The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-17

lost his empire. You cannot cheat upa
c,,t If a single cent Here Is man wno
80, wade $40. 600 in fraud. Before ne uAes
n'.srv dollar of 1t will be gone. or IL VIII
.;ca him violent unrest. Here is Chrls
= t,,,, Who has been largely prospered. no
hae not given to God the propor1Aoh s H
a. dne In charities and beneVoAences. u W
comes to the reckoning ana ne 'n n"s Taan
49, christian men have had large es-
&c and It is gone. The Lord goa ca'he
s,to tho counting room and said: nave
allowed YOU to have all this property iol
10 Is or 20 years and you nave NOV oo .no
Justice to my poor children; W. ,;'',
beggar called upon you, YOU Tar;ns chill
off your steps; when my suffering clli
S-en annealed to you for help, you hao no
mercy I only asked for so much, or SO
,nnch but you did not give 1t TO me anu
now will take it all.
Sunday Observance.
God asks Of us onc-seventh OF our '1''1e
An the way Of Sabbath. DO you suppose
NE can get an hour of that time success
fully away from Its true obJect9 40, no,
God has demanded one seventh OF your
time II YOU take one hour OF that Time
thot "a tn he devoted to Gods service, ana
;nstead of keeping his Sabbath use 1t Tor
| the purpose of writing up your acco"nos
| or making worldly gains, God VIII go.
| Nhat hour from you In some nnexpec'ea
Nineyeh." He says: ono, won't. IN
! On to Tarshish'' He starts for larshlsh
The sea raves, the winds blow ana the
ship rocks. Come, ye whales, ana t"ke
this messenger for Tarshish! No man over
gets to Tarshish whom God tells 10 60 W
Nineveh. The sea would not carry MN
Il n Gods sea. The winds would not Wa1'
him: they are Gods winds. Let u man
.ttempt to do that which God forbids him
| tn do. or to go into place where Gou teA!s
him not to 20, the natural world as Wen
as God is against hun. The hghtnngs
!, are ready to strike him, the fires TO Dufh
! him, the sun to slnite him. the WAteIs "
Those whose princely robes are woven oo'
!. of heartstrings; those whose tine houses
t are built out of skulls; those whose spring
t ing fountains are the tears OF oppressed
4 nations-have they successfully cheated
= God?
&c he found out on that day that God vindi
4 Gated not only his goodness and his mercy
1 but his power to take care OF his owl
1t rights, and the rights of his church, AM
IS the rights of his oppressed children Come
10 We martyred dead, awake, and come u
3, from the dungeons where folded oafhhcs
'P hearsed you and the chains like cankef
ID peeled loose the skin and wore of the Ties
~ and ratified on the marrowless bones
ID Come, ye martyred dead, from the stnke
MS where you were burned, where the arr
g. uplifted for mercy fell into the ashes, an
ye the cry of pain was drowned tn the snal
1e ping of the flame and the bowling OF u
es mob; from valleys of Piedmont an
- Smithfeld market, and London Towe
4 and the highlands of Scotland. Gather
20 great procession and together clap yo'
Is, bony hands, and together stamp yo'
ut moldy feet, and let tho chains that boul
e. you to dungeons all clank at once al
IN .othar All tho Aamea that burned you
ng ona nnii9te.i arm of fire and plead for
&c. iudRment Gather all the tears ye ev
IN wept into lake and gather all the sig
al ye ever breathed into a tempest, until