The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-12-31

grace. ! should not wonder if he goes |
to miserable grave, and beyond it
into the gashing of teeth. The way
of the ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way
to genuine success except through
toll, either of head or hand At the
battle of Crecy, in 1346, the prince of
Wales, finding himself heavily pressed
by the enemy, sent word to his father
for help. The father, watching the
battle from wind mill, and seeing
his son was not wounded and could
gain the day if he would, sent word:
mo, l will not come. Let the boy
win his spurs, for. if God will, l desire
that this day be his with all its hon
ors." Young man, fght your own bat
tie, all through, and you shall have
the victory. Oh, it is battle worth
fighting! Two monarchs of old fought
| duel, Charles V. and Francis, and
the stakes were kingdoms, Milan and
Burgundy. You fight with sin, and
the stake is Heaven or hell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you
are a genius. and that, therefore,
there is no need Of close application.
| 1t is here where multitudes fail. The
curse Of the age is the geniuses; men
with enormous self-conceit and ego
tism, and nothing else. l had rather
be an OK than an eagle; plain and
plodding and useful, rather than high
flying and good for nothing but to
pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extra.
ordinary capacity without work Is ex-
| traordinary failure. There is no hope
for that person who begins life re-
solved to live by his wits, for the proba-
bility is that he has not any. 1t was
not safe for Adam, even in his unfall-
en- state, to have nothing to do. and,
therefore, God commanded him to be
farmer and horticulturist He was
to dress the garden and keep it, and
had he and his wife obeyed the divine
Injunction and been at work. they
would not have been sauntering under
the trees and hankering after that
fruit which destroyed them and their
posterity; a proof positive for all
ages to come that those who do not at
tend to their business are sure to get
into mischief.
do not know that the prodigal in
Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had he not given up his idle
habits and gone to feeding swine for a
living. The devil does not SO often at
tack the man who is busy with the
pen, and the book. and the trowel, and
the saw and the hammer He is afraid
of those weapons. But woe to the
man whom this roaring lion meets
with his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always
be elegant and cleanly and refned
There is a certain amount of drudge-y
through which we must all pass, what
ever be our occupation. You know
how men are sentenced to certain
number of years to prison, and after
, they have suffered and worked out the
, time, then they are allowed to &c
, free. So it is with all of us. Goo
passed ON us the sentence: by the
bread" We must endure our time O
, drudgery, and then, after awhile, W.
t will be allowed to go into comparative
Y liberty We must be willing to en-
: dure the sentence. We all know wha
t drudgery is connected with the begin
!, ming of any trade or profession; bu
t this does not continue all our lives, i
h it be the students, or the merchants
0 or the mechanics life. l know yo,
J. have at the beginning many har
d time, but after awhile these thing
S will become easy. You will be you
j. own master. Gods sentence will b
d satisfied. You will be discharged fror
e prison.
l. Bless God that you have a brain t
e think, and hands to work, and feet
l. walk with, for in your constant acti'
e ity, o, young man, is one of you
h strongest defenses. Put your trust i
v God and do your best. That child ha
a it right when the horses ran ava
2. with the load of wood and he sat on i
When asked if he was frightened, Ii
is said: mo, l prayed to God and hun
4, on like beaver
x Respect for the Sabbath will be t
'e the young man another preservati'
n against evil. God has thrust into I'll
" toll and fatigue of life a recreati'
e day, when the soul is especially to
IS fed. 1t is no new-fangled notion of
le wild-brained reforner, but an instit
e, ton esta blished at the beginning. G'
Ig has made natural and moral laws
d, harmonious that the body as well
lg the soul demands this institutio
le Our bodies are seven-day clocks, tn
TX must be wound up as often as that
IN thew will run down. Failure mu
IT. come sooner or later to the man WI
ev breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration n
n, called it the Lords day, and he wi
10 devotes it to the world is guilty Of re
OF berv. God will not let the sin go u
d: nunished either in this world or t
rk world to come. ss-..rs
This is the statement of man w
on has broken his Divine enactment:
be was engaged in manufacturing on
Id, Lehigh river On the Sabbath us
IT, to rest, but never regarded God IN
,se One beautiful Sabbath when the no
es. was all hushed, and the day was
in that loveliness could make it, 1
OK down on my piazza, and went to we
lth inventing new shuttle neitl
/ :. ..d n aat nor drink till the S