The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-06

they were drawn off they might have
thought there would have been bed
of mud and slime through which the
army should pass. Draw off the water
of the Hudson or the Ohio and there
would be good many days, and per-
haps many weeks, before the sediment
would dry up; and yet here, in an in
slant, Immediately, God provides
a path through the depths OF
Jordan; it is so dry the passengers
do not even get their feet damp. Oh, the
completeness OF everything that God !
does! Does He make universe?-it is
perfect clock, running ever since it
was wound up, the fixed stars the
pivots, the consultations, the inter-
moving wheels. and ponderous laws,
the weights and mighty swinging PEN
dulum; the stars in the great dome OF
night striking the midnight, and the
sun, with brazen tongue, toliing the
hour of noon. The widest comet has
a chain of law that he can not break.
The thistle-down flying before the
schoolboy's breath is controlled by
the same law that controls the
sun and the planets. The rose
bush in your window is governed
by the same principle that governs the
| tree of the universe on which the stars
are ripening fruits, and on which God
will one day put His hand and shake
down the fruit-a perfect universe.
No astronomy has ever proposed an
amendment
flood makes Bible, it is complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful
and delightful truths, you seem to be
in the midst of an orchestra where the
| wailings over sins, and the rejoicings
over pardon, and the martial strains OF
victory make the chorus like an an
them of eternity. This Book seems to
YOU the ocean of truth, on every wave
of which Christ walks sometimes in the
darkness of prophecy, again in the
splendors with which He walks on
Galilee. In this Book, apostle answers
to prophet, Paul to Isaiah, Revelation
to Gencsis-glorious light, turning
midnight sorrow into the midnoon JOY,
dispensing every fog. hushing every
tempest. Take this Book; it is the kiss
of God on the soul of lost man. Per-
! feet Bible, complete Bible! No man
has ever proposed any improvement
God provided Saviour; He is COM
plete Saviour-God- man divinity and
humanity united in the same person.
|. He set up the starry pillars OF the uni
verse and the towers of light. He
; planted the cedars and the Heavenly
Lebanon. He struck out of the rock
the rivers of life, singing under the
!. trees, singing under the thrones. he
= quarried the sardonyx and crystal and
the topaz of the Heavenly wall. He
put down the jasper for the foundation
; and hcaped up the amethyst for the
. capital, and swung the twelve gates
which are twelve pearls, In one in
slant He thought out a universe; aut
: vet He became child, crying for Hi
mother feeling along the sides OF thu
Z manager, learning to walk. Optolpo
n tence sheathed in the muscle and fest
l. of a child's arm; omniscience strung IL
l. the optic nerve of child's eye; infinit
$ love beating in child's heart; grea
God appearing in the form OF chill
one year old, five years old. ffteel
e years old While all the heavens wer
% ascribing to Him glory and homo
IS and power on earth, men said
A. "Who is this fellow" Will
Il all the heavenly hosts, with folde
y wing about their faces. bowed dow
l. before Him, crying Holy, holy" o
J. earth they denounced Him as bla'
y, phemer and a sot Rocked in boat o
" Gennesaret, and yet He it is that III
dirked the lightning from the storm
h cloud, and dismasted Lebanon OF i
G, forests. and holds the five oceans Q
ne the tip of His finger, as a leaf holds tt
r raindrop Oh, the complete Savior
es rubbing His hand over the place whel
he we have the pain, yet the stars
T. Heaven the adjoining gems OF His rigf
d. hand. Holding us in His arms whe
lie we take our last view of our dea'
e. Sitting down with US on the tom
I'd stone. and while we plant roses ther
'rt He planting consolation in our hear
ed every chapter q stalk, every verse
be stem. every word arose. A compile
20 Saviour, a complete Bible, compile
IN universe, complete Jordanic passa2
as Everything that God does is compiet
wv Arain. I learn from this Jordan
d. passage that between us and eve
ey Canaan of success and property the
se is n river that must be passed. ~
ce how would like some of those crap
all ON the other sidel' said some OF
til IsraeHtes to Joshua. well" sa
Ell Joshua, IF you want the grapes WI
ell don't You cross over and get them
he There is q river of difficulty between
les and everything that is worth havir
oss that which costs nothing is wor
ng nothing. God didn't intend this wol
us, for an easy parlor, through which :,
i'd are to be drawn in rocking chair,
an we are to work our passage, ELL
nd nasts, fight battles, scale mountal
ri. and ford rivers. God makes eve
thing valuable difficult to get at
the same reason that He put the 60
down in the mine, and the pearl ci'
down in the sea, to make us dig Q
dive for them. We acknowledge t
principle in worldly things; oh, II
d. we were only wise enough to ackno'
edge it in religious things!-
hes You have scores of illustrations
hat der vour own observation where N
BILE have had the hardest lot, and o.
ed. trodden under foot, and yet al
uld awhile had it easy. Now their hon