The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-04-16

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hear much of him. He was good and he
got in, but he took most of his pay in
earthly applause; He had enough grace
to get through the gate, but just where
he lives / know not. He squeezed
through somehow, although / think the
gates took the skirts off his garments.
l think he lives in one of those back
streets in one of the palmer residences"
Then we shall see palace, the door
steps of gold and the windows of agate
and the towers like the sun for brill
lance, and chariots before the door, and
people who look like Princes and Prin-
cesses going up and down the steps and
we shall say: what one of the HE
rarchs lives here That must be a resi-
dence of a Paul or a Milton, or some
one whose name resounds through ali
the planet from which we have just as.
cended." ''No, no. says our celestial
dragoman, that is the re'ndence
of a soul whom you never heard
of. When she gave a charity her
! left hand knew not what her
right hand did. She was mighty in
secret prayer, and no one but God and
| her own soul knew it. She had more
trouble than any body in all the land
where she lived, and without complain
ing she bore it; and, though her talents
! We're never great, what she had was all
eOnsecrated to God and helping others,
and the Lord is making up for her
earthly privation by especial raptures
here, and the King of this country had
that place built especially for her. The
walls began to go up when her troubles
and priyations and conservation began
on earth, and it so happened-what a
heavenly coincidence!-that the last
stroke of the trowel of amethyst on
those Walls was given the hour she en-
tered Heaven. You know nothing of
her. On earth her name was only once
in the newspapers, and that in the
column of the dead, but she is mighty
up here. There she comes now, out of
her palace grounds, in her chariot be-
tween those two white horses, for a
a ride on the banks of the river that
flows from under the throne of God.
Let me see. Did you not have in your
world below an old classic which says
something about these are they who
came out of great tribulation, and they
shall reign forever and ever?' 4"
As we pass up the street find good
many on foot, and l say to the drago-
man: WHO are these?n And. when
their names are announced recognize
that some of them were on earth great
poets, and great orators, and great mer-
chants, and great warriors, and when I
express my surprise about their going
afoot the dragoman says: SIN this
country people are rewarded not accord
ing to the number of their earthly
talents, but according to the use they
made of what they had" And then l
thought to myself; "Why, that theory
would make a snowflake that falls
cheerfully and in the right place,
and does all the work assigned
it, as honorable as whole
, Mont Blanc of snowfokes." eyes,
yes says the celestial dragoman.
"Many of these pearls that you find
, on the foreheads of the righteous, and
many of the gems in the iewel-case OF
Prince and Princess, are only the pet
rified snowfakes of earthly tempest,
for God does not forget the promise
made in regard to them: They shall
be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the
day when make up my JEWELS" Ac.
cumulated power! All the players and
; charities, and l1indnessess, and talents
: OF all the good eoncentered and com.
: pacted will be the worlds evangelical.
ton. This thought of the aggregation
r of the many smalls into that one mighty
5 is another treasure of the snow.
2 In the time of Graham, the essayist
In one mountain district of Scotland, al
| average of ten shepherds persisted
} every winter in the snowdrifts, and sc
t he proposed that, at the distance OF
j every mile, pole fifteen feet high an6
2 with two cross-pieces be erected, show
: ing the points of the compass, and {
/ bell hung at the top, so that every
b, breeze would ring it, and so the los
: one on the mountains would heal
: the sound and take the direc
0 ton given by this pole with tn,
a cross-pieces and get safely home
/ Whether that proposed plan wa
. adopted or not do not know, but de
, clare to all you who are in the heavy
t aud binding drifts of sin and sorrow
: that there is a cross near by that car
e direct you to home, and peace, and God
: and hear you not the ringing of tn,
Y Gospel bell hanging to that cross, say
n ing: This is the way, walk We in tip
: No wonder that the sacred poet pu
n the Psalmists thought into rhythm
4 with that ringing chorus we have 81
= often sung:
> Dear Jesus, long to be perfectly whole;
: l want Thee forever to live in my soul.
e Break down every idol, cast down every foe
G Now wash me, and I viii be whittier thai
snow
u Whittier than snow! yes, whittier than snow.
:! Now wash me, and l shall be whittier thai
a Prowi
t Get that prayer answered, and we viii
e be fit not only for earth, but for tn
2 Heaven where every thing is so whit
/ because every thing is so pure. Yo7
, know that the redeemed in that Ian,
g wear robes that are white, and the con
+ querors in that land ride horses tina
+ are white, and John in vision saws n