The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-10-21

But DO say TO thoSo VINO were brought up
in the day of poor school-houses and ig.
norant school masters, and no oppor.
| tunity, you may have so much good in
| your soul and so much of heaven in your
every day life that you will be mightier
| for good than any who went through the
curriculum of Harvard or Yale, or OK
| ford, yet never graduated in the school
of Christ. When you get up to the gate
| of Heaven no one will ask you whether
you can parse the first chapter of Genesis,
| but whether you have learned the fear of
the Lord, which is the beginning of wis
dom; nor whether you know how to square
the circle, but whether you have lived
| square life in round world. Mount Zion
is higher than Mount Parnassus.
| 4. But what other null titudes there are
under other disadvantages! Here is the
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion sham, and while the wife prays
the children one way the husband Swears
them another. Or here is Christian man
who is trying to do his best for God and
the Church, and his wife holds him back
and says on the way home from prayer
meeting, where he gave testimony for
Christ:
"What fool you make of yourself! I
hope hereafter you will keep STILL"
And when he would be benevolent and
give fifty dollars, she critcises him for
giving fifty cents. I must do justice, and
publicly thank God that never proposed
at home to give anything for any cause of
humanity or religion but the other pirt-
ner in the domestic firm approved it. And
| e orH
faith in God was necessary, she had three
fourths of the faith. But / know men
who, when they contribute to charitable
objects, are afraid that the wife shall find
it out. What whitening curse such a
wife must be to good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest? You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
the bucket. You buy -four by the barrel,
they buy it by the pound. You get APP
parel cheap because you pay cash. They
. pay dear because they have to get trust
ed. And the Bible was right when it said:
The destruction of the poor is their power
~.
9th srs have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their rash.
ness throws them into wild enterprises. or
: their trepidation makes them decline
, great opportunity, or there is vein of
melancholy in their disposition that de-
feats them, or they have an endowment OF
over-mirth that causes the impression OF
insincerity.
Others have q mighty obstacle in their
personal appearance, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
Q fashioned their features and their com.
plexion, and their stature, the size of their
= nose and mouth, and hands and feet, and
gave them the gait and the general
appearance; and they forget that much
of the worlds best work, and the
Il church's best work, has been
;; done by homely people; and that Paul the
Apostle is said to have been ump-backed
. and his eyesight weakened by ophthalma
whilevnany of the finest in appearance,
have passed their time before fiatteriug,
&c looking glasses, or in studying killing at
titudes, and in displaying the richness o.
: wardrobes-not one ribbon, or vest. Of
sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring o.
: earn for themselves.
y Others had wrong proclivities from th
. start They were born wrong, and tina
" sticks to. one even after he is born again
They have natural crankiness that j
two hundred and seventy five years old
:. 1t came over with their great-grandfath
= :. ers from Scotland, or Wales, or France.
- was born on the banks of the Thames, o
the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, an
20 has survived all the plaques and epidem
=. les of many generations, and is living to
= day on the banks of the Hudson, or til
=. Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the L
- Plata. And when a man tries to stop thi
evil ancestral proclivity he is like ma
u on rock in the rapids of Niagara hold
ing on with a grip from which the swift
:. currents are trying to sweep him into tn
: abyss beyond.
IN In the way of practical relief for all dis
70 advantages and all woes. the only voic
sr that is worth listening to on this subjee
-. is the voice of Christianity, whic
IT. is the voice of Almighty God. Whethe
- have mentioned the particular dis
r. advantage under which you labor c
9. not, / distinctly declare, in the name
Ia my God, that there is way out and wa
as up for all of you. You can not be an
h worse off than that Christian youn
or woman who was in the Pemberton mil
.. when they fell some years ago. and frol
70 under the fallen timbers she was hear
a. singing:
n lam going home to die no more.
=. Take good courage from that Bible, a
v of whose promises are for those in ba
of predicament. There are better days fl
,s you, either on earth or in Heaven. / pl
~ my hand under your chin and lift yol
nj face into the light of the coming dawl
h. Have God on your side, and then yo
p. have for reserve troops all the armies
o. Heaven, the smallest company of which
&c 10000 chariots, and the smallest battaIic
or 1000, the lightnings of Heaven the
ro drawn swords.
of An ancient warrior saw an overpowe
ing host come down upon his small con
in pany of armed men, and, mounting h
to horse with handful of sand, he threw