The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-23
...n,,athar. aiel have gone with them

they must be in the corrldor5 Oh aiapa-esi
and Lebanon cedar.
narted Christian friends who in this world
had very strong military spirit are now IN |
armies celestial AMI out in bloodle55 bltt'e. |
There ara hundreds OF people born sol1ieFs.
They cannot help it. They belong TO reg
ments in tina OF peace. They cannot near
a drum or fifo without trying to keep step to
the music. They ara Christians. and when
they fight they fight on the right SIDE; NOV,
when these our Christian friends VINO hau
natn raj and powerful military spirit entered
| heaven they entered the celestial army. Ine
door of heaven scarcely opens put you near
| u military demonstration. Oavid crieo ou's
"The chariots OF Col are 2o,00j" Elisha
saw the mountains fillai with celestial cav
airy. ST. john said, "Ths armies which are
| in heaven followed Him on white horses.
Now. when those who had the military spirit
| on earth sancsifiel entered glory, suppose
! they right away enlisted on some heavenly
campaign; they volunteered rigns away.
Theirs must needs be in heaven soldiers with
a s,dierly spirit There are grand parade
DAYS. when the King reviews the troops. There
| r,rst be an armed escort seat out 70 DrlnS up
/ from earth to heaven those WAC were more
than conuuerors. There must BIO crusade5
ever being fitted out for some part OF doas
dominion-batles, bloodless, groanless.
painIess-angels OF evil to be fought down
and fought out other reoellious worlds 10
he conquered worlds TO be put to the torch,
worlds TO be saved, worlds to be demolished,
worlds 10 be SINK, worlds to b, hostel. Be-
sldes that. in our own world there are Da--
ties for tho right AMI against the wrong
where we must have the heavenly military.
That is what keeps US Christian reiofinsiS 81
huoyapt SO few good men against SO many
Ind man: 50 few churches against 50 many
erorshops: so many pure printing preSse,
| aoainst 80 many polluted printing presses,
and vet Wa are buoyant and courageous,
because. while we know that the armies OF
evil in the world are larger IN numbers
FIJI an the army of truth, there are celestial CO.
! horts in fine air fighting on our side. have
. NOT 90 much faith in the army on the groun1
ma hnys in the army 10 the air. y Goa,
open our eyes that We may see them-tae
military spirits that went up from eartn 10
io;n the military spirits before the THRONE
Tosbu, and Caleb and Gideon aud David and
7 aamson and the hundreds of Christian war
riors who on earth fought with fieshly arm,
and now. having gone up on high, are com
inc down the hills OF hsayen ready 70 ngnt
: among the inyisibics. s--s .ss4s-7
! But what are our mathematical frlen Is TO
, do in the next world? They found their Joy
! aud delight in mathematics. There was
more poetry to them in Euclid tnan IN joan
+. Milton. They were passionately iona o.
a mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his
| door. "Iet no one enter here who Is not ac-
, nuaiutei with geometry" WHAT ara tnsy
. doing now? They are busy with ngureS yet
4 No place in all the universe Ike heaven iol
q figures. Numbers infll lite. distances Iuhnite
t calculations infinite. Ii tnsy want .neh
n arithmeiics and algs5ras an geometr.e5 an
n triyonometries for all eternity. What Held:
v OF snaee to bo surveyed! What magnitude
q to measure! Wnat diameters, what circum
J. ferences. what triangles, what quaternions
t what epicycloids, what parallelograms, VIVA
L comic sections!
If who are explorers doing now5 Expiorin.
# ya.. but with lightning locomotion, witt
d vision microscopic al 4 teis5copic at the sam
4 tina. A continent a. a glance, world In
"a second, planetary system in day. Cnrls
n tian John franklin, no more IN disaoie'
m Erebu5 pushing toward the North Poie
y Christian De Long, no more trying to FIRE
n blockaded Jeanette from the ice; ChriStial
~ T,ivinpstone no more amid African maiariaS
70 irving to make revelation OF IA dark con
IN tinent. but all OF them in the twinkling OF a
Il eve taxing in that which was once unaI
IA ,,roachable. Mont Blanc scaled withou
~ ainanstock. the coral depths of the ocean es
IN plored with out diving bell, the mountain
Ia un5arrsd and opened without Sir Humphre
N Davy's safety lamp.
ha What are our departed friends who foun
re- their chief Joy in study doing now! STUDY
at ing yet, but, instead OF few thousand 70
rs universe open before them-geoiogic, orn
at tho,ogic. conchologic. botanic. astronomi'
~ nni,osophic No more need OF Leyden lal
81 or voltaic piles or electric batteries, sandin
nj as thew do face to face with the facts OF IL
ly universe.
- What are the historians doing no7
,se Studying history yet, but not the history
IN a few centuries OF our planet only, but Il
NV history OF the eternities-whols miller
m NUNS. bsfors Xenophen or Herodotu5
-ss Moses or Adam was born. History OF OF
Nv | world, history of all worlds. What are OF
sc- departed astronomers doing! otuuyit
"a astronomy yet, but not through the du
,d9 lens OF earthly observatory, but with OF
~ stroke OF wing going right out TO JuT
he Ter and Mars AMI Mercury and Satu
no and Orion AMI the Pieiades, ov5rtakir
he and passing the swiftest GOMEZ IN the
h fight. Herschel died Christian. Ia
ma YOU any doubt about what Herschel Is dom
he Isaac Newton died Christian. Have "
10 any doubt about what Isaac Newton is dom
or Joseph Henry died Christian. Have y
10 any doubt about what Joseph Henry Is
IN. lug? They were in discussion, all these
ar tronomers OF earth, about what the auro
az borealis was. and none OF them could que:
les They know now; they have Deen OUT the
nj to see for themselves.
The What are our departed Christian chemi:
,ut doing? Following out their own science, IL
lowing out AMI following out forever. SIN
ar they died they have solved lU,V0J quss.io
hat which puzzled the earthly laboratory. I'm
49, stand on the other side OF the thin wall
,on electricity-.hs thin wall that seems TO
eIo vide the physical from the spiritual wor
ntn the thin wall of ela,tricity, so thin the W
the that ever and anon it seems to be alm'
o. broken througl-broken through from Q
Nv side by telephone AMI telegraphic
led paratus. broken through from the OIL
ter side by strange influences VIII
ar men in their ignorance call spil
nar ualistic manifestations. Az that mat
Inn cleared up. They laughing at us as oil
inc brothers will laugh at inexperienced bro
we'd ers, as they see us with contracted brows
,s;r perimenting and experimenting, only wi
nd ing they could show us the way to open
the mysteries. Agassiz standing amid
ted student explorers down in Brazil, COM
are across some great novelty in the rocks, Il
mo ing off his hat and saying: "Gentlemen,
ne us pray. We must have divine illuminati
hal We want wisdom from the Creator to STU
aIr these rocks He made them. I. Let US pra
md Agassiz going right on with his studies
Or ever ami forever.
sks But what are the men of the law, who
M this world found their chief Joy in the lie
an profession what are they doing now! Stu
rha ing law in universe where everything
, NJ controlled by law from the flight OF hi
,ere ming birds to flight OF worid-.aw not
Who and hard and drudg,ng, but righteous (:
and magnificent law. before which man
Tie cherub aud seraph and archangel and
NV Himself bow; the chain OF law long eno'