The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-10

are In the Christians right. I do not
care on whose wall the picture hangs,
or on whose pedestal the sculptor
stands, it belongs to Christians The
Bierstadts and the churches are all
working for us "All are yours" The
Luxembourg, the Louvre, all the gal
leries of Naples and Rome and Venice
they are all come into the possession
of the church of Jesus Christ Wemay
not have them on our walls, but the
time will come when the writ of eject
ment will be served and the church will
possess everything. ALI parks. all fish
ponds, all colors, all harvests-all, "all
are yours"
Secondly, I remark that the right
to full temporal support is in the
Christians name. 1t is great affair
to feed the world. just think of the
fact that this morning, one billion six
hundred million of our race breaxfasted
at Gods table! The commissary de-
partment of one hundred thousand
men in an army will engage scores of
people; but Just think of a commissary
department of world! Think of the
gathering up from the rice swamps,
and the tea fields, and the orchards,
and the fisheries! No one but God
could tell how many bushels it would
take to feed five continents,
Then, to clothe all these people-how
many furs must be captured, and how
much fax must be broken, and how
much cotton picked. just think of the
infinite wardrobe where sixteen hum
bred million of people get their clothes!
God spreads the table first of all for His
children. OF course, that would be u
very selfish man who would not allow
other people to come and sit at his
table sometimes; but, first of all, the
right is given to Christian people, and
therefore it is extreme folly for them
ever to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of whose
hand did the cormorant pick its
food? Whose loom wove the butter
hy's wing? Who hears the hawks cry?
If God takes care of a walrus and ST.
berean dog, and a wasp, will He not
take care of you? Will father have
more regard for reptiles than for his
sons and daughters? If God clothes
the grizzly bear, and the panther, and
the hyena, will He not clothe His own
children? Come, then, this morning,
and get the key of the infinite store
room. Here they are-all the keys.
"All are yours"
See all the vicissitudes of this life, SO
far as they have any religious profit,
are in the right of the Christian. II
you should stand among the Allegheny
mountains, especially near what is
called the Horseshoe" you would find
train of cars almost doubling on it
self, and sitting in the back car you see
locomotive coming as you look out OF
the window, and you think it is anoth-
er train when it is only the front of the
train on which you are riding; and some
times you can hardly tell whether the
train is going toward Pittsburg or to
ward Philadelphia, but it is on the right
track, and it will reach the depot for
which it started. and all the passengers
will be discharged at the right place.
Now, there are great many sharp
curves in life. Sometimes we seem to
be going this way, and sometimes we
seem to be going that way; but if we are
Christians we are on the right track
and we are going to come out at the
right place. Do not get worried,
then, about the sharp curve. A
sailing vessel starts from New York for
Glasgow. Does it go in stright line?
Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every little
while. Now, you say: 'sThis vessel, in
stead of going to Glasgow, must be
going to Havre, or it is going to Ham
burg, or it is going to Marseilles." No,
no, it is going to Glasgow. And in this
voyage of life we often have to change
our tack. One storm blows as this
way, and another storm blows us that
way; but He who holds the winds in
His fist will bring us into haven OF
everlasting rest just at the right time.
Do not worry, then, if you have to
change tack.
One of the best things that ever hap
pened to Paul was being thrown off his
horse. One of the best things that ever
happened to Joseph was being thrown
into the pit. The losing of his physical
eyesight helped John Milton to see the
battle of the angels. One of the best
things that ever happened to Ignatius
was being thrown to the wild beasts in
the Coliseum, and while eighty thou
sand people were jeering at his religion
he walked up to the fiercest of all the
lions and looked him in the eye, as much
as to say: Here 1 am, ready to be de-
voured for Christ's sake" All things
work together for your good. If you
walk the desert the mama will fall
and the sea will part. If the feverish
touch of sickness is kindled over your
pillow, by its light you can read the
promises. If the waves of trouble dash
high above your girdle, across the blast
and across the surge you can hear the
promise: when thou passest through
the waters will be with thee" You
never owned a glove, or a shoe, or a
hat, or a coat, more certainly than you
own all the frets and annoyances and
exasperations of this life, and they are
bound to work out your present and
your eternal good. They are the saws
and hammers, tho files by which You
are to be hewn and cut and smoothed
for your eternal well-being.
Here is vessel that goes along the
coast; it hugs the coast. The captain of
that vessel seems chiefly anxious to keep
the peint on his ship from being marred,
or the sails from being torn. When