The Bossier banner., 1894-11-01

about the salvation of brother physl-
clan, and so he left his Office, went
down to this mans office and said lis
young man waiting; ''the doctor is
not in. We'll" said the physician,
"when he comes tell him 1 called,
and give him my Christian love-"
This worldly doctor came home
after while, and the message
was given to him, and he said
within himself: "What does he mean
by leaving his Christian love for me?"
And he became very much awakened
and stirred in spirit, and he said after
awhile: ''Why, that man must mean
my SOUL" and he vent into his back
office, knelt down and began to pray.
Then he took his hat and went out
to the Office Of this Christian physi-
clan, and said: What can I do to be
saved?" and the two doctors knelt in
the office and commended their souls
to God. All the means used in that
case was only the voice of one good
man, saying: ''Give my Christian love
to the DOCTOR" The voice of kindly
admonition. Have you uttered it to-
day? Will you utter it tomorrow?
VIII you utter it now? Compel them
to come in.
l think there is a great work also to
be done in the way of prayer. If we
had faith enough to-day, we could go
before God and ask for the salvation of
all the people in our churches, and they
would all be saved, there and then, with
out a single exception. There might
be professional men there, political
men there, worldly men there, men
who had not heard the Gospel for
twenty years, men who were preju-
diced against the music, men who were
prejudiced against the church, men
who were prejudiced against the
preacher, men who were prejudiced
against God-I do not care-they might
be brought in by fervent prayer-,you
would compel them to come in.
Oh, for such an earnest prayer? Peo-
pie of God, lay hold of the horns of the
altar now, and supplicate the saliva
ton of all those who sit in the same
pew with you-yea, the redemption of
all who sit in your churches. What
momentous hour! God help
At the close of religious service.
and when the people had nearly all
left the building, a pastor saw little
girl with her head bowed on the back
of the pew, and, passing down the
aisle, he said to himself: ''The little
child has fallen asleep" So he tapped
her on the shoulder, and said:
1.-The service is over" She said:
II know it is over: 1 am praying,
sir, l am praying" ''Well," said
the minister, Whatsoever ye ask of
God, believing, ye will receive" She
said: ''Is that in the Bible?" Yes"
he said, "there is a promise of that
in the Bible" ''Well," she said, ''let
me see it." So he turned over the
Bible until he came to the promise,
and she said: That's so, is it? Now,
o Lord, bring my father to this church
tonight"
While she was praying her father
passed into the door of the church, and
came down by his child and said:
"What do you want of me?" When
that child had begun to pray one hour
before for her father he was three miles
away, but by some strange impulse that
he could not understand he hastened
to the church, and there the twain
knelt; the fathers arm around the
ehild's neck, the child's arm around
the fathers neck, and there he entered
on the road to Heaven. "Whatsoever
ye ask of God, believing, ye will re-
eeive." That was an answer to the
child's prayer. What did she 10! She
compelled him to come in.
tell you to-day. my friends, of
great salvation. Do you understand
what it is to have Saviour? He took
your place. He bore your sins. He
wept your sorrows. He is here now to
save your soul. A soldier, worn out in
his country's service, took to the violin
as mode of earning his living. He was
found in the streets of Vienna, play
ing his violin; but after awhile his
hand become feeble and tremulous, and
| he could no more make music. One
day, while he sat there weeping a man
passed along and said: "My friend,
you are 700 Olu anu 100 1e6DtG, give me
your violin;' and he took the mans
violin and began to discourse most ex-
quisite music, and the people gathered
around in larger and larger multitudes,
and the aged man held his hat, and
the coin poured If and poured in until
| the hat was full. Now" said the man
who was playing the violin, ''put that
coin in your pockets. The coin was
put in the old mans pockets. Then he
held his hat again, and the violinist
played more sweetly than ever, and
played until some of tho pee.
| pie wept and some shouted And
| again the hat was filled with
coin. Then the violinist dropped
the instrument and passed off, and
! the whisper went out: ''Who is it? who
is it?" and some one just entering the
crowd said: ''Why, that is Bucher, the
great violinist, known all through the
realm; yes, that is the great violinist "
The fact was, he had just taken that
mans place, and assumed his poverty,
and borne his burden, and played his