The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-30

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Who were never tempted, or SICK, OF !
or tried, or disappointed. so =
vou NAV we'll take my text out OF the =
minor kew and set it to some tune in the y
major KEY. Zone generation passetn
away and another generation cometn. q
During the passage of the last gener-
alton some peculiar events have I'M
folded. One day while resting
Sharon Springs, N. Y, think u was
in 1870. the year after my settlement
in BROOKLYN, and while walking IN the
mark of that place, found myself ask
ing the question: IT wonder II there Is
any special mission for me to execute
in this world? If there is, may GOD
show it to mer' There soon came up
on me great desire to. preach the
GOSPEL through the secular printing
nress. realized that the vast
majority of people. even IN CHRISTIAN
lands. never enter church. and that
it would be an opportunity OF nseiui-
ness infinite If that door OF publlca-
tion were opened And SO recorded
that PRAYER in a blank book, and o.
fered the PRAYER day in and day out
until the answer came, though IN
way different from that which mad
expected, for it came through the mis-
representation and persecution OF
enemies. and have to record
II for the encouragement OF all
ministers of the Gospel who are
m;srepresented, that If the mis-
| representation be virulent enough,
and bitter enough, and continuous
enough. there is nothing that SO
widens ones field of usefulness as hos
tile attack, if you are really doing the
Lords work. The bigger the lie told
about me, the bigger the demana 70
see and hear what Ireally was dong.
From one stage of sermonic pubiicaT
t;on to another the work has gone
ON. until week by week, and for
about twenty-three years, have
had the world for my audience,
as no man ever. had, and to-day
, M ore so than at any other time. The
svndicates inform me that my sermons
! 90 now to twenty-five million peopis
in all lands. | mention this not in VAR
boast. but as a testimony to the facl
that God answers prayer. Would TOO
- l had better occupied the neid ano
, been more consecrated to the work
Nav God forgive me for lack OF SERVES
in the past, and dou BILE, and quadru
: pie. and quintuple my work in future
d In this my quarter-century sermon
% i record the fact that side by side wit
. the procession of blessings has gone
a procession of disasters am teachin
Il TODAY in the fourth church building
d since began in this city. MY nrs
j. sermon was in the old church o
10 Schermerhorn street, ito an audiens
10 chiefly of empty seats, TOR tn
e. church was almost Nxtinguishe'
a. That church filed and @everfioy
re inc. we built larger church
~ which after two. or. threes years di
IN anpeared in fame. Then we ouilt al
he. other church, whfth also in line
no 6erv succession, disappeared in II
cd same way. Then we put up this bull
81. ;nc and NAV It stand for many year
,r. fortress of righteousness, and
We light house for. the storm tossed,
or gates crowded with vast molag
long after we have ceased to treque
,ed them!
,rs We have raised in this church os
80. ono million and thirty thousand d
nj. lars for church charitable purpo'
es during the present passionate, whsle
To have piyen. free of all expense.
Inf Gosnel to Hundreds of thousands
mo- strangers, year by year. j record W
$50 gratitute to God that during this g
ow Grafton of twenty-five years ! RENE
uct her but two Sabbaths that l M
cen missed service through any thing 4
ele- physical indisposition. Almost
.om natic on the subject of physical e
/. 90 else. have made the parks with VIII
oct our city is blessed, the means. OF q
cor nbvsical condition. A daily walk
. re RIM in the open air have kept me re-
and for work and in good humor.with
nee the world. / say to all young mi
ntv. ters of the Gospel, il is easier to Z
ted GOOD health than to regain 1T W
,sen lost. The reason SO many good
,sed think the world is going to ruin Is
ism. cause their own physical condltio
bled on the down grade No man ough
oen- preach who has diseased liver, O
. of enlarged spleen. There are twoeh'
en- ahead of us that ought to beel
.h;ef cheerful in our werk Heaven and
mer- millennium. 81
mt. And now. having come up 70
nns;. twenty-fifth milestone in my passo1
80 in wonder how many more miles
in to travel. Your'company has bee
: gres. ceedingly pleasant, 0 my. dear Pc
80 and I would like tomarch by your
;nent until the generation with whom y
-. - now moving abreast, and step 70
~ a shall have stacked arms after the
,he battle. But the Lord knows best
theirs we ought to be wiling to stay Or,
is a. Most of You are aware that I
!, has pose at this time, between the cfc
sound nv twenty-flfth year OF pastosate
Crom- before the beginning OF my ~
arlia- sixth year. to be absensfoF =
riven months. in order to take jo'
oueen around the world. ]. expect Il
i OBJ from San Francisco in the steam
most ameda, May 81. Ny place ne
lv ex- sabbaths will be fully occupied,
them, on Mondays, and every Monday
born continue to speak through the
at the ing press IN TINS anu
better lands as heretofore. Why
iebted go? To make sforpf ytsl
spared among people WHOM Z eeze nesel
rhteen but to whom I hase permitted
rently while to adnanisteE Wsn.
lone them in their own cities, tow
mother neighborhoods want to know
are their prosperit1es, VITAL n -