The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-11-18
cling . thousand miles in twen,y-fou

| cied From the galleries, from the roof
and from the turrets may be seen gardens
as far as the eye can see, full of fruits and
| flowers arranged in the most beautiful
order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts,
canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, ter
races, fountains, sculptured works, payill-
| ions, gondolas, places of popular amuse-
| ment to tire the eye and fancy. All this to
be done by urging the water, the wind and
the sunshine to their full development"
He goes on and gives plates of the ma
chinery by which this work is to be done,
and he says he only needs at the start
company in which the shares shall be
| twenty dollars each and one hundred thou.
sand or two hundred thousand dollars shall
be raised just to make specimen commu-
nifty, and then this being formed the world
will see its practicability, and very soon
two or three million dollars can be OBJ
tanned, and in ten years the whole earth
will be in paradise! The plan is not so pre-
posterous as some have heard of. But
will take no stock in that company, do not
| believe that it will ever be done in that
| way, by any mechanical force or by any ma
| chinery that the human mind can put into
| play. 1t is to be done by the Gospel of the Son
of God, the omnipotent machinery of love
and grace and pardon and salvation. That is
to emparadise the nations. Archimedes
destroyed feet of ships coming up the
| harbor. You know how he did ita He
| lifted a great sun-glass, history tells us,
and when the feet of ships came up the
harbor at Syracuse he brought to bear this
sun-glass and he conveyed the SUMS rays
| upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings
of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink.
/ Obi my friends, by the sun-glass of the
Gospel conyerging the rays of the sun Of
| righteousness upon the sins, the wicked
ness of the world, we will make them blaze
and expire.
| In that day of which speak, do you be-
lieve there will be any midnight carousala
| Will there be any kicking off from the mar
BILE steps of shivering mendicants? VIII
/ there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed?
] Will there be any blasphemies in the street!
VIII there be any inebriates staggering
paste No. No wine stores. No lager
beer saloons. No distilleries where they
make the three KS. No bloodshot eye. No
bloated cheek. No instruments of ruin and
destruction. No fist-pounded forehead.
The grandchildren of that woman who
| goes down the street with curse, stoned
by the boys that follow her, will be the re-
formers and philanthropists, and the Chris
tian men and the honest merchants of New
York and Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments, too,
we will have in all the cities! Some cities
are worse than others, but in many of our
cities you just walk down by the city halls
and look in at some of the rooms occupied
by politicians, and see to what sensual,
| loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city
politics is abandoned. Or they stand around
the city hall picking their teeth, waiting
for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to
their feet, waiting all day long and waiting
all night long.
Why are those wretched women taken
up for drunkenness and carried up to the
courts and put in prison, of course2 What
will you do with the grog shops that make
them drinka Nothing. Who are those pris-
oners in jaila One of them stole pair of
shoes. That boy stole q dollar This girl
snatched purse All of them crimes
banging society less than twenty and
thirty dollars. But what will you do with
| the gambler who last night robbed the
young man of thousand dollars9 Moth
ing. What shall be done with that one
| who breaks through and destroys the puri-
/ ty of Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfidy that beats the STRAIT
egg of hell, filings a shrinking, shrieking
soul into bottomless perditions Nothing.
| What will you do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him to purloin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who came to an officer of
my church and told the story and frantieal-
ly asked what he might do! Nothing. ALL
We do well to punish small crimes, but I
have sometimes thought it would be better
in some of our cities, if the officials would
only turn out from the jails the petty GRIM
inals, the little offenders, ten-dollar des-
peradoes, and put in their places
some OF the monsters of iniQuity who
drive their roam span through the
streets so swiftly that honest men have to
leap to get out of the way of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that pro-
fessed Christian men will sometimes en-
gage in until God puts the finger of retri-
button into the collar of their robe of n.y.
pocrisy and rips it clear to the bottoml
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted expect to live to see the day. I
think hear in the distance the rumbling
of the Kings chariot Not always in the
minority is the church of God going to be;
or are good men going to be. The streets
are going to be filed with regenerated
populations. Three hundred and sixty bells
rang in Moscow when one prince was mar.
| RED; but when righteousness and peace
kiss each other in all the earth ten
thousand times ten thousand bells
shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched; hunger fed crime puri-
fed; ignorance enlightened; all the
cities savedi Is not this cause worth
working ina Oh, you think sometimes, il
does not amount to much! You toll in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
encouragement People have no faith and
say: ''It does not amount to any thing;
you might as well quit that.n Why, when
Moses stretched his hand over the Red
Sea, it did not seem to mean any thing
especially. Persons came out, suppose, and
said: "Ahaln Some Of them found out
what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
parted. It did not amount to anything,
this stretching out of his hand over the
seal But after awhile the wind blew all
night from the east, and the waters were
gathered into a ghttering palisade on either
side, and the pillows reared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits! Wheel into
line, oh, Israel! march, march! Pearls
crash under their feet. Flying spray gathers
into rainbow arches of victory for the con-
querors to march under. Shout of hosts
ON the beach answering the shout of hosts
amid the saa And when the 1ast line nj