The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-02

Give IRE that sleeping Ittlon. | mast
have thoul o. shall g mad" Under
these temptations of the. flesh you are
going down and down. You are head
ing straight for 4 premature grave. DO
you not realize now what Paul means
when he says, u keep under my body
and bring 1t into subsection lest ny any
means whom have preached TO oth"rs
/ myself shall he a castaWay.'
Like a Powder Magazine.
Or perhaps we have broken the NOR
al code Perhaps we have inherited
the iniIamcd procliyities Of some disso-
lutte ancestor When we try to govern
ourselves. we find that we are like a
mettleeome. high strung horse, ready
at moments notice to take the bit in
his teeth and rush madIy away. The
cold bl0odpl man of phlegmatic tenn
permanent cannot understand why the
quick tempered, high strung, nervous,
passionate nature can so easily kick
over the traces and do what it ought
not to do, The phlegmatic man is a
mound Of wet sand slowly being dried
by the rising sun. The passionate man
is n gunpoWder magazine, resdy to be
exploded by spark. And yet the
power Of God can come in and make
ii possible for weak man to overcome
the temptations of drink and all the
unSpeakable temptations of the flesh.
Yes. the power of God has been able
to help thousands Of men in the past
to triumph over the cup and over the
morphine habit and over libertinism
The power Of God can help YOU now
to triumph over your evil desires of
the flesh. Your temptation is not an
extraordinary case. There have been
many men Of the past even more dis
solute than you who have been saved
from the sins of the flesh. Have YOU
forgotten paurs statement? There
hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to men. but God is faith
full who will not suffer yen to lie
tempted above that We are able, but
will, with the temptation also make 4
way to escape, that ye may he able to
bear H."
Put there are mental temptations as
well as physical. lust the same as a
man may have a uniformed body he
can have Il malformed mind. His
thinking apparatus may be all askew.
In Bulgaria short time ago there died
a young woman of thirty years of age
She had the mind of q natured. devel-
Oped woman. she could talk as a wo-
man. but she had the body of a little
-mOnths-oll baby. She never grew
physically after she was Il few months
old She had to sleep In cradle. She
had the mind of Il woman, yet the
body of little child. III direct antithc-
sis to this we often find men of fully
matured physical bodies who are
worse than children in intellect. Their
minds are warped ana twisted out OF
form. They have such uniformed in
tellects that they cannot think Alright.
They cannot tell the difference be
tween right and wrong. In their own
strength they are intellectually color
blind
Defective Color Sight.
You know what | mean by q man
having defective color sight. When
the applicant for Il locomotive engf-
neer's position applies to the railroad.
what is the first and the chief rule by
which the official tests the applicant?
He takes him into a room where there
are a lot of worSted yarns all jumbled
up together. "Now, you go and pick
me out the blue skeins," says the eX-
aminer Now pick me ont the red
The difference between tile colors of
red and white may involve the safety
of hundreds of passengers which an
engineer may have in his charge. Some
of you may be surprised to learn that
hundreds of would lie engineers have
been rejected because the optic nerves
which connect their eyes and their
brains could not carry their messages
Alright. SO there are hundreds and
thousands Of men whose brains are de
formed. They cannot think Alright.
They cannGt tell right from wrong
when they see it. These men have
uniformed intelIects, just the same as
others nave ndlIOflHeu bOuitS. vi
course | am here using the brain in the
broad moral sense and not in the mar
row
was never more impressed with
this thought than some time ago when
| was reading the most marvellous ser
mon, | think, Henry Ward Beecher
ever preached. 1t is called THE Cour-
tesy of Conscience" In this discourse
Mr.. Beecher shows how each man by
education as we'll as by hereditary law
becomes au entity to himself or an
Individual differeSe from all other in
diyiduais Each man to a great ex-
tent Judges the world by giving voice
| to the predominant characteristics of
his own heart and mind and life.
"Now." says Mr.. Beecher, take man
of large benevolence. That is the pre-
dominating quality of his mind Ii
oyershadows everything else. As he
goes through the Bible everything that
magnifes the goodness Of God and the
mercy of God will come after his mag
! not WhnDever he comes to n fiSSurp