The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-02-17

hands, press their hot brain and want
to die and cry, 20 God, O Godr Long
night, bitter night, stupendous night
of the worlds suffering! Some know
not which way to turn. But not SO the
Christian man. He looks up toward
the Heavens
He sees q bright appearance In the
heavens Can it be only a flashing
meteor? Can it be only a falling starr
Can it be only = delusion? Nay. nay.
The longer he looks the moro distinct
1t becomes, until after awhile he
cries out, "A star-a morning star.
star of comfort, a star of grace, =
star of peace, the star of the Redeem
err Peace for all trouble. Balm for
all wounds. Life for all dead Now
Jesus, the great heart healer, comes
into our home Peace! Peace that
passeth all understanding. We look
MP through our tears We are COM
forted. 1t is the morning star of the
Redeemer. "Vho broke off that How
er?" said one servant in the garden to
another sWho broke off that fower?"
And the other servant said, The mas
ter" Nothing more was said, for it
the master had not the right to break
of flower to wear over his heart or to
set in the vase in the mansion, who
has right to touch the flower? And
when Christ comes down into our gar
den to gather lilies, shall we fight him
back? Shall we talk as though he had
no right to come? If any one in all
the universe has right to that which
is beautiful in our homes, then our
master has, and he will take it, and he
will wear it over his heart, or he will
set it in the vase of the palace eternal
.srhe Lord gave, and the Lord hath
taken away; blessed be the name OF
the Lord" Peace, troubled soul! /
put the balm on your wounded heart
tonight. Tho morning star, the morn
ing star of the Redcemer.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
millennial glory. 1t is night in China,
night in India, night in Siberia, night
for the vast majority of the worlds
population. But it seems to me there
are some intimations of the morning.
All Spain is to be brought under the
influence of the gospel What is that
| light see breaking over the top of the
Pyrenees? The morning! Yea, all Italy
shall receive the gospel. She shall have
her schools and her colleges and her
churches Her vast population shall
surrender themselves to Christ What
is that light see breaking over the top
of the Alps? The morning. All India
shall come to God. Her idols shall be
cast down. Her juggernauts shall be
broken. Her temples of iniquity shall
be demolished What is that light
see breaking over the top of the Hima-
layas? The morning The unpurpled
clouds shall gild the path of the con-
quering day. The Hottentot will come
out of his mud hovel to look at the
dawn; the Chinaman will come up on
the granite cliffs, the Norwegian will
get up on the rocks. and all the beach
of Heaven will be crowded with celes-
tial inhabitants come out to see the sue
rise over the ocean of the worlds
agony. They shall come from the east,
and from the west, from the north, and
from the south, and sit down in the
kingdom of God. These sweltered un-
der tropical suns. These shived un-
der Icelandic temperature These
plucked the vineyards in Italy. These
packed the tea boxes in China These
were aborigines lifting up their dusky
faces in the dawn. And the wind shall
watt it, and every mountain shall be.
come a TRANSPORTATION, and the sea
will become the walking place of Him
who trod the wave cliffs of stormy
Tiberias. and the song of joy shall rise
toward heaven, and the great sky will
become a sounding board which shall
strike back the shout of salvation te
the earth until it rebounds again tc
the throne of the Almighty, and the
morning star of Christian hope will be
come the the full sunburst of millen
NAL glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn o.
Heaven upon every Christians dying
pillow. / suppose you have noticed
that the characteristics of people IL
their healthy days are very apt to bt
their characteristics in their dying
days. The dying words of ambitious
Napoleon were, Head of the army
The dying words of poetic Lore
Byron were, Il must sleep now.
The dying words of affectionats
Lord Nelson were, Kiss me
Hardy" The dying words of Voltairt
were, as he saw one whom he sup
posed to be Jesus in the room, 'Crusl
that wretch" But have noticed tina
the dying words of Christians alwayl
mean peace. Generally the pain is al
gone, and there is great quietud'
through the room As one of thes,
brothers told me of his mother in tn,
last moment: ''She looked up ant
said, pointing to some supernatural be
ing that seemed to be in the room
Look at that bright form. Why, the,
have come for me now"
/ The lattice is turned so that the ligh
is very pleasant 1t is peace all around
You ask yourself: "Why, can this be |
dying room? 1t is SO different from
anything ever expected" And yo'
walk the floor, and you look out of thu
window, and you come back and lool
at your watch, and you look at the fac
of the patient again, and there is NJ
change, except that the face is becom
ing more radiant, more illuminated
| Tho vvava ~ death seems coming nj