The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-02

morning she goes over to comfort a
young mother who has just lost her
babe.
You know on a Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last.
I have fed you to-day with the bread OF
consolation. Let the table now be
cleared, and let us set on the chalice Of
Heaven. Let the Kings cup-bearers
come in. Good-morning, Heaven!
''Oh, says some critic in the audience,
''the Bible contradicts itself. It init
mates again and again that there are to
be no tears in Heaven, and if there be
no tears in Heaven no v is it possible
that God will wipe any away?"
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
sympathetic with all trial. The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
''Jesus wept." The scar on the back of
either hand, the scar on the arch of
either foot, the row of scars along the
line of the hair, will keep all Heaven
thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
Gentle! Why, His step is softer than
the step of the dew. 1t will not be
tyrant bidding you to hush up your cry
ing. 1t will be Father who will take
you on His left arm, His face cleaning
into yours, while with the soft tips of
the fingers of the right hand, He shall
wipe away all tears from your eyes. I
have noticed when the children get
hurt, and their mother is away from
home, they always come to me for COM
fort and sympathy; but have noticed
when the children get hurt, and their
mother is at home, they go right past
me and to her; I am of no account.
Why should wish to linger in the wild,
When Thou arr waiting, Father, to receive
Thy child.
Still, if we could get any appreciation
of what God has in reserve for us, it
would make us so homesick we would be
unfit for our everyday work. Prof.
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University,
put in my hands meteoric stone-a
stone thrown off from some other world
to this. How suggestive it was to me.
And have to tell you the best repre-
sensations we have of Heaven are only
erolites flung off from that world which
rolls on, bearing the multitudes of the
redeemed. We analyze these aerolites
and find them crystalizations of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven
God shall wipe away ali tears from their
eyes,
Have you any appreciation of the good
and glorious times your friends are hav-
ing in Heaven? How different it is
when they get news there of Chris
tian's death from what it is here 1t is
the difference between embarkation and
coming into port. Every thing depends
upon which side of the river you stand
when you hear of Christians death.
If you stand on this side of the river
you mourn that they go. If you stand
on the other side of the river you re-
joice that they come. Oh, the difference
between a funeral on earth and jubilee
in Heaven-between requiem here and
triumphal march there-parting here
and reunion there. Together! Have
you thought of it? They are together.
Not one of your departed friends in one
land and another in another land; but
together, in different rooms of the same
house-the house of many mansions.
Together!
l never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing
there in the village cemetery, looked
around and said: "There is father, there
is mother, there is grandfather, there is
grandmother, there are whole circles of
kindred;" and I thought to myself: ''To-
gether in the grave-together in glory"
/ am so impressed with the thought that
do not think it is any fanaticism when
some one is going from this world to the
next if you make them the bearer of
dispatches to your friends who are gone,
saying:
'Give my love to my parents; give
my love to my children; give my love
to my old comrades who are in glory,
and tell them I am trying to fight the
good fight of faith, and ] will join them
after awhile"
believe the message will be deliv-
cred; and believe it will increase the
gladness of those who are before the
throne. Together are they, all their
tears gone. No trouble getting good So
ciety for them. All kings, queens,
princes and princesses. In 1851 there
was bill offered in the English Parlia-
ment proposing to change the almanac
so that the LIST of March should come i'm
mediately after the 18th of February.
But, oh, what a glorious change in the
calendar when all the years of your
earthly existence are swallowed up in
the eternal year of God!
My friends, take this good cheer home
with you. These tears of bereavement
that course your cheek, and of persecu-
ton and of trial are not always to be
there. The motherly hand of God will
wipe them all away. What is the use
on the way to such contamination;
what is the use of fretting about any
thing? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought
to be in Christian work. See you the
pinnacle against the sky? 1t is the city
of our God, and we are approaching it.
Oh, let US be busy in the few DAYS that
shall remain for us. The Saxons and
the Britons went out to battle. The
SaXons were all armed. The Britons
had no weapons at all, and yet history
tells us the Britons got the victory.
WhV? They want into batt1o bo,,4:,s,.