The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-08-13

oli' uitLiodCVICi!' NOJLlllS can DC gfaDuGr
or more nObly original than this admis-
sion. This old soldier, after 30 years scrv-
ice, this iron man and victorious general,
established IN nj enemy's country at the
head OF an Immense army, is afraid of his
creditors THIS is a kind of tear that has
seldom troubled conqUcrors and invaders
anu doubt II the annals Of war present
anything comparable TO its sublime sim
plicity"
Return to God.
Oh, is it not high time that we preach
the morals Of the gospel right beside tie
faith Of the gospel? Nh. Froudc tie ccly-
DRAFTED English historian, has written If
his own country these rcmarkahlr words.
'From the great house In the city If Lon
don to the village grocer the coumcr>lai
life Of England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold lis
ground against competitions You can 10
longer trust that any article you bay is
the thing which it pretends to be. We
have false weights, false measures, cheat
ing and shoddy everywhere. And yet the
clergy have seen all this grow up in abso-
Lutte indifference. Many hundreds of ser
mons have heard in England on the di-
vine mission of the clergy, on bishops and
on Justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy Of the sacraments, but during all
these 80 wonderful years never one that
can recOllect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but am very
certain that in all parts of the earth we
need to preach the moralities of the gospel
right along beside the faith of the gospel.
My nearer, what are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your pocket?
My other nearer, how are you getting
along with that wicked scheme you have
now on foot? Is that pool ticket" YOU
have in your pockct2 Why, 0 young man.
were you last night practicing in copying
your employers signature? Where were |
you last night2 Are your habits as good |
as when you left your fathers house? You
had a Christian ancestry perhaps, and you
nave had too many prayers spent on you |
to go overheard Dr. Livingstone, the |
famous explorer, was descended from the |
hlghlanders, and he said that one of his |
ancestors one of the highlanders, one day |
called his family around him. The high.
lander was dying He had his children
around his deathbed. He said: "Now, my
lads, have looked all through our history
as far back as / can find it, and | have
mover found Il dishonest man in all the
line, and | want you to understand YOU
good blood You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God,
DC honest before your fellow men, be hon
est before your soul If there be those
who have wandered away, come back,
come home, come now, one and ALL come
into the kingdom of God
Warning Signal.
am glad some one has set to music
that scene III August 1884, when a young
girl saved from death whole rail train
Of passengers, Some of you remember
that out west in that year on a stormy
night q hurricane blew down part of a
railroad bridge A freight train came
Ilong, and 1t crashed into the ruin, and
jhe engineer and conductor persisted.
There was girl living in her fathers
abln near the disaster, and she heard the
rash OF the freight train, and she knew
hat in few moments an express was /
luo. She lighted a lantern and clambered {
lp on the one beam of the wrecked bridre 7
N TO The main bridge, which was trestle-
work, and started to cross amid the thunder ,
ma the lightning Of the tempest and the
aging OF the torrent beneath One mis-
tep and 1t would have been death. Amid
VI that horror the lantern went out. I
sometimes, and sometimes walk $
ny over the slippery rails and over the
reStleWork, she came to the other side of
he river She wanted to get to the tele t
raph station where the express train did +
ot stop, so that the danger might be telc.
faphcd to the station where the train did n