The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-09-16
NO. 20.

that sometimes CLEANS with Or,no,
Or kindles with AURORA. If one
thorn should be thrust through
your temple you would faint.
But here is a whole crown made
from the Rhamnus or Spina Christi
small, sharp, singing thorns. The mob
makes cross. They put down the
long beam, and on it they fasten a
shorter beam. Got Him at last Those
hands, that have been doing kindness
and wiping away tears--hear the ham
mer driving the spikes through
them. Those feet, that have
been going about on ministra-
tions of mercy-battered against
the cross Then they lift it up.
Look! look! look! Who will help Him
now? Come men of Jerusalem-ye
whose dead He brought to life; We
whose sick He healed; who will help
Him? Who will seize the weapons Of
the soldiers? None to help! Having
carried such a cross for us, shall we re-
fuse to take our cross to Him?
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No; there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
You know the process of migrating.
You bore hole into Q tree, and put
in the branch of another tree.
This tree of the cross was hard and
tough, but into the holes where the
nails went there have grated branches
of the Tree of Life that now hear fruit
for all nations. The original tree was
bitter, but the branches ingrafte6
were sweet and now all the nations
pluck the fruit and live forever.
Again: Christ was wonderful in His
victories.
First-Over the forces of nature. The
sea is crystal sepulchere. 1t swal-
lowed the Central America, the Presi-
dent, and the Spanish Armada as easily
as any fly that ever foated on it. The
inland lakes are fully as terrible in
their wrath. Galilee, when aroused in
a storm, is overwhelming; and yet that
sea crouched in His presence and licked
His feet. He knew all the waves,
and winds. When He beckoned, they
came. When He frowned, they fled.
The heel of His foot made no indenta-
tion on the solidifed water. Medical
science has wrought great changes in
rheumatic limbs and diseased. blood,
but when the muscles are entirely
withered no human power can restore
them. and when limb is once dead, it
is dead. But here is a paraly tic-his
hand lifeless. Christ says to him:
Stretch forth thy handp and he
stretches it forth.
In the eye intirmary how many dis
eases of that delicote organ have been
cured! But Jesus says to one born
blind, "Be open! and the light of
Heaven rushed through gates that have
never before been opened. The frost
or an AK may kill tree, but Jesus
smites one dead with word.
Chemistry cans do many wonderful
things, but what chemist, at wed ding,
when the refreshments gave out could
change a pail of water into a cask Of
wine?
What human voice could command a
school of fish? Yet here is voice that
marshals the scaly tribes, until in the
place where they had let down the net
and pulled it up with no fish in it,
they let it down again, and the dis
ciples lay hold and begin to pull, when,
by reason of the multitude of fish, the
net broke.
Nature is His servant The flowers
He twisted them in to His sermons; the
winds-they were His lullaby when He,
slept IN the boat; the rain-it hung
glittering on the thick foliage of the
PARALLELS; the star Of Bethlehem-it
sang Christmas carol over His birth;
the rocks-they beat q dirge at His
death.
Behold His victory over the grave!
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in.
There is knob on the outside of the
sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here
comes the Conqueror of Death. He
enters that realm and says: 'Daugh-
ter of Jairus, sit up" and she sat up.
To Lazarus, Come FORTH" and he came
forth. To the widows son He said:
Get up from that bier;" and he goes
home with his mother Then Jesus
snatched up the keys of death. and
hung them on His girdle, and cried un-
til all the graveyards on earth heard
Him: 80 Death! l will be thy plague!
o Grave. will be thy destruction"
But Christ's victories have only just
begun. The world is His, and He must
have it. What is the matter in this
country? Why all these financial
troubles? There never will be perma-
nent prosperity in this land until Christ
rules it. This land was discovered for
Christ, and until our cities shall be civ
ilized, and north, south, east
and west shall acknowledge Christ as
King or Redeemer, we can not have
permanent prosperity. What is the
matter with Spain? with France? with
all of the nations? All the congresses
of the nations can not bring quiet.
When governments not only theoretic-
ally, but practically, acknowledge the
Saviour of the world, there will be peace
everywhere. In that day the sea will
have more ships than now, but there
will not be one "man-of-war." The
foundries of the world will Jar with
mi ohfier in5ustries h,1t thare will