The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-09-16

another infide1 die. Philistine iniquity
had promised him all the worlds gar
lands, but in the last hour of his life
when he needed solacing, sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves q
file, a file. So it was with Lord Byron,
his uncleanness in England only sur
passed by his uncleanness in Venice,
then going on to end his brilliant
misery in Missolonghi, fretting at his
nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself,
fretting at the world, fretting at God:
and he who gave to the world "Childe
Harold and ''Sardanapalus," and
'sThe Prisoner of Chillon," and .'The
Siege of Corinth," reduced to
nothing but a fle Oh, sin has
great facility for making prom
ises, but it has just as great
facility for breaking them. A Chris
tan life is the only cheerful life, while
a life of wicked surrender is remorse,
ruin and death. Its painted glee is
sepulchral ghastliness. In the bright.
est days of the Mexican empire
Montezuma said he felt gnawing al
his heart something like a canker.
Sin, like a monster wild beast of the
forest, sometimes ticks all over its vic
tim in order that the victim may
be more easily swallowed; but
generally sin rasps, and gals, and
tears, and upbraids, and files. Is it
not so. Herod? Is it not so, Hide
brand? Is it not so. Robcspierre? Ayel
aye! it is so; it is so. 1.-THE way of the
wicked He turneth upside down. His
tory tells us that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were twelve
vultures flying through the air; but
when a transgressor dies, the sky IL
black with whole focks of them.
yultures! When / see sin robbing so
many people, and l see them going
down day by day, and week
by week, / must give plain
warning. / dare not keep it back
lest l risk the salvation of my
own SOUL Rover, the pirate, pulled
down the warning bell on Inchcape
rock, thinking that he would have .
chance to despoil vessels that were
crushed on the rocks; but one night his
own ship crashed down on this very
rock, and he went down with all his
cargo. God declares: when say to
the wicked, thou shalt surely die. and
thou givest him not warning, that
same man shall die in his iniquity; but
his blood will 1 require at thy hands. :"
learn from this subject what a sad
thing it is when the church of God loses
it's metal. These Philistines saw that
if they could only get all the metallic
weapons out of the hands of the Israel
ties all would be well, and, therefore,
they took the swords and the spears.
They did not want them to have a
single metallic weapon. When the
metal of the Israelites was gone their
strength was gone. This is the trou-
BILE with the church of God to-day.
1t is surrendering its courage. 1t
has not got enough metal. How sell
dom it is that you see man taking
his position in pew, or in pulpit, or in
a religious society, and holding that
position against all oppression, and
all trial, and all persecution, and all
criticism. The church of God to-day
wants more backbone, more defiance,
more concentrated bravery, more metal
How often you see a man start out
in some good enterprise, and at the
first blast of newspaperdom he has
collapsed. and all his courage gone,
forgetful of the fact that if man be
right, all the newspapers of the earth.
with all their columns pounding away
at him, can not do him any permanent
damage. 1t is only when a man is
wrong that he can be damaged. Why,
God is going to vindicate His truth,
and He is going to stand by you, my
friends, in every effort you make for
Christ's cause and the salvation of
men. / sometimes say to my wife:
There is something wrong: the news
papers have not assaulted me for three
/ have not done my duty
against public iniquities, and I will
stir them up next Sunday" Then +
stir them up, and on the following
week the devil bowls, and bowls, show
ng that have hit him very hard. Go
forth in the service of Christ and do
your whole duty. You have one sphere.
have another sphere. 1.-THE Lord of
Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob
IS our refuged. Selah.' We want more
If the determination of Jonathan. 1 do
not suppose he was a very wonderful
nan; but he got on his knees and
up the rock, and with the
help of his armor-bearer he hewed
Town the PhiliStineS. and a man ~
very ordinary intellectual attachments
IN his knees can storm anything for
5od and for truth. We want some
hing of the determination of the gen.
sral who went into the war, and as he
entered his first battle his knees
Knocked together, his physical courage
not quite up to his moral courage,
md he looked down at his knees
ind said: ''Ah, if you knew where
vas going to take you, you would shake
worse than thatr' There is only one
question for you to ask and for me to
lsk. What does God want me to do?
Where is the field? Where is the
work? Where is the anvil? Where is the
Where is the pulpit?
And, finding out what God wants us to
10, go ahead and do it-all the energies
If our body, mind and soul enlisted in
he undertaking. Oh, my brethren,
We have but little time in which to
light for God. You will be dead soon.
Put in the Christian cause every energy
hat God gives you. What thy hand
indeth to do, do it with all thv might.