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

the acquisition OF knowledge Inc dH-
clients used to say that Vulcan struck
Jupiter on the head, and the goddess OF
wisdom jumped out, illustrating the
truth that wisdom comes by hard
knocks. There was river OF difficulty !!
between Shakespeare. the boy holding
the horses at the door OF the London
theater, and that Shakespeare, the
great dramatist, winning the applause
of all audiences by his tragedies. There
was a river between Benjamin Frank
lin, with loaf of bread under his arm,
walking the streets OF Phiiadelphla,
and that same Benjamin Franklin, the
philosopher, just outside OF BOSTON, hy- I
ing a kite in the thunderstorm. An I
idler was cured of his bad habit by |
looking through his window, night
after night. at a man who seemed
sitting at his desk turning OF one
sheet of writing after another, until
almost the dawn of the morning.
The man sitting there writing until
morning was industrious Walter Scott;
the man who looked at him through
the window was LoclShart. his illustrl-
GUS biographer afterward. Lord Mans
field, pursued by the press and by the
populace because of a certain line OF
duty. went on to discharge the duty,
| and while the mob were around him,
demanding the taking OF his life, he
shook his fist in the face of the mob
| and said: "Sirs, when ones last end
comes, it can not come to soon il he
| falls in defense of law and the liberty
| of his country And so there is, my
friends a tug. tussle, a trial. push,
an anxiety, through which every man
must go before he comes to worldly
achievement. You admit 1t. Now be
wise enough to apply it in religion
Eminent Christian character is only
gained by the Jordanic passage; no
man just happened to get good.
4 Why does that man know so much
about the Scriptures? He was study
ing the Bible while you were reading a
novel. He was on fire with the sub
limities of the Bible, while you were
sound asleep. BY tug, tussle, pushing
and running in the Christian life that
man got SO strong for God; in hun.
bred Solferinos he learned how to fighti
in a hundred shipwrecks he learned
how to swim Tears over sin, tears
over lions desolation, tears over the
impenitent tears over the graves made,
are the Jordan which that man had
passed. Sorrow pales the cheek, and
, fades the eye, and wrinkles the brow,
, and withers the hands; there are
mourning garments in the wardrobe,
and there are deaths in every family
= record, all around are the relics OF the
, dead.
The Christian comes down to this
raging torrent, and he knows he mus
!, pass out; and as he comes toward thu
time his breath gets shorter; and hi
last breath leaves him as he steps int
!, the stream, andno sooner does he toucl
the stream than it is parted, and HI
goes through dryshod, while all tn
waters wave their plumes, crying: 20
|. death, where is thy sting? o, grave
!, where is thy victory" God shall wip
: away all tears from their eyes, AM
:. there shall be no more weeping, an
!. there shall be no more de ath.
: Some of your children have alread
= gone up the other bank. You let ther
down on this side of the bank; the
!. will be on the other side OF the bank I
j. help you up with supernaturs
= : strength. The other morning at m
- table, all my family present, though
!. to myself how pleasant it would be
" I could put all into boat, and then 6
!. in with them, and we could pull acro'
- the river to the next world, and
: there all together No family parting
- no gloomy obsequies; it wouldn't tai
five minutes to go from bank to BAN
- and then in that better world to be t
ne cether forever. Wouldn't it be plea
70 ant for you to take all your faml
- into that blessed country il you cou
~ all GO together? / remember my mot
~ err, in her dying hour. said to my t
Their: ssFather, wouldn't it be pleasa1
- if we could all go together" But
:. can not all go together. We must |
J. one by one, and we must be grateful
we get there at all. What Heaven
-. will be if we have all of our famili
-. there, to look around and see all t
~ children are present! You wou
- rather have them all there, and you
- with bare brow forever. than that o
~. should be missing, to complete the g;
~ lands of Heaven for your coronaL L
=. Lord God of Joshua, give them a sa
,as Jordanic passage.
- WHY was there so much joy in certs
w circles in New York when people hea
~ from friends who were on board TT
. a belated steamer? 1t was feared tt
- vessel had gone to the bottom OF I
sea: and when the friends on this s.
~ heard that the steamer had arriy
la safely in Liverpool, had we not rig
70 to congratulate the people in N
49, York that their friends had
safely across? And is it
;ns right this morning that l congra
~. late you that your departed friends
=. safe ON the shore of Heaven? Wo
Ia YOU have them back again? Would J
co., have those old parents back aga
~ You know how hard it was sometir
h;s for them to get their breath In I
ha. stiaed atmosphere of the SUNNI
,ris would you have them back in
weather? Didn't they use their Or
nm long enough! Would you have y
~ children back again? Would you h
No., them take the risks of temptat
ltar which throng every human pathw
,,es Would you have them cross the Jor'
three times? In addition to crossinl