The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-23

is absolutely nulIiticd There are
enough Christians today in the land to
purify every city, morally as we'll az
spiritually. But what is the difiicultyT
The church of one denomination Will
try to undermine the church of another
denomination, and thNe is IL common
tendency to place Sectaran creed high
er than the gospel of the cross The
church members act Just a though
one half of Il locuSt'S swarm were IN
go 10 work and fight the other half OF
the swarm until they cXtcrHlinatcA
each other while the rich harvest fields
were lying near ut hand full with
ripened grain, ready to satisfy even
their rapacous hunger. Oh, that today
the Christian men, the disciples OF Je-
slls. could drop all their personal dit
ferences and work side hy side for the
glory and the eternal triumph of Jesus
Christ.
A Unit For Christ.
What makes England The greatest
factor of the world in international
politics? 1t is this: The English pco
ii
movement Though British subjects
may have their home differences, u
the members of Il family critici~e each
other at their own iire&ldeS. yet WieA
it comes to Il foreign policy the world
knows that all BritiShers will stan1
shoulder to shoulder to support their
king, no matter what their personal
differences may be even as the locu$ts
in unison will swarm to attack dense
forest May all the disciples of Christ
learn to act us Il unit for Christ. The
most impressive power Is the cum-!ia
tive influence of overwhelming mum
bers Internal differences mean fric
ton. Friction brings exhaustion. EN
haustion is the foreruuner of death.
All that Satan wants is to have one
half of the good Christian men of the
world fight the other half of the good
men of the world for the glory of God,
and then there will he no need for Sa
tan to wage Il battle.
But there is one more thought Chat
have about the insignificant insects OF
my text aud then | AIN done. After
the locusts have once taken up The
line of march or of fight they can ne''
er be headed away from their StrNiEh:
course When i'll Il midnight tclIpeSi
the great herd Of cattle ulxpn west
ern prairie take fright and. mad with
bitter fear, stampede. the cowboy may
ride to the head Of the herd ana turn
the leaders and get them moving III q
circle. but the locusts in their I'll "a
can never be headed off from moo
In straight line. Fire may lee hli-'
bitches may lie dug. bit to- -
march on or fly on untH VI !: t.,
dead bodies they smother out +.
flames and fill Up TIC bitches. fhe
over the corpscs Of their dnt1 @"'
rades the rest of I'll" swnrln Will K
steadily on in their courte.
Even the sea itself cannot ..t"0 tH".
| In their onward progress. 'r. Y,
| Thomson in his book c;;E!~ "i;"a'1 go
| personalitv' record; thi. > r.rs' ~
| fact: While | wac soi"u:. 't"@ - u
I heard that the v-l}oi" C"t''a'''- t"ft';
| Mount Lebanon was disNar"3 l. -
news that vast arm Of rl"".''tif%
| Gusts was coming from ~" 60 90
desert The governor Of t." 81 'if
| ordered out regiment # 9, LIES !.
aid the people 10 c"n@tE""t 20"
rampant Of brushes 10 T." SIT O. Er'
as the locusts came Up t" 1t, lrltfH"
| thus to save the garden Of R"ifri
| When they raked the prepared heap
| of brush and these were set OIL fife. TIE
| locusts marched on without pauing
| until in brief time they put the fires
| entirely out. As the sea was not fdf
off, everybody hoped that they would
| take to surf bathing. When the van
| guard reached the waves like all true,
good locusts, III they hoped till the
| pillows seemed to roll only gras#hop
pers. Nor did the scene end nnttl the
| last OF the rear guard, faithful 10 the
great Law Of his being. had skipped
| over the heads Of his dead comrades
to make his last leap into the blue wa
| tiers of the Mediterranean Oh. that
we might all have the perseverance IF
| the lGcusts, After God has once map
| ped out our line Of march may We z ,
| on and on no mater whether we Ike
| or die; mag we still move on and on.
| Concert of Action.
The trouble with most Of cur rel
| gious lives i; that we de- rot act in con
| cert. That IL The first difficulty. The
| second t. even more disastrous. We
| 10 not fight cen inuously and unrclent-
| ingly for the right. Our gospel move
| ments for tie most part are spaSmodi".
| We are Ike frisky colt trying T.
| draw q lead. We maize Il plunge now;
we make a plunge again. But we not
| slowly and surely tighten the traces
| and then keep steadily on pulling In
the straight line. When the locust