The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-12-29
BENTON LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1893.

this world, which slopes to the desert,
and this glorious land which thy Fa-
ther offers thee, running with eterras
water courses? Why let your tongue
be consumed of thirst when there are
| the neither springs and the upper
| springs-comfort here and glory here
after?
You and need something better
than this world can give us. The fact
is that it cannot give Us anything after
awhile. 1t is a charging world. Do
you knew that even the mountains en
the back of thousand streams are
leaping into the valley? The Ale
ghenies are dying. The dews with
crystalline mallet a.e hammering away
the rocks. Frosts and showers and
lightnings are sculpturing Mourt
Washington and ne Catskills. Niagara
every year is digging for itself
quicker plunge. The sea all around ihe
earth on its shifting shores is making
mighty charges in bar and bay and
firth and promontory. Some of the old
seacoasts are midland now. Off Na;.-
tucket, eight feet below low-wat er
mark, are found now the stumps Of
trees, showing that the waves are con-
quering the land. Parts of Nova Scotia
are sinking. Ships to-day sail over
what, only little while ago. was solid
ground. Near the mouth of the St.
CroiX river is an island which, in the
movements of the earth, is slowly but
certainly rotating. All the face of :he
earth is changing-changing. In 1891
an island springs up in the Mediter-
ranean sea. In 1866 another island
comes up under the observation of the
American consul as he looks off from
the beach. The earth all the tim.
changing. the columns of temple near
Bizoli show that the water has rise \
nine feet above the place it was when
these columns were put down. Chang
ing! Our Colorado river, once vaste-
than the Mississippi, flowing through
the great American desert, which was
then the Eden Of luN,lriance, has now
dwindled to small stream creeping
down through a gorge. The earth it.
self, that was once vapor, afterward
water-nothing but water-afterward
molten rock. cooling off through tn :
ages until plants might live and ami
mails might live and men might live.
changing all the while. now crumblins
now breaking off. The sun, burning
down gradually in its socket. Chang
ing, changing. an intimation of the last
great change to come over the world
even infused into the mind of the
heather who has never seen the Bible
The Hindoos believe that Brahna
The creator, once made all things He
created the water, then moved over the
water, out of il lifted the land. grew
the plants and animals and men on it
Out of his eye went the sun. Out of hi.
lips went the fire. Out of his ear went
the air. Then Brahma laid down tc
, sleep 1890 100000 years. After that
they say, he will wake up. and then the
world will be destroyed, and he viii
make it over again. bringing up land
bringing up creatures upon it. then ly
ing down again to sleep 320,ooo,oo
, years, then waking up and destroying
the world again-creation and demoli
tion following each other until afte1
320 sleeps. each one of these slumber!
1920, 100000 years long. Brahma vii
wake up and die and the universe viii
,, die with him-ap intimation. though
!, very faint, of the great change to com,
upon this physical earth spoken of il
the Bible, but while Brahma may sleeI
orr God never slumbers nor sleeps. aat
the Heavens shall pass away with ,
great noise, and the elements shall mel
= with fervent heat, and the earth ant
, all things that are therein shall b,
burned up.
r well" says some one, ''if that is SO
if the world is going from one chang'
!, to another, then what is the use of m.
toiling for its betterment?" That is tn
q point Oh which want to guard you.
a do not want you TO become misan
r thropic. 1t is a great and gloriou
,. world. If Christ could afford to spen,
y 33 years ON it for it's redemption, the
you can afford to toll and pray for til
9 bettermert of the nations and for tn
Z bringing on of the glorious time whe
|. al people shall see the salvation O
6 God. While therefore want to guar
n you against misanthropic notions in re
Il spect TO this subject | have presented
J.. l want you to take this thought HON
= with you: This world is poor four
h dation to build on. 1t is changin
IS world. and it is a dying world. Th
e shifting scenes and the changing sand
q are only emblems of all earthly eNpet
q tation. Life is very much like this da
4 through which we have passed. I
q many of us it is storm and darknes
= then sunshine, storm and darkness
s then afterward little sunshine, no
Il again darkness and storm. Oh. bull
4, not your hopes upon this uncer'ai
/. world! Build on God. Contide in Jesu
. Plan for all eternal residence at Christ
right hand. Then. come sickness {
h health, come Joy or sorrow, come life {
-, death, all is well, all is well.
In the name of the God of Caleb an
y his daughter, Achsah. | this day oftt
Is you the upper springs" of unfadin
!. and everlasting rapture.