The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-20

have the water glealn Oh One okoOH A
or the pool of Sloan. The willows OF
Babylon, on which they hung their I'M
tuned harps, were not as graceful as tne
trees which at the foot of Mount MORAN
seemed to weep at the departed glory OF
Judah, and all the fragrance that descend.
ed from the hanging gardens upon onas
great city was not 80 sweet as one ae1 e,sa
Of the acacia and frankincense that Sne
hieh priest kindled in the sanctuary ~
Jerusalem.
On a certain night little while after
these captives had been brought 20 MS Guy
acknowledgements 10 scared with night VI
stufYed with deeds and forebodings which
keep talking In the night. He Will Ano
that the eagles down In his pillow Will
stick him like porcupine quilts 1ne
GHOSTS of old transgressions are sure TO
wander about in the darkness ana pecxon
and hiss. Yet when the morning came, ns
found that the vision had entirely neo
from him. Dreams drop no anchors ana
therefore are apt to sail away before We
can fasten them. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS calls
all the wise men of the land into his pres
ence, demanding that by their necroman.
cy they explain his dream: Hney' OF
course. fail. Then their wrathful king H.
sues an edict with as little sense as mercy,
ordering the slaying Of all the learned men
~ the country But Daniel the prophet
comes in with the Interpretation JUST IN
time to save the wise men and the jewish
| captives.
My friends, do you not see that pIaoe
.,d r,,in ride in the same saddlep See Neb-
| nchadnezzar on the proudest throne OF Oil
the Garth and then see him Craze with the
ahcen and the cattlei Pride Is command
er, we'll plumed and caparisoned, ous II
Aeads forth a dark and frowning nost.
The arrows from the Almighty quiVer
hon ON
. Goliath shakes his great spear IN de1ance,
Int the smooth stones from the brook
, make him stagger and fall like an OK un-
dor n butcher 8 bludgeon. He who Is down
, cannot fall. Vessels scudding under pare
poles do not feel the force OF the storm,
while those with all soils set capsize ~ the
sudden descent Of the tempest.
Remember that we can be as proud o.
our humility as Of anything else Ants
k themes walked the streets OF Athens VIII
IS n rnaaed cloak to demonstrates his huIniil
j. ~. hut Socrates declared he could see tn
!, hvpocrisv through the holes In his CLOAK
4 We would all SEQ ourselves smaller tnol
d we are II we were AS philosoPhic as sever
9. us, the emperor Of Rome who said az Tn
le close of his life II have been everything
Y, and everything Is nothing" And whe
r the urn that was to contain his ashes wa
rs Mt his command brought to him no sale
e. Little urn, thou shalt contain one &c
q whom tho world was too little.
fe 10 you not also learn from the misto
Is tune Of this king of Babylon what teri
to bic thing Is the loss OF reasonp There is Z
,s. calamity that can possibly befall US IN tn
nd world SO great as arrangement OF inteile
" to have the body Of man and yet TO 70
"a. even below the instinct of brute. In Tn
is world Of horrible sights the most horrin
~ &C. tho idiots stare. In this world OF hor1
n bile sounds the most horrible Is the mar
by aos laugh. A vessel driven on the rock
or when hundreds go down never to rise OF
other hundreds drag their mangled NJ
m. shivering bodies upon the winters Deac
ed is nothing compared to the laundering
DIV intcllects full Of vast hopes and attai
lth ments and capacities. Christ's heart we
I'd, out toward those who were epileptio, "a
Of ing into the fire, or maniacs, cutting tne'
rn- selves among the tombs.
al We nrc accustomed to be more gratel
of e.. ....v-&oo1 health fhan for the prOI