The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-08


says the unclean shall not walk on this
one. Room on either side to throw
away your sins. Indeed, if you want 20
carry them along you are not on the
right road That bridge will break,
those overhangng rocks will fall, the
night will come down, leaving you at
Tho mercy of the mountain bandits, and
at the very next turn OF the road you
will perish. But if you are really on
this clean road Of which | have been
speaking, then you will stop ever ana
anon to wash in the water that stands
in the basin of the eternal rock.
Aye, at almost every step OF the jour
ney you will be crying out: create
within me a clean heart" If you have
90 such aspirations as that, II proves
that you have mistaken your way; ana
il you will only look up and see the
dngerboard above your head, you may
read upon it the words: There IS
way that seemeth right unto man, but
| the end thereof is DEATH" Without
holiness no man shall see the Lord;
and if you have any idea that you can
carry along your sins, your lusts. your
worldiness, and yet get at the end OF
| the Christian race, you are so aWfully
mistaken, that, in the name Of GOD, l
shatter the delusion.
Still further: The road spoken OF IS
a plain road. THE wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein.
That is, if man is three-fourths OF an
idiot, he can find this road just as we'll
as if he we're philosopher The I'M
beetle boy, the laughing stock OF the
street, and followed by a mob hooting
at him, has only to just knock once at
the gate Of heaven, and it swings open;
while there has been many a man who
can lecture about pneumatics, and
chemistry, and tell the story of Fara-
days theory of electrical polarization,
and yet has been shut out Of heaven.
There has been many man who stood
In an observatory and swept the heav-
ems with his telescope, and yet has not
been able to see the Morning Star.
Many man has been familiar with all
the higher branches of mathematics,
and yet could not do the simple sum:
What shall 1t profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?"
Many man has been fine reader Of
tragedies and poems, and yet could not
read his title clear to mansions in the
Skies" Many man has botanized
across the continent, and yet not
known the Rose Of Sharon, and the
Lily of the Valley But if one shall
come in the right spirit, asking the way
to heaven, he shall find it a plain way.
The pardon is plain. The peace is
plain. Everything is plain. He who
tries to get on the road to heaven
through the New Testament teaching
will! get on beautifully. He who goes
through philosophical discussion will
not get on at all. Christ says: Come
to me, and | will take all your sins
away, and l will take all your troubles
' away" Now, what is the use of my
discussing it any more? Is not that
plain? II you wanted to go to some
city and I pointed you out q highway
J thoroughly laid out, would be wise in
OBTAINING you by a geological discus
sion about the gravel you will pass
I over, or physiological discussion
about the muscles you will have to bring
into play? No. After this Bible has
pointed you the way to heaven is it wise
{ for me to detain you with any discus.
sion about the nature Of the human
will, or whether the atonement
is limited or unlimited? There is the
, road-go on it. 1t is plain way. This
is faithful saying, and worthy of al
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came int
the world to save sinners" And tina
is you and that is me. Any little chic
here can understand this as we'll as
can. UNLESS you become as Iittl
child, you cannot see the kingdom O
Cod" If you are saved, it will not b.
as philosopher, it will be as littl
child. "Of such is the kingdom of heav
en-" Unless you get the spirit Of littl
children, you will never come out q
their glorious destiny.
Still further: this road to heaven
. q safe road. Sometimes the traveller i
: those ancient highways would thin
himself perfectly secure, not KNOWN
o there was lion by the way, buryin
r his head deep between his paws, an
then, when the right moment came
h under the fearful spring the mans lif
was gone, and there was mauled cal
!, cass by the roadside. But, says m
text "No lion shall be there l wis
I could make you feel your entire 81
curity. I tell you plainly that on
:, minute after man has become chill
of God, he is safe as though he ha
been ten thousand years in HEAVIER
- He may slip, he may slide, he ma
= stumble; but he cannot be destroye
~ Kept by the power of God, throue
faith, unto complete salvation. Eve
lastingly safe. The severest trial
- which you can subject Christian ma