The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-01-27

. Trosts! For : long While tie Bib
: seemed lop-sided and : disproportio
d ate amount Of II given mp to the CO.
soiatory. Why, page after page an
4 chapter after chapter and book aft
, book in the Bible taken up with allev
: atoms, with paciflca tions, with col
. dolences- The Book seems like I
apothecary store. with one-haH Of til
shelves occupied with balsams. VIII
3 such superiority Of balsams? But afte
awhile the membaneous croup carrie
OF your child, or your health give
way under the grippe, or your proy
! erty is swept OF by bad investment
! or perhaps all three troubles com
at once-bankruptcy, sickness an
bereavement. Now the consolator
parts Of the Bible do not seem to b
disproportionste. You want some
thing of almost all the shelves OF tina
sacred dispensary. What has uncovere,
and exposed to you the usefulness o
so much of the Bible that was befor,
hidden? The frosts have been ful
filling their mission.
Mild doses of medicine will do 70,
mild sickness, but violent pains neet
strong doses. and 80 stand over yor
and count out some drops that will al
ieviate your worst troubles If you will
only take the medicine, and here it is
I'm the world We shall have tribula.
ton. but be of good cheer; Ihave over.
come the world" weeping may en-.
dure for night, but JOY cometh in
the morning" Thank God for frosts.
What helped make Milton the great
est OF poets? The frost of blindness.
What helped make Washington the
greatest of generals? The frosts of
Valley Forge. What made It appro-
pirate for one passing John Bunysn's
grave to exclaim: "Sleep on, thou
prince of dreamers?" The frosts of i'm.
prisonment. The greatest college from
which we can graduate is the College
OF Frosts. Especial trial fits for espe-
cial work. just now watch, and Won
will see that trouble is preparative and
educational. This is the grindstone on
which battle-axes are sharpened. I
have always noticed In my own case
that when the Lord had some special
work for me to. it was preceded by es.
pecial attack upon me. This is SO pro-
verbal in my house that If for some.
thing ] say or do get poured upon me
volley OF censure and anathema. INV
wife always asks: 81 wonder what
new opportunity Of usefulness is about
to open? Something good and grand
is surely comingr'
What is true in my case, is true ON a
larger or smaller scale in the history of
every man and woman who wants to
serve the Lord. Without complaint
take the hard knocks. You will see
AFTER awhile, though you may not ap.
preciate it now, that by the breath Of |
q good and loving God frost is given.
Let the corners of your mouth, SO Ions
drawn down in complaint, be drawn
up in smiles of content.
For many years poets and essayists
have celebrated the grace and swift |
ness OF the Arabian horses. The most /
wonderful exhibition of horsemanship
hat ever witnessed was just outside /
'he city OF Jerusalem-an Arab steed l
Mounted by an Arab. Do you know
where these Arab horses got their
ieetness and poetry of motion?
long centuries ago Mohammed, with
hirty thousand cavalry on the
march, could find for them not
drop OF water for three DAYS. Com
ng to the top of a hill river was in
ight- With a wild dash the thirty
thousand horses started for the stream
minute after an armed host was seen
dvancing. and at Mohammed's COM
land one hundred bugles blew for the
orses to fall in line, but all the thirty
housand continued the wild gallop to
ne river, except five, and they al
lost dead with thirst, wheeled
ito line of battle. Nothing
! human bravery and self-sacri. 9
ce excels that bravery and self-sacri I
&c of those Eve Arabian war horses.
hose five splendid steeds Mohammed
lose for his own use. and from those
We came that race of Arabian horses
II ages the glory of the equestrian
orld- And let me say that, in this
-eat war OF truth against error, OF
oliness against sin and Heaven
sainst hell, the best war horses =
e descended from those who. under =
ing and self-denial and trouble, I
lswered the Gospel trumpet and "
heeled into line. Out of great tribu- p
ton, out OF great fires. out of great
osts, they came. And let me saw it =
III not take long for God to make up 8
you in the next world for all Won =
We suffered in this. As you enter =
eaven He may say: give this man
e OF those lowered and colonnaded -
laces on that ridge of gold overlook, -
z the Sea of Glass. Give this womai
home among those amaranthine r
ooms and between those fountains n'
'sing in the everlasting sunlight.
We her couch canopied with rain
WIS to pay her for all the fatigues of
fehood, and motherhood, and house ~
eping, from which she had no rest Cd
forty years. Cup-bearers of !,
aven, give these newly-arrived "a
lis from earth the costliest Gu
verages and roll to their door -
J grandest chariots, and hang
their walls the sweetest harps shat
n thrummed to fingers seraphic. or
e to them rapture on rapture, cele-
Ition on celebration, jubilee on jubi-
Heaven on Heaven. They had wa