The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-18

your WORLDLY eStdtc-WeS - -.
earthquake that started you out TO
nsk this stupendous question OF my
text?
But I remark again, l character
ize this question of the agitated ] ~
keeper as hasty, urgent and immedi-
ate. He put it on the run. BY tho
light of his torch as he goes to look
for the apostles behold his face, see
the startled look and see the earnest
ness. No one can doubt by that look
that the man is in earnest lie musS
have that question answered before
the earth stops rocking, or perhaps
he will never have it answered at
all. Is that the way, my brother
my sister. you are putting TINS
question? Is it on the run? Is 1t hasty?
Is it urgent? Is it immediate? II 1t IS
not, 1t will not be answered Ihatis
the only kind of question that is an
swered. It is the urgent and immedi-
ate question of the gospel Christ an
swers A great many are asking this
question, but they drawl it out, ana
there is indifference in their manner
as il they do not mean it Make 1T an
urgent question and then you Will
have it answered before an hour passes.
before a minute passes When man
with all the esrnestness OF his soul
cries out for God, he finds Him, and
finds him right away.
In the troubled times OF Scotland Sir
John Cochrane was condemned to
death by the king. The death warrant
was on the way. Sir John Cochraue
| was bidding farewell to his daughter
Grizel at the prison door. He said:
Farewell, my darling child, must
die" His daughter said: NO. father,
you shall not die" But" he said,
1.-THE king is against me, and the law is
after me, and the death warrant is
on its way, and must die. Do not de-
ceive yourself, my dear child" Tho
daughter said: 'Father, you shall not
die" as she left the prison gate. At
night. on the moors of Scotland, dis
guised wayfarer stood waiting for the
horseman carrying the mailbags con-
tanning the death warrant The dis
guised wayfarer, as the horse came by,
clutched the bride and shouted to the
rider--to the man who carried the
mailbaps, "Dismount!" He felt for his
arms and was about to shoot, but the
wayfarer jerked him from the saddle,
and he fell fat The wayfarer picked
up the mailbags, put them on his
| shoulder, and vanished in the dark
ness, and IA days were thus gained
for the prisoners life. during which
the father confessor was pleading for
the pardon of Sir John Cochrane.
The second time the death warrant
is on its way. The disguised wayfarer
comes along and asks Tor little bread
and little wine, starts on across the
moors, and they say: Poor man, to
have to go out on .ruch stormy night.
1t is dark and you Will lose yourself
on the moors" "Oh, no." he says, II
will notl" He trudged on and stopped
amid the brambles and waited
for the horseman to come carry
ing the mailbags containing the
death warrant of Sir John Cochrane.
The mail carrier spurred on his steed,
for he was fearful because of what had
!. occurred on the former journey,
spurred on his steed, when suddenly
; through the storm and through the
; darkness there was a fash OF fire.
arms, and the horse became un-
: manageable, and as the mail car
rier discharged his pistol in re-
Spouse the horse flung him, and
: the disguised wayfarer put his foot
! on the breast of the overthrown
: rider and said, Surrender nowr The
mail carrier surrendered his arms, and
the disguised wayfarer put upon his
, shoulders the malbags, leaped upon
tho horse and sped away into the
darkness, gaining IA more days for the
, poor prisoner, Sir John Cochrane, and
/ before the IA days had expired pardon
{ had come from the king. The door OF
, the prison swung open, and Sir
. John Cochrane was free. One day
( when he was standing amid his friends,
they congratulating him, the disguised
5 wayfarer appeared at the gate, and he
said: admit him right away"
| The disguised wafarer came in and
said: Here are two letters. Read
; them. sir, and cast them into the fire"
/ Sir John Cochrane read them They
, were his two death warrants, and he
threw them into the fire. Then said
' Sir John Cochrane: ITO whom am
. indebted? Who is this poor wayfarer
. that saved my life? Who is it?" And
: the wayfarer pulled aside and pulled
. off the jerlxin and cloak and the
: hat, and, 10. it was Grizel, the daugh
!. ter of Sir John Cochane. Gracious
o heaven!" he cried, my child, my say
1 ior, my own GrizelI' But more
u thrilling story. The death warrant
: had come forth from the King o.
h Heaven and earth. The death war
j. rant read, 1.-THE soul that sinneth
e it shall die" The death war
) rant coming on the black hors'
t of eternal night We must die
i! We must die. But breasting TIL
y storm and putting out through TIL
0 darkness was disguised wayfare
who gripped by the bride the oncom
It ing doom and flung it back and put hi
n wounded and bleeding foot on tn
l. overthrown rider. Meanwhile pardo
a flashes from the throne, and, Go free
d Open the gate! Strike of the chair
n Go free! And to-day your liberate
d soul stands In the presence OF the dis
d guised wayfarer, and as he pulls of tn
s disguise of his earthly humiliation. an
" the disguise of his thorns, and the di!
le guise of the seamless robe. you ind b
X is bone of your bone, flesh OF you
Of flesh, your Brother, your Christ, you
80 pardon, your eternal life. Let q