The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-15
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| ligious music a whole Heaven OF
it encamped under a harp string.
! No wonder that wicked Saul hated
it and could not abide the sound,
and with all his might hurled an in
strument of death at it. l know there
are styles of music that sin admires,
and you hear it as you pass the casino
or the dance hall, and the devil has
stolen most of the fiddles, though | am
| glad the Ole Bulls have snatched up
the charmed strings from their desc
Grafton; but it is a fact that sin has
iavelin for sacred sounds. In many
churches the javelin of criticism has
/ killed the music, javelin flung from or
gan loft or from adjoining pew OF the
representative Saul's javelin aimed at
David's harp. Shousands of people SO
afraid they may not sing scientifically,
they will not sing at all, or sing with
such low tone that no one hears them.
In many church the javelin of critl-
cism has crippled the harp Of worship.
If Satan could silence all the Sunday
school songs and the hymns of Chris
tian worship he would gain his great
|
song shall rise land its being made
ready there will be such q roll of
voices, such a concentred power of
stringed and wind instruments, such
majesty, such unanimity, such CONT
mental and hemisphere and planetary
reclamation, that it will be impossible
to know where earth stops and Heaven
begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, thou
millennial harmony.
See also in my subject that the fact
that man sometimes lodges is not
against his courage. NV text says that
) when assailed him David avoided out
of his presence twice" that is, when
the javelin was flung he stepped out of
it's direction, or bent this or that; in
, other words, he lodged. But all those
, who have read the life OF David know
| that he was not lacking in prowess.
: David had faults, but cowardfce was
not one of them. When David, who
, was, / guess, about four and half
feet high, went out to meet the
giant, who was, l guess, about ten feet
| high, it was big undertaking, and
: the inequalities of the struggle were SO
= great that it struck the giants idea OF
the ludicrous, and he suggested to the
5 little fellow that he would make fine
7 dinner for a buzzard or a jacl1al. Come
f to me and l will give thy flesh unto the
D fowls of the air and to the beasts Of the
/ field" When David went out to meet
p that giant and conquered, he demon
strated, as he did on other occasions
e his courage. But l am glad that wher
S Saul flung that javelin David lodged
i it, or the chief work of his life would
p never have been done. What a lesson
n this is to those who go into useless
/ danger, and expose their lives or theil
/ regulations or their usefulness unnec
J. essarily. When duty demands g
T ahead. though all earth and hell oppose
}, Bulge not one inch from the right pc
d sition. But when nothing is involved
n step back or step aside. Why stand il
5, the way of perils that you can avoid
l. Go not into quixotic battles to fgh
t. wind-mills. You will be of more t.
Y the world and the church as an activ
Il Christian man than as a target TO
e javelins. There are Christians Away
d in fight. If they go into churche
l. they fight here. If they go int
is presbyteries or conferences Or associa
lie tons they fight there. My advice t
w you is, if nothing is to be gained TO
g God or the truth, stand out of the wa
t. of the javelins. | Sam xviii, II, ''Davi
ID avoided out of his presence twice.
e. Washington was as mighty in his re
c, treats as in his advances. His arm
e, would several times have been dc
e. stroyed if he had not lodged. H
lie lodged on Long Island, he lodged O
s. New Jersey heights. Lincoln on hi
IN way to Inauguration at Washingto
is was waited for by assassins, but h
re took another train and lodged tn
C, desperadoes. We have high exampl
m of the fact that sometimes
a man will serve God best by disappea,
lie ing from this or that place, this or thu
IN environment. A mob brought Chri:
Or to the top of the rocks back of Naz;
he reth. They did not like His preachin.
and they proposed to hur Him down tt
as precipice. But while they were gettin
ct ready for the massacre Christ darte
el into the crowd, and amid the confusio
gs escaped to Capernaum, and continue
IS, exercising devils and cooling feve1
Id and filling ish-nets and gi
n ing healthy circulation of bloc
as to paralysis, and curing d
as mentia, and turning corpses into Twin
It, men and women, and doing His grei
ed work. Whata good thing He lodged tt
is crowd on the rocks back of Nazaretl
of Likewise at Jerusalem one day, viii
an He was sauntering up and down c
rs, Solomon's porch waiting for an oppo
MS tunity to say kind words or do usef1
he deed, the people proposed to pay Hi
". for His self-sacritices by stoning Hi
to to death, but the record is: He e
lr- capped out of their hands,"
ut See also in my subject rejected O
nd portunity of revenge. Why did n
ut David pick up Sauls javelin and hu
ay it back again? David had slzillf
Is arm. He demonstrated on another O
or casion he could WELD a sling, and !
rp could have easily picked up that jaw
X lin, aimed it at Saul, the would
u assassin, and left the foaming and d