The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-24

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Alas! poor soul, if that is all. Better
die in the wilderness, far from tree
| shadow and from fountain, alone, vult-
ures cireling through the air waiting fra
our body, unknown to men. and to have
no burial, if only Christ could say
through the solitude:
81 will never leave thee; will never
forsake thee"
From that pillow of stone ladder
would soar heavenward, angels coming
and going; and across the solitude and
the barrenness would come the sweet
notes of heavenly minstrelsy. Gordon
Hall, far from home, dying in the door
of heather temple, said:
: ''Glory to Thee, 0 God!''
What did dying Wilberforce say to his
wife?
"Come and sit beside me, and let US
talk of Heaven. 1 never knew what
happiness was until found Christ"
What did dying Hannah More say?
ITO go to Heaven, think what that isl
| To go to Christ, who died that might
live! Oh, glorious grave! Oh, what a
glorious thing it is to die! On, the love
of Christ, the love of Christi
What did Mr. Toplady, the great
hymn-maker, say i'll his last hour?
''Who can measure the depths CT the
third Heaven? Oh, the sunshine IhAt
| fills my soul! l shall soon be gone, for
surely no one can live in this world
after such glories as God has manifested
to my soul"
What did the dying Janeway say? 81
can as easily die as close my eyes or
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed l shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, and with the
just men made perfect, and we shall
ascribe riches, and honor, and glory,
and majesty, and dominion, unto God
and the Lamb"
! DIR. Taylor, condemned to burn at the
stake, on his way thither broke away
from the guardsmen and went bound
ing and leaping and jumping toward
the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die
| for Him.
Sir Charles Hare, in last moment, had
such rapturous vision that he cried:
Upward, upward, upwardr' And so
great was the peace of one of Christ's
disciples that he put his fingers upon
the pulse in his wrist and counted itand
observed it; and so great was his placid
ity that after awhile he said: Stopped"
and his life had ended here to begin in
| Heaven. But grander than that was the
testimony of the WORKOUT first mission
/ T4yhn in
he cried: 81 am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand;
have fought the good light, have fin
| ished my course. / have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me
crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous Judge, will give me in
that day, and not to me only, but to all
them that love His appearing!'' Do you
not see that Christ is above all in dying
alleviations?
Brighter than a banqueting hall
through which the light feet of the
dancers go up and down to the sound OF
trumpeters will be the sepulchel
through whose riffs the holy light of
Heaven streameth. God will watch
you. He will. send His angels to guard
your slumbering ground, until, at
Christ's behest, they shall roll away the
stone.
So, also, Christ is above all in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme of the celestial ascrip-
zion, all the thrones facing His throne.
all the palms waved before His face,
all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to
seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit, shall recite the Saviour's earthly
sacrifice.
''Stand on some high hill of Heaven,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the scars of His suffering, in
silence first, afterward breaking forth
into reclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flame through which they
passed, will say:
| This is Jesus, for whom we died.
The apostles, all the happier for the
shipwreck and the scourging through
which they went will say:
This is the Jesus whom we preached
at Corinth, and at Cappadoeia, and at
Antioch, and at Jerusalem"
/ Little children clad in white will say:
''This is the Jesus who took us in His
arms and blessed US, and when Che
storms of the world were too cold and
loud brought US into this beautiful
place."
The multitudes of the bereft will say:
''This is the Jesus who comforted us
when our heart broke
Many who wandered clear off from
God and plunged into yagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say: This
is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were
lost On the mountains, and He brought
us home. We were guilty, and He has
made us white as snow"
Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled.
And then, after each one has recited his
peculiar deliverances and peculiar ner-
cies, recited them as by solo, all the
voices will come together into a great
chorus, which will make the arches
echo and re-echo with the eternal re-
verberation of gladness and peace and
| triumph.
Edward |. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
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