The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-25

gentleman asked me to sit In his pew. I"
Yes. young man. that was Robert
Lenox. win trust anyone that Mr..
Lenox invites into his pew. You need
not trouble yourself about references.
When these goods are gone. como and
get more" That young man became
an eminent merchant and. more than
that, Christian merchant, and he at
trtbuted all his success to that first
Sabbath in the city. Young man just
arrived. put yourself under good tnflu-
ences your first day in town. There
hangs your helmet. Take it down.
There is your breastplate. Adjust it.
There is all the harness for safety and
triumph. Put 1t on.
Also see In my subject the folly of
Understanding the enemy. That was
Benhadad's fatal mistake. He want
ed less than half day to capture Sa-
maria and make the king OF Israel
capitulate. But what he thought was
SO easy turned out to be the impossible.
Better overestimate than underesti-
mate the other side. We who are try
ing to make the world what il ought
to be contend not with homunculi.
We wrestle not with stripl:ngs. We
have a whole army of antagonists try
ing to halt the King of God and over
throw the cause of Righteousness. II
we secure the victory, it will be
struggle as fierce as when the Greeks
and Persians met at Marathon, as
when Darius and Alexander grappled
each other at Arbela, as when Joan of
Arc rode triumphant at Orleans, as
when the Russians met the .Swedes at
Poltava as when Marlborough COM
manded the allied armies at Blenheim.
Those were fights for earthly crowns
and dominions, but the fight that now
goes on between all the allied armies
Of hell is to settle whether God or Sa-
tan is to have possession of this planet.
l congratulate all those who are now
in the thickest of life's battle that the
time is coming when the struggle will
end and you will put the harness OH,
helmet and greaves and breastplate
having fulfilled their mission. You
cannot in one visit to London Tower
see all. You must go again and again.
You will see the crowns of kings and
queens, the robe worn by the Black
Prince, and silver baptismal fonts from
which royal infants were christened.
and the block on which Lord Lovat
was beheaded. But no part of Lon
don Tower will more interest you than
the armory, in which is skiIlfully and
impressively arranged a collection of
all styles of armor worn between the
thirteenth and eighteenth centuries,
suggesting 500 years of confiict-cui-
rass and neck guard and chin piece and
Lot nd rir-11 p
mailed apron. You see just how from
head to heel those old time warriors
were defended against sharp weapons
that would Gu. or thrust or bruise and
allowing them to ccme out of battle
unhurt when otherwise they would
have been slain.
o ye soldiers of Jesus Christ. when
the war of life is over and the victors
rest in the soldiers home on the heav-
emily heights, perhaps there may be in
the city OF the sun tower of spiritual
armor such as incased the warriors for
Christ in earthly combat. Some day
we may be in that armory and hear
the heroes talk of how they fought the
good fight of faith and see them with
the scars Of wounds forever healed and
look at the weapons of offense and de-
Tense with which they became more
than conquerors. In that tower of
heaven. as the weapons OF the spiritual
conflict are examined, ST. Paul may
point out to us the armor with which
he advised the Ephesians to equip
themselves and say: THAT is the
shield of faith. That is the helmet OF
salvation. That is the girdle of truth.
That is the breastplate of righteous
ness. Those are the mailed shoes in
which they were shod with the prepa-
ration OF the gospel" There and then
you may recount the contrast between
the day when you enlisted in Christian
conflict and the day when you closed
it in earthly farewell and heavenly sal
utation, and the text, which has sc
much meaning for us now, will have
more meaning for us then. Let not
him that girdeth on his harness boast
himself as he that putteth it Off"
DOGS LEAD THE BLIND
Curious Kennels In England whers
Puppies Go to School.
Among the many careers that a dog
| who has to work for his living may
follow, is that of leading the blind. Of
| course, the work is one that requires
some training, and there are, in fact, 6
number of what may be called prep
aratory schools for this sort of bust
ness. The most reliable guides are the
product of the instruction of MAJ
whose kennels are in little village
in England. AS the dog which is des
tined to act in the place of a pair o
eyes has no easy task before it, onl.
the most intelligent puppies are chosen