The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-10-21

pitcher at the fountain. Many Of You
have kept on in life through sheer
force of will. You think no one can
understand your distresses. Perhaps
you look strong, and it is supposed that
you are a hypochondriac. They
say that you are nervous-as Ii that
were nothing! God have mercy upon
any man or woman that is nervous! At
times you sit alone In your room.
Friends do not come. You feel an IN
describable loneliness in your suffer-
ings; but God knows, God feels. God
compassionates He counts the sleep
less nights: He regards the acuteness OF
the pain: He estimates the hardness OF
the breathing. While you pour ont
the medicine from the bottle. and
count the drops, God counts all your
falling tears. As you look at the walls,
filed with nauseous draughts, and at
the bottles of distasteful tonic that
stand on the shelf. remember that there
is larger bottle than these, which is
filed with no mixture by earthly
apothecaries, but it is Gods bottle, In
which He hath gathered all our tears.
Again: God remembers all the sor'
rows of poverty. There is much want
that never comes to inspection. The
deacons of the church never see 1t.
The comptrollers of almhouses never
report it. Itcomes not to church, FOL
it has no appropriate apparel. II
makes no appeal for help, but chooses
rather to suffer than expose its bitter
ness. Fathers who fail to gain live
lihood, so that they and their children
submit to constant privation, sewing
women, who can not ply the needle
quick enough to earn them shelter ane
bread. But whether imported or un
complaining, whether in seemingl.
comfortable parlor, or in damp cellar
or in hot garnet, Gods angels OF mere,
are on the watch. This moment thos'
griefs are being collected. Down OF
the back streets, in all the alleys, annie
shanties and log cabins, the work goe
on. Tears q. want-seething in sum
| mer's heat. or freezing in winter
cold-they fall not unheeded. The.
are Jewels for Heavens casket. The.
are pledges of Divine sympathy
qThey are tears for Gods bottle.
| Again: The Lord preserves the re
membrance of all paternal anxieties
| You see man from the infamous sur
roundings step out into the kingdom Q
God. He has heard no sermon. He ha
received no startling provident war;
ing. What brought him to this ne,
mind? This Is the secret-God locke
over the bottle in which He gathers tn
tears of His people, and He saw pal
entail tear in that bottle which ha
been for forty years unanswered
answer that tear!' and forthwith
the wanderer is brought home to Cox
Oh. this work of training children fc
God! 1t is tremendous work. Som
people think it easy. They have trie
| it. A child is placed in the arms {
the young parent. 1t 10 a beautif,
plaything. You look into the laugl
| ing eyes. You examine the dimples
the feet. You wonder at its exquisit
organism. Beautiful playthings! b,
on some nightfall as You sit rockir
that little one, voice seems to ia
straight from the throne of God, sa
ing: '.That child is immortal! I'll
stars shall die, but that is an immorta
Suns shall grow old with age and pc
: ish, but that is an immortal!'
Now, know with many of you this
, the chief anxiety. You earnestly wis
your children to grow up rightly, b
, YOU find it hard work to make them I
as you wish. You check their tempe
, You correct their waywardness; in Il
midnight your pillow is wet with wee
ing. You have wrestled with God
5 agony for the salvation of yonr CHI
dren. You ask me if all that ankle
: is Intellectual. answer. No. God u
derstands your. heart. He understan
, how hard you have tried to make til
daughter do right. though she is
s very petulant and reckless; and VIII
pains you have bestowed in teachi
: that son towalk in the path of uprigl
y ness, though he has such strong p
o cliyities for dissipation. l speak
h cheering word. God heard every cor
S sci you ever offered him. God h
t known all the sleepless nights y
= have ever passed. God has seen eve
t sinking of your distressed spirit. G
d remembers your prayers. He kes
Il eternal record of your anxieties: a
d in His lachrymatory, not such as ste
It in ancient tomb, but in one that glo
Y and glitters beside the throne of G.
e He holds all those exhausting tea
II The grass may be rank upon yourgra
e and the letters upon your tombstt
II defaced with the elements before
n Divine response will come; but He "
b hath declared, II will be God
l. thee, and to thy seed after thee" v
If not forget, and some day, in Heav
r while you are ranging the fields
p light, the gates of pearl will sw
N back. and garlanded with glory, t
a; long hayward one will rush into y
d outstretched arms of welcome and
Is umph. The hills may depart and
n earth may burn, and the stars fall ;
time perish, but God will break
ID oat h and trample upon His promise
to never! never!
is Again: God keeps perpetual
at membrance of all bereavements. TIL
of are the trials that cleave the soul
es throw the rcd hearts of men to
err crushed in the wine press. Troul
,g at the store you may leave at the ST
IS Misrepresentation and abuse OF
he world you may leave on the ST
ie, where you found them. The law