The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-16
l,,lou. intel,,eeuce which in other times. IT


noticed ut all by the newspaper pres, welo
allowed only paragraph OF tnres Or ious
Iinss. now find the columns OF ths secular
press in all tho cities thrown Wiue
open, and every week for twents-sx
wears, without the omission OF a sineie
week, I have been permitted 70 pIeauh
one entire gospel sermon through the news
paosr press. 1 thaas Col for. this great
op.ortunty. Glorious old century! You |
h,ll not be eutombed until We have, face 10 |
face. exto,lei you. You were rocket 10 |
rough cra'fle. and the inheritance you re,
seivei was, for the most part. poverty ana
struggle aud hardship, anil poorly covered |
graves of heroes nni hsroines OF whom the |
worll had not bsea worthy, an atheism am
military desootism, AMI the wre'k- OF ane
French revolution. YoE inherited the ihnu-
eaca5 tnat r..siIltei in Aaron Burrs TREASON.
and another war with England. and battle
OF Lake Erie aud niian sayacery, ana
Lundy's Lane, aad Dartmoor massacre. auu
dissention, bitter an wild oeyona measures
ment, and African slavery. which was YET 10
cost u National heno-rlage OF Tour awful
yesr5 al million rreclo US lives.
Yes. dear old ,ntury, you hal an awful
Start. and you have dona more than well,
consid ring your pareniaga al your early
environment, /, Is u wonder You dia nor
turn out TO be the vagabond century OF III, 4
time. You hal bad mother ana Dao
grandmother Sons OF the preceding cen
tures were not f. 10 live in-;heir morals
vera 50 had. their fashions wsre so outrage
ous their Ignorance was SO dense, their IN
humaaitys, terrific Oh, dying nineteenth
century before you go we take thlS oppor-
,unily of telling yon that You are ne pest
and the mishtiest of all the centuries OF tho
| Christian era except the first, which gave US
| the Christ, aud you rival that century IN me
! fact that you more than all tn" otner eentu,,
| les put together are giving the onrist TO al
! the world. One hundred and twelve tnousahn
| dollars. AZ one meeting few days ago con-
| iributed for the worlds evanSellzation.
| Look at what you have done, thoti
ahn.ed AMI deprecated century. All
| the Pacific Isles, barr'd and ooiteu
| against the gospel when you began
to reign, now all open, and some OF tnem
more Christianized than America. no more,
| as once written over the church doors III
Cane Colony, 'Dogs aud Hottentots not ad-
mit!ed." The late Mr.. Darwin contributing
S25 10 the Southern Missionary Society. Can
| nibaIism driven off the lace OF the EARTH Inc
gates OF all Nations wide open forthe 9ospe'
entrance when the church shall give up ITS
intellectual dandyism. ana quit iooltng Win
higher criticism, and plunge into the worS,
"a at a life saving station the crew pull out
with the lifeboat to take the sailors OIL q
shin going to pieces in the Skerries. thank
Won. old and dying century. All heaven
. thanks Won. and surely all the Nations OF the
earth ought to thank you. Iputbe your
ewes. soon to be dim for the last sleep, the
; facts tremendous. take your wrinkled old
hand and shake it in congratulatlon. paine
your feyered brow and freshen your parcneo
Inns from, the fountains of eternal victory.
But nv text suggests that there are some
: things that this century ought to do Defore
,, he leaves u.s. "1hus saith the Lord, 'Se
: thine house in order. for thou shalt die an
!, not live" We ought not to let this century
: go before two or three things are set IN oroer
I For one thing this quarrel between ia ,or an
a | capiai. The nineteenth century 1nherltes
: il from the eight eenth century, but do no
= let this nineteenth century bsqueath 1t Il
;, the twentieth. "What wa want" says labor
: sto set us right is more strikes andmore Wig
!. orous work with torch and dynamite.
= "What we want" says capital, sis t1gnfe
grip on the working classes and compuisio
:. r. fake what wasee we choose to pay, with
:, out reference to their needs" Both wron
:, as sin. Both defiant. Until the day OF jude
- ment no settlement of the qnarrel1f you leav
!. il to British, Russian or American polite:
"a The religion of Jesus Christ ought to com
, - in within the next four years and take tn
i hand of capital aud employe aud say: "fo
- have tried everything else and Jailed. No
= try the gospel Of kindness" No more OF
- preston and no more strikes. The gospel {
n Jesus Christ will sweeten this ace
:, bty. or it will go on
y tbs end of time. and the fires thi
- burn the world up will crackle in the ears
:, wra,hful prosperity and indignant toll viii
W their bands ar. still ciutcnlng at eacn otner
" threats, Bsfore this century signs lts La
~, breath would that swarthy labor and ea:
- opu!enes would &C me up and let the Carpe
20 ter of Nazareth Join their hands in pledge
~ everlasting kindness and peace When mt
and women are dying they are apt to diyi'
%. among their children mementos, and one
n given watch, and another vase, ~
M another Il picture, and another rope. l.
- this veteran century before 1t dies hand oT
n 10 the human race, with au impressvens
, that shall last forever, that old family kee
10 sake. the Golden keepsake which nearly l9
~ wears ago was handed down from the bla
ri, rock OF the mount of beatitudes, "rnerefo
nm all things whatsoever ye would that m
-as should 60 TO you. do We even so to them,
%. for this is the law and the prophets.
,st Another thing that needs TO be set
order before the veteran century quits
ca is n more thorough and all embracing pl
w for the worlds gardenization. We ha
yc been trying to save the world from
a. Top. and it cannot be done that way.
I'D has got to be saved from the bottom. I
az church ought to be only West Point
IN drill soldiers for outside battle. WHAT II
AZ. military academy should keep its studel
in from age to age in the messroom and
ar barracks? No, no! They are wanted
iss Montezuma aud Chaputepec and Sou
M Mountain and Missionary Ridge, aud
he enurca Is no Pi'teo ioi OnilS." ~ %
ci- very long. ne 10 "'u'ou a, to
he il needed In the desperate charge OF taxi
"a | the parapets. The last great battle
~ God is not to be fought on the campus
college or the lawn OF church. II Is
~ be fought at Missionary Ridge. Bef
he this century quits rs let liz establish
a. habit of giving the forenoon OF the 3
~ bath to the churches an tue afternoon {
~ the evening OF the Sabbath to gospel W
~ ~ in the halls AMI iheaters anil streets 1
- fields and slums, aud wiidernesses OF
III, and sorrow. Why do Christians who h
~, | stuffed themselves with ''the strong meat
an the WORT" and all gospel viands on Sabb
on foreuoon5 want to come up To- second
nc. vice and stuff themselves again? These
ON gormandizers at the gospel feast need to
rto into outdoor work with the outdoor COS
n that was preached on The banks OF the
oro dan, and on the fishing smacks OF Lake It
~, lee and In the bleak air OF Assyrian mo
or iains. I an told that throughout all
~ Am ,rican cities the second Sabbath ser,
so, in the majority OF churches Is spsrsely, J
40 disgracsiully attended. land is tne distres
az ihs cupseeratei and eloquent pastors Y
No bring their learning and piety before p
-. ghast.y for their inoccupancy. What IL
rs, VS. proyidenlial meaning? Tns greatest OF
W." evaugelists since Bible times recently 6
,as gss,ed that the evening services In all
Az, churches b. turnei in1o the most pop'
~ style OF evan gelistic meetings for outsid
liz Surely tina. Is an experiment worth max