The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-06-24

peace of mind. When he saws that YOU
| are not a forgiven soul, when he says
You are not right with God. when he
says that YOU will never get to Heaven,
| he lies. If you are in Christ YOU are
| just as sure of Heaven a, though vcu
We're there already. But Satan, find
ing that he can not keep you out of
the promised land of Canaan, has de-
| ternined that the spies shall not bring
you any of the Eschol grapes before
! hand and that YOU shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crab-applc. You
are just as much a Christian now un-
der the cloud as you We're when you
were accustomed to rise i'll the morn
ing at ) o'clock to pray and sing Hal
lelu jah. It's done"
My friend. Rev. DR.. Joseph +. Jones.
of Philadelphia, a translated spirit
now, wrote a book entitled Man,
Moral and Physical. in which he shows
how different the same things may APP
pear to different people. lie says:
"After the great battle on the Mincio
in 1859 between the French and the
Sardinians on the one side and the
to the latter, the defeated army re-
treated, followed by the victors. A
description of the march of each army
is given by two correspondents of the
London Times one of whom travelled
with the successful host, the other
with the defeated, The difference in
views and statements of the same
place, scenes and events is re-
markahlc. The former are said to. be
marching through a beautiful and lux
uriant country during the day, and at
night encamping where they are sup
piled with an abundance of the best
provisions and all sorts Of rural dain-
ties. There is nothing of war about
the proceeding except its stimulus and
excitement. On the side of the poor
Austrans it is just the reverse. In his
letter of the same date, describing the
same places and a march over the same
read, the writer can scarcely find
words to set forth the suffering, impa-
tiencc and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was
intolerable to the latter. What made
all this difference? asks the author.
One condition only: the French are
victorious, the Auotrians have been de-
feated.'"
SO, my dear brother, the road you
are travelling is the same you have
been travelling a long while. but the
difference i'll your p yaical condition
makes it look different, and therefore
the two reports You have given of your
self are as widely different as the re-
ports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward PaysOn.
sometimes SO far up on the mount that
it seemed as if the centripetal force of
earth could no longer hold him. some
times through a physical disorder was
SO far down that it seemed as if the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William toWpcr was d most excellent
Christian, and will be loved in the
Christian church as long rs it sings his
hymns beginning, "There IS a foCn-
tain filled with blood, ''Oh, for a
closer walk with God, What various
hindrances we meet and God moves
in a mysterious way. Yet he was SO
overcome Of melancholy. or black bile,
that it was only through the mistake
of the cab driver who took him to a
wrong place, instead of the river bank,
that he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly af
fectcd by the physical state. what {
great opportunity this gives to the
, Christian physician. for he can feel a
the same time both the pulse Of Tho
body and the pulse of the soul, and hG
can administer to both at once, and i
medicine is needed he can give that
and if spiritual counsel is needed hi
, can give that-an earthly and divin,
prescription at the same timc-and cal
: on not only the apothecary Of earth
but the pharmacy Of Heaven. All
that is the kind Of doctor | want d
my bedside, one that can not only
count out the ri ght number o
, drops, but who can also pray. Tha
is the kind of doctor have had in IN,
+ house when sickness or death came.
{ do not want any Of your prOtiigatc o
atheistic doctors around my loved one
I when the balances of life are trembling
=. A doctor who has gone through tn
q medical college, and in dissccting rOor
O has traversed the wonders of human
+ mechanism, and found no God in an
+ of the lahyrinths. is a fool, and can no
doctor me or mine. But, oh. tn
o Christian doctors! What a confor
h they have been in many of our house
: holds, And they ought to have war;
d place in cur prayers, as we'll as prais
J. on our tongues.
d bless God that the humber Of Chri
n tian physicians is multiplying, an
|: some of the student, of the medic;
d colleges are here to-day, and hail yu
:. and ordain You to the tender, healtl
I full, Heaven-descended work Of a Chri
q tian physician, and when you tax
s. your diploma from the medical collee
$ to look after the perishable be sure al:
l. to get diploma from the skies to loo
IS after the imperishable soul. Let a
ID Christian physicians unite with mini
ID ters of the Gospel it persuading goo
{, people that it is not because God
d. against them that they aometim
h feel depressed, but because Of the
. 6iSa.sad hody- LuDpoSp Ii7yi