The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-03-26


said: Il will follow this rut and II viii
take me out to safety" He FASTENED
on until he heard the bells of the preeed-
ing horses, but, coming up, he found
that that man was also lost. and, as is
the tendency of those who are thus con-
fused in the forest or on the mOors,
they were both moving in a circle
and the runner of the one lost
sleigh was following the runner
of the other lost sleigh round
and round. At last it occurred to
them to look at the north star, which
was peering through the night, and by
the direction of that star they got home
again. Those who follow the advice of
this world in time of perplexity are in
fearful round, for it is one bewildered
soul following another bewildered soul,
! and only those who have in such time
got their eye on the morning star of our
Christian faith can find their way out,
or be strong enough to lead Others with
an all-persuasive invitation
But, says some one, you Christian
people keep telling US to come, yet you
do not tell us how to come" That
charge shah not be true on this occa-
sion. Come believing. Come repent
ing! Come prayingi After all that God
has been doing for six thousand years,
sometimes through patriarehs and some
times through prophets, and at last
| through the elimination of all
tragedies on Golgotha, can any
one think that God will not
welcome your coming? VIII fathers at
vast outlay construct mansion for his
! son, and lay out parks white with
statues and green with foliage. and all
| a-sparkle with fountains, and then rot
allow his son to live in the house, or
walk in the parks? Has God built this
house of Gospel mercy, andwill He then
refuse entrance to His children? villa
| government at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
| boats that can hover unhurt like a pc
trel over the widest surge, and then,
| when the life-boat has reached the
wreck of ship in the offing, not allow
| the drowning to seize the lifeline or
| take the boat for the shore in safety?
| Shall God provide, at the cost of His
only Sons assassination, escape for a
sinking world, and then turn a deaf ear
to the cry that comes up from the
| breakers?
But" you say, ''there are so many
| things l have to believe and so many
things in the shape of a creed that I
have to adopt that am kept back. :"
''No; no. You need believe but two
things; namely, that Jesus Christ came
into the world to save sinners, and that
you are one of them. But" you
say, 81 do believe both of
those thingsr' ''Do you, really,
believe them with all your heart?
"Yes," Why, then, you have
passed from death into life Why,
then, you are son or daughter of the
Lord Almighty. Why, then. you are
an heir or an heiress of an inheritance
that will declare dividends from now
until long after the stars are dead.
Halleluiah! Prince of God, why do
you not come and take your cor
onet? Princess of the Lord Al
mighty, why do you not mount
your throne? Pass up into the light.
Your boat is anchored, why do you not
go ashore? Just plant your feet hard
down, and you will feel under them the
Rock Of Ages 1 challenge the universe
for one instance in which man in the
right spirit appealed for the salvation
of the Gospel. and did not get it. Man
alive! Are you going to let all the years
of your life go away with you without
your having this great peace, this glori-
GUS hope, this bright expectancy? Are
you going to let the pearl of great
price lie in the dust at your feet be.
cause you are too indolent or too proud
to stoop down to pick it up? VIII You
wear the chain of evil habit when near
you is the hammer that could with one
stroke snap the shackle? Win you stay
in the prison of sin when here is a Cos
pei key that could unlock your incar.
ceraton? No; no! AS the one word
! Come" has sometimes brought
many souls to Christ, will try
the experiment of piling up into
mountain and then send down
in an avalance of power many of
these Gospel Comes Come thou
and all thy house into the ark:'' ssCome
unto me all We who labor and are heavy
laden and will give you rest;' Come.
for all things are now ready" Come
with US and we will do you good
''Come and see:" ''The Spirit and the
Bride say Come, and let him that hear.
eth say Come, and let him that is
athirst come"
The stroke of one bell in a tower NAV
be sweet, but a score of bells well tuned
and rightly lifted and skillfully swung
in one great chime fill the heavens with
music almost celestial And no one who
has heard, the mighty chimes in the
towers of Amsterdam, or Client. or Co
penhagen, can forget them. Now. II
seems to me that IN this Sabbath hour
all Heaven is Ginning, and the voices
of departed friends and kindred RING
down the sky, saying: ''Comer' The
angels who never fell, bending from
sapphire thrones, are chanting ssComep
When Russia was in one of her great
wars, the suffering of the soldiers had
been long and bitter, and they were
waiting for the end of the strife. One