The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-08-28

his government ana hence all these ont
RACES and all these woes God is good For
many hundreds of years he has been COAX
ing the world to come Lack to him, but
the more he has coaxed the more violent
nave men been In their resistance, and
they have stepped back and stepped back
until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the blood
hounds after you and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try him and
see II he will not help. Try him and SEQ il
he will not pardon. Try him and see if he
Will not save. The flowers Of spring have
no bloom SO sweet as the Towering of
Christ's affections. The sun hath no
warmth compared with the glow of his
heart. The waters have no refreshments
like the fountain that will Stake the thirst
of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust in
the COO! mountain torrent, the hunter may
be coming through the thicket. Without
cracking stick under his foot, he comes
close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the
trigger and the poor thing rears in its
death agony and falls backward, it's ant
lers crashing on the rocks, but the pant
Ing heart that drinks from the water
brooks of Gods promise shall never be ia
tally wounded and shall never die
This world is a poor portion for your
soul, o business man! An eastern king
has craven on his tomb two fingers, repre-
senting as sounding on each other with |
snap, and under them tho motto, "Au is
not worth that Apicius Ccplius hanged |
himself because his steward informed him !
that he had only $50, 900 left All of this
worlds riches make but a small inherit
ance for soul. Robespicrre attempted |
to win the applause of the world, but
when he was dying woman came rush |
ing through the crowd, crying to him.
Murderer Of my kindred, descend to hell,
covered with the curses Of cvcry mother in
France' Many who have expected the
plaudits Of the world have died under it's
anathema marantha.
Oh, find your peace in God! Make one
strong pull for heaven. No halfway work
Will do 1t. There sometimes comes time
on shipboard when everything must be
sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo
is nothing, the rigging nothing. The cap
tain puts the trumpet to his lip and
shouts, "Cut away the mast" Some of
you have been tossed and driven, and you
have in your effort to keep the world well
nigh lost your soul. Until you have de-
oided this matter let everything else 20.
Overheard with all those other anxieties
and burdens. You will have to drop the
sails OF your pride and cut away the mast
With ono earnest cry for help put your
cause into the hand of him who helped
Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and
who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest
tempest that ever blackened the sky or
shook the ocean, can hear the faintest i'm
ploration for mercy.
shall close this sermon feeling that
some of you who have considered your
case as hopeless will take heart again, and
that with blood red earnestness, such ms
you have never experienced before, you
will start for the good land Of the gospel,
at last to look back, saying: "What a
great risk ranl Almost lost, but saved !!
) ust got through and no more! Escaped
by the skin of my teeth"
Christian Citixenship.