The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-07-04
Gospel.

or to shoot fCCH~bi}HS On wv ~ |
when Polux and Achilles ana i''o''''
des went out to clear the lano u ''""'
and tigers and bears. Ny text se'S
forth Nimrod as a hero wheh 1t Wv
sents him with broad shoulders '""
shaggy apparel and sun-browhen '',e'
and arm punched with muscle
mighty hunter before the Lord.
think he used the bow and arrows Win
great success practising archery
have thought if it is such Crane
thing and such brave thing TO cleaf
wild beasts out of Il country, il 1t IS not
a better and Drawer thing to hunt down
and destroy those great evils OF society
that are stalking the land with hefce
eye and bloody paw, and sharp 'nSk
and quick spring. ] have wondered |
If there is not such thing as EoSpei
archery. by which those VINO nave
been nyjug from the truth may be cap
| tured for God and heaven. The Lord
Jesus in his sermon used the art OF
angling for an illustration when ne
said: 81 will make YOU fishers OF men.
And so | think ! have authority lo'
using hunting as an illustration ol
Cosnel truth: and pray God that there
NAV be many a man today VINO Will
begin to study Gospel archery, OF
whom it may. after a while, be SAID
"ye was a mighty hunter before the
Lord"
How much awkward Christian work
there is dore in the world. How many
good people there are who drive SOUS
, away from Christ instead OF bringing
= them to him. Al, their fingers are
, thumbs blunderers VINO upset
more than they right. Their gun mas
= crooked barrel and kicks as 1t goes OH,
/. They are like clumsy comrade VINO
n goes along with skillful hunters: at the
! very moment when he ought 20 be most
: ou;et he is cracking an alder, or fall
Il ing over a log and frightening away
g the game. How few Christian people
y have ever learned the lesson OF when
- 7 read at the beginning of this service,
~ how that the Lord Jesus Christ at the
ID we'll went from talking about cup OF
u water to the most practical religious
lc truths. which won the woman sou
le W. God, Jesus in the wilderness was
II b,eakirg bread to the people. thlnl
% /. was good bread; it was very ligh
tread. and the yeast had done its Worl
thoroughly. Christ, after he ha'
y. broken the bread, said to the people
- "Reware of the yeast. or OF the leaven
= If the pharisees." So natural tran
~ sition II was; and how easily they al
!" understood hirs! But how Few Chrls
ne tan people who understand no" I
N. fasten the truths of God and religlo
ht to the souls of men. Truman OSBORNE
M one of the evangelists who wer
~ through this country years ago. had
Inv wonderful art in the right direction II
,nt came TO my fathers house one day, an
is while we were all seated in the room
"a he said: "Mr. Talmage, are all yo'
Of children Christians?' Father sal
de Yes, all but Dewitt" Then Truma
ny Osborne looked down into the fireplac
ne and began to tell a story OF
Wv Wv storm that came on the mou
,nt tains, and all the sheep we
, 10 in the fold: but there was one Ian
rch outside that persisted in the storm. n
ed he looked me in the eye. should ma
in. been angered when he told that stor
my but he looked into the fireplace ana
uth was 50 pathetically and beautlfu
done that I never found any peace U
I'll was sure I was inside the 10
where the other sheep were.
", The archers of olden times studl
81 : their art. They were precise in
''''' matter The old books gave prec
Ivy. directions as to how an archer, sho
r TO % and as to what an archer should
'aiz- He must stand erect and firm, his
you foot a little in advance OF the ri
he foot. With his left hand he must t;
''es' hold of the bow in the middle,
va then with three fingers and the thu
,oet of bis right hand he should lay h
mnle Of the arrow and affix it to the strin
If Of so precise was the direction civ
be- Hr. how clumsy we are about religi
pris- work, How little skill and care
men, exercise, How often our arrows n
cyan s.,, the mark. Oh. that there were n
:, 'I IVA institutions established in all the to
man. and cities of our land, where men m
tionx learn the art Of doing good-studj
wing spiritual archery, and known
!. he mighty hunters before the Lord"'
Inc In the first place, il you want t
= py effectual in doing good you mus
very sure of your weapon. There
something very fascinating about
,,r,, archery Of olden times Perhaps
do not know what they could do
'h'o' the bow and arrow. Why, the
It ms battles fought by the English Pla
neon genets were with the long chow.
nmity would take the arrow of polished v
asses. and feather it with the plume Of .
pro. and then it would fly from the
IL anu string of plated silk. The broad
rup OF Agincourt, and Solway Moss,
.ho;r Neville's Cross heard the loud Il
10 hut OF the archer's bow-string Now
..o+na Chrtctian fripndg Wp have a mig