The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-06-04

done.
am my Lords and he is mine
He drew me. and followed on
charmed to confess the voice divine.
Why, is not n man free when he gets rid
or his sins? The sins of the tongue gone,
the sins OF action gone, the sins of the
mind gone All the transgrcssions of 30
| 40, 90, 20 years gonc--no more In the soul
| IMAM the malaria that floatcd in the atmos-
| phere thousand years ago, for when nv
LORD Jesus pardons n man he parlons him,
ana there is no halfway work about it.
Here sec beggar going along the
| turnpike road. lie Is worn out with dis
| case. lie Is stiff In the joints He is ulcer
| ca all over. He has rheum In his eyes He
Is SICK and wasted He is in rags Every
time he puts down his swollen feet he
| cries, "Oh, the pain!'' He sees a fountain
by the roadside under n tree, and he crawls
up to that fountain and says: II must
wash. Here l may cool my ulcers. Here
/ may get rested" He stoops down and
scoops up in the palm Of his hands enough
water to Stake his thirst, and that is all
gone Then he StOOps down and begins to
wash his eyes, and the rhcum is ali gone
Then he puts in his swollen feet, and tho
swelling Is gone. Then, willing no longer
to be only half cured, he plungcs in, and
his whole body Is laved in the stream, and
he gets upon tho bank we'll Meantime
the owner of the manson up yondcr comes
down, walking through the ravine with
his only son, and he sees tho bundle OF
rags and asks, Whose rags are thcsey' A
voice from the fountain says, ''Those arc
my rags Then says the master to his
son, eco up to the house and get tho best,
new suit you can find and bring 1t down. +"
And he brings down the clothes, and the
beggar is clothed in them, and he looks
around and says: II was filthy, but now
am clean. l was ragged, but now am
ROBBED was blind, but now 1 see Glory
no tn hoe %
be to that son who brought me that new
SUIT OF Clothes and glory be to this foun-
tain, where l have washed, and where all
who will may wash and be clean!' Where
sin aboundcd, grace doth much moro
abound. The bird has been dipped; now
let 1t fly away.
The next thing notice about this bird
when it was loosened (nnd this is the main
ldca) is that 1t flew away. Which way did
it go? When you let bird loose from
your grasp, which way does it fyp Up.
What are wings for? To fly with. Is
here anything in the suggestion of the di-
lection taken by that bird to Indicate
which way we ought to go2
Rise, my soul. and stretch thy WINGS
Thy better portion trace.
Rise from transitory things
To heaven, thy native place.
FIyinR Heavenward.
We should be going heavenward. That
s the suggestion. But I know that we
AVE great many drawbacks. You had
hem this morning perhaps You had
hem yesterday, or the day before and al
hough you want to be going heavenward,
'ou are constantly discouraged. But /
oppose when that bird went out of the
'riest's hands it went by infections
ometimes STOPPING. A bird does not shoot
lirectly up, but this is the motion Of n
'ird. So the soul scars toward God, rising
Up in love and sometimes depressed by
rial. 1t does not always go in the drcc-
ion it would like to go, but the main
curse is right. There is one passage in
he Bible which quote oftener to myself