Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-22


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NEW YonK, April e1.-There Is no dim
mutton In tho vast numbers th0t assemble
from Sunday to Sunday TO liston to the
eloouent sermons OF Rev. DIR. Talmage
TODAY h. chose for his subject after the
Battle" tho text selected being Samuel
rxxi, 8, "And it came to pass on tho NOR
row, when tho Philistines came TO strip
tho slain, that they found Saul and his
three sons fallen In Mount Gilhoa."
Some OF you wero at South Mountain or
ehiloh, or Balls Bluff, or Get ysburg, on
northern or southern side, and ask you II
there is any sadder sight than battlefield
after the guns have stopped firingY /
walked across the field Of Antietam Just
after the conflict. The scene wns so sick
enlng shall not describe it, Every valu.
ablo thing had been taken from tho bodies
OF the dead, for there are always vulturos
lowering over and around about an army,
and they pick up the watches and the
memorandum books, and the letters, and
tho daguerreotypes and the hats and the
coats, applying them to their own uses.
Tho dead make no resistance So there
arc always camp followers going on and
after an army, as when Scott went down
into Mexico, as when Napoleon marched
up toward Moscow, as when Won Moltko
won't to Sedan. There Is u similar scene In
my text.
Whore Saul Lay Dead.
Saul and his army had been horribly cut
TO pieces. Mount Gilboa was CHASTITY with
tho dead. On the morrow tho stragglers
came on TO the field, and they lifted the
latohet of the helmet from under the chin
OF tho dead, and they picked up the swords
and bent them on their knee 10 test the
temper Of tho metal, and, they opened the
wallets and counted the coin. Saul lay
dead along tho ground, eight or nine feet
In length and l suppose tho cowardly
Philistinos, to show their bravery, leapod
upon tho trunk of his carcass and jcered
at tho fallen slain and whistled through
tho mouth of his helmet. Before night
those cor1norants had taken everything
valuable from the field "And It came to
pass on the morrow when tho Philistines
came TO strip the slain that they found
Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount
Gilboa"
Before get through today will show
you that the same process Is going on all
the world over and every day, and that
when mon have fallen satan and the
world, so far from plying them or help
ing them, go to work remorselcssly to take
what lttlo there Is left, thus stripping the
slain
There arc tons of thousands of young
men every year coming from the country
TO our great cities. They come with brave
hearts md grand expectations. The coun-
try lads sit down in the village grocery,
with their feet on the iron rod around the
redhot stove in tho evening" talking over
the prospects of tho young man who has
gone OF to tho city. Two or three of thom
think that perhaps he may got along very
well and succeed, but tho most OF them
prophesy failure, for it is very hard to
think that those whom wo know In boy
hood will ever make any great success in
tho world.
Tho Battle of Temptation.
But our young man has a fine position
In dry goods store. Tho month is over.
Ho gets his wages He Is not accustomed
TO have SO much money belonging to him
self He is o little excited and docs not
know exactly what TO DO with IL, and he
spends IL in some places where he ought
not. Soon there come up new companions
and acquaintance from tho bnrrooms and
the saloons Of tho city. Soon that young
man begins towayer In tho battle Of temp.
tation, and soon his soul goes down. In
icW months or fow years he has fallon.
Alv - IluIhily utilu. l1b 10 u moro CORPSE
Of what he oncO was. Tho harpios of sin
SNUFF up tho faint and come ON the field,
His garments gradually give out. He Inns
pnwued his watch. His health IS falling
him. His credit porishcs. He Is too poor
to stay in tho city, and ho is too poor to
pay his way homo to tho country. Down,
down. Why do the low fellows Of the city
now stick to him so closely2 Is It to help
him back TO u moral and spiritual liiei
Oh, no; will tell you why they stay; they
are Philistincs stripping the slain.
DO not look where l point, bat yonder
stands man who once had beautiful
home In this city. His house had elegant
furniture, his children were beautifully
clad, his name was synonymous with hon
or aud usefulness but evil habit knocked
at his front door, knocked at his back door,
knocked ut his parlor door, knocked at his
bedroom door. Where is tho pianoY Sold
to pay tho rent, Whore ia the hntraok?
Sold 70 meet tho butchers bill Where are
tho carpctsY Sold TO get bread. Whore Ia
the wardrobeY Sold to got rum. Whore
nro the daughters? Working their fingers
on In trying 20 keep tho family together.
Worse and worse until everything is gone.
Who is that going up tho front steps of
thnt houseS That is n creditor, hoping TO
flnd some chair or bed that has not been
levied upon. Who arc thosD two gentlo-
men now going up the front steps? The
ono is II constable; the other is tho sheriff.
Why do they 20 thoroy The unfortunate Is
morally dead, socially dead, financially
dead. Why do they go thercS / will tell
you why tho creditors and the constablos,
and tic shoriGs GO there. They are some
on their own account, and some on ac-
count of the law stripping the slain.
Crowded An His Life.
An cx-member OF congress, one OF tho
most eloquent mon that ever stood in tho
house OF rcprt sentatiyes said in his last
moments; This is the end / am dying
dying on borrowed bed, covered by
borrowed eioct, in house built by public
charity. Bury me under that tree In tho
middle of the fold, where shall not be
crowded, for have hsen crowded all my
Life F." Whore wcro tho Jolly politicians
ard tho dissipating comrades who had been
With him laughing at his jokes, applaud
ing his eloquenoe and plunging him into
slni They have loit, whyf His money
Is gone, his reputation is gone his wit Is
gono, his clothes arc gone everything IL
gone Why should they stay any longerY
lhey have completed their work They
. have gtriDned thN slnfn