The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18

the bar, in the sick room, in the editorial
chair, somewhere, you will have to go
through similar process. You cannot
escape 1t.
Keats wrote his famous poem. and the
hard criticism of the poem killed htm-it-
orally killed him. TassO wrote his poem,
entitled, "Jerusalen Delivered" aud it had
such cold reception it turned him into
raving maniac Stillingheet was slain by
his literary enemies. The irown Of Henry
VIII. slew Cardinal Wolsey. The Duke Of
Wellington refused to have the fence around
his house. which had been destroyed by the
excited mob, rebuilt. because he wanted the
fence to remain as it was, reminder OF the
mutabllity and uncertainty of the popular
favor.
And you will have trial of soma sort. Yon
have had it already. Why need pronhpsv?
| might better mention IN historical fact in
your history. You are a merchant. What
time YOU had with that Old business partner!
How hard it was to get ri1 of him, Before
YOU bought him ont, or he ruined both or
you, what magnitude of annoyancei Then
after you had paid him down certain sum
of money to have him so 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 bust
ness as near to you as possible and fake
all your customers as far rs he could take
theml And then. knowing all your frai'ties
and weaknesses, after being i'll YOUR business
firm for so many years. is he not now spend
ing his time in making a commentary on
what YOU furnished as text? You are a
physician. and in your sickness. or in your
absence, Won get neghboring doctor to
take your place in the sick room. and he in
cratiates himself into the favor of that fam
ilv, so that you forever lose their patronage.
Or. you take a patient through the serious
stages Of fever. and some day the impatient
father or husband of the sick one rushes
out and gets another medical practi
toner. who comes in just in time to get the
credit of the cure. Or. YOU are lawyer.
and you come in contact with trickster in
your profession, and in your absence. and
contrary to agreement. he moves nonsuit
=, or the dismissal OF the case. Or the Judge
on the bench. remembering an old political
Crudge, rules against You every time he gets
a chance, and saws with a snar, "If you
don't like nv decision, take an exception"
Or. YOU are farmer and the curculio stings
the fruit. or the weevil gets into the wheat
, or the drought stunts the corn. or the long
continued rains give you no opportunity for
gathering the harvest. Your best COW gets
the no How horn: your best horse gets fOun-
dered. A French proverb said that trouble
comes on horseback AMI goes away on foot.
SO trouble dashed in on you suddenly; but,
| on horseback goes away on foot. Rapid in
| coming, slow in going. That is the history
| of nearly all your troubles. Again and
! again and again you have experienced the
| power of the east wind. 1t may be blowing
! from that direction now.
! My friends, God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose. They
do not come at random. Here is the promise:
i ''He stayeth His rough wind in the day of
, the east wind" In the tower OF London the
! swords AMI the guns Of other ages are burn
| ished and arranged into huge passion flow
! rrs and sunflowcrs and bridal cakes, and you
| wonder how anything SO hard as sleel could
| be put into such floral shapes. | have to tell
| you that the hardest, sharpest most cutting
most piercing sorrows of this life may be
made to bloom and blossom and put on
bridal festivity The Bible says they shall
be mltigated. they shall be assuaged. they
shall be graduated. God is not going to al
| low you to be overthrown. A Christian wo-
! man. very much respondent, was holding
her child in her arms, AMI the pastor, trying
to console the woman in her spiritual depres-
sion. said "There. you will let your child
Drop sob, no" she said, II couldn't let
the child drop" He said, "You will let the
child drop" "Why." she said. "if 1 should
drop the child here. it would dash his life
outn' "Well. now" said the Christian min
lister, don't you think God is as good as
you are? Won't God. your Father take as
good care of you. His child, as you take care
of your child? God won't let you drop"
| l suppose God lets the east wind blow lust
hard enough to drive us into the harbor oil
! Gods protection. We all feel we can man.
age our own affairs. We have helm and
compass and chart and quadrant. Give Us
plenty of sea room and we sail on aud sail
on: but after while there comes a Caribbean
whiriwind up the coast, and we are Helpless
| i'll the gale, and we cry out for harbor. Al
| our calculations upset, we say with the poet
Change and decay on all around see.
Oh, Thou who changest not. abide with me
Bless God for your trials. Oh. my Chris
tian friend. keep your spirits up by the
power of Christ's gospel. Do pot surrend
er. Do YOU not know that when you give
up, others will give up? You have courage
aud others will have courage. The Roman:
went into the battle, and by some accident
there was an inclination of the standard
The standard upright meant forward march
the inclination of the standard meant sur
render. Through the negligence Of the mar
VINO carried the standard, and the inclina
ton of it. the Amy surrendered. Oh, let u!
keep the standard up. whether it be blown
down by the east wind or the north wind Of
the south wind. No inclination to sur
render. Forward into the conflict.
There is near Bombay q tree that they cal
the borrowing tree the peculiarly O
watch is it never puts forth any bloom in h
daytime. but in the night puts out all il
bloom aud all lis red0lence. And l have t
tell You that through Christian chtracte
puts forth lis sweetest blossoms i'll the dark
ness Of sickness. the darkne Of fnancia
distress. the darkness Of bereavement. tn
darkness OF death. "weepiug may endure 70
night. tut JOY cOmeth in the morning.
! Across the harsh discOrds Of this world roll
, the music Of the skies-musiC that break
from the lips, music that breaks from tn
! narpS and rustleS from the palms. music lk
, falling water over rocks, music like wander
ing winds among leaves. music like carolin
birds among forests, music like ocean bill
lows StOrminG the Atlantic beach. The
shall hunger no more. neither thirst an
more, neither shall the sun light o.
them nor any heat, for the Lamb whicl
: is in the midst OF the throne shalt lead then
to living fountains Of water, and God shall
> wi Pc away all tears from their eyes, | Sc
4 great Christian fleet approaching that haI
tor Some Of the ships come in with sail
+ reut and bulwarkS Knocked away, but st
n,ioat. Nearer and nearerthe shining shore
Nearer and nearer the eternal anchorage
. Htnt away, my lads; haul away! Some {
the ships had mighty tonnage, and other
were shallopS easily listed Of the wind an
; ware. Some We're men-of-war and arme
, of the thunders of Christian battle. an
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