The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-24

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to be nlerchu nta or soldiers or nlechan
les or sailors Young man. care no.
whose son yau may be. find ont what
God intended you to be. 1t makes but
little difference what your father wants
you to be. Whit has God fitted yot
to be- Do not be man made lawyer
doctor minister, merchant or mechan
ie. lie a God made David with his
sling. DO not try to fight the battle OF
life In your fathers ar1nor. Gather
yo;lr own ammunition down by the rip
ping brook of Gods inspiration.
But the errors with which young men
choose their line of work nre no more
reprehensible than the means some of
lis use after our professions and career
In life have been selected. We then
show no more common sense in our
choice of weapons with which we are
to accomplish that work than If the
explorer Robert Edwin Peary should
try to reach the north pole In sail
boat fashioned after the hull of the
Santa Maria, the flagship of Christie
pher Columbus, or to fight modern
war with out Of Gate weapons like
some of those antiques to be found In
the British museum.
It would be mistake for ministers
to say: I'VE will not talk to the people
In plum common sense way, as Christ
talked to his audience In parable. We
will not draw our illustrations from the
incidents of daily life and introduce
those fresh illustrations into our prac-
teal sermons, as Christ did when he
talked about the thieves Oh the Jericho
rond, or about the woman who lost Il
part of her wedding dowry. But we
will gather our materials from past
ages and from the writer's Of old and
from the sins Of the Jewish people and
not from the sins of the American peo-
pie, who live at our very door" There
are many doing this. The result is there
are hundreds Of preachers who do not
WELD any modern "slings." They do
not preach as Christ would have them
preach. They are ready to talk ebout
the lily of the valley and the rose of
Sharon and the grapesAof Eschol. but
they are not willing to uaser philippe
against commercial sins In our own
day, against the groceryman who has
false weights for his pound of sugar
and tea as well as against the wealthy
millionaire who is living double life
and Ia breaking the marital vows which
he once made to the young girl when
the twain ut the marriage altar became
one.
David Might Have Failed.
What we say about church work we
say about every other kind of work.
Young man, do not do tliing as law
yer or doctor or merchant merely be-
cause other lawyers or doctors or mer-
chants have been accustomed In the
past to do TINT thing and In that way.
1t was the novelty of onslaught which
David used that was able to overthrow
the mighty philistine. Il you are going
to mike d success III life you must
haye independent ways Of doing your
work. You must get out Of the ruts.
Do not use Saurs sword to fight your
Goliath merely because all other sol
oilers are using swords to fight their
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