The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-12

message Of divine love:
\ still more concrete illustra ton will
show the application Of the principle
for which I am contendng. Surprising
that today should read an autograph
! letter from Andrew Carnegie or John
| d. Nockefeller or Baron RotnSchild or
| some other mullimiliOnure to this eff
! feet:
AS the winter is coming on, | feel
| it to be My duty to help the poor ana
the unfortunate. Therefore please an
nOunce as soon as possible that next
Sunday my representatives will be
| with you and that they will give ten
dollar bill to every man. woman ann
child who comes to your service SO thaS
! they can buy bread:'
What would be the result Of my rea1
ing such letter as that? Why, yoa
| would carry the news everywhere.
You would go out of our way to speak
to every one you ever knew. Iols
/ would say to all the buyers and the
sellers of the store: Come up to our
church next Sunday. Tel! all of your
poor friends about the good news.
Bread, bread, There is going to be
, free bread for every one" And on
, next Sunday morning the streets about
this church would be- crowded. Md
! everywhere til" cry would b" raised:
"1}rrad bread. .'r"e bre;td free
brrad"' If YOU would carry far and
wide such an earthly promiS" of a Car
negie or a Rockefeller. viii you not
carry at least as tar and wide the
l
would gladly and Willingly tell your
business friends and employers and
employees about a bread which can
give life to the physical body, will you
be dumb in reference to that spiritual
bread Of life which Christ offers to all
who come to him!
Give Testimony at Home.
Would that the dumb lips OF Chris
tan testimony might be Embossed by
our own firesides among our loved
ones, as we'll as among the strangers
dwelling outside the four walls of our
home. | place this spiritual obligation
upon my own heart and life as well as
upon yours. There is many a minister
| who is so anxious about the souls of
his congregation that sometimes he
overlooks the souls destinies of his
own children and brothers and sisters
i and parents. Some time ago | buried
a noble man of God named Rev. VIII
liam E. McCrea. In conversation with
me one day he said that the sweetest
moment Of ali his life, not excepting
his own conversion, was when he was
able to lead his own venerable father
~ e he, fat
moral and, from a worldly stand
point, a good man. but not protesting
Christian, and, though he had a son in
the ministry, yet no one for years had
ever asked the father to give himself
in love to the Lord Jesus Christ. But
one day Rev. Mr.. McCrea. after he had
been FIVE years in the ministry, came to
his father and said: Father, do you
not want to become Christian? Do
you not want to take mothers Christ
and my Christ as your Christ? Do you
not want me to pray with you nowT'
The tears started from the old mans
eyes; his lips quivered- He shook with
: emotion as he answered.: Yes, Willie.
do. Oh, Willie, l have been waiting
so long for some one to ask me to come
/ to Christ! Why did you not do it be
fore?" So today let us start to plead
everywhere with Christian testimony;
let us begin right in our own homes.
Let us begin first and at once among
those who are closest to US. as Andrew
first sought his own brother to bring
him to Christ.
My friends, members of jefferson
Park church. l here and now conse-
crate my life to new work. am 60
ing back to the days and life which l
used to live when first entered the
ministry. In those old days did not
seek so much to comfort, and please the
members of my church as to win souls.
Ny only desire was to reach out for
those who were outside of the church
; and who never had confessed the name
of Jesus. Before / entered my pulpit
would get down on NY knees and
. say, "Oh, God, let me speak the right
word for that young man and woman
whom I may never see again until I
meet them at thy throne"' Such is my
purpose now; such is the purpose Of
my new assistant. Brothers and sis
tiers, we have been too long dwelling
together in selfish fellowship. We have
; enjoyed each others society well. But
to be happy together is not enough.
Will you here and now clasp my hand
in a holy purpose? Will you here and
now move forward with me to seek out
the strayed lamb which is lost upon
the mountain of sin? VIII you go
forth with NE out into the storm, per-
haps to battle against derision and
sneers? Will you go in the name Of
Jesus Christ? Will you promise here
and now to carry the gospel message
to the great unchurchedl- and to the
i sinful men and women who are living
under the shadows Of our own doors?
Copyright 1903 by-Lou;s Eiopschl