The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-07-11
BENTON, La, THURSDAY, JULY IL, 1895.

er inspiration therefrom when the
genial sunshine fills you with bliss
and the flowers spring at your feet;
when you are a thousand times glad
that you undertook the journey, and
your heart beats high with joy and
rapture. There are other hours when
it seems as though the storms were
fends to block your passage; when
heaven above and earth beneath are
black with discouraging shadows,
and when you wonder if there is any |
summit. or if it is worth while to !
struggle to attain it.
All these experiences are working
their effect on you. They are making
or unmaking you. They are your
discipline, your trial, your education.
Laughter and tears are equally nec-
essary, and if the Lord had denied
the capacity for either you would be
only half man. You yield yourself
at times to gleeful bilarity, and at
times you bend your shoulders to a
terrible burden and stagger under it.
The same God listens to your happi-
ness and your misery, simply asking
you to be brave and do the best you
can.
| Does this logic of cause and effect
cease at death, and is the other world
wholly unlike this There is no hint
of any such change to be found any
where. On the contrary, there is
every reason to believe that you will
take up, the day after death, the
same character you had the day
before death. The air is full of myths
and fables with reference to this mat.
ter. There are no more harps IN the
future than there are in the present
You simply ford the river, leaving
your outer garments behind-noth
; ing more. Your environment ma,
! be different, but you will be the SAM
! person in every respect. It must b.
so, or Immortality is itself a fallacy
Live, then, like man, and you vii
be man hereafter. Fashion TO
yourself noble character, becaus
that character is to last, and will no
! be changed except as you change
5 of your own free will. Crying Lord
: Lord!" will be of no service to 20
'' unless you propose to do the Lord
will, and if that is your desire it
. better to begin here and now. Th
/ notion that you can do as you pleas
y for many years and then receive til
. mercy which you do not deserve is
grave mistake.
= If in this life you can not plai
= thistles and reap corn, you certain
oi can not plant thistles here and res
ls corn hereafter. You must come to
deliberate conclusion as to what yo'
~ life is given to you for, what are Il
III objects most worthy of attainmer
II whether money, or fame, or honest
40 or purity Of soul; whether you "
10 have your own way or give God E
is way. "Getting religion" as it
~ called, is merely reaching right &C
clusion, debating with yourself un
" you see that the Christ spirit is woi
- more than anything else. Then y
" will rightly appreciate this prese
no life, because you have an unwaveri
'or faith in the life to come, and the 6
'ur ries of that othes life will shed th
40 radiance over every Joy and sorre
lch and give you foretaste OF hea'
AZ long before you reach the heave
shores.
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we are in favor of silver and ba
reform we must confess that q q
- deal of clap trap is being used
Il the politicians at the head OF the
movements to catch the unwar