The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-10-08
REV. DIR. TAIN LACE.
The Eminent Divinc's Sermon Dee
:ivered in Washington.
Subject: "The Day is at Hand.'

KILL, L.
Back from the mountains and the seaside
and the springs, and the farmhouse, your
cheeks bronzed and your spirits lighted,
hail you home again with the words OF
GehaZi to the Shunammife: rs it we'll with
thee? Is it we'll with thy husband? Is it
well with the chill!" On some faces see
the mark oil recent grieH, but ell along the
track Of tears l see the story OF resurrection
and reunion when all tears are done: the
deep p,oNinE OF the keel, followed by the
fash of the phosphorescence. Now that L
, have askel you in regard to your welfare,
you naturally ask how [ am. Very we'll.
thank you. Whether it was the 1racinS air
of the mountains. or bath in the surf OF
Long Island beach, or whether 1t IS the Joy
of standing in this great group OF warm
| hearted friends or whether 1t is ne" APP
| probation Of the goodness Of God, can not
| tell. l Simply know [ am happy.
! 1t was said that John Moffatt. the great
! Methodist preacher. occa'iOEailv got fast in
+ his sermon. aud to eXtricate himself would
/ cry Hal elu ah," lam in no such predica-
| ment o.day. but I am full Of the same rhap-
! so lie e acuiatun. Starting out this morn
| ing Il new ecclesiastical year, [ want 10
! give You TIE keyIU of my next twelve
months ministry [ want TO set it to the
! tunes Of 'Antioch." "Arinl" and "CorOn:-
| tiOn." ] want to put new trumpet stop
+ into my sermons. We do wrong If we allow
our personal SORROWS to interer with the
| glorious fact that the Kingdom is coming
! We are W .ckei ii We allow apprehension Of
! National disaster to put down our faith in
! God and the mission of our American peO-
pie The God who bath been on the site OF
this Nation sincA thu 4th of July, 1916. VIII
see to 1t that this Nation shall not commit
suicide on November 3, 1895. By the time
the unparal ei harvests Of this summer get
down to the sea-bOar3, We shah be stan ling
Il -.{S,f !,
! paraivze the pesSimis.s, who by their evil
prophpsies are hlaSpheIin., the God who
hath blest this Nat,J as de hath bleSt no
other.
In all our Christian work You AMI want
more of the elem! mt o! Gla mess. No man
had right to say that Christ never laughed.
Do yOu suppose that He was GUM at the
" d;iins in Cana OF Cattle? Do you sup
pose that Christ was unresponSiyA when the
children caDb'rtl over His knee and
snoulter at HIS own inVitatiOn2 Do You
suppose that the Evangelist meant nothing
when he said OF Christ: ode rejoice in
spirit?' Do you believe taat the Divine
Christ who pours all the waters over tn"
| rocks at Nernal Falls. Yosemite. does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumuI-
tuous 10y and rushing ravtures of human
life? l believe not only that the morning
laughs. and that the mountains laugh, AMI
that the seas laugh, and that the casca :es
laugh but that Christ laughed. Moreover,
the outlook OF the world ought to stir US to
gladness
Astronomer, disturbed many people by tell
! ing them that there was danger OF stellar
collision. We were told bv these a.tr0no
mers that there are worlds com ng very near
together. and that we shall have plaques an
wars and tumul.s and perhaps the world
destruction. Do not he scared. If you have
ever stood at railroad centre. where ten or
ir-t,- uaI-E IN OF hir
and seen that by the movement OF the switch
one or two inches, the train shoots this way
and that, without co!tiding, then you ma,
understand how tlny worlds may come with
in an inch Of disaster. and that inch IL
rs good as million miles. !
human sw ,tch-tender can shoot the train
this way and that without harm, cannot TIL
hand that for thousands OF years has upheld
the universe, keep our little world ont q
harms way? Christian biologists tell II
that this world was millions of years ii
building. Well, now. do not think Co
would take millions OF years to bald hOu-
which was to last only six thousand years
There Is nothing in the world or outside tn
; world. terrestrial or astronomical, to e.s
cite djsmay. I wish that some s.ou
Gospel breeze might scatter all the malarI
Of human fore 00ding.
The sun rose this morning at about
o'clock. and think that is just ABOUT tn
hour III the worlu's history. 1.-The day is q
- hand" The first raw Of the dawn see il
the gradual substitution O. diplomatic ski
for human butchery. Within the last tweni Y
five years there have been international dii
:. ferences whirh would have brought shoe
o. arms in any other day, bu. which wer
. peacefully adjusted. the pen taking the pac
i of the sword. The Nenezue an controver,
y in any other age OF the world would hay
n brought shock of arms. but now is beng :
n knows
q 1t is being settled.
The Alabama question In any other age
!, the worli would have caused war betwee
the United States and England. How W.
it se;tled2 By men-of-war off the Narrow
or off the 1Iersey? No. A few wise men g
into IA quiet room at Geneva, talked tn
matter over, and teleg aphed to WashinSto
and London, eau settled" Peace! Peac
England pays to the Cnited States II
amount awarled-pays really more than st
ought to have paid. But still, all that Al;
bama broil is sett.ed-setted for foreve
Arbitration instead of battle.
So the quarrel about the Canadian fliSt
\ cries in any other age would have caus*
' war between the Unite! States and Englsn
So the Samoan controversy in any other a.
would have brought Germany and Il
United States into bloody collision. B
49, all is settled. Arbitration instead of BATH
vi France will never again. think. thrOu.
III INC ptccaulllO Oh an AtnDaSSatoF, DEluS On
battle with other Nations. She sees TIL
- GOD, in punishment at Sedan, bloted 0
Nv the French Empire, and the only aspira
r for that throne who had any right Of @
Of pectation dies IN war that has not even Il
70 dignity Of being respectable. What is Il
=. leaf that England would like to tear o
d OF her history? The Zulu war. Down Wi
lg the sword and up with the treaty.
IT, We in this country might better have sc
tied our sectional difficulties by arbtrati'
y, than by the trial of the swort. PhiIa
n thropy said to the North: "Pay down G c&
ia tain amount of money for the purchase
-. the slaves, and let all those born alter CO
u tain time be born free" Philanthropy sa
ur to the South: "You sell your slaves, aud G
NJ. rid Of this great National contest and tro
ble." The North replied: 81 won't pay
cent" The South replied: 81 won't sci
- War. War; A million dead men, and \
tonal debt which might have ground II
- Nation to powHer. Why did We not
! William H. Seward, OF New York, and Ale
ander H. Stephens, OF Georgia, go out a
D spend d few days under the trees on I
banks OF the Potomac and talk the mat
over and settle it, 10 settle it they cou
rather than the North pay in cost of Y
- four billion seven bundled million doIla
and the South pay four billion seven h