The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-08-24

round, Old-1aShlOned application OF The
slipper. That minister of the Gospel |
of whom we read in the newspapers
that he whipped his child to death be-
cause he would not say his prayers, will
never come to canonization. The arith'
metics can not calculate how many |
thousands of children have been ruined |
forever either through too great rigor
or too great leniency. The Heavens
and the earth are filled with the groan
of the sacrificed. In this important
matter. seek Divine direction. father,
0 mother. Some one asked the mother
of Lord Chief-Justice Mansfield If she
was not proud to have three such emil
nent sons, and all of them so good.
NO" she said, 1T is nothing to be
proud of, but something for which to
be very grateful"
Again, there are many who are sac
rificing their children to a spirit OF
worldliness Someone asked a mother
whose children had turned out very
well, what was the secret by which she
prepared them for usefulness and for
the Christian life, and she said: This
was the secret: When in the morning
washed the children prayed that they
might be washed in the fountain OF
Saviours mercy, When I put on their
garments I prayed that they might be
arrayed in the robe of a Saviour's
Righteousness. When I gave them food
/ prayed that they might be fed with
mama from Heaven. When l started
them on the road to school prayed
that their path might be as the shining
light, brighter and brighter to the per-
feet day. When l put them to sleep |
prayed that they might be EMBODIED IN
the Saviour's arms" oh" you say,
that was very old-fashioned. 1t was
quite old-fashioned. But do you sup
pose that child under such nurture as
that ever turned out bad?
Further on, thousands and tens OF
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artificialities of society. They are in
| Quoted into all the hollowness of what
is called fashionable life. They are
but that fifty-cent stories of adventur-
GUS love are delicious. With capacity
| that might have rivaled Florence
Nightingale in Heavenly ministries, or
made the fathers house glad with
filial and sisterly demeanor, their life is
waste, their beauty curse, their
eternity a demolition.
| In the siege of Charleston, during
| the civil war, a lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the vows
| of marriage. A bombshell struck the
roof, dropped into the group, and nine
were wounded and slain; among the
wounded to death, the bride, while
the bridegroom knelt on the car
pet trying stanch the wounds,
the bride demanded that the
ceremony be completed, that she
might take the vows before her de-
parture, and when the minister said:
''Wilt thou be faithful unto death?"
with her dying lips she said, 81 will, "
and in two hours she had departed.
That was the accidental slaughter and
the sacrifice of the body, but at thou
sands of marriage affairs slain for time
and slain for eternity. 1t is not mar
riage, it is massacre.
When the city missionary passing
along the park in New York saw rag
ged lad and heard him swearing, he
said to him: my son, stop swearing.
You ought to go to the house of God
to-day. You ought to be good; you
ought to be Christian" The lad
! looked in his face and said: ''Ah, it is
easy for you to talk, well clothed as
you are, and well fed; but we chaps
hain't got no chance" Who lifts them
to the altar for baptism? Who goes
forth to snatch them up from crime
and death and woe? Who to-day viii
go forth and bring them into schools
and churches? No. Heap them up
J great piles of rags and wretchednes:
and filth. Put underneath them the
, fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, pu
| on more fagots, and while we sit in the
churches with folded arms and indif
ferent, crime and disease and dealt
, will go on with the agonizing sacrifice
5 During the early French revolution
, at Bourges there was company of boy
who used to train every day as younl
soldiers; and they carried a flag,s ant
: they had on the flag this inscription
) ''Tremble tryants, tremble, we ar
; growing up" Nightly suggestive
: This generation is passing off, and
7 mightier generation is coming on. vii
they be the foes of tyranny, the foes O
, sin and the foes of death, or will the
r be the foes of God? They are comin
. up!
| 1 congratulate all parents who ar
doing their best to keep their childre
y away from the altar of sacrifice. You
r prayers are going to be answered
. Your children may wander away fror
4 God, but they will come back again. !
l voice comes from the throne to-day, er
q couraging you: II will be a God to thee
): and to thy seed after thee" An
q though when you lay your head in deaf
. there may be some wanderer of tn
d family far away from God, and yo
r may be twenty years in Heaven befo1
T. salvation shall come to his heart,
will be brought into the kingdom an