The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-10-13
NO. 33.

INC lihe ohe Ev one MS troops followed,
and finally his whole army.
The sword of Gods truth draws the
dividing line to-day. On one side of it
are sin and ruin and death; on the
ether side of ii are pardon and useful
ness and happiness and Heaven. You
cross from the wrong side to the right
side, and your family will cross with
you, and your friends and your asso-
ciates. The way you go they will so.
If we are not saved, we will never save
anyone else.
How to get saved? Be willing to ac-
cept Christ, and then accept Him iu-
simultaneously and forever. Get on the
rock first and then you will be able to
help others upon the same rock. Men
and women have been saved quicker
than l have been talking about it.
What! Without prayer? Yes. What!
Without tine to deliberately think it
over? Yes. What! Without a tear?
Yes. Believe; that is all. Believe
what? That Jesus died to save you
from sin and death and hell. Will you?
Do you? You have. Something makes
me think you have. New light has
come into your countenance. Vel.
come, welcome! Hail, hail! Saved
yourselves, how are you to save 9th
ers? BY testimony. Tell it to your
family. Tell it to your business asso-
ciates. Tell it everywhere. We will
successfully preach no more religion
and will successfully talk no more re-
ligion than we ourselves have. The
most Of that which you do to benefit
the souls of this generation you will
effect through your own behavior. Go
wrong, and that will induce others to
go wrong. Go right, and that will in
duce others to go right.
Away with all your gloomy talk
about departing from this world! If
we have served our generation, it will
not be putting out into the breakers;
it will not be the fight with the king
of terrors; it will be going to sleep.
A friend, writing me from Illinois, says
that Rev. DR.. Wingate, president OF
Wake Forest college, North Carolina.
after most useful life, found his last
day on earth his happiest day, and that
in his last moments he seemed to be
personally talking with Christ, as
friend with friend, saying: "Oh, how
delightful it is! l knew you would be
with me when the time came, and |
knew it would be sweet, but ] did
not know it would be as sweet as it isl
The fact was he had served his gen.
Grafton in the Gospel ministry, and
by the will of God he fell asleep. When
in Africa Majwara, the servant, looked
into the tent of David Livingstone and
found him on his knees, he stepped
back, not wishing to disturb him in
prayer, and some time after went in
and found him in the same posture and
stepped back again, but after awhile
went in and touched him, and, 10! the
great traveller had finished his last
Journey, and he had died in the grand
est and mightiest posture man ever
takes-on his knees. He had served
his generation by unrolling the scroll
of a continent, and by the will Of God
fell on sleep.
And | should not wonder II after we
have served our generation and by the
will of God have fallen on sleep, the
deep sle.p, the restful sleep, we should
awaken in blissful bewilderment and
for a little while say: Where am /?
What palace is this? Why, this looks
like Heaven! 1t is. 1t is. Why, there is
building grander than all the castles
of earth heaved into a mountain Of
splendor-t that must be the palace of
Jesus. And look there at those walks
lined with foliage more beautiful than
ANYTHING | ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those aisles
of yerdure. From what have heard of
them those two arm in arm must be
Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai
and him of the halting sun over Gibeon,
and these two walking arm in arm
must be John and Paul, the one SO
gentle and the other SO mighty.
But / must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
| this building in which l have just
awakened. | look out of the window
this way and tha: and up and down.
and find it is mansion of immense
size in which | am stopping. All its
| windows of agate and its coionnades Of
porphyry and alabaster. Why, won
der if this is not the house If many
| mansions,' of which ] used to read?
| 1t is. 1t is. There must be many OF
NV kindred and friends in this very
mansion. Hark! Whose are those
voices? Whose are those bounding
feet? open the door and see, and, 10,
they are coming through all the COR
ridors and up and down all the stairs,
our long absent kindred. Why, there
is father, there is mother, there are
the children. All well again. All
young again. All of us together again.
And rs we embrace each other with
the cry, Never more to part; never
more to part the arches, the alcoves,
the Railways echo and reecho the
words, Never more to part; never
more to part! Then our glorified
friends say, Come out with us and see
Heaven And some of them bounding
ahead OF us and some of them skipping
beside us we start down the ivory
stairway, and we meet coming up one
of the kings of ancient Israel, some
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