The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-05-14
cleanness AMI child Of help Sworn to be

| cleanness AMI child Of help Sworn to be
! the Lord ). YOU are periUre-s.
| If YOU think these offens2S are to co on
; forever. YOU do not know who the Lord is
| God will not wait for the day Of judgment.
All these palaces Of sin will become D9.2n2s
| of Righteousness. They Will come into the
| possession of those strong tor virtue AMI
strong for God. 'Ee shall divide the spoil
| with the strong"
| China and Africa the two richest portions
OF the earth by reason Of metals and rare
! woods and ineyhaustible proluctiyenGsS. are
| not yet divided up among the good because
they are not ready to be divided. Wait until
all the doors that LIVINGSTONE opened in
Africa shall be entered. and Bishop Taylor
| with his band Of self supporting mission
aries. have done their WORK, and the Ashantis
and Senegambians shall know Christ rs well
as YOU know Him, and there shall be on the
banks of the Nile and the Niger a higher civ
lization than is now 70 be found on the
banks OF the Potomac or the Hudson, then
Christ will divide up that continent among
His friends. Wait until China, which is half
as large as all Europe. shall have developed
her capacities for rice and tea and sugar
among edibles. and her amethyst and sap
phire and topaz and opal and jasper and
porphyry among precious stones. and her
| rosewood and ebony and camphOr and var
nish trees among precious woods, and
turned up from her depths half dozen
Pennsylvanias of coal and iron. and twenty
Nevndas of silver, and fifty CALIFORNIA; of
gold and her 500 900. 900 Of people shall be
evangelical. Then the Lord will divide it
up among the good.
| II my text be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming when
all the farms will DO owned by Christian
farmers. and all the commerce controlled by
Christian merchants. and all the authority
held by Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains, and all
the universities under the instruction OF
Christian professors; Christian kings, Chris
tan presidents. Christian governors. Chris
tan mayors. Christian common council. YET.
what q securing out. What an upturninc.
What a demolition! What a resurrection
must precede this new appo-ti01ment,
l do not underrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully esti-
mating the vastness Of his foes and prepared
his men for their greatest triumph by saying.
| Tomorrow King Juba will be here with
80, 900 horses. 100, GOO skirmishers and 800
elephants" I do not underrate the vast
forces of sin and death, but do you know
who commands US? Johovahiirah. And the
reserve corps behind Us are all the armies Of
heaven and earth, with hurricane and thun-
derbolt. The good work OF tho worlds re-
demption is going on every minute. Never
so many splendid men and glorious women
on the side of right as to-day. Never so
many good people 40 now. Diosale5 has
been spoken of as Il wise man because he
went with lantern at MONDAY, saying he
was looking for an honest man. II he had
turned his lantern toward himself, he might
have discovered q crank. Honest men by
the 10000! Through the international series
of Sunday-school lessons the next generation
all through ChristeEdom are going to be
wiser than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God can
do it. No housewife with a chamois cloth
ever polished a silver teaspoon with more
ease than Christ will rub off from this world
the tarnish and brighten it up till 1t glows
like heaven, and then the glorious aDpor-
tionment. for my text is REINFORCED by a
score of other texts, when it says Of Christ.
"He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
But" you say. 'this is pleasant to think
OF for others, but before that time l shall
have passed UP into another existence and I
shall get no advantage from that new ap-
pointment." All, you have only driven me
to the other more exciting and transporting
| consideration. and that is that Christ is go.
ing to divide up heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession of the in
habitants for thousands of year,, and they
shall remain rs they are. There are old
family mansions in heaven filled with whole
generations Of kindred, and they shall never
be driven out. Many OF the victors from
earth have already got their palaces. and
they are pointed out to those newly arrived.
Soon after our getting there we will ask to
, be shown the apostolic residences. and ask
where does Paul live and John. and shown
the patriarchal residences, AM shall say,
Where does Abraham live or jacob" and
, shown the martyr residences and say
, "Where does John Huss live and Ridlev?'
/ We will want to see the boulevards, where
the chariO:s Of conquaror3 roll. l will want
i, to see the garden where the princes walk
: We will want to see Music row, where Han
, del and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Yves
, ley and Thomas Hastings AMI Bradburr
+ have their homes. out OF their windows. eve
, | and anon. rolling some snatch of an earthly
oratOrio or hymn transported with the cora
! poser. We will want to see Revival ter
, ace. where Whitelield and Nettleton ant
, Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles Fin
: nev ard otEer giants Of soul reapinc ar
! resting from their almost supernatural la
8 | DOTS. their doors thrOnGed with convert
q just arrived, coming to report themselves
But brilliant rs tho sunset AMI Like tt
leaves for number are the celestial home
yet to be- awarded when Christ to YOU an
i millions OF others shall divide the spoil
What 90 you want there? You shall have il
: An orchard? There it is-twelva manner c
|
+ river scenery? Take your cno:ca on III
banks of tie river, in longer, wider leepe
roll than Danube or Amazon or AIississipp
q if mingled in one, and emptving into the Sc
i of glass. mingled with fire. Do YOU war
= | your kindred back again? Go out and mes
a your father and mother, without the staff c
the stoop. and your children in a dance of in
: mortal glee. Doyou want q throne? Selec
a it from the million FURNISHED elevations. D
:, you want a crown? Pick it out OF thu
+ mountain OF diamonded coronets. Do 70
+ want your old church friends OF cart
h around you? Begin to hum an Old revive
. tune, and they will flock from all quarters
| revel with you in sacred "reminiscences A
r the earth for those VINO are hero on earth {
), the time of continental and planetary di
v tribution and all the heavens for those VIII
= are there.
It That heavenly distribution of spoils wi
o be surprise to many. Here enters heave
s the soul Of a man who took up great de-
= of room in the church on EARTH but sacrifice
u little, and among his good works sellshnes
J, was evident. He just crowds through IL
s shining gate, but it's a very tight squeez
9 50 that the doorlieeper has TO pull hard I
S get him in, and this man expects half ,
It heaven for his share of trophies, and l
IT would like a monopoly of all its spiendC