The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-13

years without artificial help, but Is
now through such means one great
garden, so all the unproductfve parts
of all the continents will be turned in
TO harvest fields and orchards. A
half-dozen De Lesseps will furnish
the world with all the canals needed,
and will change the course OF
rivers and open new lakes and
the great Sahara desert will be
cut up into farms with an astounding
yield of bushels to the acre. The
marsh will be drained of it's waters
and cured of its malaria. saw what
was for many years called the Black
swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills
and fevers, but now, by the tiles put
into the ground to carry off the sur
richest and healthiest of regions. The
God who wastes nothing, think,
means that this world. from pole to
pole, has come to perfection OF
foliage and fruitage. For that
reason He keeps the earth
running through space, though SO
many fires are blazing down in
its timbers and so many meteoric ter
rors have threatened to dash it to
pieces. As soon as the earth is COM
pleted Christ will divide it up among
the good. The reason He docs not di-
vide now is because 1t is not done. A
kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple is
ripe. In fulfillment of the New Tesla
ment, THE meek shall inherit the
EARTH" and the promise of the Old Tes-
lament, "He shall divide the spoil
with the strong" the world will be
apportioned to those worthy to pos
sess IL.
1t is not so now. In this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering l,2O0. 600. 900 people, we
have only 10000, 900 inhabitants, we
have 1000, 600 who can not get honest
work, and with their families an aggre-
CATION of S, OO0, 600 that are on the verge
of starvation. Something wrong, most
certainly. In some way, there will be n
new apportionment. Many OF the
millionaire estates will crack to pieces
on the dissipation of grandchildren
and then dissolve into the possession
of the Masses who now have an in
sufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the
expensive and elaborate buildings now
devoted to debasing amusements?
They will become schools, art CALLER
les, museums, gymnasiums and
churches. The world is already get
ting Disguised with many of these
amusements. and no wonder. What
an importation of unclean theatrical
stuff we have within the last few years
had brought to our shores! And pro-
fessors of religion patronizing such
thingsl Having sold out to the devil,
why don't you deliver the goods
and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches,
and say: know all the world by these
presents that I am patron OF I'M
cleanliness and child of HE'LL" Sworn
to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
If you think these offenses are to go
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 palaces of right
eousuess. They will come into the
possession of those strong for virtue
and strong for God. HE shall divide
the spoil w it'll the strong"
'But," you say, this is pleasant to
think Of for others, but before that
time shall have passed up into an
other existence, and shall get no ad-
vantage from that new apportion-
ment." All, you have only driven
me to the other more exciting
and transporting consideration, and
that is, that Christ is going
to divide up Heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial
world that have been in the posses
sion of the inhabitants for thou
sands of years, and they shall
remain as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filled
with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven ont.
Many of the victors from earth have
already got their palaces, and they are
pointed OUT 10 bnOSc newly dTIiFCu.
Soon after our getting there we will
ask to be shown the apostolic resi-
dences, and ask where does Paul live,
and John; and shown the patriarchal
residences, and shall say: Where
does Abraham live, or jacob" and
shown the martyr residences, and say:
"Where does John Huss live, and
Ridley?" We will want to see the
boulevards where the chariots of
conouerors roll. l will want to see
the garden where the princes walk. We
will want to see Music row, where
Handel and Haydn and Mozart and
Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings
and Bradbury have their homes, out of
their windows, ever and anon, rolling
some snatch of an earthly oratorio or
hymn transported with the composer.
We will want to see Revival terrace,
where Whitefeld and Nettleton and
Payson aud Rowland Hill and Charles
Finney and other giants of soul-reap-
ing are resting from their almost SUI
pernatural la bors, their doors thronged
with converts just arrived, coming to
report themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset, and like
the leaves for number, are the celes-
tial homes yet to be awarded. when
Christ to you, and millions of others,
shall divide the spoil. What do you
want there? You shall have 1t. An
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