The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-10
Thoughts for the Thoughtful:
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His kingdom was one founded on
spiritual disposition; not ote OF out
ward law and jurisprudence.
Love is the only remedy for SLAM
per. No set of rules or restrictions
can stop it. We may denounce, but
We shall dsnounce in vain.
The pain of Christ gave God no
only the love that was test
ed by pain--the love Of perfect OBJ
dience. He was obedient unto death.
When giving up this hopeless and
sickening world OF self-inspection,
and turning from ourselves in Christ
tian seH-oblivion, we gaze on God,
then first the chance of consolation
dawns.
How could the Father be stitssfed
with the death of Christ, unless He
saw in the sacrifice mirrored His own
love ?-for God can be satisfied only
with that which is perfect as Himself.
Agony does not satisfy God-agony
only satisfied Moloch. Nothing sat-
isles God but the voluntary sacrifice
of love.
1t is very deep and beautiful and
precious truth that the Eternal Son
had human and progressive child
hood. Happy the child who is suf-
fered to be and content to be what
God meant Il to be-a child while
childhood lasts. Happy the parent
who does not force artificial manners,
precocious feeling.
The conscience of man is a holy,
sacred thing. The worst of crimes
is to injure a human conscience
Better kill the body. Remember how
strongly st. Paul speaks: "When ye
sin so against the brethren, and wound
their weak consciences, ye sin against
Christ" And that sin, remember,
consisted in leading them to do a
thing which. though right in itself,
they thought wrong. ''a
Begin from belief and love, and do
not coerce belief. Your mind is at
sea. Be patient, you cannot drift on
the wide, wide sea forever; drifting
on in one direction, you must come
into current OF wind at last bearing
toward some land. Be sure you are
in his hand, not hated but loved
Do not speak bitterly of Him, nor
mistake Him. Begin with the distinct
moral duties. eff any one will do
His win he shall know Of the doc
trine." Be simply seeker Of God
and truth, and be sure you never can
seek Him in vain; then make your.
self at rest about the end, death and
SO on. You tntst not make haste,
to borrow a phrase from prophet.
Some sins are committed without
the body; sins of sensuality and ami
NAL indulgence are against the body
Our bodies, which are members Q
Christ" to be ruled by His Spirit, be
come by such sins unfit for immortal
ity with Christ. This is an awful
truth. Sins committed against tn
body affect that wondrous tissue whicl
we call the nervous system: the sourc
of all our acutest suffering and in
tensest blessing is rendered SO sus
ceptible by God as to be at once GU
punishment or reward. Sin carrie
with its own punishment. There
not sin Of indulgence gluttony Q
intemperance of any form, whic
does not write its terrible retributio
on our bodies.
On this earth there can be no rel
for man. By rest We mean the a
tainment Of state beyond whic
there can be no change. POLITICAL
morally, spiritually, there can be I
rest for man here. In one count
! alone has that system been fully ca
, ried out which, conservative of Il
4 past, excludes all desire OF progre
and Improvement for the future; b
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