The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-07-16

OA IuIOuSn Uno heavens IN Cndf1OU OF
universal acclaim, over bridges OF
hosanna, under arches of coronation,
by the towers Ginning with eternal
jubilee. Chorus! Unto Him that loved
us and washed us from our sins in His
own blood, and made us kings and
priests unto God, to Him be glory.
All! there is one word of five letters
that would like to write; but 1 have
no sheet fair enough to write it on, and
no pencil good enough to inscribe it.
Give me sheet from the Heavenly rec
ords and some pencil used by an angel
in describing victory, and with hand
struck with supernatural energy, and
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, will write it out in capitals of
love-J-E-S-U-S Jesus! 1t is this One
that is waiting for you and for me, for
we are on the same platform before
God. How long He waited for me!
How long He has waited for you!
| Waiting as banqueter waits for his
delayed guests, the meats smoking,
and the beakers trimming, and
the minstrel with his finger on
the stiff string ready to strike at
the first clash of the hoofs at the gate
way. Waiting as mother waits for a
boy that ten years ago went off drag
ging her bleeding heart after him.
Waiting. Oh, can you not give me some
comparison intense enough, importu-
nate enough, high as Heaven, deep as
hell andvast as eternity? Not expecting
that you can help me with such COM
parison, simply say He is waiting as
only an all-sympathetic Christ knows
how to wait for a wandering soul.
Bow the knee and kiss the Son.
Come and welcome, sinner, come
But remark again, not only Christ
is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is wait
ing. Why are some sermons a dead
failure? Why are there songs that do
not get their wing under the people?
Why are there players that go no
higher up than hunters halloo? Be-
cause there is missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make. If that
spirit should come through this assem-
blage this morning there would be a.
power felt like that when Saul was I'M
horsed on the road to Damascus: like
as when Lydia's heart was broken in
her tine store; like as when three
thousand souls were lifted out of mid
night IL o midnoon at the Pentecost.
Do you notice that sometimes that
Spirit takes an insignificant agency to
save soul? think it is very often
that at just one passage of Scripture,
just one word of Scripture, soul is
saved because the Holy Spirit gives it
supernatural power. Do you know
what it was that saved Martin Luther !?
1t was that one verse: ''The just shall
live by faith" Do you know what it
was that brought Augustine from his
horrible dissipation 1t was that one
verse: put We on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh, to fulfill the 1usts thereof" Do
you know what it was that saved He'd
ley Wears, the celebrated soldier? It
was the one passage: Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Do you know what it was
that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christ? 1t was the one passage: ''Now
unto Him be glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
read my text, so, give thanks unto the
Lord, for He is good, " and young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself:
II have never rendered one acceptable
offering of gratitude to God in all nv
life. Here, Lord, am Thine forever
BY that one passage of Scripture he was
brought into the kingdom, and if I
might tell my own experience I might
tell how one afternoon was brought to
the peace of the Gospel by reading of
the Syro-Phonician's cry to Christ
where he said: 'Even the dogs
eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" Philosophic sermons
never saved anybody? Metaphysical
sermons never saved anybody. An
earnest plea going right out of the
heart blessed of the Holy Ghost, that is
what saves, that is what brings people
into the Kingdom of Christ. | suppose
the world thought that Thomas Chal-
mers preached great sermons in his
early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers
says he never preached at all until
years after he had occupied pulpit.
He came out of his sick room.
and weak and emaciated he stood
and told the story of Christ to the peo-
pie. And in the great day of eternity
it will be found that not so much the
eloquent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told, perhaps, by those
who were unknown on earth, the simple |
story of the Saviour's love and mercy.
sent by the power of the Holy Ghost |
straight to the heart. Come, Holv |
Ghost. Ay, He is here this morning.
He fills all the place. tell you, the
Holy Ghost is ready.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. invite you now to the Kings
least. One and all. All! All! But
90 further and tell you that the angels
ire ready. Some people think when
We speak about angels we are GETTING
nto the region of fancy. They say It
s very well for man when he has
ust entered the ministry to preach
Ibout the angels of Heaven, but after
lie has gone on further it is hardly
worth while. My friends, there