The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-05-26

must live religious life They were
in some things like ourselves,
know. now that they are gone,
there is halo around their names;
but they had their faults. They
said and did things they ought never
to have said or done. They were
sometimes rebclii0us, sometimes east
down. They were far from briug per-
feet. SO suppose that when we have
rome. some things in MS that are now
only lulcrabic may be almost respirud-
cnt. Bat as they were like Us in de
hciencics. we ought to be like them in
taking supcrnal Christ to make mp
for the deficits. Had it not been for
Jesus they would have all persisted;
bit Christ confronted Them. and said
II am the way." and they took it.
have also to say to YOU that the
path that these captivcS trod was a
troubled path, and that David and his
men had to 90 over The same difficult
way. While these captiycs were being
taken off. they said "Oh, we are so
tired; we are 50 sick: we are SO hun
gry," But die men who bad charge Of
them said, "Stop this crying Goon,
David and his men also found it a
hard way They had to travel it. Our
friends have gone into glory, and it is
through much tribulation that we are
to enter into the kingdom How our
loved ones used TO have to strug-
gle, how their old hearts achcd. how
sometimes they had a tusSlc for bread,
In our childhood we wondered why
there were so many wrinkles on their
faces We did not know that what
were called ''cr0w's feet" on their
faces were the marks Of the black
raven of trouble. Did YOU never hear
the old people, seated bv the evening
stand. talk over their early trials. their
hardshipS, the accidents the burials,
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STEALING down tho furrouobad cbeat
Told in eIoauence sincere,
Tales of woe they could not speak
pr+ +hi. coono % ooni
pas+ thiS sno,,a - ta;I "a ,air
They shall feel distress no more
Never, never weep again
"Who are these under the a1tarp"
the ouestiop was asked and the re-
Spouse came, "Thcse are they which
came ont of rrcat hulatiop and b,va
washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb" Gun
friends went bv path of tears into
glory, BE not SURPRISED if we have to
travel the same pathway,
remarlx ,rain if we want 70 win
the society of orr friends in hearc,
we will not ONLY have to travel a path
of faith and path of tribulation, but
we will also have to nositive]v battle
for their comnonionshin David and
his mon nnver wantad sborn S,vords
and invulncrab)e Shields and thick
breastnlates 50 much rs thew wanted
them on the dav when they came
down unon the Amalel1itcs If thew
had lost that BATTLE they never wouId
have got their families back ] sun.
pose that one glance of their loved
ones in captivity hurled them into
battle with tcnfold couraue and
energy They said, I'VE must win if