The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-01

cry, You kept saying: 80 Cod o
/ God. 0 Cod" You could not get any
further But suddenly you felt an
arm about Your neck. 10 one but she
could have touched You like that But
as she said. 80 Lord. hear my boys
prayer" a wonderful scene took place
| Like Peter. you seemed to be upon the
housetop Of Joppa. But, unlike Pc
ter'S vision, the vision you saw was
only ChriSt's glory 1t shone about
your head. 1t crept into your heart
1t rang from your lips. Whether YOU
were in the body or out of the body
you could not tell But one fact you
do know, Christ had revealed himself
to You by your mothers side. He
came and touched you. Are you today
living up to the divine call of that
glorious revelation?
Something Changed.
Many years ago a young Scotch girl
gave her heart to God at one of George
Whitefeld'S meetings. Some one asked
her, My dear, is your heart changed"
and she answered: something | know
is changed. Ii may he the world. 1t
may be my heart There is Il great
change somewhere, am sure. for
everything is different from what it
once was" Thus was it with YOU on
that Sunday afternoon. You arose
from, your knees and gave your heart
To God. Oh. Christ was SO different.
The love OF Your father ana mother
and SISTER was so different Your own
purposes of life were so different. You
were, like towper. filed with holy
ecstasy because Won were surrounded
by divine revelation. Yet. alas, alas.
how soon We have descended from the
heights of our mounts of transftgura-
ton.
But there was another wonderful
manifestation in our spiritual lives.
That was when we left home and
started ont in the world to make our
own living Somehow when We were
in the old homestead we felt q good
deal like the bather who is swimming
inside the life lines down at the great
ocean. The waves rear themselves and
see them begin TO gather their gigantic,
strength out mt yonder sand bar. They
come rolling on. higher and higher, I'M
iii they cover their heads with foam.
Then they tumble down upon us ana
roll us upon the beach. We laugh and
shout and make merry. Why? Be
cause we feel there is no danger any
where around In the first place. if the
waters drag us out there is the life
saving man on the beach. with his
corSetS of cork about him and his long
saving line attached to the belt. III"
will plunge in after US, and friends on
the shore Will get hold of the line and
pull both of us out from the angry
surf
Outside the Life Lines.
How safe one feels when bathing in
the ocean inside of the life lines, We
feel a great deal like the little chickens
playing around the barnyard. within
call of the cl,icking hen. If anything
goes wrong they can run and find shell
ter and safety under the mothers
wing SO with the old homestead.
There we always felt safe. If any
thing went wrong we could always run
to father and mother and find help and
strength But when the bather goes
beyond the life lines then he is taking
his life in his hands And when we
leave the-old homestead then we must
meet our struggles and temptations
alone.
First Night Away Prom Home.
Have you ever seen your feelings
better portrayed than in the great pie
ture Hovenden painted, called The
Breaking of Home Ties | have 4
fine copy Of that picture hanging on
my dining room wall. Some people
declare the mothers face is the most
wonderful part of that picture. Others
draw your attention to the dog. 9th
ers to the youngest sister or to the old
grandmother eyes. But the most sug
gestive part of that picture to me is
the chin of the boy, who is about to
leave home. AS | stand and look at
that chin | can almost see 1t CULVER
1t seems to say: what am | going to
do? Away from father and mother
and all the dear ones, where shall |
spend my evenings? Who will take
care of me when | am sick? Oh,
wish l did not have to go to that great
big city, with all its temptations and
loneliness. Why, there is no one among
those city people whom | can call Il
friend" All, leaving home is no joke
Turning your back upon all your
youthful associations is no pleasure
day jaunt The Breaking of Home
Ties" when the young man starts
forth in life to battle with the world
alone, IS one of the saddest moments
In all life's journey.
And yet was not this utter helpless
ness, this awful loneliness, this widen
ing isolation, the means of Bringing to
you one of the most marvellous of di-
vine revelations? When the revolving
wheels of the railroad train We're tax
ing you farther and farther away from
your old home your eyes filled with
tears. You kept looking out of the