The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-11

tired df theocracy. They said: "w,
don't want God indirectly interfering
with the affairs of the world; give us
monarchy" The world had a. mon
archy. from monarchy it is goint
to have limited monarchy. Afte
awhile the limited monarchy is giveI
up, and the republican form of govern
ment will be everywhere dominan
and recognized. Then the world viii
get tired of the republican form O.
government and it will have an
anarchy, which is no government al
all. And then, all nations finding out
that man is not capable OF righteously
governing man. will cry out again for
a theocracy, and say: 'sLet God
come back and conduct the af.
fairs of the world. Every ster
monarchy, limited monarchy, re-
pubiioa2ism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocracy and
the last theocracy, or segments of the
great circle of the earth on which God
Sits But do not become impatient be-
cause you can not see the curve of
events, and therefore conclude that
Gods government is going to break
down. History tells us that in the
making of the pyramids it took two
thousand men two years to drag one
great stone from the quarry and put it
into the pyramids Well now. if men
short-lived can afford to work so slowly,
as that, can not God in the building of
the eternities afford to wait? What
though God should take ten thousand
years to draw a circle? Shall we take
our little watch, which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock of eter-
nal ages? If, according to the Bible,
thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then according to that calcu-
Iation the six thousand years of the
worlds existence have been only to God
as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
bound is quicker, and the circle is
sooner completed You resolve that
you will do what good you can. In
one week you put word of counsel in
the heart of a Sabbath-school child
During that same week you give let
ter of introduction to a young man
struggling in business. During the
same week you make an exhortation in
a prayer meeting. 1t is all gone; you
will never hear of it perhaps, you
think. A few years after man comes
up to you and says: "You don't know
me. do your" You say: "No, / don't
vovv, zlSr,v~ - 1,
why" he says: 81 was in the class
over which you were teacher; one Sum
day you invited me to Christ; accepted |
the offer; you see that church with |
two towers yonder?" EYES," YOU say. |
He says: THAT is where I preach"
or, do you see that governors house?
That is where live." One day man |
comes to you and says: ''Good MORN
ing" You look at him and say: "Why |
you have the advantage of me; can
not place you" He says: Don't you
thirty years ago giving a
letter OF introduction to young man
. letter of introduction to Moses HI.
Grinnell?" "Yes. yes. do" He says:
Il am the man; that was my first step
toward fortune; but l have retired
rom business now, and am giving my
lime to philanthropies and public in
,erests. Come up and see me-" Or a
nan comes to you and says: 81 want
o introduce myself to you. went in
% prayer meeting in Atlanta some
vears ago; / sat back by the door; you
rose to make an exhortation; that talk
hanged the course of my life, and if l
yer get to Heaven, under God l will
we my salvation to you," In only
en-, twenty or thirty years the circle
wept out and swept back again to
our own grateful heart
But sometimes it is a wider circle. I
nd does not return for great while. /
aw bill of expenses for burning Lati-
ner and Ridley. The bill of expenses
avs:
me load OF fire fagots ............. 81 I'd
'artage for four loads Of wood. p
EN-, post .....-.-.-.--.....--- Is
tenn, two staples. ................... 81 /
'em. TOUR iaborers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is Sd 2
That was cheap fire, considering all |
he circumstances; but it kindled a
ght that shone all around the world {
nd aroused the martyr spirit, and out c
'om that burning of Latimer and Rid c
y rolled the circle wider and wider, a
Sarting other circles, convoluting +
circumscribing, overarch- t
X all Heaven-a circle. t
But what is true of the good is Just. C
} true of the bad. You utter a SLAM
er against your neighbor 1t has gone +
'rth from your teeth; it will never P
'me back you think. You have done d
lc man all the mischief you can. You
joice to see him vince. You say, c
Didn't give it to himl" That word b
as gone out, that slanderous word, on a
poisonous and blasted way. You a
ink it will never do you any harm il
ut. am watching that word, and / Il
e it beginning to curve, and it curves b
ound, and it is aiming at your heart. c.
on had better dodge it. You can not 81
'dge it. 1t rolls into your bosom, and b
ter it rolls in word of an old book n
hich says: ''With what measure We 0
etc, it shall be measured to you N
ain" I'll
You maltreat an aged parent. You Il
grudged him the room in your house. ID
ou are impatient of his whimsical
IS and Qarrulitv 1t makes Won mad