The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-09

voyage? Make up your minds. The
gang planks are lifting, The bell rings.
All aboard for Heaven! This world is
not your rest. The chaffinch is the
silliest bird in all the earth for trying
to make its nest on the rocking billow.
Oh, how wish that as I embark for the
Holy Land in the East, all to whom
preach by tongue or type would embark
for Heaven! What you all most need is
God, and you need Him now, Some OF
you leave in trouble. Things are 60
ing very rough with you. You have had
a hard struggle with poverty, or sick
ness, or persecution, or bereavement
Light after light has gone out, and it is
so dark that you can hardly see any
blessing left. May that Jesus who COM
forted the widow of Main and raised the
deceased to life, with His gentle hand Of
sympathy wipe away your tears! All is
well.
When David was fleeing through the
wilderness, pursued by his own son, he
was being prepared to become the sweet
singer of Israel. The pit and the dun
geon were the best schools at which
Joseph graduated. The hurricane that
upset the tent and killed Jobs children
prepared the man of Uz to write the
magnificent poem that has astounded
the ages. There is no way to get the
wheat out of the straw but to thresh it.
There is no way to purify the gold but
to burn it, Look at the people who
have always had 1t their own way.
They are proud, disconnected, useless
and unhappy. If you want to find
cheerfulness, go among those who have
been purified by fire. After Rossini had
rendered William Tell the five hun
dred time company of musicians came
under his window in Paris and sere-
naded him. They put upon his brow
golden crown of laurel leaves. But
amidst all the applause and enthusiasm.
Rossini turned to friend and said: 81
would give all this brilliant scene for a
few days of youth and love-" Contrast
the melancholy feeling of Rossini, who
had every thing that this world could
give him, to the joyful experience Of
Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes were
innumerable, when he says:
The Hill of Zion yields
thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the Heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry:
We're marching through Immanuels ground,
To fafrer worlds on high.
It is prosperity that kills and trouble
that saves. While the Tsraelites were
on the march, amidst great privations
and hardships, they behaved well. After
awhile they prayed for meat, and the
sky darkened with flock of quails, and
these quails fell in great multitudes all
about them; and the Israelites ate and
ate, and stuffed themselves until they
died. Oh! my friends, it is not hard
ship, or trial, or starvation that INJURIES
the soul, but abundant supply. tits not
the vulture of trouble that eats up the
Christians life; it is the quails! it is the
quails!
l can not leave you until once more
confess my faith in the Saviour whom
have preached. He is my all in all. I
owe more to the grace of God than most
men. With this ardent temperament, if
to the very depths You know 1 can dc
nothing by halves.
o to grace how great debtor
Daily I'm constrained to bel
think all will be we'll Do not be
worried about me. 1 know that nv Re-
deemer liveth, and if any fatality should
befall me, think should 70 straight.
1 have been most unworthy, and woald
be sorry to think that any one of nv
friends had been as unworthy Christian
as myself But God has helped great
many through, and hope He will help
me through. 1t is a long account of
shortcomings, but if He is going to rub
any of it out, think He will rub it all
out.
And now give US flor I do not go
alone) your benediction. When you
send letters to friend in a distant land,
you say via such a city, or via such a
steamer When you send your good
wishes to US, send them via the throne
of God. We shall not travel out of the
reach of your prayers.
There is a scene where spirits dwell,
Where friend holds intercourse with friend.
IHOuSl SunueTeu Tar, Dy IalCn we meet
Around one common mercy seat.
And now, may the blessing of God
come down upon your bodies and upon
your souls, your fathers and mothers,
your companions, your children, your
brothers and sisters and your friends.
May you be blessed in your business and
in your pleasures, in your joys and in
your sorrows, in the house and by the
way. And if, during our separation, an
arrow from the unseen world should
strike any Of us, may it only hasten the
rapture that God has prepared for those
who love Him! utter not tho word
farewell; it is too sad, too formal u word
for me to speak or write. But, consid-
ering that I have your hand tightly
clasped in both of mine, I utter Il kind,
an affectionate and cheerful goodbye!
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