The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-28

yer and gold have none, but such as
have give | unto thee" This, however.
! Is not the gif: of grace, but of a false
! letter Of recommendation. We fire.
uuently give such letters Of recon-
incubation when we know that the
men to whom we give them are i'll
! and the result is that there are thou
sands of frauds being pernotratel all
! over the country not because bad men
are inStigating thcm--thtre are bad
: men everywhere but ltAr:suS" good
men have allowed their names to be
| linked to those frauds clrelrSsly. And
| there are thousands of good men out Of
! the positions in life which they are
! qualified to fill merely because medic
! ere and incompetent men for friend
ships sake have been pushed into those
positions by what is commonly termed
a "pull." My brother. never he secu
rity for a friend unless YOU are first
sure that what you recommend by let
ter IS the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the TRUTH
Pcstmortem Lnudation.
| But my text has even a wider sweep.
! If men deSpise those for whom we I'M
| wisely have become SurctieS they are
! apt to despise us Also and If they learn
| to despise us they are very apt to learn
to despise the religion We represent
for say what you will, every unf;lith-
full Christian Is representative, how
ever sadly delinquent, of the God in
whom he processes to believe. We are,
or should be, the lights Of the world
the cities set upon a HILL which
cannot be hid If we are unftithful in
our dealings with others our faith
lessness reflects on religion and is an
offense against God himself This fact
is never better demonstrated than
when minister Is untrue to his Divine
Master and his sacred calling At the
public funeral of q worldly man or q
worldly woman sometimes in order to
give comfort to the living a minister
will try to smooth things over, though
the dead man may have been an eX
tortioner, a drunkard, a lii ertine.
gambler or a despiser Of the church OF
the Lord Jesus Christ OF course we
should speak no evil Of the dead, am
1t IS not necessary that any one s}loul.
cause pain by reflections at funeral
but surely there Is a limit to postlllo.
TEN laudation. Yet he will talk about
a twelve gated gospel. lie will saE
there was pardon for Paul, who was
the chief of sinners, and therefore there
Is pardon for U.S. He will not quote
the passage, Except ye repent ye shall
all likewise perish" but he will tail,
from the text, God is love-" and h.
will try to make people believe that the
unrepentant soul has entered through
the paradisaical gates. But tell you
my brother, even with the men OF the
world it won't go down. If we dishon
or ourselves by trying to become q
surety for our friends we dishonor Col
also
once heard minister dishonor Goi
in this way: Many years ago out III
the country person Of evil life was
buried That life had been wholly 4
worldly life, but In order to please the
relatives, who were members Of hia
church, the minister whitewashed the
record, and, though the dead had died.
as far as we knew, unrepentant, the
1ndulgent speaker opened the gates OF
heaven and had the departed living il
the whitest mansion nearest to tho
great white throne After the service
was ended a man Of the world sail t.
me: what does that minister mean b.
talking like that? If heaven is 70?
such one, then am SURF Of reachin;
there, blasphemer as I am No, my
friends, you cannot be untrue In your
commentators or recommendation
without at the same time dfshonorinS
him Of whom you as Christians stan
before the world as the representa-
tives.
would beseech Of you, therefore, In
the smallest details Of your life al
tives of Jesus Christ. Sturgeon once
said, MANY horses fall at the bottom,
Of a hill because the driver thinks tl...
danger past and the need to hold the
reins with firm grip less pressing.
Many men lose their Christian disciple
ship at the foot Of the hill after the.
have climbed Calvary and descended
on the other side. They lose it be-
cause they do not serve God in the lit
tie things. They lose it because they
needlessly throw themselves into temp
tations by becoming false sureties for
their friends. They lose it because. IN
thinkingly, they throw moral danger:
in the way Of others. They lose it be
cause when they dishonor themselves
they dishonor Christ. May God help
lis, one and all, to be true to Christ;
then we shall be true to our fellow men
in every way.
copyright. 1868, by Louis Klopschl
A Temperance Lecture Ia Figures.
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