The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08
The Charms Of Autumn.

ten that the Autumnal pageant 10
now passing, and deserves a close
and reverent attention. Not only the
botanist and florist and horticultural
are admitted to the s.grand EXPOSE
ton" of Gods handiwork now open,
but all who delightin beauty ofform,
color, and symmetry may go forth to
behold the more than regal pomp
of Autumn, as with its train it passes
from hillside to mountain, from rivu-
let to ocean, from field to forest, from
the marts of the great cities to the
silent solitudes of the prairie, and
from the eyelids of the morning takes
the iris hues that are to fame up to
the meridian, and then pass on to the
golden gates that lie behind the
opaline SUBMITS on which the arch of
the armament reposes.
In almost every human soul there
is love for the beautiful and sub
lime. Too often it degenerates into
a sickly fondness for trifes in art or
for objects Of puerile if not barbaric
display. Now it is not irreverent to
say that God himself is, of all beings,
the chief lover of the beautiful. Ali
his works are in proof. For though
the sublimities of storm and earth
quake, of the volcanic blast and the
oceans boiling rage, are the outcome
of his arrangements, nevertheless
these are not the chief characteristics
of the natural economy to which our
earth has been brought into subjec-
ton. 1t is far otherwise. Beauty is
distributed everywhere Man cannot
create it. His is the privilege of
cultivating it. The elements are sur
charged with its essence, which hui
man art may use but cannot originate.
"The earth, the air, the common
Skies" are filed with the ingredients
of fairer paradise than the first pair
was permitted to see. But, alas and
alack, how we do err and go astray
from the beauty that is of Gods
designing to lavish our perverted
sensibilities upon the gewgaws and
tawdry trinkets which befit a junk
shop, while instead we might pass
through the palace of the Great King
and behold what stores of beauty he
has gathered therein for the whole
some delectation of his children.
We have not space to expatiate
here upon the grandeur and glory of
the Autumn, but we hold it to be a
quite essential part of true wisdom
to go to school every now and then
in the vast academy of design which
the good Lord in his great love for
us has opened for our inspection,
study, and pleasure.
/ In this age, when all the world is
on wheels, hurrying hither and thith-
er, it were pity indeed if the oppor-
tunity were lost by any to observe
well and closely how the ripened toll
of summer may and ought to awaken
in the heart devout thanksgiving for
all the beauty that adorns the BAN
clearinghouse wherein we are fed
from the bounteous table prepared
for our daily needs. And yet what
were this banqueting-house, with all
that makes the substance OF the feast,
if its walls were cold and sterile and
dulls But 10, the natural decorations
all around and above-what variety
and what splendor of gold and sill
yer and amethyst intermixed, afford
ing a visible symbolization of the
beauty that is in the home beyond
the river! And then the drapery,
too. Out of what loom did it come
Was it woven by angelic fingers
No, for it changes every day, almost
every hour.
| No other season of the year dis
plays such grandeur of nature as
does the Autumn with it's many hues.