The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-06-05

brated for crime deception. 1t is
wonder to me that in all such families
some spirited young man does not rise
saying to his brothers and sisters, If you
want to keep this nuisance or scandaliza-
ton of q name, will keep 1t no longer
than until by quickest course of law can
slough of this gangrene." The city di-
rectory has hundreds of names the mere
pronunciation of which has been a life
long obstacle. If you have started life
under q name which, either through ridic-
ulous photography or vicious suggestion,
has been an incumbrance, resolve that the
next generation shall not be SO weighted.
1t is not demeaning to change a name
Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.
Hadassah, 1.-The MYRTLE became Esther,
1.-THE star" We have in America, and I
suppose it is SO in all countries, names
which ought TO be abolished, and can be
and will be abolished for the reason that
they are libel and a SANDER. But if for
any reason you are submerged either by
given name or by family name that you
must bear. God will help you TO overcome
the outrage by life consecrated to the
good and useful You may erase the curse
from the name. If it once stood for mean
ness, you can make it stand for generosity.
If once it stood for PRIDE you can make it
stand for humility. II it once stood for
fraud, you can make 1t stand for honesty.
If once it stood for wickedness, you can
make 1t stand for purity. There have been
multitudes of instances where men and
women have Inagnificently conquered the
disasters of the names inflicted upon them.
Again, ssany people labor under the
misfortune OF incomplete physical equip
ment. We are by our Creator SO econoIn-
ically built that we cannot afford the OBJ
liberation of any physical faculty. We
want our two eyes, our two ears, our two
hands, our two feet, our eight fingers and
- H.
pie have but one eye, or but one foot! The
ordinary casualties of life have been quad
rupled, quintupled, sextupled, aye, CEN
tupled, in our time by the civil WAY, and
ht the north and south great multitude
are fighting the battle of life with half, or
less than half, the needed physical arma-
ments. do not wonder at the pathos of
q soldier during the war, who, when told
that he must have his hand amputated,
said; Doctor, can't you save it?" and
when told that 1t was impossible. said,
with tears rolling down his checks: well,
| then, goodby, old hand. / hate to part
with you. You have done me good serv-
ice for many years, but it seems you must
GO Goodby."
in the clinical department of one OF the
New York hospitals, when a poor man
with a wounded leg was brought In before
the students to be operated on The sur
geon was pointing out this and that TO the
students and handling the wounded leg,
| and was about to proceed to aInputatlon
when the poor man leaped from the ia BILE
and hobbled to the door, and said, 'Gen
tlemen. am sorry to disappoint you, but
| by the help of God l will die with my leg
| on What terrific loss is the loss Of oul
| physical faculties!
The way the battle OF Crecy was decided
| against the French was by the Welshmer
| killing the French horses, and that brought
| their riders TO the ground. And when yor
! cripple this body, which is merely the ami
| NAL on which the soul rides, you may
sometimes defeat the soul.
| Physical Ills.
Yet how many suffer from this ply sica
l taking off! Good cheer, my brother! Goo
| will make 1t up TO you somehow. Ih'
| grace, the sympathy of God will be IDor'
| to you than anything you have lost l.
| God allows part of your resources to be cu
| off In one place, he will add it on some
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