The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-11

Jail. Oh, We braZen libertines of :igE
life: Oh, We immoral and vanton lie
bauchees. legaliziug your crimes i'll L
divorce court, come today and SIT at
the feet of this young man of the east
and learn the lesson that i'll Joseph 5
sight. as in Gods sight, the marri& &c
altar is the most sacred place IL lis
universe, next to the great wl!f
throne
But Joseph was more than morally
pure. He was financially clean as
we'll No tainted money stuck to the
palms of his hands. There is many
man who is morally pure in his home
and good to his family who is Il thief
and robber and who will cheat every
one he can fleece i'll financial way
"Boss" Tweed the biggest political
thief New York city ever produced
was a devoted family man. The great
est gambler and dive keeper OF New
York, man who made millions Of
dollars out of his dens of infamy and
who spent some years in the peniten-
tiary, loved his family with a passion
ate love. Yes, Joseph was politically
clean as well as morally pure. When
he gathered up the tenth part of all
the grain of Egypt during the seven
years of plenty he stored it all in the
public granaries. And when the seven
years of want came he sold it all back
to the people Not one dishonest coin
stuck to his fingers. Thus, because he
was honest and made his deputies hon
est, the dishonest officials hated him
and tried to forget his existence. And
one of tie surest signs that you are
pure and true and honest and upright
and good Is that dishonest people and
impure people try to forget your name
and push you into oblivion.
Arstides the Just.
You have all heard the story of the
! great general and statesman Aristides
| the Just Tighter and tighter was
| he gripping the hearts of the Athenian
people, ThemiStocles. his great rival,
realized that in little while, if ATis-
| tides was allowed to move among the
| great that no voice would have any
| power in Athens but his. So Themisto-
cles gathered all the rough and bad
elements together and started a move
ment to Danish Aristides from the city.
| On the day of the election a peasant
approached Aristides and asked his
help III voting against Aristides. why.
-lx,4 4 Il Ipr,
| asked. Has he done any wrong that
| you would drive him from this capt
| tal?" No" answered the peasant.
mot that / know of | do not even
! know him. but it irritates me to hear
| him everywhere called the Just" And
so the carrion birds would, if they
| could, always drive the clean winged
| birds from the heavens. The dishonest
| Egyptians would obiterate the name
Of Joseph the prime minister, from the
| list of their national heroes. And. my
brother, If the dissolute do not despise
You and the unjust hate you, and the
| evil minded want to forget you. then
you should examine your heart and
| life, fearing lest YOU are growing like
them. The surest sign on earth that
you are living coed. pure life is that
bad people want you out Of their sight
"Now there arose up Il new King over
| Egypt which knew not Joseph
But, lastly, l remark that the Egyp-
| tians ceased to revere Joseph's mem
DRY because they did not believe that
| the God who sent Joseph to save then,
| was the same Ged who sent Moses to
| punish them. And yet is not the Egyp-
| tians' error our error? After God for
| years has been sending to us our 10
| sephs. after he has showerel innume..'-
able blessings upon us, are we not APP
| to say: God is good" God is kind
and forgiving." God is loving. and he
| will never send the rolling surges of
his Red sea of judgment tumbling down
| upon u.s. Oh. the long suffering mer-
| cy of God. How long. @ God how
long wilt thou stay thine avenging
hand from us? How long shall VIC
cease to forget that love and trample
| upon thy patience? Some time age
there came into my possession won
derful picture. 1t was one of Dore's
masterpieces.
| Scene In the Coliseum.
The scene was the Roman coliseum
1t was night Ali those immense tier
of seats, capable of holding 1oo,oG(
| spectators, We're. deserted. There vol
could see them in dim outline As you
looked at them you could see i'm imag
nation those seats again filed witt
| the yelling. vociferant multitudes wht
during the long, hot day just passed
/ had watched the gladiatorial contest
and the numbering of the Christians
But, though those tiers of seats were
| empty, the arena was not That
!! arena was filed with great piles
of human corpses. There were moth
/ ers there, even in death hugging theii
| dead babies to their breasts. There
| We're strong limbed men there and ole
men and old women. But they were
dead-all Gead. And among the silent
| corpseS yca could see the hungry lions
creeping or crouching. But over al
this scene of death Dore has let .
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