The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-04-14


Ireneus Prime, none of them will be
longer remembered than George w.
Childs. Staying away from the unveil-
ing of the monument he reared 1t
large expense in our Greenwood in
memory of Prof. Proctor, the astron-
omer, lest l should say something in
praise of the man who had paid for the
monument. BY all acknowledged a
representative of the highest American
journalism. If you would calculate his
influence for good you must count how
many sheets of his newspapers have
been published in the last quarter of a
century. and how many people have
read them, and the effect not only
upon those readers, but upon all whom
they shall influence for all time,
! while you add to ali that the work
of the churches he helped build and
of the institutions of mercy he helped
found. Better give up before you start
the measuring Of the phosphorescence
in the wake OF that ship of the celes-
tial line. Who can tell the post-mor-
tenn influence of Savonarola, Win
klereid, Gutenberg, Marlborough,
a Decatur, Toussaint, Bolivar, q
Garrison, Robert Raikes, Harlem
Page, who had one hundred and TWEEN
ty-ive Sabbath scholars, eighty-four
of whom became Christians and six OF
them ministers of the Gospel.
With gratitude, and penitence, and
worship, / mention. the grandest life
that was ever lived. That ship of light
was launched from the heavens nearly
nineteen hundred years ago, angelic
hosts chanting, and from the celestial
wharves the ship sprang into the
toughest sea that ever tossed. It's bill
lows were made up of the wrath of
men and devils, Herodic and Sanhe-
drimic prosecutions stirring the deep
with red wrath, and all the hurricanes
of woe smote it, until on the rocks of
Golgotha that life struck with sound
of agony that appalled, the earth and
life what a phosphorescence Of smiles
on the check of souls pardoned, and
lives reformed, and nations redeemed.
The millennium itself is only one roll
of that irradiated wave of gladness and
benediction In the sublimest of all
senses it may be said of him: He
maketh path to shine after him."
But can not look upon that lumin-
osity that follows ships without realiz-
ing how fond the Lord is of life. That
fire of the deep is life, myriads OF
creatures all a-swim, and a-play, and
a-romp in parks of marine beauty laid
out, and parterred, and roseated, and
blossomcd by Omnipotencc. What is
the use of those creatures called by the
naturalists ''crustaceans" and cope.
pods" not more than one out of hum
dreds of billions of which are ever seen
by human eye? God created them for
the same reason that He created flow
crs in places where no human foot
ever makes them tremble, and no hui
man nostril inhaled their redolencc,
and no human eye ever sees their
charm. In the botanical world they
prove that God loves flowers, as in the
marine world the phosphori prove that
He loves life, and He loves life in play,
life in brilliancy of gladness, life in
cxubcrance.
Make one person happy every day.
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made seven thousand three
hundred happy. You know man who
has lost all his property by an unfor-
tunatc investment, or by putting his
name on the back of a friends note?
After YOU have taken brief nap,
which every man and woman is en-
titled to on Sunday afternoon, go
and cheer up that man. You can, if
God helps you. say something that
will do him good after both of you
have been dead a thousand years.
bad boy who has run away from home.
Go before night and tell that father
and mother the parab bile of the prodigal
son, and that some of tho ilustrious
and useful men now in church and state
had a silly passage in their lives and
ran away from home. Shincl
You know of a family that has
lost child, and the silence of
the nursery glooms the whole
house from cellar to garnet. Go before
night and tell them how much that
child has happily escaped, since the
most prosperous life on earth is q
struggle Shine. You know of some
invalid who is dying for lack of an APP
petite. She can not get we'll because
she can not eat. Broil chicken and
take it to her before night, and cheat
her poor appetite into keen relish.
Shine. You know of some one who likes
you, and you like him, and he ought
to be Christian. Go tell him what
religion has done for you. and ask
him if you can pray for him. Shine!
Oh, for disposition SO charged with
sweetness and light that we can not
help but shine! Remember if you can
not be leviathan flashing the ocean
into fury, you can be one of the phos.
phori, doing your part toward making
path of phosphorescence.
Then will tell you what impression
you will leave when you pass through
this life and after you are gone. wild
tell you to your face, and not leave it
to the minister who officiates at your
obsequies The failure in all eulogium
of the departed is that they can
not hear it. Ali hear it except
the one most interested. This,
in substance, is what ! or some
one else will say of you on such an
occasion: I'VE gather for offices of re-
spect to this departed one. 1t is inn
rossible 10 tell how MANY tears he