The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-09-22

SIdpl olllCe u the pulpit: Let mems
| wages be cut down before hers are
cut down. Men have iron in their
souls and can stand it, Make this
wa; free to her of the broken heart.
May God put into my hand the
cold, bitter cup Of privation, and
give me nothing but a windowless hue
for shelter for many years, rather than
that after l am dead there should 60
out from my home into the pitiless
world woman's arm to fight the Get
tysburg, the Austerlitz- the Waterloo
of life for bread. And yet, how many
women there are seated between the
rock of bereavement on the one side
and the rock Of destitution on the
other! Bozez and Seneh interlocking
their shadows and dropping them upon
her miserable way. There is sharp
rock on the one side, and a sharp rock
on the other side
What are such to do? Somehow, let
them climb up into the heights of the
glorious promise: Leave thy father
less children-I will preserve them
alive, and let thy widows trust in me"
Or get up into the heights of that other
glosous promise: The Lord pre-
servcth the stranger, and relieveth the
widow and the fatherlcss." Oyc sew
ing women, on starving wages! O yc
widows, turned from the once beauti-
full home. Dye female teachers, kept
on niggardly stipend. o We de-
spairng women, seeking in vain
for work, wandering along the
docks, and thinking to throw your
selves into the river last night. O ye
women of weak nerves, and aching
sides, and short breath, and broken
heart, you need something more than
human sympathy; you need the sym
pathy Of God. Climb up into His arms
He knows it all, and He loves you more
than father. or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did: and, instead Of
sitting down, wringing your hands in
despair, you had better begin to climb.
J There are heights of consolation for
you, though now there is a sharp rock
on one side, and a sharp rock on the
, other side
Again, that man is in the crisis of
the text who has a wasted life on the
, one side and an unilluminated eternity
; on the other. Though a man may all
: his life have cultured deliberation and
self-poise, if he gets into that position,
l all his sclf-possession is gone There
: are all the wrong thoughts of his cX-
istence, all the wrong deeds, all the
: wrong words-strata above strata,
) granite, ponderous. overshadowing
2 That rock call Bozez. On the other
J side are all the retributiODs of the
, future, the thrones of Judgment, the
} eternal ages; angry with his long de
fiance. That rock cali Sench. Be
tween these two rocks 10000 times 10,
l 600 have perished
Oman immortal. man redeemed, mar
blood bought. climb up out of these
5 shadows: Climb up by the way of the
{ Cross. Have your wasted life for
t given; have your eternal life secured.
e This hour just take the look to The
a past, and see what it has been
; and take one look to the future
and see what it threatens t,
be. You can a ford to lose your health
/. you can afford to lose your property
: you can afford to lose your reputation
: but you can not afford to lose you
l. soul. That bright, cleaning, glorious
u precious, eternal possession you mus
j. carry aloft in the day when the eartI
burns up and the heavens burst.
"a You see from my subject that whel
y man gets into the safety and peac
of the Gospel, he docs not demean him
!. !. self There is nothing in religion
:. that leads to mcanness or un
~ manliness. The Gospel of Jesu
, Christ only asks you to climb a
- Jonathan did-climb toward God, cli,n
% toward Heaven, climb into the sun
u shine OF Gods favor To become
- Christian is not to 20 meanly down; i
y is to come gloriously up-up into tn
communion of saints; up into the peac
y that passeth all understanding; up int
the companionship of angels. He live
- upward; he dies upward.
- Oh, then, accept the wholesale invi
-; tation which make this day to all tn
people. Come up from between you
:, invalidism and financial embarrass
ments. Come up from between you
. bereavcmeuts and your destitution
80 -, Come up from between d waste
~ life and an unillumined eternity. Lik
. Jonathan, climb up with all you
=, might, instead of sitting down
= wiring your hands in the shadow an
49, in the darkness-''a sharp rock on tn
=. one side, and sharp rock on the othe
~ side"