Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-04

sNore 10 support and defendi How 40 Won
Judge OF tho currency OF a country Nv n
counterfeit billi oh, you must have pa.
uenoo with those who have been swindied
ny religious pretenderS Live IN the pros-
ence OF others frank, honest. earnest
christian life, that they may be attracted
70 the same Saviour upon whom your
hopes depend.
remember skortioism always has some
reason, good or bad, for existing. Goothe's
irreiigion started when the news came 70
Germany OF tho earthquake at I.isbnn. Nov.
], 1910. That 90, 600 people should have
pefished in that earthquake and in the AT.
er rising Of the Tagus 30 stirred his svin-
pathies that he threw up his belief In tho
goodness Of God
A Dark Land.
Others have some into skepticlsm from
natural persistence in asking the reason
why. They have been fearfully stabbed
OF The Interrogation point There arc so
many things they cannot get explained.
Ihoy cannot understand tho Trinity or
now Sod can be sovereign and vet man d
Tree agent. Neither can l. They say, II
DON'T understand why good God should
nave let sin come Into the world "
Neither do ]. You say, why was thnt
child started In life with such disadyan-
tages, while others have all physical aud
mental oqulpmentr cannot toll. They
go out Of church on Enster morning and
say, That doctrine OF tho resurrection
contounued me. " So II Is TO me q mystcry
beyond unravclment. understand all tho
processes by which mon got into tho dark.
l know them all. have Travelled with
burning feet that blistered way. The first
word which most children learn to utter
IL Papa, or Mamma, but think the
nrst word l ever uttered was Why" /
know what II Is to have hundred mid.
nights pour their darkness into ono hour
Such mon ato not TO be scofIcd, but helped
Turn your back upon drowning man
when you have the rope with which to pull
him ashore and let that woman IN the
third story OF u house perish IN tho flames
when You have o ladder with which to
help her out and help her down, rather
than turn your back scoillnRly on skep-
tic, whose soul is in more peril than the
bodies OF those other endangered ones pos.
sibly can be. Oh. skcpticism Is a dark
land. There are men in this house who
would give a thousand worlds, ~ they pos
sesscd them, 10 get back to tho placid faith
OF their fathers and mothers, and IL is our
place to help them, and we may help
thoin, mover through their heads, but al
ways through their hearts. These Okep-
tics, when brought to Jesus, will he might
ily effective, far moro so than those who
never examined the evidences OF Chris
tianity.
Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic,
Robert IInll skeptic, Robert Newton a
skoptic, Christmas B-ans skeptic But
when once With strong hand, they took
hold Of the chariot Of the gospel they rolled
It on with what momentum II address
such men and women today, throw out
no sco1. luplaad them BY tho mOmory
Of the good old days whom at their moth
er's knee they said, Now | lay me down
To sleep, and by those days and nights OF
scarlet fever In which Eho watched you,
giving you the medicine at just the right
himu and turning your pillow when it was
hot, and with hands that many years ago
turned to dust sOothod away your pain,
and with voice that you will mover hear
again, unless you join her in tho bottOr
country, told you to mover mind, for you
would feel better by and by, and by that
dying couch. whore she looked So pnlo and
talked so slowly, catching her breath bo.
tween tho words, and you folt nm awful
loneliness coming over your soul-by all
that beg you 10 come back and take tho
same religion II was good enough Tor
her. u Is good enough for you. Nay, /
have better plea than that, plead by
all the wounds and tears and blood and
eroans and asonies and death throus OF tho
son OF God, who approaches you tins mo
ment with torn brow and lacorHtod hand
mud whipped back and saying, Come unto
me, all ycwho arc weary and heavy laden,
and Will give you rest
Some Dad Cases.
Aanin, there Is a field Of usefulness but
little touched. occupied by those who nro
nstrny In their hnblts. All northern ma.
tons Ike tboso OF North America and
England and Scotland-thnt is. in the
colder climates devastated by alcohol
ism, They take tho fro to keen up the
warmth. In southern countries, like
Arabia and SPAIN the blood is 80 warm
they arc not tempted TO ilory llquids. The
preat Roman armies mover drank any.
thinr stronger than wnter tinpcd with
vinegar. but under our northern climate
tho tpnptation 70 hentlng stimulnnts ia
most mtahty. and millions guceumb.
when "A mans habits co wrong, tho church
drops him. the social circle drops him,
good influence drops him, wo all drop
Rim. or nil the mon who get oil track,
hut foT eyer got on again.
Noar NV summer residenoe tbero IA a
lie saving station ON tho beach There
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