The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25

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perpetual youth?' WELL he an
swered, Il do not know Of any except
one. trust God. Because fully trust
him lever worry. | always go to bed
early and get eight or nine full hours
sleep. Then when get up in the morn
ing say to myself, Now, with Gods
help, l will do the best, the very best,
and things do not come out as wish,
why, it Is Gods lookout and not mine.
l know he loves me better than l love
myself. Why should l grumble If be
has better plan for me than nave
thought outY' All, my friends, after
we have done our best with Gods help
can we not trust God? Can we not feel
that God will care for us even as he
does for the wild flowers?
The Easter lilies teach us that
short earthly life Is not necessarily an
unimportant life. Even though our
loved ones were with III, but few
years. the influence of those years both
for them and us may reach on through
the eternties. Their lives and our lives
NAV be as short as the shortest lived OF
the wild flowers, and yet the eternities
themselves will never be able to OutnVe
them and us in our heavenly joys. The
Easter lily is the symbol Of the Christ's
resurrection and of our own resurrec-
ton through Christ.
The God Of the heavenly garden
sometimes gives his sweetest perfumes
| and most exquisite garments to those
of his floral children who may be call
Ell the transient beauties of this world.
| To some Of us our earthly lives may be
| as short as those of the passing flow
ers. The night blooming cereus BIOS
SONS but once a year. About O'Clock
at night this beautiful flower, with Its
rim Of most delicate pink and Its White
center, opens. In three hours the flow
er is dead. The midnight tolls Its knell.
The night blooming cereus, although
nine inches in diameter, dies of old
age after it has had but three short
hours of maturity The marvels Of
Peru, better known by the name Of
the four o'clocks, were the little flow
ers dearly cherished by our grand
mothers. They open late every after
noon, Just at o'clock. In olden days
these flowers were far more to be
trusted as timepieces than the ancient
wooden clocks of the quaint farm
houses. These flowers die short time
after the sun has set Nearly all wild
flowers live but few days at most.
Snowdrops fade almost as quickly as
a snowdrop melts away. The trailing
arbutus shivers in the cold of spring
and soon catches pneumonia and dies.
The biographies of nearly all plants
can be written In the few words with
which Jesus described the life Of a
lily, as ''the grass of the field, which
today Is and tomorrow is cast into the
oven" The heat Of the sun may both
incubate floral life and cremate the
shriveled corpse In the same day.
The Resurrection Truth.
But, though mans life, like the lilies,
may be very short, his heavenly life,
the resurrection life, Is very long
Christ was only thirty-three years of
age when he was crucified. But Christ
Is today dwelling in heaven with our
dear ones who have gone beyond.
Mother, by the grave of your little
baby, I declare 1t. Husband, by The
grave Of your dead wife, believe It.
Child, by the casket of your father and
mother, welcome this resurrection
truth Our dear ones earthly lives
may have ended, but their heavenly
lives have Just begun. Oh, on this glo
rious Easter morn will you accept this
truth? BY placing your hope in Christ
who bids you trust him, as do the lilies
of the field, will you not grasp the
promise Of heavenly resurrection?
Could we have a more beautiful sym
Dol Of the resurrection with which tt
close this Easter service than the WILD
flowers Of the east? Men often make
thing ugly first and then cover 1t VI
with paint or paste or gliding to make
it beautiful" once wrote an unknown
writer. God never does SO. You viii
find no sham on his works. The shape
he gives to each creature Is just tina
which is fitted for it, and the colo
with which he adorns it will neve
wash off, In his great workshop trutl
and beauty go together May tn
beauty of the truth Of the trustin,
short lived Easter lilies be to us tn
symbol by which we may learn to trus
Christ while we are upon earth ant
live with him in the glorious Easte
which shall be eternal and without end
Copyright. 1905, by Louis Klopsch.]
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