestlal and eternal home three years
uf4 gff1l tf4H4H hfHANumt and
grand. 1t win live as long ms mankind
admiras such characters. Let us show
you what he. though dead, is doing to-
day. lie left an asylum for go boys,
one for $50 girls, Colporteurs' society,
an evangelical society etc. Through
his influence eighty Baptist churches
were built during his lifetime and
thousands are going up now. lie left
enough sermons to hay, one published
every Thursday for ten years, Hardly
a minister Ia Chrlstendom does not
keep several Of his yuluablcs In his
library. Here Is n life that teaches the
value OF a full spirit. We cannot all
be Spurgeons. but we can lift up the
cross and force sinners to see how
much they are In need uf Il, The great
state OF Texas won't hold the influence
shed by Charles Spurgeon; It is as
boundless as the universe, n has shed
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