The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-10-20
NO.. 81.
start out, load youself up with lfnd

start out, load youself up with lind
thoughts, kind words, kind expires.
sions, and kind greetings. When a man
or woman does well, tell him SO, tell
her so. If you meet someone who is
improved in health, and it is dcmon-
itrated in girth and color, say: ''lIow
we'll you look!' But if, on the other
hand, under the wear and tear of life
he appears pale and exhausted, do not
introduce sanitary subjects Or say any
thing at all about physical condition.
In the ease Of improved health, you
nave by your words given another inn
pulse toward the robust and jocund;
while in the case of the failing health
you have arrested the decline by your
silence, by which he concludes: eff
were really so badly Off he would
have said something about it, We
are all, especially those of a nervous
temperament, susceptible to KIND
words and discouraging words. Form
a conspiracy against us and let ten
men meet us at certain points on our
way over to business, and let each ono
say Ito" SlSh YOU HUN. luOuSA
we should start out well, after meet
ing the first and hearing his depress-
ing salute, we would begin to examine
our symptoms. After meeting the sec
ond gloomy accosting we would con-
c!ude we did not feel quite as well as
usual. After meeting the third our
sensations would be dreadful, and af-
pected a conspiracy, we would go ohome
and go to bed. and the other six pes
simists would be useless surplus of
discouragcment.
My dear sir, my dear ms dam, what
do you mean by going about the world
with dishcartenments? Is not the sup
ply of gloom and trouble and misfor
tune enough to meet the demand with
out your running a factory of pins and
spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue in the world when God so
seldom plants them? Plenty of scar.
let colors, plenty of yellow, plenty OF
green, plenty of pink, but very seldom
plant black or blue. l never saw a
black flower, and there's only here and
there bluebell or violet, but the
blue is for the most part reserved for
the sky, and we have to look up to sec
that, and when we look up no color
can do us harm. Why not plant along
the paths of others the brightnesses OF
the glooms?
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you
must be prophet at all, be an Eze'
kiel, and not a jeremiah. In ancient
times prophets who foretold evil wero
doing right, for they were divinely di.
rected, but the prophets of evil in our
time are generally false prophets.
Some of our weather-wise people proph-
| esied we would have q summer Of un-
paralleled heat. 1t has been a very
comfortable summer. Last fall all the
weather prophets agreed in saying we
! should have winter of extraordinary
| severity, blizzard on the heels of biz
zard. 1t was the mildest winter ever
remember to have passed. Indeed, the
autumn and the spring almost showed
winter out of the procession. Real
troubles have no heralds running
ahead of their somber chariots, and no
one has any authority in our time to
announce their coming. Load your
selves up with hopeful words and
deeds. The hymn once sung in our
churches is unfit to be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near,
Where We possessed some delight.
My four-year-old child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after. when her
mother came home, and then she burst
into weeping. and some of the domes-
tics, not understanding human nature.
said to her: why did you not cry be-
fore?" She answered.: There was
no one to cry to- Now, have to tell
you that while human sympathy may
be absent, divine sympathy is always
accessible. Give God your love, and
get His love; your service, and secure
His help; your repentance, and have
His pardon. God friend? Why, that
means all your wounds medicated, all
YOUR sorrows soothed, and if some sud
den catastrophe should hurl you out OF
earth it would hurl you into Heaven.
If God is your friend you can not 81
out of the world too quickly or sud
denly, so far as your own happiness is
concerned. There were two Christians
who entered Heaven: the one was
: standing at window in perfect
health. watching 4 shower, and the
lightning instantly slew him, but the
lightning did not fash down the Sky
rs swiftly as his spirit flashed upward
The Christian man who died on thu
same day next door had been for tho
last thee months suffering from
disease that made nights sleep
less and the days an anguish
Do you not really think that the cast
of the one who went Instantly wa!
more desirable than the one who en-
' tered the shining gate through lonf
lane of insomnia and congestion: ii
? the one case is was like your standing
l weariIy at door, knocking ann wait
ing. and wondering if it was ever open
:. and knocking and waiting again
u while in the other case it was swing
ing open of the door at the first toucl
of your !1nuckie. Giveyour Friendship
m God rnd have Gods friendship 10