The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-06-05
WINDS THAT HINDER.
REV. Or. TALMAGE TO THE WEARY
AND DISCOURAGED.

He Gives Words OF Comfort TO All VINO
Labor Under Adverse CircumstanceA
Both Phy.lcal and Mental-The Over
burdened and Overworked.
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon this week Is one of good cheer II
will give encouragement to many strug-
Cling souls. The subject Is CONTRARY
Winds, " and the text Mathew xiv, 81, The
wind was contrary"
AS well know by experience on Lake
Galilee, one hour all may be calm and the
next hour the winds and waves will be sc
boisterous that you are ia doubt as &c
whether you will Land on the shore or on
the bottom Of the deep. The disciples In
the text were caught in such a stress OF
weather and the sails bent and the ship
plunged for 1.-the wind was contrary.
There Is in one of the European straits q
place where, whichever way you sail, the
winds are opposing. There are people who
all their life seem eoiling In the teeth OF
the wind. All things seem against them
Il may be said Of their condition as Of that
Of the disciples In my text, 1.-The wind was
contrary"
The Davtns Physician.
A great multitude or people sro unoer
seeming disadvantage, and Will today, In
the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that can
manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse
counts out eight or ten drops Of prescrip-
sion and stirs them in . half glass of wa
tee but - when q man has by a mistake
taken . large amount Of stfychnine or
paris green or bellndonna, and the patient
u walked rapidly round the room and
0hAken mp until he gets wide awake. Many
a you have taken q large draft OF the
poison Of encouragement, and come out
b. tho order Of the divine Physician 70
souss you out Of that lethargy.
First, many people are under the disad-
vantage Of an unfortunate name given
them By parents who thought they were
doing . good thing Sometimes at the
baptism Of children while have held up
ono hand IN prayer Ihave held up the 9th
e hand In amusement that parents should
have weighted the babe with such dis
oonant and fepulsive nomenclature.
have not 30 much wondered that some
children should cry out at the christening
font ~ that others with such smiling face
should take q title that will be the burden
of their lifetime. It Is outrageous to af-
0ict children with an undesirable name
because 10 happened to be possessed by a
parent or q rich uncle from whom favors
arc expected or some prominent man OF
the day who may end his life In disgrace.
It ID no excuse, because they are Scripture
names, to call q child Jehoiakim or Tig-
th-Pileser. baptized one by the name
Bathshebai Why, under all the circum-
0luO1eub nco NChs my Px>ASle 5AscoAN vSeos ~
give to child the name Of that loose crea-
ture Of Scripture times I cannot imagine.
I have often felt at the baptismal altar,
when names were announced to me- like
saying, as did the Rev. DR.. Richards OF
Aorristown, N. J., when a child was hand
Cd him for baptism and the name given,
hadn't you better call 1t something eisef'
Impose not upon that babe name sug-
gestive Of fippancy or meanness. There is
no excuse for such assault and battery on
the cradle when our language Is opulent
with names musical and suggestive in
meaning, such AS John, meaning "the
gracious gift OF God" or Henry, meaning
the chief OF a household, or Alfred,
meaning good COUNSELOR" or Joshua,
meaning GOD, our salvation" or Am
hrose, meaning immortal" or Andrew,
meaning manly" or Esther, meaning
'sstar," or A bigaii, meaning "my father Q
Joy" or Anna. meaning grace" or Vic
toria, meaning victory" or Rosalie,
meaning beautiful as q rose or Mar
Oaret meaning ssa pearl" or Ida mean