The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-09-27

down the burdens of this life, but they
still hold the rope.
o, men and women here assembled, you
brag sometimes how you have fought
your way in the world, but think there
have been helpful influences that you
never fully acknowledged. Has there not
been some influence in your early or
present home that the world can not seer
Does there not reach to you from among
the Canadian hills, or Western prairie,
or from Southern plantation, or from En-
glish or Scottish Or Irish home, a cord Of
influence that has kept you right when
YOU would have gone astray, and which,
after you had made crooked track, re-
called you? The rope may be as long as
thirty years or five hundred miles long or
three thousand miles long, but hands
that went out of mortal sight long ago
still hold the rope. You want very
swift horse, and you need to rowel him
with sharpest spurs, and to let the reins
lie loose upon the neck and to give
shout to racer, il you are going to ride
out OF reach of your mothers prayers.
Why, ship crossing the Atlantic in
seven days can't sail away from
that. A sailor finds them on
the lookout as he takes his place, and
finds them on the mast as he climbs the
-atlines to disentangle a rope in the
tempest, and finds them swinging on the
hammock when he turns in. Why not be
fl aux and acknowledge 1.-THE most of us
would long ago have been dashed to pieces
had not gracious and loving hands stead
lily and lovingly and nightly held the
rope.
We go into long sermons to prove that
we will be able to recognize people in
Heaven, when there is one reason we fail
to present, and that is better than all
God will introduce us. You would not be
guilty of the impoliteness of having
friends in your parlor not introduced,
and celestial pollteness will demand that
we be made acquainted with all the
Heavenly household. What rehearsal of
old times and recital Of stirring
"reminiscences. IL others fail to give in
PRODUCTION, God will take us through, and
before our first twenty-four hours in
Heaven-if it were calculated by earthly
epieces-have passed, we shall meet
and talk with more Heavenly celebrities
than in our entire mortal state we met
with earthly celebrities. Many who made
great noise Of usefulness will sit on the
last seat by the front door of the Heaven
ly temple, while right up within arms
reach of the Heavenly throne will be
many who, though they could not preach
themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let us GO right up and accost
those on this circle of Heavenly thrones
Surely, they must have killed in battle q
million men. Surely, they must have been
buried with all the cathedrals sounding a
dirge, and all the towers of all the cities
tolling the national grief. Who art thou,
mighty one of Heaven?
81 lived by choice the unmarried daugh-
ter in an humble home that might take
care of my parents in their old age, and
| endured without complain all their
querulousness and administered to all
their wants for twenty years."
Let us pass on round the circle of
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of
Heaven?
II was for thirty years Christian in
valid, and suffe red all the while, occasion
ally writing note of sympathy for those
worse off than I, and was general conf
dant of all those who had trouble, and
once in awhile I was strong enough to
make a garment for that poor family in
the back lane"
Pass on to another throne. Who art
thou, mighty one of Heaven?
II was the mother who raised whole
family of children for God, aud they are
out in the world, Christian mer chants,
Christian mechanics, Christie wives,
and have had full reward of all my toll"
Let us pass on in the circle of thrones
81 had Sabbath school class, and they
were always on my heart, and they all
entered the kingdom OF God, and l am
waiting for their arrival"
BIT who art thoI. the mighty one of
Heaven on thisIother throne? SIN time of
bitter execution I owned house in Da-
mascus, house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded from street
to street, and I hid him from the assas-
sins; and, when / found them breaking
in my house and l could no longer keep
him safely, advised him to fee for his
life, and a basket was let down over the
wall with the maltreated man in it and
was one who helped hold the rope"
And / said:
SIS that alp" And he answered.:
'"That is ALL"
And while l was lost in amazement |
heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse
from many exp osures, and triumphant. as
though it might have belonged to one of
the martys, and it SAID:
"Not many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things
which are mighty, and base things of the
world and things which are despised hath
God chosen, yea, and things which are not
to bring to naught things which are, that
no flesh should glory in His presence"
And l looked to see from whence the
voice came, and 10! it was the very one
who had said:
Through a window, in a basket, was let
Town by the wall.
Henceforth think of nothing as insignif-
can't. A little thing may decide your all.
4 Cunarder put out from England for
New York. 1t was we'll equipped, but in
putting up stove in the pilot-box a nail |
was driven too near the compass. You
Know how that nail would affect the COM
pass. The ships officer, deceived by the
distracted compass, put the ship two hun
lred miles off her right course, and sud-
lenly the man on the lookout cried,
Land ho!" and the ship was halted
within few yards of her demolition on
Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
lear wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes |