The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-21


broken oar 10 work with Unless Al
mighty God help them Icy viii 20 under
Beware of the Wine Cup
All, when told yon 10 take care Of
Yourself you lnisunde1 stood me if Won
thought l meant you are 10 depend upon
human resolution, which may be dissolved
in the foam of the wine cup or may lie
blown out with the first gust Of temrra-
ton. Here is tho helmet, The sword Of the
Lord God almighty. Clorbe yourself in
that paDopl y, and you shall not be put TO
confusion. Sin pays well neither in this
world nor the next, but rig ht thinking and
right believing and right acting will take
you in safety through this life and in
transport through the next.
never shall forget q prayer heard a
young man -0ake some IS years ago. II
was very short PRAYER, tint it was 4 TIE
1neDdous prayer: 20 Lord, help Us. We
find ii so very easy 10 do wrong and SO
hard 10 do right. Lord, help us" That
prayer, ! warrant you, reached the ear Of
God and reached his hCarr. And there are
hundred men who have found ouf-a
thousand young men perl. aps-who have
found out that very thing. 1t is SO very
easy TO DO wrong and so hard TO do right.
got a letter one day, only one para
graph, which ! shall read:
''Havipg moved around so1new hat
have run across many young men OF intel
hgence, ardent striyers liter that wiIl-o'-
e-wisp-fort uDe-and IF one Of these
would speak. He was II young English
man Of % Or p years y / 0 came 10 New
York, where he had 10 acquaintance.
with barely sufficient 30 L,cp him couple
of weeks. He bad been ,rderIy reared
perhaps ] should say to teDdcrly, and
WIS not used to earning his living and
found il extremely difficult 0 get any pc
siuion that he was capable Of filing. Aft
er many vain efforts in Ills direction rs
found himself on Il Su. cay evening in
Brooklyn near your cbur + with about s.
left of his small capital I'rovidenco-soe1n-
ed 10 lead him TO your docr, and be deter
mined to go in and hear you.
He told me his goinc 10 bear you that
night was undoubtedly the turning point
liz his life, for when be Went into your
church he felt desperate, but while listen
ing TO your discourse his better nature got
the mastery. / rruly believe from what
this young man told me that your sound
ing tho depths of his heart that night
alone brought him back > his God, whom
be was 80 near leaving"
That is the echo Of nulritudes. ! am
not preaching an abstraction, but a great
reality. o friendless Young mani Q
rrodigal young mani O broken hearted
young man, discouraged young man
wounded young man, ] commend to you
Christ this day, the best IIieDd n man ever
had He meets you this J: orDiDg. Desplse
not that emotion rising in your soul. 1t
is diyinely lifted. Look into the face of
Christ. Lift one prayer to your fathers
God, TO your mothers God and this morn
ing get the pardoning blessing. Now,
while speak, you are at The forks of the
road, and this is the right road, and that
IS the wrong road, and ! see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning ct tie close OF
the service ! saw gold watch OF the world
renowned and deeply 1anented yiolinist,
Ole Bull You reInem Der be died in his
island home off the coast of Norway. That
gold watch be had wound up day after day
through his last illness, and then he said
to his companion, Now ! want 10 wind
this watch as long as l can, add then
when j am gone want you to keep it
wound up until it goes to my friend, DR..
Duremps, in New York, and then be viii
Keep 1t wound up until his life is done,