The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-29

Brooklyn and seeing them burn down,
until | felt | could endure the strain no
longer and had written my resigna-
ton as pastor and had appointed to
read it two Sabbaths ago and close my
work in Brooklyn forever. l felt that
my chief work was yet to be done, but
| that | could not do it with the Alps on
one shoulder and the Himalayas on the
other But God has interfered and the
way is clear, and l am here and expect
to be here until my work on earth is
done.
Why should l want to go away from
Brooklyn? l have no sympathy with
the popular sentiment which defames
our beloved city. Some people make
it part of their religion to excoriate
and belittle the place of their residence,
and there has been more damage, fl
nanciai and moral, done to our city by
this hypercriticism than can ever be es-
timated. The course of our city has
been onward and upward. We have
citizenship made up of hundreds Of
thousands of as good men and women
as inhabit the earth, and / feel honored
in being a citizen of Brooklyn, and pro-
pose to stay here until join the popu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder, now
all abloom with spring howers-sweet
| types of resurrection!
My thanks must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
| large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and chill
dren who have helped, and sometimes
helped with self sacrifices that 1 know
must have won the applause of the
heavens. If you could only read with
me few of the thousands of letters
| that have come to my desk in The
Christian Herald office, you would know
how deep their sympathy, how large
their sacrifice has been. 81 have sold
my bicycle and now send you the mon
ey," is the language of one noble
young man who wrote to The Christian
Herald. This is no dead sons gift to
me, and l have been led to send it to
you," writes a mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in York,
| Pa, sends his mite and his prayer.
| Thanks to all the newspaper press.
Have you noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all the secular newspapers have
been, and of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty
exceptions? You say that sometimes
newspapers get things wrong. Yes,
but which of us does not sometimes get
things wrong? If you want to find a
man who has never made a mistake, do
not waste your time by looking in this
pulpit. Thanks to the editors and re-
porters and publishers. Gentlemen
of the Brooklyn and New York print
ing press, if you never report any
thing else that l say, please to report
that. Yes, see you are getting it all
down.
AS a church we from this day make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer
more faithful prayers We will do bet
ter work in all departments. We will
in the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all therooms of this mag
nifoent pile with work for God and
suffering humanity. More prayers have
been offered for this church, and on
both sides of the sea, than for any
church that has ever existed, and all
those prayers will be answered. Clear
the track for the Brooklyn tabernacle!
"Sing We to the Lord, for He hath tri-
umphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath He thrown into the sea-
But do you not Low really think that
Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon?
Do you not think she ought to have
waited till the Israelitish host got clear
over to Canaan before she struck her
knuckles against the timbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do well to have
the tambourine ready, but wait a little
before you play it. You are not yet
through the journey from Egypt to the
Promised Land. You will yet have to
drink out of the bitter water of Marah,
and many of your army will eat so
heartily of the fallen quails that they
will die of collie, and you will at the
foot of Sinai be scared with the thun-
der, and there will be fiery serpents in
the way and many battles to fight, and
last of all the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriam! | have no objections to the
tambourine, but do not jingle it's bells
or thump its frightened parchment until
you are all through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. If
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles of this life
we would never shout at all. Copy the
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo-
ment you get a victory celebrate it.
The time and place to hold a jubilee for
the safe crossing of the Red sea is on its
beach and before you leave. 1t is aw-
full, the delayed hosannahs, the belated
hallelujahs, the postponed doxologies,
the trains of thanksgiving coming in so
long after they are due.
1t is said do not rejoice over a reviv-
al too soon; the new members might
not hold out. Do not thank God for
the money you made to-day, for to-
morrow you may lose 1t all and more.
do not be too grateful for your good
health to-day, for tomorrow you may
get the grip. Do not be too glad about
your conversion, for you might fall
from grace. Do not rejoice too soon
over a church's deliverance, because
there might be disasters yet to come.
Oh, let us have no more adjourned graf
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