The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10

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your receipts properly pasted, and your
letters filed, and you books balanced.
Ifyou have "trust funds" see that they
are rightly deposited and accounted
for Let no widow or orphan scratch
On your tombstone: "This man wronged
me of my inheritance. Many man
has died, leaving a competency, whose
property has, through his own careless
ness, afterward been divided between
the administrators, the surrogate, the
lawyers, and the sheriffs. l charge
you, before many days have gone. as
far as possible have all your worldly
matters made straight, for this year
thou shalt die
l advise also that you be busy in
Christian work How many Sabbaths
in the year? Fifty-two. If the text be
true of You, it does not say at what
time you may go, and therefore it is un-
safe to count on all of the ffty-two
Sundays. AS you as likely to go in
the first halt of the year as in the last
half, l think we had better divide the
fifty.two into halves, and calculate only
twenty-six Sabbaths. Come. Christian
men, Christian woman, what can you
do in twenty-siX Sabbaths? Divide the
three hundred and sixty-fve days into
two parts: What can you do in one
hundred and eigbty-two days? What,
by the way of saving your family, the
church and the world? You will not,
through all the ages of eternity in
Heaven, get over the dishonor and the
outrage of going into glory and hav-
ing helped none on to the same place.
1t will be found that many n Sab
bath-school teacher has taken into
Heaven her whole class; that Daniel
Baker the evangelist, took thousands
into Heaven; that Doddridge has taken
in hundreds of thousands, that Paul
took in hundred millions. How many
will you take in? If you get into
Heaven, and find none there that you
sent, and that there are none to come
through your instrumentality. beg of
you to crawl under some seat in the
back corner and never come out, lest
the redeemed get their eyes on you,
| and some one cry out: THAT is the
man who never lifted hand or voice for
| the redemption of his fellows! Look at
| him, all Heavenr Better be busy.
| Better put the plow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly
Better cry the alarm. Better fall on
your knees. Better lay hold with both
hands. What you now leave undone
| for Christ will forever be undone.
This year thou shalt die!''
In view of the probabilities men-
toned, l advise all the men and women
not ready for eternity to get ready. If
| the text be true, you have no time to
talk about non-essentials, asking why
| God let sin come into the world; or
| whether the book of Jonah was in
| spired; or who Melchisedec was, or
what about the eternal DEGREES. If you
9re as near eternity as some of you
seemed TO be, there is no time for any,
| thing but the question: What must /
do to be saved?" The drowning man,
when plank is thrown him, stops not
| to ask what saw-mill made it, or
| whether it is oak or cedar, or who
threw it. If this year you are to die
there is no time for ANYTHING but i'm
mediately laying of God. 1t is high time
to get out OF y our sins. You say: II have
committed no great transgressions but
are you not aware that your life has
been sinful? The snow comes down on
the Alps flake by flake, and it is sc
light that you may hold it on the tip OF
your finger without feeling any weight;
but the fakes gather; they compact,
until some day travellers foot starts
the slide, and it goes down in an ava
lanche, crushing to death the villagers.
So the sins of your youth, and the sins
of your manhood, and the sins of your
womahood may have seemed only slight
inaccuracies or trifiing Emergencies from
the right-so slight that they are hard.
ly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing
together and packing together, until
they make a mountain of sin, and one
more step of your foot in the wrong di-
rection may slide down upon you an
avalanche of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing desolate and lonely
plateau, hungry wolf took after him.
He brought his gun to his shoulder,
and took aim, and the wolf howled
with pain, and the cry woke up pack
of wolves, and they came ravening out
of the forest from all sides and horri
bly, devoured him. Thou art the man
Some one sin of your life summoning
on all the rest they surround thy soul
and make the night of thy sin terrible
with the assault of their bloody muzzles.
Oh the unpardoned, clamoring, raven.
ing, all-devouriug sins of thy lifetime.
A maniac was found pacing along
| the road with torch in one hand and
a pail of water in the other, and some
one asked him what he meant to do
with them. He answered.: with this
torch | mean to burn down Heaven,
and with this water | mean to put out
the fires of hell" He was maniac.
He could do the one thing just as we'll
as the other. No time to lose if you.
want to escape your sins, for this year
thou shalt die"
Let me announce that Christ, the
Lord stands ready to save any man who
wants to be saved. He waited for you
before, and all your life. He has wait
ed for you with blood on His brow, and
tears in His eye, and two outstretched,
| mangled hands of love