The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-17
ts@cting guards about them in legal

t=ctng guards about them in lega
| sense.
SuT:sea ms Cure Disease.
The sunheams can cure physical dis
ease. The gospel light, if Christian
| people will only perform their Chris
tan duties at the ballot box, will cure
| governmental disease. The late DR.
| Neils Finsen by scientific investigation
| found that certain microbes would die
| under certain colored lights We know
| that all governmental injustices and so
| clal crimes and city temptations viii
| disappear under the bright rays which
may be flashed from the gospel light
! Thus it is every Christians duty to see
to it that as far as he may be able he
shall have a Christian supervisor and
Christian common council and Il
Christian mayor and a Christian gov,
ernor and Christian congressman and
Christian senator and Il Christian
president of the United States. If
Christian church members will stand
shoulder to shoulder at the ballot box
the iniustices and crimes and evil
temptations which run I'd mpant through
our great cities will no longer exist
But l bethink myself as come to
the close of this sermon on "gran-
sccndent Light that have two duties
The one is to the servant of Jesus
Christ; the second is to the man and
the woman who have not yet been
willing to accept the Saviour's love
The one is to the disciple of the Chris
tan light: the second is to the child of
Satan, who Is living in the darkness
of sin. These are the two classes of
my audience. There is no third group
for ''he that is not with me is against
me, and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad" AS l come to this
closing part Of my sermon I tremble
with excitement. know. as you
ought to know, the tremendous results
Of your decision. Why do l tremble:
Because your father, your mother, your
wife, your child or the preacher of this
morning cannot make you become Il
''child of light if you are not willing
" w oo VI Jul oNu u.
The gospel light, like that of the
suns light, with all of its creating,
saving power, is the easiest of all great
influences to be resisted The light
nings strike everywhere They cut to
the right and to the left. With one
blow they can split rocks and wreck
homes and dismantle trees The suns
heat cannot be ignored, even if one
would. When the hot summer months
come, all who can do SO flee from the
cities and HE themselves away to the
woods or the seashore. Closed doors
and windows make the sitting air only
the more oppressive The poor little
children moan and cry. The sick, If
they are not taken away to the sea,
shore or the, high mountains, often die.
The city parks are crowded with suf-
fering humanity.
Cannot Escape Thunder.
You cannot escape if you would the
sounds of the cannonading of the ele.
ments when the thunderstorm begins
to growl and to crash. The frightened
girl may run to her bedroom and close,
the windows and draw the shades and
bury her ears in the pillows. The
booming discharges of the heavenly
artilleries send their echoes even
through stone walls. But the sunlight
can be overcome so easily that all one
has to do is to close the eyelids and tie
a bandage over the face, and as blind
man he will have to grope his way
along the darkness. All one has to do
is to plant the flowers under the shad-
ows of wall, and you can see them
pale and droop and wither and die
Light may have creating, develop
ing, protecting, saving influence,
but light will never force its way
through blocked vestibule or through
a thick obstruction which has been
erected to keep it out. Thus the Cos
pei light will never enter your heart
unless you wish it to come. Christ
said, II am the light" What is your
answer? Will you accept that light?
Will you reject it and live in eternal
darkness? ~
What is your life to be7 What is
your death to be2 What is your eterni-
ty to be- One moonlight night upon
the Hudson river there came the quick
ring of the pilots bell, warning the en-
gfneer that danger was ahead. 1t was
q moonlight night. No boat was near.
The ship was in midstream, so the en-
gineer could not tell what the signal
meant. He went at once to the pilot
house. There be found the old pilot dy-
ing. As he lifted up the PROSTATE man
the pilot murmured: 1T is dark. A
mist has settled upon the river, and
cannot see Tell the captain 1t is dark
and can't see." Oh, my friends, is
your lifes close to be shrouded In dark
mists? Is your river Of death" to be
in spiritual sense like that OF the
Hudson river pilot-in an atmosphere
dark, impenetrably, awfully and eter-
nally dark?
When King Philip III. Of France.
called "the Hardy" returned from his
war against the Moors and his con-
quest over the hey of Tunis, 1t is said
that be brought back in his train Eve
collins. He came back to Paris, bring
ing the dead bodies Of his father, his