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


| worldwide coming to God hinder OF
both sides the sea all national calamity
But do not let us as nation, either by un
! righteous law at Washington or bad live:
among ourselves, defy the Almighty.
One would think that our National sym
boil of the eagle might sometimes sug.
| gest another eagle-that which an.
Gent Rome carried. In the talons OF
that eagle were clutched at one
time, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Dali
malta, Rhoetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moe.
STA, Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece
Asia Minor. Assyria, Phenicia, Palestine,
Egypt and all Northern Africa, and all the
islands of the Mediterranean, and, indeed,
all the world that was worth having, and,
10000, 900 of people under the wings of
that one eagle. Where is she now? Ask
Gibbon, the historian, in his prose poem,
the "Decline and Fall of the Roman En-.
pre-" Ask her gigantic ruins struggling
their sadness through the ages, the screech
owl at windows out of which
worldwide conquerors looked. Ask the
day of judgment when her crowned
debauchees, Commodus and Pertinax and
Caligula and Diocletan, shall answer for
their infamy. As men and as nations let
US repent and have our trust
in pardoning God rather than
depend on former successes for
immunity. Out of thirteen greatest
battles of the world, Napoleon had lost
but one before Waterloo. Pride and de-
struction often ride in the same saddle.
But notice once more, and more than all
in my text, that God is so kind and loving
that when it is necessary for him to cut he
has to go to others for the sharp-edged
weapon. .Tn the same day shall the Lord
shave with razor that is hired" God is
love. God is pity. God is help. God is
shelter. God is rescue. There are no sharp
edges about him, no thrusting points, no
instruments of laceration. If you want
balm for wounds, he has that Ii you want
salvefor divine eyesight, he has that But
II there is sharp and cutting work to do
which requires razor, that he hires. God
has nothing about him that hurts, save
when dire necessity demands, and then he
has to go clear off to some one else to get
the instrument This divine geniality will
be no novelty to those who have pom
dered the Calvarean massacre, where
God submerged himself in human tears.
and crimsoned himself from punctured
arteries, and let the terrestrial and in.
fernal worlds maui him until the chan
deliers of the sky had TO be turned out,
because the universe could not endure the
indecency. Illustrious for love he must
have been to take all that as our substi.
tute, paying out of mis- own heart the GRIM
son price OF our admission of the gates of
Heaven. King Henry IL of England
his son as King. and on the day
OF coronation put on a servants garb and
waited, he, the King, at the sons table,
to the establishment of all the Princes.
But we know of more wonderful scene,
the King of Heaven and earth Offering to
put on you. his child, the crown of life,
and in the form of servant waiting on
you with blessing. Extol that love, all
all sculpture, all music, all
architecture, all worship. In Dresdenian
gallery let Raphael hold him up as a
child, and in Antwerp Cathedral let r,
bens hand him down from the cross as a
martyr, and Handel make all his oratorio
VIbrate around the one chord: she was
Tor our transgressons, bruised
Tor our iniquity." But not until all the
-e1eemed got homo, and from the counte.
lances OF all the piled-up galleries of the |
'ansomed shall be revealed the wonders
If redemption, shall either man or seraph |
II arehangel know the height and depth |
md length and breadth of the love Of God. |
AT our National capital monum mt i'll |
lonor of him who did more than any one |
% achieve our American Independence |
vas for scores of years in building, and |
most of US were discouraged and said it |
never would be completed. And how glad |
We all were when, in tho presence of |
he highest offic ais Of the Nation, the |
work was done. But will the monu-
nent to him who died for the eternal |
Iteration of the human race ever bs COM
'leted? For ages the work has been GO |
ng up; evangelists and apostles and mar.
yrs have been adding to the heavenly /
'ile, and every one of the millions of the
edeemed, going up from earth, has made
o it contribution of gladness; and weight
t glory is swung TO the top of other
weight of glory, and layers Of hosannas
n layers Of hosannas, higher and higher
s the centuries go by, higher and higher
8 the whole milleniums roll, sapphire on
he top of jasper, sardonyx on the top of
halcecony, and chrysoprasus above to.
az, until far beneath shall be the walls
nd towers and domas of the great capital
monument forever and forever rising,
nd yet never done. unto him who
ath loved us and washed us from our
ms in his own blood, and made us kings
nd priests forever" A1leluia. Amen.
MEXICAN ME rHUSELAHS.