The Bossier banner., 1891-08-20

/ nave aNueQ TO our pOpulaLlOn, Tue
church of Wesley and Matthew Simp-
son, against which we have an especial
grudge, and get them SO absorbed in
discussing whether women shall take
part in her conference that they shall
not have so much time to discuss how
many sons and daughters she will take
TO glory"
What amazes me most is that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire move.
ment at this time all over Christendom
is satanic. Many of the internal at
lacks are sly and hidden and strategic
and so ingenious that they are not
easily discovered. But here is bold
and uncovered attempt of the powers
of darkness to split up the churches, to
get ministers to take each other by the
throat, to make religion a laughing
stock of earth and hell, to leave the
| Bible with no more respect or author
ity than an old almanac of 1922, which
told what would be the change OF
weather six months ahead, and in what
quarter of the moon it is best to plant
turnips.s In word, the effort is to
| stop the evangelization of the world.
1t seems to me very much like this:
There has been railway accident,
and many are wounded and dying.
There are several drug stores near the
! scene of casualty. All the doctors
and druggists are needed, and
needed right away. Bandages, stimu-
lants, an@sthetics, medicines of all
! 4.
gists doing? Discussing the contents of
some old bottles on the top shelf, bot
Ties of medicine which some doctors
and druggists mixed two or three hun
dred years ago. Come doctorsr'
Come druggistsr' cry the people. land
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the tim
bers of the crushed rail train. In a
little while it will be too late. Come
for Gods sakel Come right awayr'
mo" says doctor, mot until we have
settled whether the medicine on that
top shelf was rightly mixed. I say
there were too many drops of laudanum
in it, and this other man says there were
toomany drops of camphor, and we must
get this question settled before we can
attend to the railroad accident And one
doctor takes another doctor by the col
lar and pushes him back against the
counter, and one of the druggists says:
''If you will not admit that am right
about that one bottle, ] will smash
every bottle in your apothecarV store, y
and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile,
on the lower shelf, plainly marked and
within easy reach, are all the medi-
zines needed for the helping of the
sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer. easily opened, arc the bandages
and splints, for the lack of which fifty
people are dying outside the drug store.
Before | apply this thought, everyone
sees its application. Here is this old
world, and it is off track. Sin and sor-
row have collided with it. The groan OF
| agony is fourteen hundred million
voiced. God has opened for relief
and cure a great Sanitariu1n, a
great House of Mercy, and all It's
shelves are filled with balsams
with catholicons, with help, glo-
rious help tremendous help, help sc
easily administered that you need not
get upon any stcp-ladder to reach it.
You can reach it on your knees, and
then hand it to all the suffering and the
shining and the dying, Comfort for al
the troubled! Pardon for all the guilty
Peace for all the dying! }ut while the
world is needing the relief and perish
ing for lack of it, what of the church:
| Why, it is full of fighting doctors Or
the top shelf are some old bottles, which
several hundred years ago Calvin Ql
| Arminius, or the members of the SYNOD
of bort, or the formers of the Nicene
Greed, filled with holy mixtures, anC
until we get revision of these old bot
ties and find out whether we must take
a teaspoonful or tablespoonful, anS
| whether before or after meals, let the
nations suffer and groan and die. Save
the bottles by all MEANS if you can not
save anything else.
Now, what part shall you and take
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? My advice is
Take no part. In time of riot all
mayors of cities advise good citizens tc
stay at home or in their places of busi
ness; and in this time of religious riot
advise you to go about your regular
work for God. Leave the bottles OF
the higher shelves for others to fight
about and take the two bottles on Tho
shelf within easy reach, the two bottle.
which are all this dying world needs
the one filed with potion which i.
for the cleansing of all sin, the othel
! flied with a potion which is for thc
soothing of all suffering. Two Gospe
bottlesl Christ mixed them out of Hi.
own tears and blood. In them is no hu
man admixture. Spend mo time on the
mysteries You, man only five or siz
feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean one thousand feet deep. M1
own experience has been vivid. l de
voted the most of my time for years il
trying to understand Gods eternal de
crees. and was determined to find out
why the Lord let sin come into The
/ world, and l set out to explore the
doctrine of the Trinity, and with yard
stick to measure the throne of the In
finite. AS with all my predecessors
| the attempt was dead failure. Fol
the last thirty years / have not spent
/ two minutes in studying the contro