The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-05

ings were an omnipotent commentary:
Though troubles assail, and dangers alright;
Though friends should all fail and foes all
unite;
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide,
The Scriptures assure us the Lord will pro-
vide.
Still further: the road spoken of is .
pleasant road. God gives bond of in
demnity against all evil to every man
who treads it. "All things work to-
gether for good to those who love
God" No weapon formed against
them can prosper. That is the bond.
signed, sealed and delivered by the
President OF the universe. What is the
use of your fretting, OH. child of God.
about food? "Behold the fowls of the
air; for they SOW not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
Heavenly Father feedeth them" And
will He take care of the sparrow, will
He take care of the hawk, and let you
die? What is the use, of your fretting
about clothes! Consider the lilies of
the field. Shall He not much more
clothe you, oh We of little faithT
What is the use of worrying for fear
something will happen to your home?
HE blesseth the habitation of the
just" What is the use of fretting lest
you will be overcome of temptations?
"God is faithful, who will not suffer
you to be tempted above that ye are
able; but will with the temptation also
make a way to escape, that We may be
able to bear it,
o, this Kings highway! Trees of life
on either side, bending over until their
branches interlock and drop midway
their fruit and shade. Houses of enter
tainment on either side the road for
poor pilgrims. Table spread with a
feast of good things, and walls adorned
with apples of gold in pictures of sill
yer. / start out on this Kings high
way, and find a harper, and 1 say:
'What is your name?' The harper
makes no response, but leaves me to
guess, as, with his eyes toward
Heaven, and his hand upon the
trembling strings, this tune comes
ripping on the air: 1.-THE Lord
is my light and my salvation. Whom
shall fear? The Lord is the strength
of my life; of whom shall be afraid?"
/ go a little further On the same road
and meet trumpeter of Heaven, and /
say: Haven't you got some music for
a tired Pilgrim" And wiping his lip and
taking long breath, he puts his mouth
to the trumpet and pours forth this
strain: ''They shall hunger no more,
neither shall they thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat, for the Lamb which is
in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes" go little distance further on
the same road, and meet a maiden of
Israel. She has no harp, but she has
cymbals- They look as if they had
rristed from sea spray; and say to the
maiden of Israel: ''Have you no
song for tired Pilgrim" And
Like the clang of victors' shields the
cymbals clap, as Miriam begins to
discourse: ''Sing ye to the Lord, for
He hath triumphed gloriously; the
horse and the rider hath He thrown
into the sea-" And then I see u white
robed group. They come bounding to-
ward me, and say: '.W , are they
the happiest and the bris lest and the
fairest in ali Heaven-who are they?''
And the answer comes: "These are
they who came out Of great tribulations
and had their robes washed and made
white with the blood of the Lamb"
pursue this subject only one step
further What is the terminus? l do
not care how fine road you may put
me on, want to know where it comes
out. My text declares it: 1.-THE re-
deemed of the Lord come to
Zion." You know what Zion
was. That was the Kings palace.
It was a mountain fastness. 1t was
impregnable. And so Heaven is the
fastness of the universe. No howitzer
has long enough range TO shell those
towers. Let all the batteries of earth
and hell blaze away: they can not break
in those gates. Gibraltar was taken;
Sebastopol was taken; Babylon fell; but
those walls of Heaven shall never sur
render either to human or Satanic be-
siegement. The Lord God Almighty
is the defense of it. Great capital of
the universe! Terminus of the Kings
highway.
DIR. Dick said that, among other
things, he thought in Heaven we should
study chemistry, and geometry, and
comic sections. Sonthey thought that
in Heaven he would have the pleasure
of seeing Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Now, DIR. Dick may have his mathemat-
les for all eternity, and Southey his
Shakespeare. Give me Christ and
my old friends - that is all the
Heaven / want; that Is Heaven
enough for me. o garden of light,
whose leaves never wither, and whose
fruits never fail! o banquet of God,
whose sweetness never pals the taste,
and whose guests are kings forever! O
city of light, whose walls are saliva
ton, and whose gates are praise! o
palace of rest, where God is the Mon
arch and everlasting ages the length OF
His reign! o song louder than the surf
beat of many waters, yet soft as the
whisper of cherubim!
When my last wound is healed, when
the last heart break is ended, when the
last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped
away, and when the redeemed of tho
Lord shall come to Zion. then let all the
harpers take down their harps and all
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