The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-09-17
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better times are coming. and tell him that
you yourself were in a tight business pass,
and the Lord delivered you Tell him to put
his trust in Christ. Tell him that Jesus
Christ stands beside every business man in
his perplexities. Tell him of the sweet
promises of Gods comforting grace. That
man is dying for the lack Of just one kind
word. Go tomorrow and utter that one
saving. omnipotent, kind word. Here is a
soul that has been swamped in sin. He
wants to find the light of the Gospel. He
feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach, watching for a sail
against the sky. o. bear down on him.
Tell MIN that the Lord waits to be gracious
to him. that though he has been great sin
ner. there is great Saviour provided. Tell
him that though his sins are as scarlet. they
shall be as snow; though they are red lk0
| crimson, they shall be as wool. That man
! is dying forever for the lack OF ono kind
word.
0. that we might in our families and in
our churches try the force Of Kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom of God. March northeaster
will bring ont more honeysuckles than fret
! fulness and scoIding will bring out Christian
grace. | wish that in all our religious work
we might be saturated with the spirit OF
kindness. Missing that, we miss a great
deal of usefulness. There is no need Of
| coming out DeIOre men anu numbering 10
! them the law unless at the same time you
preach to them the Gospel. The world is
| dying for lack of kindness.
These young people want it u5t az much
as the old. The old people sometimes seom
TO think they have a monopoly of the rheu-
matisms, and the neuralgias. and the head
| aches, and the physical disorders of the
world; but l tell you there are no worse
| heartaches than are felt by some of these
young people. Do you know that much of
The work Is done by the young? Raphael
died at thrty-seven, Richelieu at thirty-one;
Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight; In
nocent Ill came to his mightiest influence
at thirtv-seven; Cortez conquered Mexico at
thirty: Don John won Lepanto at twenty
five; Grotius was AttOrney-General at TWEEN
Iy-fOur; and have noticed amid all classes
Of men that some Of the severest battles and
the toughest work come before thirty.
| Therefore we must have our sermons and
our exhortations in prayer meeting all SYM
pathetic with the young. And so with these
people further on in life. What do these
doctors and lawyers and merchants and me-
chancs care about the distractions of re-
ii.,iOn? What they want is help to bear the
| whimscalities of patients, the browbeating
of legal opponents, the unfairness of Gus
toners, who have plenty Of faultfinding for
every imperfection OF handiwork, but 20
praise for twenty exceIlences. What does
that brain-racked. hand-blstered man care
for Swngle's ''Doctrine of Original SIM" or
| Augustne's "Anthropology?" You might as
we'll go to man who has the pleurisy and
out on his side plaster made out of DIR.
PARIS "Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.
In all our sermons there must be help for
every one somewhere. You go into an apo
thecary store; you see others being waited
| on; we do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine; we know our
! I'm, ,yuiI off VIII ArH cn y-Hj Ia
all parts of the sermon may not be appro-
| pirate to our case, if we went prayerfully,
before the sermon is through we shall have
| the divine prescri ptiOn. l say 70 these young
| men who are going to preach the Gospel,
these theological studenis--Is say to them, We
want in our sermonssnot more metaphysics,
nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profundity. What we want in our SER
mons and Christian exhortations is more
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in
tle Sailors Bethel at Boston, the jack tars
felt that they had help for their duties among
.he ratlines and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the operatives
in Oldham. England, all the working men
| 'elt that they had more grace for the spin
dies. When DR.. South preached to Kings
and Princes and Princesses, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt prepara-
ton for their high station.
Do you not know that this simple story OF
a Savours kindness is to redeem all Ma
lions? The hard heart of this worlds OBJ
iuracy is to be broken before that story.
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the
most remarkable pictures ever saw. It is
The Descent of Christ from the Cross
1t is one of RubenS's pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descent from the
| Cross" as Rubens pictured it, without hay
| ing his eyes flooded with tears, If he have any
sensibility at all. 1t is an overmastering
! hat cfTrna md CT
You and haunts your dreams. One afternoon
Il man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
beDs's descent from the Gross" He was
all absorbed in that scene of a SaViours SUI
ferings. when the ianitor came in and said:
1T is time to close up the cathedral for the
night [ wish you would depart" The
pilgrim, looking at that "Descent from the
Cross" turned around to the janitor and
said: mo, no; not yet. Wait until they get
Him down" Oh, it is the story of Saviours
suffering kindness that is to capture the
world. When the bones of that great behe-
moth of antiquity which has trampIed all
Nations shall be broken and shattered, it
will be found out that the work was not
done by the hammer of the iconOclast, or by
the sword of the conquerer, or by the torch
Of persecution, but by the plain, simple,
overwhelming force of "the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
Kindness, We all need moro of it in our
hearts, our words and our behavior. The
chief characteristic of our Lord was kind
ness. A gentleman in England died. leaving
his fortune by will TO two sons. The son
that stayed at home destroyed the fathers
will and pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The absent
brother, after awhile, returned and claimed
his part of the property. Judges and jurors
We're to be bribed to say that the returned
brother and son vas no son at all, but an
impOstor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew
Hale. the pride OF tho English court room
and for twenty years the pride OF jurispru-
dence, heard that that in Justice was about
10 be practiced. He put off his official robe
+ He put on the garb Of a miller. He went tC
The village where that trial was to take
pace. He entered the court room. He
somehow got impaneed as one of the jurors
The brides came around and the man gave
ten pieces Of gold to the other jurors. but a.
this was only II poor miller, the briber gave
to him only five pieces OF gold. A verdict
. WAS brought in rejecting the right Of this re
turned brother. He was to have no share il
, the inheritance. "Hold! my lord said tn,
, miller. "Hold! we are not all agreed on thi
, verdict. These other men have received tel
y pieces of gold in bribery and L have received
only five" "WhO are you? Where do you com
+, from?' said the judge on the bench. The re
, spOnse was: al am from Westminster Hall