The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-10-27
NO. 35.

church pew. Machinery organized in
all the cities of the United States and
Canada by which to put yearly in the
grinding mill of this iniquity thou
sands of the unsuspecting of the coun.
try farm houses, one procryess confess
ing in the courts that she had sup
piled the Internal market with $50 VIC
Tins in six months. Oh, for 500 news
papers in America to swing open the
door of this lazar house OF social cor
ruption! Exposure must come before
extirpation.
While the city van carries the scum
Of this sin from the prison to the po-
lice court morning by morning, it is
full time, if we do not want high
American life to become like that of
the court of Louis NV., to put million
aire Lotharios and the Pompadours
OF your brown-stone palaces into Il
van of popular Indignation, and drive
them out Of respectable associations.
What prospect of social publication
can there be, as long as at summer
watering places it is usual to see a
young woman of excellent raising
stand and simper and giggle and roll
up her eyes sideways before one of
those tirst-class satyrs of fashionable
life, and on the ball room floor join
him in the dance, the maternal chap
eron meanwhile beaming from the
window on the scene? Matches arc made
in Heaven, they say. Not such matches;
for the birthstone indicates the oppo-
site region.
The evil is overshadowing all our
cities. by some these immortalities
are called peccadillos, gallantries.
eccentricities, and are relagated to the
realms of jocularity, and few efforts
are being made against them. God
bless the "Whitc Cross" movement, as
it is called-an organization making Il
mighty assault on this evil! God for
ward the tracts on this subject dis
tributed by the religious tract So
cieties of the land! God help parents
in the great work they are doing, in
trying to start their children with
pure principles! God help all legis-
lators in their attepmt to prohibit
this crime!
Not only are the affairs Of this world
so a-twist, a-jangle and racked, that
there seems a need of the Divine ap,
pearance, but there is ano ther reason.
Have you not noticed that in the his.
tory Of this planet God turns leaf
about every 1000 years? God turned
a leaf, and this world was fitted for
human residence. About 1000 more
years passed along, and God turned
another leaf, and it was the Deluge
About 1000 more years passed on, and
it was the Nativity. Almost 1000
more years passed by, and He will
probably soon turn another leaf. 1t
may be the demolition of all these
monstrosities of turpitude. and the es-
tablishment of righteousness in all the
earth. ! am as confident as if it were
already accomplished. How easily He
can do it, my text suggests. 1t does
not ask God to hurl great thunder
bolt of His power, but just to rise from
the throne on which He sits. Only
that will be necessary. Let God
arise!"
1t will be no exertion of omnipo-
tence. 1t will be no bending or bra
cling for a mighty lift. 1t will be no
sending down the sky Of the white
horse cavalry of Heaven or rumbling
war chariots. He will only rise. Now
He is setting in his majesty and pa
tience of His reign. He is from His
throne watching the mastering of all
the forces of blasphcmy and drunken
| ness, and impurity. and fraud, and
Sabhath-breaking, and when they have
| done their worst. and are most surely
organized. He will bestir Himself and
say: my enemies have denied me
long enough, and their cup of iniquity
is full l have given them all oppor-
tunity for repentance. This dispen-
sation of patience is ended, and the
faith of the God shall be tried no long
err" And now God begins to rise. and
what mountains give way under His
right foot ] know not; but, standing
in the full radiance and grandeur of
His nature, He looks this way and that.
and His enemies are scattered.
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down to their doom; and those who
have trafiicked in that which destroys
the bodies and souls of men and fami-
lies will fly with cut foot on the down
grade of broken decanters; and the
polluters of society, that did their bad
work with large fortunes and high so
cial sphere. will overtake in their de-
scent the degraded rabble of under.
ground city life. as they tumble ovel
the eternal precipices; and the worlo
shall be left clear and clean for tn.
friends of humanity and the worship
ers of Almighty God. The last thor1
plucked off. the world will be left :
blooming rose on that bosom of tha
Christ who came to gardenize it. Th'
, earth that stood snarling with it
. tigerish passion, thrusting out its rag
! ing claws. shall lie down at the feet o
. the Lamb of God who took away tn
sins of the world.
And now the best thing ] can wis
for YOU. and the hest thing ] can wis
for myself is. that we may be fcun
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