The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-03-10
BENTON LOUISIANA THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1885,

will be by storm; You will have to
bring up the great siege guns of the
Gospel to the very wall and wheel the
| flying artillery into line, and when the
armed infantry Of Heaven shall con-
front the battlements you will have to
give the quick commando: Forward!
Charge"
uedley Wears was wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to him. He became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed
at him and said: "You are hypocrite;
| you are as bad as ever you were." Still
| he kept his faith in Christ, and after
awhile, finding that they could not turn
him aside by calling him hypocrite,
they said to him: ''Oh, you are moth
! ing but Methodist!' This did not dis
turb him. He went on performing his
| Christian duty until he had formed all
his troops into a Bible class, and the
whole encampment was shaken with
| the presence of God. So Havelock
went into the heather temple in India
while the English army was there and
| put candle into the hand of each of
! the heather gods that stood around in
the heather temple, and by the light
of those candles held up by
the idols Gen. Havelock preached
| righteousness, temperance, and judg-
| ment to come. And who will
| say on earth or in Heaven that Have.
lock had not the right to preach? In
| the minister's house where prepared
for college there worked a man by the
name of Peter Croy. He could ne either
read nor write, but he was a man of
| God. Often theologians would stop in
the house-grave theo.ogians at
family prayer Peter Croy would be
| called upon to lead; and all those wise
men set around, wondeS-struck at his
| religious efficiency. VIZ n he prayed
he reached up and seemed to take
hold OF the very throne of the AL
mighty, and he talked with God until
to the sitting room. Oh, if | were dy-
ing l would rather have plain Peter
Croy kneel by my bedside and com.
mend my immortal spirit to God than
the greatest archbishop arrayed in
| costly canonicals. Go preach this Cos
pei. 4ou say you are not licensed. In
the name of the Lord Almighty, Ii
cense you. 60 preach this Gospel,
preach it in the Sabbath Schools in the
prayer meetings in The highways, in
the hedges. Woe be unto you if you
preach 1t not!
remark again that in order to be
qualified to meet your duty in this
particular age you want unboundcd
faith in the triumph OF the truth and
the overthrow of wickedness. How
| dare the Christian church ever get dis
| coura.ed? Have we not the Lord AL
| mighty on our side? How long did it
| take God to Stay the hosts of
Sennacherib or burn Sodom or
shake down Jericho? How long
will it take God, when he
once arises in His strength, to over
throw all the forces of inlquity? Be =
tween this time and that there may be
long seasons Of darkness, and the
chariot wheels of Gods Gospel may
seem to drag heavily; but here is the
promise and yonder is the throne, and
when omniscience has lost its eye
sight and omnipotence falls back
| impotent and Jehovah is driven
from His throne, then tue Church
of Jesus Christ can afford to be
despondent, but never until then.
Despots may plan and armies may
march and the congresses of the ma
tlons may seem to think they are ad-
justing all the affairs OF the world,
| bat the mighty men of the earth are
| only the dust OF the chariot wheels of
Gods providence. And l think be-
fore the sun of the next century
shall set the last tyranny will fall,
| and with a splendor of demonstra-
ton that shall be the establishment of
the universe God will set forth the
brightness and pomp and glory and
perpetuity of His eternal government.
Out of the starry flags and emblazoned
| insignia of this world God will make q
pa tn for His own triumph, and return
ing from universal conquest He will sit
| down, the grandest, the strongest,
highest throne OF earth His footstool.
prepare this sermon because l want
to encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. IIosts of
the living God, march on! march on!
His spirit will bless you. His shield
will defend you. His sword will strike
for you. March on! The besiegement t
will soon be ended. Only few moro
steps on the long way; only few more
sturdy blows; only a few more
battle cries, then God will put the
laurels upon your brow, and from the
living fountains of Heaven will bathe
Oft the sweat and the heat and the dust
of the conflict. March on! march on!
For you the time for work will soon be
passed, and amid the outhashinps Of
the Judgment throne and the trumpet
ing of resurrection angels and the up
heaving of Il world Of graves, and the
hosanna and the groanlng of the saved
and the lost, we shall be rewarded for
our faithfulness or punished for our
stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of
Israel from everlasting to everlasting,
and let the whole earth be filled with
His glory. Amen and amen.