The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-16

good people sometimes get very much
frightened. From the tone and man
her OF these disciples as they rushed
into the stern of the vessel and woke
Christ up. you know that they are fear.
fully scared. And so it IL now that
yoti often find good peop,e wildly agf.
tated. "Ohl' says some Christian mau,
"the infidel magazines. the bad news
papers. the spiritualistic societies. the
importation of so many foreign errors,
the Church Of God Is going to be lost,
the ship is going to founderl The
ship is going DOWN. Whist are you
frightened about? An old lion goes
Into his cavern to take sleep. and he
lies down until his shaggy name Gov.
ers his paws. Meanwhile, the spiders
outside begin to spin webs over the
mouth of his cavern and say, THAT
lion can not break out through this
Web and they keep on spinning the
gossamer threads until they get the
mouth of the cavern covered over
Now they say, "the lions done, tho
lions done" After awhile the lion
awahcs and shakes himself, and he
walks out from the cavern, never
knowing there were any spid-
crs' webs, and with his voice
he shakes the mountain. Let
| the infidels and the skeptics
of the day go on spinning their webs,
spinning their infidel gossamer theo-
ries, spinning them all over the place
where Christ seems to be sleeping.
They say: ''Christ can never again
come out; the work Is done; He can
never get through this logical web we
have been spinning" The day wilt
come when the Lion of Judah's tribe
will raise Himself and come forth and
shake mighty the nations. What then
all your gossamer threads? What Is =
spiders web to an aroused lion? Do
not fret. then. about the worlds going
backward. 1t is going forward.
Again. learn from this subject that
Christ is God and man in the Same per-
son. / go into the back part Of that
boat and I look on Christ's sleeping
face, and see in that face the story of
sorrow and WEAKNESS, and q deeper
shadow comes over His face. and / think
He must be dreaming of the cross that
Is to come. As I stand on the back
part of the boat looking on His face,
say! "fIe is Mani He is Mani
But when see Him como to the brow
of the boat, and the sea kneels In His
presence, and the winds fold their
wings at His command, say: 'He Is
God! lie is God!' The hand that set
up the starry pillars Of the universe
wiping away the tears of an orphanl
When want pity and sympathy, go
into the back part Of this boat, and l
look at Him. and say: 20
Lord Jesus, thou weary one,
thou suffering one, have mercy
on me-" "Ecce .homol" Behold
the man! But when want cour-
age for the conflict of life. when I
want some one to beat down my enc
mics, when want faith for the great
future, then come to the front Of the
boat, and see Christ standing there
in all His omnipotence. and say: 20,
Christ, Thou who couldst hush tho
storm, can hush all my sorrows, all my
temptations. all my fears" "Eccc
Deusl" Behold the Godi
learn also from this subject that
Christ can hush the tempest. Some Of
you, my hearers, have a heavy load OF
troubles Some of you have wept until
you can weep no more. Perhaps God
took the sweetest child out of your
house-the one that asked the most
curious questionable one that hung
around you with greatest fondness. The
grave-digger's spade cut down through
your bleeding heart Or perhaps II was
the only one that you had, and your
soul has ever since been like a DESC
lated castle. where tho birds of the
night boot. amid the falling towers
and along the crumbling stairway. Or
perhaps it was an aged mother that
was called away. You used to send for
her when you had any kind Of trouble.
She was In your home to welcome
your children into life. and when
they died she was there to pity
you. You know that the old
hand will never do any more kind
nesses for You, and the lock Of white
hair that you keep so we'll In the cas-
ket of the loclSet does not look so well
as 1t did on the day when she moved
it back from the wrinkled forehead
under the old-fashioned bonnet in tho
church in the country. Or perhaps
your property has gone. You said,
There. / have so much In bank
stock. SO much have In houses.
SO much ! have In lands, SO
much have in securities."
1t is all gone. Alas! for tho
man who once had plenty Of money,
but who has hardly enough now for
the morning marketing. No storm
ever swept over Gennesaret like that
which has gone trampling its thunders
over your quaking soul. But you
awokc Christ in the back part of the
ship, crying, Master, carest thou not
that perish?" and Christ rose up and
quoted you. Jesus hushing the temp
est.
There is one storm into which we
must all run. When q man lets 90 this |
life to take hold Of the next. do not |
care how much grace he has. he will |
want it all. What is that out yonder? |
That is dying Christian rocked on
the surges of death. Winds that have
magnificent hotillas Of pomp
and worldly power come down on |
that Christian soul. All the spirits |
of darkness seem to be let loose, for Il |
it is their last chance. The waiting |
Of kindred seems to mingle with the
swirl Of the waters, and the scream Of |