The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-11
pearls of His Heavenly royalty. Down


until there was no other harrassmeIt
to suffer. poor until there was no
| other pauperism to torture. Billions
of dollars spent in wars to destroy
men, who will furnish the statistics OF
| the value of that precious blood that
was shed to save US? Eye know the
grace Of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though He was rich, yet for your sake
He became poor"
Only those who study this text in
two places can fully realize its power,
the Holy Land of Asia Minor and the
holy land of Heaven. I:wish that some
day you might 60 to the Holy Land and
take drink out of Jacobs we'll, and
take a sail on Galilee, and read the
sermon of the Mount while standing
on Olivet, and see the wilderness
where Christ was tempted, and be some
| afternoon on Calvary at about three
| o'clock-the hour at which closed the
crucifxion-and sit under the syca.
mores and by the side of brooks, and
think and dream and pray about the
proverty OF Him who came our souls
to save. But you may be de-
| MED that, and SO here, in another
| continent and in another hemi-
sphere, and In scenes as differ
ent as possible, we recount as we'll
| we may, how poor was our Heavenly
Prince. But in the other holy land
above we may all study the riches that
He left behind when He started for
earthly expedition. Come, let US bar
n To rf, af hor ho nF
| the Fathers mansion, or on the bank
of the river just where 1t rolls from
under the throne, or at the outside
gate. Jesus got the contrast by ex-
changing that world for this; we will
get it by exchanging this world for
that. There and then you will under
stand more Of the wonders of the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who,
though He was rich, yet for your
sakes became poor"
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign
thousands of words in the language
there is no more queenly word. 1t
| means free and unmerited Kindness.
NY text has no monopoly of the word.
One hundred and twepty-nine times
does the Bible eulogize grace. 1t is
door swung wide open to let into the
pardon of God all the millions who
chose to enter it,
John Newton sang Of 1t when he
wrote:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved the wretch like me.
Phi lip Doddridge put it into all hyml-
ology when he wrote:
Grace, It's o charming sound,
Harmonious to the ear:
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And oil the earth shall hear.
One of John Bunyan's great books
| is entitled "Grace Abounding." ut Is
| all Of grace that am saved" has been
on the lips of hundreds Of dying Chris
tians. The boy Sammy was right
when being examined for admission
into church membership he was
asked, Whose work was your saliva
tion?" and he answered, Part
mine and part Gods" Then tho
examiner asked, What part did you
do, Sammy" and the answer was, II
opposed God all l could, and He did
the rest" Oh, the height of it, the
breath OF it, the Grace of God! Mr.
Fletcher having written a pamphlet
that pleased the king, the king offered
to compensate him, and Fletcher
answered: There is only one thing I
want, and that is more grace"
| Yes, yes; for your sakes! 1t was not
| on pleasure excursion that He came,
for it was all pain. 1t was not an as
tron omical exploration, for He knew
this world as we'll before He alighted
as afterward. 1t was not becuse He
was compelled to come, for He volun-
| teered. 1t was not because it was
easy, for He knew that it would be
thorn, and spike, and hunger,
and thirst, and vociferation of
angry mobs. For your sakes!"
To wipe away your tears, to for
give your wrongdoing, to companion4
ship your loneliness, to soothe your
sorrows, to sit with you by the new
made grave, to bind your wounds in
the ugly battle with the world, and
bring you home at last, kindling up
the mists that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight
of glorious morn. For your
>akes!' No; l will change that.
Paul will not care and Christ will not.
care if l change it, for l must get into,
the blessedness of the text myself, and
so l say: For our sakesl' For we all
have our temptations and bereave-
ments and conflicts. For our sakes!
We who deserve for our sins to be ex-
patt lated into a world as much poorer
than this as this earth is poorer than
Heaven. For our sakesl But what a
frightful coming down to take US
gloriously up!
| When Artaxerxes was hunting, Tire
bazus, who was attending him, showed
the king a rent in his garments, the
king said: How shah mend it?" by
giving it to me-" said Tirebazus. Then
the king gave him the robe, but COM
handed him never to wear it, as it
would be inappropriate. But see the
startling and comforting fact, while our
Prince throws of the robe, He not
only allows us to wear it, but COM
mands us to wear it, and it will be.
come us we'll, and for the poverties of
our spiritual state we may put on the