The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-02-02

tue SuTlStly TeVcldtIOu uuu HOt UccH
let down from Heaven on five-runged
ladder of musical scale, and there had
been no preaching of good will all up
and down Christendom for 10 CEN
turies! The Bethlehem manger has
given the most potent suggestion of
peace the world has ever received. The
cavalry horses cannot eat out of that
take another step forward in show
ing the narrow escape you and had
and the world had in the secretion OF
Christ's birthplace from the Herodic de-
tectives and the clubs with which they
would have dashed the Babes life out
when l say that without the life that
began that night in Bethlehem the
world would have had no illumined
deathbeds. Before the time of Christ
good people closed their earthly lives
in peace while depending upon the
Christ to come, and there were ante
diluvian saints, and Assyrian saints,
and Egyptian saints and Grecian saints,
and Jerusalem saints long before the
clouds above Bethlehem became bal
cony filed with the best singers of a
world where they all sing, but cannot
read that there was anything more
than a quieting guess that came to
those before Christ deathbeds. Job
said something bordering on the conf
dent, but it was mixed up with story
of "sl1in worms" that would destroy his
body. Abraham and Jacob had little
light on the dying pillow, but, COM
pared with the after Christ deathbeds,
it was like the dim tallow candle of old
beside the modern cluster of lights
electric. l know Elijah went up in
memorable manner, but 1t was terri
BILE way to goa whirlwind of fire that
must have been splendid to look at by
those who stood on the banks of the
Jordan, but it was style of ascent that
required more nerve than you and I
ever had, to be a placid occupant Of .
chariot drawn by such wild team.
The triumphant deathbeds, az far az l
know, were the after Christ deathbeds.
What procession of hosannas have
marched through the dying room of the
saints of the last 10 centuries! What
cavalcade of mounted halleluiahs has
galloped through the dying visions OF
the last 1900 years save 1901 Peaceful
deathbeds In the years B. c.! Tnum-
phant deathbeds, for the most part, re-
served for the years A. D.! Behold the
deathbeds Of the Wesleys, Of the Dodd-
ridges, of the Leigh Richmonds, of the
Edward Paysons, of Vara, the convert
ed heather chieftain, crying in his last
moments: THE canoe is in the sea.
The sails are spread. She is ready for
the gale. have good pilot to guide
me. My outside man and my inside
man differ. Let the one rot till the
trumpet shall sound, but let my soul
wing her way to the throne Of Jesus
OF dying John Fletcher, who entered
his pulpit to preach, though his doc
tors forbade him, and then descended
to the communion table, saying: 81
am going to throw myself under tht
wings of the cherubim before the mercy
seat" thousands of people few day.
after following him to the grave, sing
ing:
With heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles Of the Lord,
Finished his course and kept the faith
| And gained the great reward.
| OF Pastor Emile Cook, the grea
French evangelist, who sat in my
church in Brooklyn one Sunday morn
ing, and in few days shipwrecked ant
dying after his wife had said to him
God will help you, my dear; He Will
give you peace" replying: "But hav'
it-peace, / have It'll" OF Prince Albert
quoting with his last breath: "Rocl
of Ages cleft for me, let me hide my
self in thee!" Of the dying soldier VIII
had been shot through the mouth an,
could not talk, and when the chaplain
approached him, motioned for penci
and paper and wrote: II am Chris
tian, prepared to die. Rally round tn
flag! Rally round the flag!" OF Joh
Brown, of Haddington, who said:
desire to depart and be with Chris
aud, though have lived go years yer
comfortably in this world, l woul
turn my back upon you all to be wit
| CuT1St. 4ucTe ID no OuS Line CAIAn
no one like Christ. / have bee
looking at Him these many years, an
never yet could find any fault in HiI
but was OF my own making, though h
has seen 10000 faults in me. Oh, wins
must He be in Himself when it Is b
that sweetens Heaven, sweetens Scri]
ture. sweetens ordinances, sweeter
earth, sweetens trial." OF John Jan,
way, saying in his last moments:
have done with prayer and with a
: ordinances. Before a few hours al
over / shall be in eternity singing th
, song Of Moses and the Lamb. sha
, presently stand on Mount Zion with a
| innumerable company of angels IN
, with spirits of just men made perfec
, and with Jesus, the mediator of the ne
2 covenant. Halieiuiah!" Some or
, ought to preach course of sermons Q
, triumphant Christian deathbeds, ar
, then let some one preach sermon @
= triumphant infidel deathbeds-that
, if he can hear or read Of one of this la
: ter kind. / never heard of one. Do te