The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-17

have their, spiritual seeds within them
even the lowest of social outcasts
| These seeds may be developed. But
what they need is spiritual light. II
you are the light of the world, it may
be your privilege by the grace of God
| to quicken them into life. They are
| dormant now, but when the light i'm
planted in. your soul shines upon them
they may awake into vigorous life and
| bear fruit to the glory of God. What
sinful man needs is gospel light, divine
light, spiritual light.
| If this deduction is true, | would be
| careful how your spiritual light touches
that drunkard or that beggar or that
woman with faded shawl who goes
down under the gaslight. | would be
| careful how you speak to that man
| who cheats you in business and has
lied about you. The ancient Romans
had custom of placing a lighted lamp
in the collins of their dead. During
the pontificate of Paul ILL.,, when the
coffin was dug up containing the body
of Tullia the daughter of Cicero, the
famous orator, such a lamp was found
among her bones. It was strange
idea to give the dead light on their
path beyond the grave. Better far is
the Christian hope that the divine
light. kindled during life in their souls,
will shed it's rays on their path to the
heavenly haven.
A ending Beacon.
Our divine light is d quickening and
transforming light. 1t is also a guild
ing light 1t not only calls into spir-
itual activity those human seeds buried
in the quagmires of sin; 1T guides to
Christ those wandering souls which.
like mariner who has lost his reck-
oning are drifting toward the rocks of
destruction. How many weary soul
tossed in the storm, with hope and
courage falling may find strength and
spirit revive as it sees the divine light
kindled by the grace of God in your
soul shining out clear and true, as the
sailor is cheered by the sight of the
Diamond shoai light, which signals year
in and year out fifteen miles to sea-
ward off Cape Hatteras, or the Cape
Charles light burns upon the water
front of old Virginia, or the Hog island
shoal lighthouse burns off Rhode Is
land, or the Rraddock point lighthouse
stands sentinel upon the banks Of Lake
Ontario!
How necessary that the Christians
light should be always bright and shin
ing! How many souls there may be
looking to it for guidance through the
storms Of life! If it failed to burn,
those souls might lose their way as.
were the Barnegat light snuffed out,
some noble ship freighted with precious
lives might in the darkness go crashing
on the reefs. Near Michigan City J.
enter lighthouse established there
many years ago by the United States
government 1 see there an old WON
an, over eighty years of age, of the
name of Miss Harriet e. Colfax. For
forty years she has cared for that
precious light. say to her: Come,
let us take night off and go see some
friends. You have been faithful
servant to our government long enough.
Take just one night to yourself in forty
years. "Oh, no." she would answer.
II cannot go. Tonight there might
come up storm. A ship driven before
the wind might head toward these dam
gerous rocks. The captain. standing
upon the bridge, would peer out into
the darkness, saying: Where am l:
Michigan City lighthouse must be near
at hand. Harriet Colfax has never
failed me in the past If failed him
tonight. perhaps that captain and all
his crew might find a watery grave
cannot go tonight. must attend t.
the light. cannot go tonight
BE Careful of False Lights.
Would you have a sinliie OF Miss Col
fax's answer? AS /. "a seaman, sal
over the sea of life find have Lee.
watching certain spiritual lights :.
Lake Ontario captains watch s..i.ch. CT:
City lighthouse. If these soi2itT,
lights had failed me know that
would have been lost. IT wss IF
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mothers prayers, my fathers FIJI. ::
ance; it was certain Christian leader:
hands which led my right. As ! XVI:
dependent upon the spiritual l.sssssi.s
others know that others are HtAtc.sin
your spiritual lights anl mine. (
man, O woman be careful mi NJ
give OFT false lights to sos,:... fe::oT
Christians. Be careful that yo, Do no.
say one word which might led soat
one to leave the right course. It w.
Just sentence. Il donot believe in lii.
excitements of revirsli::, uttered b.
the president of Princeton college, thai
kept Aaron Burr from becoming Il 4
Christian and I; man of God instead O.
a monster of inia.lity Watch well your
lives lest your inconsistency causes
some weak soul to stumble. AS Patti
said he would eat no meat while the
world endured If meat caused his
brother to offend, SO do you beware
lest your indulgence dim the light
which you should be giving. Ye are
the light Of the world. Ye are the
standing sentinels over the
rocks of sin upon which many Chris
tian craft will be wrecked IL your light
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