The Bossier banner., 1892-04-21

there be fifteen million persons added
every year to the worlds population,
then, there will be thirty million added
to the church and forty million and
fifty million and sixty million. How
will it be done. 1t will be done when
the church will meet Christ on the
plain. Come down out of the noun
tain of exclusiveness Come down out
of the mountain Of pride Come down
out of the mountion of for malish.
Come down out of the mountain OF
freezing Indifference. Old DR.. Stephen
ii. Tong, great on earth and in Heaven
once said to mes 81 am in favor of a
change. / do not know what is the
best way of doing things in the
churches, but I know the way we are
doing now is not the best way, or the
world would be nearer it's salvation
than it seems to be-" SO feel; so we all
feel, that there needs ito be a change.
The point at which we all come short
is not presenting Christ on the plain,
Christ on the level with all the worlds
woes and wants and necessities.
The full change will have to come
from the rising ministry. We now in
the field are too set in our ways We
are lum mbered up with technicalities.
We have too many concordances, and
dictionaries, and encyclopedias, and
systems of theology in our head to get
down on the plain. Our vocabulary is
too frosted. We are too much under
the domination of customs vegnant for
many centuries.
The universal trouble of the world is
bereavement. One may escape all the
other troubles, but that no soul es-
capes. Out of that bitter cup everyone
must take II drink. For instance, in
order that all might know how He
sympathizes with those who have lost
a daughter, Christ comes to the house
of Jairus. There is such big GROVE,
around the door, He and His disciples
have to push their way in. From the
throng of people l conclude that the
girl must have been very popular; she
was one of those children whom every
body likes. After Christ got in the
house there was such loud weeping
that the ordinary tones of voice could
not be heard. do not wonder The
dead daughter was twelve years of age
1t is about the happiest time in most
lives. Very little children suffer many
injustices because they are children,
and childhood is not a desirable part
of human existence-they get whacked
or set on. But, at twelve years of age,
the child has come to self-assertion
and is apt to make her wants known.
And, then, twelve years of age is too
early for the cares and anxieties of life.
So this girl was, think, the merriment
of the household. She furnished for
them the mimicry, and the harmless
mischief, and reused the guffaw that
often rang through that happy home.
But, now she is dead, and the grief at
her departure is as violent as her pres
ence had been vivacious and inspiring.
Oh! the bereavement was so sharp, SO
overwhelming! How could they give
her up! l suspect that they blamed
themselves for this or for that Oh! if
they had had some other doctor, or
taken some other medicine, or had been
more careful of her health, or if they
had not given her that reproof some
time when she had not really deserved
it. Oh, if they had been more patient
with her hilarities and, instead of hush
ing her, had participated in It'll You
know there are so many things that
parents always blame themselves for at
such times. Only twelve years of age!
So fair. so promising, so full of life a
few days ago, and now so still! Oh,
what it is to have a daughter dead!
The room is full of folks, but wonder is
the room where the young sleeper is.
The crowd can not go in there. Only
six persons enter--five besides Christ
three friends and, of course, the father
and mother. They have the first right
to go in. The heaviest part of the grief
was theirs. All eyes In that room are
on the face of this girl. There Law the
beautiful hand, white and finely shapen,
but it was not lifted in greeting to any
of the group Christ'stepped forward and
took hold of that hand and said, with
tone and accentuation charged with
tenderness and command: "Damse1, I
say unto thee, ariser' And, without a
moments delay, she arose, her ewes
wide open, her cheeks turning from
white lily to red rose, and the parents
cry: 'She livesl she lives!' and in the
next room they take up the sound:
''She lives! she lives!" and the thronr
in front Of the doorway repeat it: "She
lives! she lives!" VIII not all those who
have lost daughter feel that such a
Christ as that can sympathize?
On anothe r occasion, He showed how
He felt about the loss of son. Here
are the obsequies. A long procession;
a widowed mother following her onlv
son. / know not how long the hus-
band and father had been gone, but
upon this son, who had now come to
be young man, the leadership of that
houshold had fallen. think he had got
to be the bread winner. He was proud
of his mother, and she should never
lack anything as long as he lived. And
there is no grander spectacle on earth
than a young man standing between
want and a widowed mother. But that
young man had fallen lifeless under ac-
cident or disaster, and he was being car
ried out. Only very few hours in that
land are allowed to pass between de-