The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-09-05

Is not the supply OF gloom, aud Ir0ub I6,
and misfortune enough to meet the de-
mand, without your running factory OF
pins and spikes? Why should you plant
black and blue in the world when God so
seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet
colors, plenty of yellow, plenty Of green,
plenty Of pink, but very seldom plant
black or blue.
Inever saw a black flower, and there's
only here and there blue bell or a vio-
let; but the blue is for the most part re-
served for the sky, and we have to look
up to see that, and when we look up no
color can do US harm. Why not plant
along the paths of others the brightnesses
instead of the glooms? Do not prophesy
misfortune. If you must be prophet at
all be an Ezekiel, and not jeremiah. In
ancient times prophets who foretold evil
were doing right, for they were divinely
directed; but the prophets of evil in our
time are generally false prophets. Some
of our weather. wise people are prophesy-
ing that we shall have a summer of
unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be that
at all. l think we are going to have a
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know as much about
it as they do. Last fall all the weather
prophets agreed in saying we should
have winter of Extraordinary severity,
billiards on the heels of blizzard. 1t was
the mildest winter l ever remembered to
have passed. Indeed, the autumn and
the spring almost showed winter out of
the procession.
Real troubles have no heraIds running
ahead of their somber chariots, and no
one has any authority in our time to an
nOunce their coming. Load yourself up
with hopeful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in our churches is unfit
to be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser-
able all the time. The old song sung at
the pianos quarter of century ago was
right: 'Kind Words Can Never Die"
Such kind words have their nests in kind
hearts, and when they are Matched
out and take wing they cir
Gle round in flights that never
cease, and sportsman's gun can notshoot
them, and storms can not ruffle their
wings, and when they cease flight in these
lower skies of earth they sweep around
amid the higher attitudes of Heaven. At
Baltimore, few days ago, talked into a
monograph. The cylinder containing
the words was sent on to Washington,
and the next day that cylinder, from an
other photographic instrument, when
turned, gave back to me the very words
Ii had uttered the day before, and with
the same intonations. Scold into a phouo-
graph, and it will scold back. Pour mild
words into a photograph, and it will re-
turn the gentleness.
Society and the world and the Church
are monographs. Give them acerbity
and rough treatment you will get back.
Give them practical friendliness, and
they will give back practical friendliness.
A father asked his little daughter:
"Mary, why is it that every body loves
your" She replied: 81 don't know, I'M
less it is because love every body" GA
man that hath friends must show himself
friendly" We want something like that
spirit of sacrifice for others which was
seen in the English channel where, in
the storm, boat containing three men
was upset, and all three were in the wa
ter struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief and rope
was thrown to one of them and
he refused to take it, say
ing: "First fling it to Tom; he
is just ready to go down. can last some
time longer" & man like that, be he
sailor or landsman, be he in upper ranks
of society or lower ranks, will always
have plenty of friends. What is true
MAYNARD is true Godward. We must be
the friends of God if we want Him to be
our friend. We can not treat Christ bad
ly all our lives and expect Him to treat us
lovingly. l was reading of a sea fight, in
which Lord Nelson captured a French
officer, and when the French officer Of
fered Lord Nelson his hand Nelson re-
piled: First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand" Surrender Of
our resistance to God must precede Gods
proffer of pardon to us. Repentance be-
fore forgiveness. You must give up your
rebelious sword before you can get a
grasp of the divine hand.
Oh, what glorious state of things to
have the friendship of Godi Why, we
could afford to have all the world against
and all other worlds against us If we had
God for US. He could in minute blot
out this universe. have no idea that
God tried hard when He made all; things.
The most brilliant thing known to us is
light, and for the creation of that He only
used word of command. As out of
flint frontiersman strikes a spark, SO
out of one word God struck the MONDAY
sun. For the making of the present
universe l do not read that
God lifted so much as finger. The
Bible frequently speaks of Gods hand,
and Gods arm, and Gods shoulder, and
Gods foot; then suppose He should put
hand and arm and shoulder and foot to
utmost tension, what could He not make?
That God, Of such demonstrated and I'M
demonstrated strength, you may have for
your everlasting friend. But a stately
and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as
approachable as country mansion on a
summer day when all the doors and win
dows are wide open. Christ said: 81 am
the door," And He is a wide door, a
high door, palace door, an always
open door.
My four-year- old child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after, when her
mother came home, and then she burst
into weeping, and some of the domestics,
not understanding human nature, said tc
her: "Why did you not cry before?" She
answered: "There was no one to cry tor
Now have to tell you while human SYM
pathy may be absent, Divine sympathy is
always accessible. Give God your love
and get His love; your service and secure
His help; your repentance and have His
pardon. God friend? Why, that means