The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-19

terlanS call 1t the 'nlgner lie. Inc
Methodists, l believe, call it ''perfec-
ton" do not care what you call it;
without holiness no man shall see the
Lord" l know men who are living
with their souls in perpetual COM
munion with Christ, and day by
day are walking within sight
of Heaven. How do l knevf
They tell me 50. | believe them. They
would not lie about it. Why can not
we all have this consecratlone Why
slav some Ct the sins in our soul, and
leave others 20 bleat and below for
our exposure and condemnation? Christ
will not stay in the same house with
Agag. You must give up Agag, Or give
up Christ Jesus says: "All of that
heart or none" Saul slew the poorest
of the sheep and the meanest of the
oxen, and kept some of the finest and
the latest, and there are Christians
who have slain the most unpopular OF
their transgressions, ann saved those
which are most respectable. 1t viii:
not do. Eternal war against all the
Amalek!tes; o mercy for Agag.
learn further from the subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Saul thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen; but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You can
not cheat God out of a single cent.
Here is a man who has made $40. 900 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone, or it will give him vio-
lent unrest. Here is Christian who
has been largely prospered. He has
not given to God the proportion that
is due in charities and benevolenceS.
God comes to the reckoning, AMI
He takes it all away from you.
How often it has been that
Christian men have had large estate,
and it is gone. The Lord God come
into the counting room and said: IL
have allowed you to have all this prop
erty for 10, Is on 30 years, and you have
not done justice to my poor children.
| When the beggar called upon you, you
bounded him off you steps; when my
| suffering children appealed to YOU for
help, you had NO mercy. | only asked
for 50 much, or so much, but you did
not give it to me and now | will take
it all"
God asks of Us oneseventh of oul
time in the way of Sabbath. Do you
suppose we can get an hour Of tina,
time successfully away from its true
object? No, no. God has demanded
one-seventh of your time. If you take
one hour Of that time that Is to be de-
voted to Gods service, and instead OF
keeping His abbath, use it for the pur
pose of writing up your accounts OIL
making worldly gains, God will ge
that hour from you in some unex
pected way. God says to Jonah
'Yo go to Nineveh." lie says
No, | won't. I'll go to Tarsh
ish" He starts for Tarshish. The
sea raves, the winds blow, and til,
ship rocks. Come We whales, and take
this passenger for Tarshish! No mai
ever gets to Tarsh:sh whom God tell
to go to Ninaveh. The sea would no.
carry him; it is Gods sea- The wind!
would not watt him; they are God
winds. Let man attempt to do tina
which God forbids him to do, or to g
into place where God tells hin
not to 60, the natural world a
well as God is against him. Tn
lightnings are ready to strik
him, the fires to burn him, the sun t.
smite him, the waters to drown him
and the earth to swallow him. Thos
whose princelt robes are woven out o
hearts strings; those whose fine house
are built out Of skulls; those who's
springing fountains are tears of OF
pressed nations have they successful
. cheated God? The last day will dem
onstrate-it VIII be found out on tina
day that God indicated not only lii
goodness and mercy, but His powe
to take care of His own right
and the rights of His church, an
the rights of his oppressed children
| Come, We martyred dead, awake
,, and come up from the dungeons wher
=. folded darkness hearsed you, and tn
= chains like cankers peeled loose tn
skin, and wore off the flesh, and "a,
tied on the marrowless bones. Come
T ye martyred dead, from the stake
a where you were burned, where the arr
;. uplifted for mercy fell into the ashes
, and the cry of pain was drowned i
7 the snappings of the flame and tn
:, bowling Of the mob; from valleys {
, Piedmont aud Smithfield Marlte
, ana London Tower, and the Higl
. lands of Scotland. Gather in gree
procession, and together clap YOU
. bony hands, AMI together stamp you
y moldy feet, and let the chains tn;
g bound you to dungeons all clank ;
II, once, and gather all the flames tn;
f burned you in one uplifted arm (
r fire, and plead for judgmen
Gather all the tears we eve
/. wept into lake, and gather a
n the signs ye ever breathed into
l. tempest, until the heaven-piercin
d chain-clank, and the tempestsigh, an
t the thunder-groan, announce to cart
g and hell and Heaven judgment! OF
d on that day God will vindicate tn
4 cause of the troubled and the O
/ pressed, 1t will be seen in that da
y that though we may have robbed on
;: fellows, we never have successful
a robbed God