The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-05-22

Cemple. helnelnper, - young man. That
while in after life and after years Of dissi-
patton you may perhaps have your heart
changed, religion does not change the liver
Trembling and staggering along these
streets today are men, all bent, and de-
cayed, and prematurely old for the reason
that they are paying for liens they put
upon their physical estate before they were
80. By early dissipation they put on their
body first mortgage, and . second mort
gage, and a third mortgage to the devil.
and these mortgages are now being fore
closed, and all that remains Of their earth
" estate the undertaker viii soon put out
of sight. Many years ago, IN ruinilmenr Oh
nv text, q dart struck through their liver,
and 1t is there yet God forgtves, but out
ragged physical law never. never, never.
That has Sinai, but no Calvary. Solo
men In my text knew what he was talk
ing about and he rises up on his throne OF
worldly splendor to shrek out warning
to all the centuries
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name a
"sqnatter sovereignty" to those who went
out west and took possession Of lands and
held them by right OF preoccupafion. Let
. flock of sins settle on your liver before
you get to 25 years Of age, and they Will IN
All probability keep possession of 1t by an
internal squatter sovereignty i promise
to pay at the bank $500 six months from
date, - says the promissory note. 81 prom
Use to pay my life 80 years from date 1t tho
bank Of the grave" says every infrsction
Of the laws Of your physical being.
6olonon's D1agnoGl1.
What? Will a mans body never COM
this world9 Never. How about the world
to come? Perhaps God VIII dx it up In the
resurrection body SO that 1t will not have
| to go limping through all eternity. But
| get the liver thoroughly damaged. and 1t
| will stay damaged as long as You are here
| PHYSICIANS call 1t cirrhosis OF the liver, or
| Inflammation Of the liver. or fatty degen-
| Grafton Of the liver, but Solomon puts all
these Fnngs into one figure and says TIN
1 dart strike through his liver"
Hesiod seemed to have some hint OF this
when he represented Prometheus, for his
crimes, fastened to . pillar and an eagle
feeding on his liver, which was renewed
again each night, 80 that the devouxang
! went on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle and rescued Prometheus. And dis
sipated early life assures q ferocity picking
1 away and clawing away Mt the liver year
| In and year ont. and death Is the only
Hercules who can break the power Of Its
beak or unclench its claw. So also others
| wrote fables about yultures preying upon
| the liver But there are those here with
| whom 1t Is no fable, but q terrific reality.
/ That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he Is geti
ting for himself smoked liver. That young
man has no idea that he has by early dis
sipation SO depleted his energies that he
win go into the battle only half armed
Here Is another young man who, II be put
all. Ills forces against the regiment OF
youthful temptations, IN the strength Of
God, might drive them back, but he is al
| lowing thezasto be re-enforeed by thewho1e
army of neutrality-suspicious., an&a wh1t
but immortal defeat can awaifShfm?
Oh, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands are making An
opening the battle against sin too late, fos
this world too late, and for the world to
come too late. What brings that express
train from St. Louis into jersey City three
| hours late? They lost IL minutes early on
the route, and that affected them all the
| way, and they had to be switched Oh here
, and switched on there, and detained herr
and detained there, and the man who