The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-06

land that swept the lily VI ISoCnoSG0I
from its foundations, and took dwelling
houses, barns, men, women, children,
horses, cattle, and tossed them into in
discriminate ruin, and lifted rail train
and dashed it down, mightier hand than
that of the engineer on the r-brake.
Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri,
cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois,
cyclone in Iowa. Satan. prince of the
power of the air, never made such cy-
clonic disturbances as he has in our day.
And am not right in saying that one OF
the characteristics of the time in which
we live is the disaster cyclonic?
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
l call the roll of the dead shipping? Ye
monsters of the deep, answer when 1 call
your names. Vile de Havre, the Schiller,
City of Boston, the Melville, the Presi-
dent, the Cimbria. But why should l go
on calling the roll when none of them an
swer, and the roll is as long as the white
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat
teras breakers? If the oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and all
the bleached bones that they rub against
in the depths of the ocean, what a mes
sage of pathos and tragedy for both
beaches! In one storm eighty fishermen
persisted off the coast of New
| foundland, and whole fleets of them
off the coast of England. God help
the poor fellows at sea, aud give high
seats in Heaven to the Grace Darlings and
| the Ida Lewises and the lifeboat men
lowering around Goodwin's Sands and the
| Skerries. The sea, owning three-fourths
| of the earth, proposes to capture the
other fourth, and is bombarding the land
all around the earth. The moving
of our hotels at Brighton Beach
backward one hundred yards from
where they once stood, a type of
of what is going on all around the world
and on every coast. The Dead Sea rolls
| to-day where ancient cities stood. Pill
lars of temples that stood on hills geolo-
gists now find three quarters under the
water or altogether submerged. The sea,
having wrecked SO many merchantmen
and fotillas, wants to wreck the conti-
nents, and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. Ispeak
not of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and
the Neapolitan Dominion and Marseilles
wrought such terrors in the eighteenth
century, but look at the yellow fevers,
and the choleras, and the diphtherias,
and the scarlet fevers, and the typhoid
Of our own time. Hear the wailing of
Memphis and Shreveport, and New Or
leans and Jacksonville of the last few de-
cades From Hurdwar, India, where
every twelfth year three million devotees
congregate, the caravans brought the
cholera, and that one disease slew eight
cen thousaead in eighteen days in Bosso-
rah. Twelve thousand in one summer
slain by it in India, and twenty five thou
| in cta
of the finest monuments in Greenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are to
doctors who lost their lives battling with
Southern epidemics.
Blessing of Gospel proclamation: Dc
you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born in this cent
ury? and nearly all the Bible societies
; and nearly all the great philanthropiC
movements? A secretary of one Of the
, denominations said to me the other day
, in Dakota: ''You were wrong when yoI
said our denomination averaged new
, church every day of the year; they estab'
lished nine in one week, so you are fan
within the truth" A clergyman of ou
own denomination said: 'I have just beer
out establishing five mission stations
l tell you Christianity is on the march
!, while inidelity is dwindling into imbecil-
ity. While infdelity is thus dwindlin,
i and dropping down into imbecility an(
indecency, the wheel of Christianity il
:. making about thousand revolutions in
minute. All the copies of Shakespeare
: and Tennyson, and Disraeli, and of an,
. ten of the most popular writers of thu
!. day, less in number than the copies of tn
:, Bible going out from our printing presses
, A few years ago, in six weeks, more thai
two million copies of the New Testamen
Z purchased, not given away, but purchase
: because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official 20
j. sition to-day in Great Britain and in tn
!. United States than ever before. Sto
: that falsehood going through the news
!. papers, have seen it in twenty-that tn
!. Judges of the Supreme Court of tn
: United States are all infidels except one
n By personal acquaintance 1 know tire
of them to be old-fashioned Evangelica
Christians, sitting at the holy sacramer
, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppos
y that the majority of them are staunc
i believers in our Christian religion. An
! then hear the dying words of Judg
). Black, man who had been Attorney
: General of the United States. and VIII
! had been Secretary of the United States
, no stronger lawyer of the century tina
!. Judge Black-dying, his aged wife kneel
h ing by his side, and he utterin
v that sublime and tender prayer: 80 Lor
Is God, from whom I derived my existenc
}, and in whom have always trusted, tax
II my spirit to Thyself and let Thy riches
e blessing come down upon my Mary.
% The most popular book to-day is tn
J. Bible, and the mightiest institution is th
: church, and the greatest name among til
h nations, and more honored than an
If other, is the name of Jesus. Wonders
le self-sacri6ce: A clergyman told me
"a the Northwest that for six years he was
IF missionary at the extreme North, Twin
,r four hundred miles from post officr
v. and sometimes he slept out-of-doors
re- winter, the thermometer SIXTY and sixty
q FIVE degrees below zero, wrapped
70 rabbit-skins woven together. I said: 81
Ie it possible9 You do not mean sixty an
sixty-five degree below zero?" He saiC
At Il do, and was happy"
Is All for Christ. Where is there an
in other being that will rally such enthus
r, asm? Mothers sewing their fingers off I
y educate their boys for the gospel minis
= try. For nine years no luxury on the tt
;e BILE until the course through gramma
o school and college and theological sen