The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-11-12

/ OF song that Richard Coeur de Lion had
| taught him in other days. And one day
coming before Jail where he suspected
his king might be incarcerated, he sang
| two lines of song, and Immediately King
Richard responded from his cell with the
other two lines, and so his whereabouts
| was discovered, and immediately sue.
cessful movement was made for his lib
GRAFTON. So let us go up and down the
| world with the music of kind words
and sympathetic hearts, serenading the
unfortunate and trying to get out of
trouble men who had noble natures, but
by unforeseen circumstances have been in
generated, thus Iberating kings. More
hymn-book and less razor
Especially ought we to be apologize and
merciful toward those who, while they
have great faults. have also great vir-
tues. No weeds, verify. but no flowers.
l must not be too much enraged at q
nettle along the fence if it be in a fiel d
containing forty acres of ripe Michigan
wheat. At the present time naturalists
tell us there is on the sun a spot $1,000
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth / conclude it is good deal of
sun yet.
Again, when read in my text that the
Lord shaves with the hired razor of As.
syria the land Of Judea, bethink myself
OF the precision of Gods providence. A
razor swung the tenth part of an inch out
of the right line means either failure or
liberation, but Gods dealings never slip,
and they do not miss by ths thousandth
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pie talk as though things in this world
were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anxiously. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe and America? People say:
"That will depend entirely on whether
the incubation is successful experiment..
that will depend entirely on quarantine
regulations; that will depend on the early
or late appearance of frost; that epidemic
is pitched into the world and it goes blum
dering across the continents, and il ia all
guesswork and an appalling perlaps.n
MY friends, think perhaps that God had
something to do with it, and that his
mercy may have in some way protected
us, that he may have done as much for
us as the quarantine and the health
officers. It was right and a necessity
that all caution should be used, but there
has come enough maccaroni from ItaIv.
and enough grapes from the South of
France, and enough rags from tatterdema.
hans, and hidden in these articles of
transportation enough choleric germs to
have left by this time all Brooklyn mourn.
ing at Greenwood, and all PHILADELPHIA at
Laurel Hill, and all Boston at Mount An
burn. thank all the doctors and quaran-
tines, but more than all and first of all and
last of all and all the time, THANK God.
In all the 5000 years of the worlds exist.
ence there has not one thing merely shan.
pened So" God is not an anarchist. but a
King, father. When little Todd, the son
OF President Lincoln, died, all the land
sympathized with the sorrow in the White
House. He used 10 rush into the room
where the Cabinet was in session. and
while the most eminent men of the land
were discussing the questions of National
existence; but the child had no care about
those questions. Now, God the Father and
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost ara
In perpetual session in regard to
this world and kindred worlds. Shall
you, his child, rush in to criticise
or arraign or condemn the Divine
government? No, the cabinet of the
eternal three can govern and will govern
In the wisest and best way, and there
never viii be mistake, and like razor |
skilltully swung shall cut that which |
ought to be cut and avoid that which ought !
20 lie avoided. Precision to the very hair. |
breadth. Earthly timepieces may get out |
Of order and strike wrong, saying it is one
O'Clock when it is two, or two when IT Is |
three. Gods clock is always right, and |
"hen 1t Is one it strikes one, and when it |
Is Twelve It strikes twelve, and the |
second hand is as accurate as the minute |
hand.
Further, my text tells us that God /
sometimes shaves nations. SIN the same
lay shall the Lord shave with the razor
nat is hired" With one sharp sweep he
went across Judah, and down went it's
pride and its power. In 1861 God |
shaved our Nation. We had al.
owed to grow Sabbath dissertation
and oppression and blasphemy and fraud
ana lmpurlty and all sorts of turpitude.
lhe South had its sins, and the North its
'ins, and the East its sins, and the West
is sins. We had been warned again and
'gains and we did not heed. Atleneth the
sword OF war cut from the st. Lawrence to
ne Gulf, and from Atlantic seaboard to
Pacific seaboard. The pride of the land
lot the towards, but the heroes-on both
ldes went down. And that which we took
or the sword of war was the Lords razor.
n 1867 again it went across the land. In
500 again. In 1854 again. Then the sharp
instrument was encased and put away.
NEVER In the history of the ages was any
and more thoroughly shaved than during
hose four years of civil combat, and, INV
'rethren, il we do not quit some of our
Individual and National sins, the
1ord viii again take us in hand.
1e has other razors within reach
'esides war, epidemics, drouths, deluges.
iagues-grasshopper and locust
i our oYerpowering success NAV so far
xcite the jealousy of other lands that.
nder some pretext, the great nations of
europe and Asia may combine to put us
own. This Nation, so easily approached
n north and south and from both oceans.
n'ght have on hand at once more hostili.
les than were ever arrayed against any
ne power. We have recently been told
-NL f.