The Bossier banner., 1892-03-17

atory movements. Young men Tor &C
ton, old men for counsel. Instead OF
any of you beginning to fold up your
energies arouse anew your energies.
With the experience you have obtained
and the opportunities of observation
you have had during long life, you
ought to be able to do in one year now
more than you did in ten years
right after you had passed out OF
your teens. Physical power less, your
spiritual power ought to be more. Up to
the last hour of their lives what power
for good old DIR. Archibald Alexan-
der. old DR.. Woods. old DIR. Hawes,
old Dr. Milnor, old DIR. McIlyaine, old
DR.. Tying, old DR.. Candish, old DIR.
Chalmers! What have been Bismarck
to Germany, and Gladstone to England,
and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America
in the time of an advanced age? Let
me say to those in the afternoon OF
life: Don't be putting off the harness:
when God wants it of He will take it
off. Don't be frightened out of life by
the grip as many are. At the first
sneeze of an influenza many give up all
as lost No new terror has come on
the earth. The microbes as the cause
of disease were described in the Tai
mud seventeen hundred years ago as
invisible legions of dangerous ones. "
Don't be scared out of life by all this
talk about heart failure. That trouble
has always been in the world. That
is what all the people that ever passed
out of this life have died of-heart fail
ure. Adam had it, and all of his de-
scendants have had it or will have it
Do not be watching for symptoms or
you will have symptoms of everything
Some of you will yet die of symptoms
| Symptoms are often only what we see
in the country, dead owl nailed on II
barn door TO scare living owls. Put
your trust in God, go to bed at ten
| o'clock, have the window open six
inches to let in the fresh air, sleep ols
your right side and fear nothing. The
| old maxim was right: 'Get thy spindle
and distaff ready, and God will send
| thee fax"
I have seen day break over Mont
Blanc and the Matterhorn. over the
| heights of Lebanon. over Mount Wash
inghton, over the Sierra Nevadas and
mid-atlantic the morning after a de-
parted storm, when the pillows were
liquid Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas,
but the sunrise of the soul is more
effulgent and more transporting. 1t
bathes all the heights of the soul and
illumines all the depths of the son'
and whelms all the faculties, ali
the aspirations, all the amhl.
tions, all the hopes with lign,
that sickness can not eclipse, or
death extinguish, or eternity do any.
thing but augment and magnify.
| preach the sunrise. AS look at that
retrograde movement of the shadow OIL
| Ahaz's dial l remember that it was Il
sign that Hezekiah was going to get
well. and he got well. So have to tel
all you who are, by the grace of God
having your day turned from decline
toward night to ascent toward morn
ing that you are going to get well, wei
of all your sins, we'll of all your sor
rows, well of all your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrise!
But, says some one. all that you say
may be true, but that does not hinder
the horrors of dissolution. Why, yo,
who are the Lords are not going t.
die. All that the grave gets of you as
compared with your chief, your immor
tai nature, is as the clippings of You
finger nails as compared with you,
whole body. AS you run the scissor:
along the edge of your thumb nail anc
you cut off that which is of no use, bu
rather hinderance. you do not mourn
over the departure of that frag
ment which flies away. Death will b,
only the scissoriug-off of that whicl
could be of no use, and the soul has M
funeral over that which would be al
awful nuisance if we could not get ri,
of it. This body as it now is, what
failure it would make of Heaven if ou
departing soul had to be burdened witt
it in the next world. While other
there go ten thousand miles a minute
we would take about an hour to wall
four miles, and while our neighbo
| immortals could see hundre.
miles we could see only ten miles ans
the fleetest and the healthiest of on
bodies if seen there would make i
necessary to open in Heaven an asylum
for cripples. No; no; one of the bes
possible things that will happen to. u
will be the s1oughing off of this bod
when we have no more use for it in ii
present state. When it shall come U
in it's resurrected form we will be YER
glad to get it back again, but not as
is now with its limitations and bewaxi
ments innumerable. Sunrise!
There shall Oathe my weary soul
In seas of Heavenly rest
And not wave of trouble roll
] Across my peaceful breast.
Sunrise! But not like one of thos