The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-08-01
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The btate Of his pulse would not war
rant his living a minute, OH Il the
east wind affects the spleen, and af-
{ects the lungs, and affects the liver,
1t will affect your immortal soul. APP
pealing to God for help, brace your,
self against these whitening blasts and
destroying influences, lest that which
the psalmist said broke the ships OF
Tarshish, shipwreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: 1.-THE. lord
brought the east wind" lie brings it
for especial purpose; the east wind is
just as important as the north wind;
or the south wind, or the west wind,
but not SO pleasant. Trial must come
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast. Whoever did es-
cape it? Especially who that accom-
plished anything for church er state
ever escaped it. 1 was in the pulpit
of John Wesley, in London, a pulpit
where he stood one day and said: II
have been charged with all the crimes
In the catalogue except ohe-@that
of drunkenness, and woman arose
In The audience and said: John, you
were drunk last night" So John Wes-
ley passed under the fail. saw in a
foreign journal a report of one of
George Whitefield's sermens7aa sermon
preached hundred and twenty or
thirty years ago. 1t seemed that the
reporter stood to take the sermon, and
his chief Idea was to caricature it; and
these are some of the reportorial In
terlinings of the sermon of George
Whitefeld. After calling him by a
nickname indicative of a physical de-
feet in the eye, it goes on to say:
"Here the preacher clasps his chin on
the pulpit cushion. Here he elevates his
Voice. Here he lowers his voice. Holds
his arms extended. Bawls aleud:
Stands trembling Makes a frightful
face. Turns up the whites of his eyes.
Clasps his hands behind him. Clasps
his arms around him and hugs HIM
self. Roars aloud. Hollas. Jumps.
Cries. Changes from crying. Hollas
and jumps again" Well; my brother,
if that good man went through all that
process, In your occupation, in your
profession, in your store, in your shop,
at the bar, in the sick room, In the edi'
torial chair, somewhere, you will have
to &c through q similar process; you
can not escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem. and
the hard CRITICS m eff the poem killed
him--literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled Jerusalem Deliv-
ered," and it had such cold reception
it turned him into a raving maniac
Stillingfieet was slain by his literary
enemies. The frown Of Henry VIII.
slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of
Wellington refused to have the fence
around his house, which had been de-
stroyed by mob, rebuilt, because he
wanted the fence to remain as it was,
reminder of the mutability and un-
certainty of the popular favor.
And you will have trial of some sort
You have had it already. Why need l
prophesy? l might better mention au
his torical fact in your history. You
are q merchant What time you had
with that old business partnerl How
hard it was to get rid of himl Before
you bought him out, or he ruined both
of you, what magnitude of annoyance!
Then, after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out, and to promise he would not open
store of the same kind of business in
your street, did he not open the very
same kind of business as near to you
as possible, and take all your customers
as far as he could take them? And
then, knowing all your frailties and
weaknesses, after being in your bust.
ness firm for so many years, is he not
now spending his time in making a
commentary on what you furnished as
text? You are physician, and in
your sickness, or in your absence, you
get neighboring doctor to take your
place in the sick room, and he ingrati
ates himself into the favor of that
family, so that you forever lose their
patronage. Or, you take a patient
through the serious stages of fever,
and some day the impatient ia
Their or husband of the sick one
rushes out and gets another medical
practitioner, who comes in just in
time to get the credit of the cure. Or
you are a lawyer, and you come in
contact with trickster in your pro.
fession, and in your absence, and con
trary to agreement, he moves a non
suit or the dismissal of the case; OF
the judge on the bench, remem bering
an old political grudge, rules against
you every time he gets a chance, and
says, with a snarl: "If you don't like
my decision, take an exception" Or
you are farmer, and the curculic
stings the fruit, or the weevi
gets into the wheat, or the
drought stunts the corn, or the
long-continued rains give you nc
opportunity for gathering the har
vest. Your best cow gets the hollow
horn, your best horse gets foundered
A French proverb said that trouble
comes in on horseback and goes away
on foot. So trouble dashed in on yor
suddenly, but oh, how long it was il
getting away! Came on horseback
goes away on foot. Rapid in coming
slow in going. That is the history o
nearly all your troubles. Again ant
again and again, you have experienced
the power of the east wind. 1t MAJ
be blowing from that direction now.
My friends, God intended these trou
bles and trials for some particular pur
pose. They do not come at random
Here is the promise: He stayeth Hi
rough wind in the day of the cas-
wind" In the tower of London tn,
swords and the guns of other ages are
FURNISHED and arranged into hug
ma ssinn-f1oyxers and sunfioUers AM