The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-17

pain except sin" Then they SAID TO 6
him: "Would you like to send a mes
sage to your friends?' "les, would
tell them that only last night the love
of Jesus came rushing into my sou'
like the surges OF the sea, and had to
crv out, stop, Lord; it is enough!
Stop, Lord-enough"" Oh, the joys OF !
this Christian religion!
Inst pass over from those tame Joys
!, which YOU are indulgng or (
This world-into the raptnrcs OF VIC
gospel The world can not satisfy yo''
Cow have found out-Alexander, long
inc for other worlds to conquer "ho
,.a3 drowned in his own bottle; byron
Whipped by disquietudes around inc
world; Voltaire, cursing ms own SOUL
,,,hue all the streets of Paris were ap7
n,auding him; Henry H., consuming
with hatred against poor Thomas
a. Becket-all illustrations or the lac'
that this world can not make man
hannv The very man who poisoned
the pommel of the saddle on winch
Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted IN the
street, "God save the queen. one
moment the world applauds, and the
next moment the world arathematlzesr
Oh, come over into this greater Joy
this sublime solace, this magnificent
beatitude. The night after the battle
Of Shiloh, there were thousands OF
5 wounded on the field, and the ambu'
lanccs had not come, one 'hrlst'ah
soldier, lying there a dying under the
: starlight, began to sing:
s There is a land Of pure delight,
: And when he came to the next 11ne
there were scores of voices uniting;
Where saints immortal reign
y The song was caught up all over tho
~ field among the wounded, until 1t was
70 said there were at least ten Thousand
q wounded men uniting their voices al
~ they came to the verse:
- There everlasting spring abides,
T. Aud never whitening flowers;
s. Death like narrow stream d'vides
I'd That heavenly land from ours.
I'd On, it is a great religion to live BY
ra and it is a great religion to die ~
,e There is only one heart throb between
nc you and that religion this moment
I'd Just look into the face of your pardon
II. ing God, and surrender yourself To-
ad time and for eternity, and he is yours
er and heaven is yours, and all is yours
OK Some of you, like the young man
40 the text, have gone far astray. lkno'
I'D not the history, but You know it--yo'
"a; know it. A.. ,,,ho, Nh
ID; prodigal gets back the inhabitants q
It's heaven keep festival. am very Gel
re- tain Of it, If you have never seen
lit. telegraphic chart, you have no iae
m how many cities are connected togetne
All and how many lands. Nearly all IN
nc, neiphborhoods of the earth seem ret
He culated, and news flies from city
,ch city, and from continent to contlnen
nth But more rapidly go the tidings iro
mes earth to heaven, and when prodig
returns It is announced before II
on throne of God. And II these sou
be- to-day should enter the kingdom the
EN- would be some one In the heaven
hen kingdom to say: "That's my father
The That's my mother, That's my son
me- "That's my daughter" That's n
,ck. friend" ''That's the one used to pr
the for" 'That's the one for whom we
rist so many tears" and one soul WON
lext say, "Hosanna?' and another won
aid: say, "Hallelujah!"
Tho Pleased with the news tho saints belw
,;no In songs their tongues employ;
10 Beyond the skies the tidings 60,
J.1 And heaven ia Allied with Joy.
nd Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire;
WIN. The sinner lost Is found, sing
~. And strike the sounding Tyre.
you At the banquet of Lucullus sat Clc
you the orator. At the Macedonian fe
him, val sat Philip the conqueror At
that Grecian banquet sat Socrates the
anne losopher; but at our fathers table
i'S oil the TetuEHSu PAou'6"A", ~
'rors conauerors. The table is 80 wide
COM leaves reach across the seas and acl
'scue lands. It's guests are the
Bun deemed of earth and the glorl
' the of heaven. The ring OF Gods
and giveness on every hand, the robe Q
life" Saviour's righteousness a droop II
i'd to every shoulder. The wine that 81
for in the cups is from the bowels OF
hat a thousand sacraments. Let all the
here deemed of earth and all the glor'
nent; of heaven rise, and with CLEAN
Jared chalice drink to the return OF Il
en- he sand prodigals. Sing! sing! g
ed to worthy is the Lamb that was slai'
'rs OF to receive blessing and riches
Its honor and gloIy and power, "
are without end'
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