The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-26

shoulder to shoulderl one Commander
one triumph!
The trumpet gives a martial strain
Israeli grid thee for the fight;
Arise, the combat to maintain;
Arise, and put thy foes to flight.
We also feel re-enforeed by the
thought that we are on the way to a
Heaven that can never burn down.
Fires may sweep through other cities
but I am glad to know that the New
Jerusalem is freproof. There will be
no engines rushing through those
streets; there will be no temples con.
sumed in that ity. Coming to the doors
of that church we will fiud them open,
resonant with songs. and not cries of
fire. Oh, my dear brother and sister! if
this short lane of life comes up so soon
to that blessed place, what is the use of
our worrying? 1 have felt a good many
times this last week like Father Taylor,
the sailor preacher. He got in long
sentence while he was preaching one day
and lost himself and could not find his
way out of the sentence. He stopped and
said: Brethren, 1 have lost the nomi-
native of this sentence, and things are
generally mixed up, but am bound for
the Kingdom, anyhow
See that light in the window. l wou-
der who set it there. ''Oh," you say,
'my father that went into glory must
have set that light in the window" No,
guess again. ''My mother, who died if
teen years ago in Jesus, think must
have set that light there" No; CUES )
again. You say: ''My darling little child,
that last summer put away for the res
direction, think she must have set that
light there in the Windows" No; guess
again. Jesus set it there; and He will
keep it burning until the day we put our
finger on the latch of the door and go in
to be at home forever. Oil when my
sight gets black in death, put on my eye
lids that sweet ointment. When in the
last WEAKNESS I can not take another
step just help me put my foot on that
doors1ll: When my ear catches no more
the voices of wife and child, let me go
right in, to have my deafness cured by
the stroke of the harpers whose fingers
ny over the strings with the anthems of
the free.
Heaven never burns DOWN. The fires
of the last day, that are already kindled
IN the heart of the earth, but are hidden
because God keeps down the matches
those internal fires will after awhile
break through the crust, and the plains
and the mountains and the seas will be
consumed, and the flames will fling their
long arms into the skies; but all the ter
rors of burning world will do no more
harm to that Heavenly temple than the
hres of the setting sun which kindle up
the window glass of the house on yonder
hill top. Oh, blessed landi But do not
want to go there until see the Brooklyn
Tabernacle rebuilt. You say: ''Will it
be" You might as well ask me if the
sun will rise tomorrow morning, or if
the next spring will put garlands on its
head. You and may not do it-you and
may not live to see it; but the Church
OF God does not stand on two legs nor on
a thousand legs.
How did the 1sraelities get through the
Red Sea? l suppose somebody may have
come and said: There is no need of
trying; you will yet your feet wet; you
will spoil your clothes; you will drown
yourselves. Who ever hearl of getting
through such sea as that?" How did
they get through it? Did they go back?
No. Did they go to the right? No. Did
they go to the left? No. They went for
ward in the strength of the Lord AL
mighty; and that is the way we mean to
go through the Red Sea. By going for.
ward. But says one: IF we should
build larger church, would you be able
with you voice to ill it?" Why. have
been wearing myself out for the last six
teen years in trying to keep my voice in.
Give me room where / can preach the
giories of Christ and the grandeurs of
Heaven.
Forward! We have to march on, break
ing down all bridges behind Us, making
retreat impossible. Throw away YOUR
knapsack if it impedes your march. Keep
your sword arm free. Strike for Christ
and His Kingdom while you may. No
people ever had better mission than
you are sent on. Prove yourselves worthy.
If am not fit to be your leader, set me
aside. The brightest goal on earth that
can think of is q country parsonage
amidst the mountains. But | am not
afraid to lead you. | have some dollars:
they are at your disposal. I have good
physical health; it is yours as long as it
lasts. have enthusiasm of soul; / will
not keep it back from your services, /
have some faith in God, and shall direct
1t toward the rebuilding of our spiritual
AOuoO' SOLnO Ous Oue0. Will l0dQ you.
Come on, We aged men, not yet passed
over Jordan Give US one more life be-
fore you go into the promise land. You
men in middle life, harness all your bus
mess facilities to this enterprise. Young
man, put the fire of your soul into this
work. Let women consecrate their per-
aud persistence to this cause,
and they will be preparing benedictions
for their dying hour and everlasting re-
wards; and if Satan really did burn that
Tabernacle down, as some people say he
did, he will find it the poorest job he ever
undertook.
Goodbye, old Tabernacle. 1 put nv
fingers to my lips and throw a kiss to the
departed church. In the last day, NAV
we be able to meet the songs there sung,
and the prayers there offered, and the
sermons there preached. Good bye, old
place, where some of US first felt the
Gospel peace, and others heard the last
ere they fed away into the
skiesl Goodbye, Brooklyn Tabernacle
of 1871 But welcome our new church,
Il see it as plainly as though it were al
ready buiItD Your gates wider your
songs more triumphant, your gatherings
more glorious. Rise out of the ashes and
greet our waiting vision! Burst on our
souls, oh day of our church's resurrec-
toni By your affairs may we be prepared
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