The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-07


daean hills today. When the tourist
travels through the Holy Land and
sees a long line of Bedouins riding past
upon their beautifully caparlsoned Ara
bian tboroughbreds, they loom up so
big that it seems as though they could
take you up as child and with their
mighty arms crush you as easily as a
huge boa constructor could strangle a
little fawn. There are living today In
Palestine among the Bedouin tribes
men just as great and strong as was
the Philstine adversary whom David
heard haunting and defying Saul's ar
my.
Do you, as wise men, think 1t was
wrong for these Hebrew spies to take
true measurement of the physical
proportions of these giants? | do not.
If | had been one of those spies |
would have said to Moses and the peO
pie waiting for my report, as | would
say now to the Christian young man
going into the temptations Of the
world: You are going to have giants
to fight in this world You are
not going to fight lot of pygmies.
You must develop your brain. You
must develop thsHstrength of your
arm. You must cfean your weapons
and put them in the finest trim. No
man is ever able to successfully tr-
umph over the mighty giants of life
unless he fully draws upon all his re
sources of body. mind and soul" He
would be a foolhardy David who went
forth to battle against a Goliath who
was "a son of Anak unless his sling was
in perfect condition, unless he chose
the smoothest and roundest stones from
the brook and unless he had practiced
at target week in and week out until
he can hit the smallest mark with the
accuracy of William Tell shooting the
apple off the head of his son.
No False Reports.
Moses did not want his spies to bring
back false report of the giants dyell
ing in the land of Canaan any More
than God wants n mother and ia
Their to beittle the temptations and
the struggles which are ahead of their
children in the battle of life. And one
reason why 50 many children go NOR
ally and spiritually astray is because
their own parents do not take those
children lovingly and tenderly aside
and tell them how powerful are the
temptations that may come to them
and the necessity of those children
throwing themselves upon the divine
In, xrI. IN afat thnon a
tons
Let me see. Your boy Is about fifteen
years old. Is he not? He is just verg
ing on young manhood. He has grown
up under your protecting love and
care. You have taught him the Bible
You have sent him to Sunday school
You have surrounded him with noble.
uplifting influences. You have been 50
careful of him that you would not al
low him to stay away from your home
at night. But tell me, what have you
taught your boy about the secret sins of
life? What have you told him about
immoral acts and thoughts? ooh, no."
YOU answer, II never told my son
about the evils of this world, because !
| did not want him even to think of evil.
| He Is as innocent as a little child. He
| Is too young yet to know Is he too
young? The enemy does not think 50.
| Why, last week one Of his classmates
| showed him vile picture and told him
what 1t meant You say he Is limo
cent? Yes. but do you not know that
| his very innocence may be the Occa-
sion of his moral overthrow? Do you
now know, o mother. that many an
| innocent young girl has been led
astray through her mothers neglect t.
| warn her of the snares that may be
laid for her feet? Those young girls
did not intend to do wrong. They
| thought they were trifiing with pyg
| my, and they suddenly awoke to find
| out they were In the grasp of a mighty
| giant If fathers and mothers should
| not warn their children against the ia
ture and power of temptation, who
should? Yes, yes the spies We're right
when they reported to Moses that the
Israelites had to fight giants. When
we warn friend against dangers we
do not destroy the friend, but we may
save him by putting him upon his
guard.
Be Giant Killer.
Again, / notice that these spies re
ported other giants In the land besides
the sons of Anak This showed tbeil
wisdom. The other giants might mo-
be 80 formidable in appearance as thu
Anakim. but they might be Just as
powerful an enemy through being bet
ter equipped and armed. Some of these
savage giants might fight with swort
and spear, some with hand net, some
with snares and stratagem, some will
poisoned arrows, some by starvation
and cold. SO In our fight. Though I
man is able to resist one gigantic temp
tation Of life, that does not prove tina
he can resist all temptations. You ar
not drunkard, but that does not prov
you may not be overthrowRMSy tn
giant of sensuality, or by the&E1ant o
avarice, or by the giant Of jealousy, 0
by the giant of the evil tongue. In al
old legendary story we once read abou
| thu hay 30 llaJ Jaek tho Giant Killer