The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1894-02-22


more of omnipotence than it required
to build her and launch her. So l
am not surprised that, though in
the dry dock of one word our world was
made, it will take the unsleeved arm
of God to lift her from the rocks and
put her on the right course again. 1t
is evident from my text, and its COM
parison with other texts, that it would
not be so great an undertaking to
make a whole constellation of worlds,
and a whole galaxy of worlds, and a
whole astronomy of worlds, and swing
them in their right orbits, as to take
this wounded world, this stranded
world, this bankrupt world, this de-
stroyed world, and make it as good as
when it started.
ArmNo of the Lord, awake, awake
Put on thy strength, the nations shakef
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arm.
| There, too, stands Mohammedanism
with its one hundred and seventy
six million victims. It's bible IS
the Koran, a book not quite as
large as our New Testament, which
was revealed to Mohammed when in
epileptic fits, and, resuscitated from
these fits, he dictated it to scribes.
Yet it is read to-day by more people
than any other book ever written.
Mohammed, the founder of that re-
ligion, a polygamist, with superfuity
of wives, the first step of his
religion on the body, mind
and soul of woman; and no
wonder that the heaven of the Koran
is an everlasting Sodom, an infinite
seraglio, about which Mohammed prom
Uses that each follower shall have in
that place seventy-two wives, in addi-
ton to all the wives 'he had on earth,
but that no old woman shall ever enter
Heaven. When a bishop of England
recently proposed that the best way OF
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion, but engraft upon
it some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesi-
astical joke, at which no man can laugh
who has ever seen the tyranny and
domestic wretchedness which always
appear where that religion gets foot
hold. 1t has marched across continets,
and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner in America, and
what it has done in Turkey it would
like to do for our nation. A religion
that brutally treats womanhood ought
never to be fostered in our country.
But there never was a religion so alb
surd or wicked that it did not get dis
ciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make large discipleship of
Mohammedanism This corrupt religion
has been making steady progress for
hundreds of years, and Notwithstanding
all the splendid work done by the Jes-
sups, and the Goddells, and the Blisses,
and the Van Dykes, and the Posts, and
the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thompkins, and scores of other men
and women of which the world was not
worthy. there it stands, the giant OF
sin, Mohammedanism, with one foot
on the heart of woman, and the other
on the heart of Christ, while it mum
bles from it's minarets this stipend
Gus blasphemy: God is great, and
Mohammed is His prophet" Let the
Christian printing presses at Beyrout
and Constantinople keep on with thei1
work, and the men and women of God
in the mission fields toll until the Lord
) crowns them, but what we are all hop
ing for is something supernatural from
the heavens, as yet unseen, something
stretched down out of the skies, some
thing like an arm uncovered, the bare
arm of the God of nations!
There stands also the arch demon Of
alcoholism. Its throne is white anC
made of bleached human skulls Or
one side of that throne of skulls
) kneels, in obeisance and worship, de
mocracy, and on the other side repub
licanism, and the one that kisses the
cancerous and gangrened foot of thi.
) despot the oftenest gets the most bene
dictions. There is Hudson river, al
Ohio, Mississippi of strong drink
rolling through this nation, but as the
rivers from which | take my
! figure of speech empty into the At
lantic or the gnlf, this mightier foot
of sickness and insanity, and domestic
ruin. and crime, and bankruptcy, anC
woe, empties into the hearts, and the
homes, and the churches, and the time
, and the eternity of a multitude beyond
all statistics to number or describe
All nations are mauled and sacrificed
5 with baleful stimulus or killing mar
cotic. The pulque of Mexico, tn,
: cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of Per
STA, the opium of China, the guavo o
Honduras, the wedro of Russia, tn,
5 soma of India, the aguardiente of Mo
, rocco, the arak of Arabia, the masti
t of Syria, the raki of Turkey the bee
of Germany, the whisky of Scotland
the ale of England, the all-drinks o
America, are doing their best to stupe
fly, intiame, dement,, impoverish, bru
talize and Stay the human race. Human
power, unless REINFORCED from TIN
5 heavens, can never exterpate the evil
, l mention.
: Much good has been accomplished
: by the heroism and fidelity of Chris
, tian reformers, but the fact remain
that there are more splendid men ant
magnificent women this moment goin,
over the Niagara abysm of inebriet
! - 81 h.