The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-09

GA OAa0 VAtO k0Se 4OoeAAs1 P&sS&Cs DO6t hAC,
is it not sssli" "How good he was to US
ALL" V6ts shall never have so kind a
friend aEnin.' "Don't you remember
when our Charlie died he sent his carriage
to take US to the grave?" "Oh, is it not
dreadful for his wife and children? God
pity themW And that night in all tho
cabins where the toilers have family
prayers the widowhood and orphanage up
in the mansion are remembered. No irate
population seowling through the iron fence
of the cemetery, but lowering over all tia
scene the benediction of God and man.
Whatsoever we would that men should
do to you, do ye even SO to them"
WHERE CHARITY BEGINS.
"Oh," you say, shat is Arcadian,
apocryphal, impossb le." No. can take
you to the storehouses, the factories, the
mines, the great enterprises where this
Christly rule is practiced, and you could
no more get the employer to impose on he
men, or the men to conspire against thtir
employer, than you could get your r'sht
hand and left hand, or your right eye and
your left eye, or right ear and left ea into
physiological antagonisn. The plac1 to
begin is in our own homes and in our own
store-houses, and in our own banks and on
our own farms, and in our own factories:
not waiting for others to do their duty.
Are your parlor and kitchen at divergence:
Then there is something wrong either
about the parlor or the kitchen. Are the
clerks of your store out of patience with
the firm? Then there is Iomething wrong
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flee. What the world wants most griev-
ously, wants to-day and wants every
where, is the golden rule that Christ pro-
mulgated in his sermon Olivetic. All the
political economists under the archivault
OF the heavens in convention for a thou
sand years will never silence this mad
dened controversy between fist and brain,
between operative and monopolist.
You say the law of supply and demand
will control every thing to the end of
time. No, it will not unless God dies
and the batteries of the Judgment are
spiked ard the throne Of the universe
is taken by Pluto and Proserpine,
the King and Queen of the Internal
world. Supply and demand have joined
partnership and put their wits together
to rob the world. You are drowning, and
they stand on the shore beside the only
boat and say: "Pay what we ask OF go to
the bottomi' You are failing in business
for the lack Of five thousand dollars. They
say: "Pay US usury or become bankrupt "
This robber firm of Supply & Demand
says; ''The wheat crop is short, and we
have bought it up and put it in our bin.
Pay our price or starvew Supply & De-
mand own the largest mill on earth, and it
rolls over its wheel all the rivers and puts
into its hopper as many men, women and
children as it can scoop up out of the
centuries, and their blood and bones red
den all the valleys as the grinding goes on.
As sure as the ages roll toward millennial
release that diabolic firm will have to step
aside for the law of love, the law of CO.
operation, the law of mercy, the law Of
Christ.
LISTENING.
As that law takes sway you will see
more men consecrating their life to human
itarian and evangelical purposes, like
James Lennox and William E. Dodge and
Peter Cooper and George Peabody; more
parks and gardens and picture galleries
will be opened for the peoples holidays.
The pallor will go out of the cheeks of the
workman and the frown off his brow and
the gnashing out of his teeth. That day
will surely come. Once, crossing the AL
legheny Mountains, it was said that Henry
Clay, while the stage coach was halting,
went to the edge OF the mouxtain and put
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some one asked him what he was listening
for, and he said: ~ am listening to the
coming on of the future millions of this
country" To-day ! stand on the mount
ain top of Christian privilege, and on the
rock of ages, and listen to the coming on
of the happy industries and the conse-
Grated fortunes of the closing nineteenth
and the opening twentieth centuries.
GREAT MAN.
While / speak there lies in state the great
author and patriot of France--Victor
Hugo. The ten thousand he left to the
poor of Paris in his will were only hint
of the grand work he has done for all
nations and all ages. No wonder they al
lowed ten days to elapse between his death
Keeping AlHi bTluutpudl
arch, for neither France nor the world can
hardly afford to let him go, though for
more than eight decades his unparalleled
genius has blessed it. His name shall for
ever stand the terror of desp It's, the en-
couragement of the struggling. He has
made the worlds burden lighter and its
darkness less dense, and its chain less
CALLING and its thrones of iniquity less
secure. But, after all, he was not the
great and overtowering friend of man
hood.
MANS GREATEST FRIEND.
The greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler, and one who shall bring them into
complete accord, was born on Christmas
night, while the curtains of the sky swung
as there moved among them the wings an
gelic. Owning all the universe, the great
continents of worlds and the isles of light,
the Capitalize of Immensely. He crosses
over to the r,nT mans condition, coming
into our world, not by palace gate, but
door of barn, spending his first night
among shepherds and afterward calling
fishermen from their nets to be his chief
attendants, with the hammer, adze, saw,
ak and chisel of carpenters shop, show
ing himself to be brother tradesman, ac-