The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-21

stronger day-fit garlands, whether white
| or red, for Him on whose head are many
| crowns. "The day is at hand!"
One more ray of the dawn l see in facts
chronological and mathematical. Come
now. do not let us do another stroke of
work until we have settled one matter
What is going to be the final issue Of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is the
world going to be all garden or all des-
ert? n ow let US have thatmatter settled
If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Ho-
sea, and Micah and Malachi, and John
and Peter, and Paul and Christ, we
believe that it is going to be all garden.
But let us have this settled. Let us know
whether we are working on toward a sue
cess or toward a dead failure If there is
child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get we'll, You sympa-
thize with present pains, but all the fore
bnding IS gone. If you are in a cyclone
off the Florida coast, and the captain as
sures you the vessel is stanch and the
winds are changing for better quarter,
and he is sure he will bring YOU safe into
the harbor, you patiently submit to pros
ent distress with the thought of safe ar
rival.
Now, want to know whether we are
coming on toward a dismay, darkness
and defeat, or on toward light and
blessedness. You and believe the lat
ter, and if so, every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe,
and every event that passes, whether
bright or dark, brings US one event
nearer happy consum nation, and by
all that IS inexorable in chronology and
mathematics, | commend you to good
cheer and courage. If there is any thing
In arithmetic, If you subtract two from
i've and leave three, then by every roll
ing sun we are coming on toward
magnificent terminus. Then every
winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world. Then every
summer gone by brings Us nearer unfad-
ing arborescence. But your algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If
1t IS nearer morning at three O'Clock than
1t is ct two, if it is nearer morning at -four
O'Clock than it is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to 60 very slow.
ly, but the pendulum swings and the
hands move, and it will yet strike noon.
The sun and the moon stood still once;
they will never stand still again until
they stop forever. If you believe arith-
metic as well as your Bible, you must be-
heve We are nearer the dawn. THE day
is at hand"
There is class of phe nomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may, after awhile,
make demonstration in this world
which will bring all moral and spiritual
things to climax. Now l am no spirit
ualist; but every intelligent man has
noticed that there are strange and mys-
FERROUS things which indicate TO him
mat perhaps the spiritual world is not SO
lar of as sometimes we conjecture, and
mat after awhile from the spiritual and
heavenly world there maybe q demonstra-
ton upon our world for its betterment We
call 1t magnetism, or we call it mesmer-
Ism, or we call it electricity, because we
want some term to cover up our igno-
rance. l do not know what that is. |
never heard an audible voice from the
other world | am persuaded OF this,
however, that the vail between this world
and the next is getting thinner and thin
ner, and that perhaps after awhile, at the
call or God-not at the call of the Dav-
export brothers or Andrew jackson Da-
Vls-some OF the old scriptural warriors,
some OF the spirits Of other days mighty
Tor Coda Joshua, on Caleb or a David
or Paul-may come down and help us
In this battle against unrighteousness.
Oh, how would like to have them here
Him of the Red Sea, Him of the Valley
OF AJalon, Him of Mars Hill. History
says that Robert Clayton, of the English
cavalry, at the close of a war, bought ND
all the old cavalry horses least they be
turned out to drUdgery and hard woika and
bought piece of ground at Naversmire
Heath and turned these old war horses
into the thickest and richest pasture to
spend the rest of their days for what
they had done in other days. One dav a
thunderstorm came up, and these war
horses mistook the thunder of the
skies for the thunder of battle, and
they wheeled into line-no riders on their
backs-they wheeled into line ready for
the fray. And l doubt me whether,
when the last thunder of this battle for
God and truth goes booming Through the
Heavens, the old scriptural warriors can
keep their places on their throne. Me-
thinks they will spring into the fight and
exchange crown for helmet and palm
branch for weapon, and come down out
OF the Kings galleries into the arena.
crying: MAKE room! l must fight in this
great Armageddon."
My beloved people, 1 preach this SER
mon because want you to toll with the !
sunlight IN your faces. l want you old |
men to understand before you die thataIl |
the work you did for God while vet vour
ear was alert and your foot feet is go /
ng to be counted up in the final vic |
tories. l want all these younger people |
o understand that when they toll for I
sod they always win the day; that all |
prayers are answered and all Christian /
work is in some way effectual, and that
he tida is setting IN the right direction, |
md that all Heaven is on our side I
'aintly cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
'mnlpotent, chariot and throne, doxologv {
md procession, principalitiss and do
nln1on, He who hath tbs moon under His
eet and all the armies of Heaven on
White horses.
Brother! brother! all am afraid of is.
lot that Christ will lose the battle. but
nat you and l will not get into it quick
nough to do something worthy of our
Hood bought immortality. Oh, Christ,
low shall meet Thee, Thou of the SCARED
row and the Scared back and the SCARED
and and the scared foot and the SCARED
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