The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-06

MANNED and the blind and the help
less? When a stream of gold began to
flow through your counting roomx
when YOU got beyond the awful strug-
gle for daily bread; when you had
more than two garments in your ward
robe, did you get down upon your
knees and say, % God, l thank thee
that thou hast given me much | thank
thee that lean now give to others in thy
name. Now | can be eyes for the blind
and clothing for the naked and food
for the hungry and shelter for the
LonelrSs?" Did you, do You make that
prayer? Like the ant, are you trying
to protect your peopl" from outside
dangers: Like the ant, are you trying
to help tn" helpless and care for those
who are mentally, physically and spir
itually doomed unless you come to their
rescue?
The thoughtful love Of the ant for
her sisters WAS beautifully Illustrated
by an incident In the life Of the noted
sage Of Philadelphia, Benjamin Frank
lin. One day he discovered a number
Of ants fcaSting in Il moaSSeS pail He
drove them out and suspended the pail
In midair from a hook in the center Of
the ceiling Much to his surprise, after
Franklin had been reading for awhile,
he saw an overlooked ant which had
been hidden in the pail crawl out and
climb up the handle to the string and
up to the ceiling. across the ceiling to
the side WALL down the side wall and
disappear \ short time afterWnru the
philosopher saw that same ant leading
a retinuc of other ants. The process
sion followed her up the wall. over the
ceiling to the hook, down the string,
along the handle and into the pail Of
mOlasses again, where she and her
friends gorgeu themselves with mo-
lasses until they could hold no more.
In the illustration Of the ant going to
find her sisters that they mi:At enjoy
meal instead Of eating scltishly alone
cannot you and l find a spiritual les
son?
oh yes" says some one, but that
ant did not have to divide her meal.
She had all she wanted. Why would
she not be willing to let her sisters cat
their fill also: There was hanging
from that rope Il big pail Of moluSSes. -
Trues true. But, my friend, have not
most Of US n big pail Of nlola*scs: If
you and l should give to the hungry
hi, ,lfrl, 1.Ift
for our own tables. If some Of us
should clOthe the naked we would still
have enough warm garments for our
backs: if some Of us should be crlltcEr:
for the lame we would still have on!
own straight li,nhs which. God has civ,
en- to us with which to walk and rul:
and leap as hind upon the mountain
side. Oh like the ant, will you not bt
kind and merciful and loving to your
fellow men who need your sympathy
and help?
Hard Workers the Females.
Eut | cannot close without one sim
pie paragraph, to state that this ser
mon of all sermons should teach it,
lesson to our wives and mothers ant.
sisters and daughters a., no other ser
mon l have ever preached. Have YOU
not noticed how l have always used
the feminine gender in speaking Of the
ant "She does this "Shc does
that "She does the other ching
The reason l speak thus is because
the 0aturulist tells US that the little
black ant we see In the roadway be
longs to the feminine gender. Yes,
the hard workers Of the ant hills are
| always females. No sooner is the
| nuptial journey taken than the male
ant disappears So, when l come tC
| the house of God, to the place where
| Christian workers dwell, l find in
evitably that the wives and the moth
ers and the sisters and the daughters
are the leaders there in Christian
work. As the mother rocks the cradle
so is the child developed for God. II
IS the sisters Christian life that leads
the brother to Christ. 1t is the way
In which a wife lives that decides the
way the husband lives. woman
today, with the ant hill as my pulpit
I ask you will you not 90 to work fol-
Christ? Will you not, here and now
consecrate your prayers and youl
lives for the salvation Of your father:
and brothers and husbands and sons
to God? Our powerful preacher OF
this morning is a pricStcSs- the ant
Will You not plead with your loved
ones to bow at Christ's altar, which !:
rs low as the grave hillock. Which l.
as low even as an ant hill? . God
give us one generation Of women fo
Christ, and then we shall have whole
world saved for Christ.
copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopsch.]