The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-23

war against high prices, tl.is ererlast-
ing attempt to bring the outgo within
the income, has exhausted multitudes
of housekeepers. Let me say to such
1t is part of the Divine discipline. If
It were best for you, all you would have
to do would H just to open the front
windows. and the ravens would fly in
with food, and after you had baked so
times from the, barrel in the pantry,
like the barrelyof Zarephath. the bar
rel would be full, and the children's
shoes would last as long as the shoes of
the Israelites in the wilderness-40
years.
Oh, my friends. all these trials and
fatigues of home life areto prepare you
for Heaven, for they will make that the
brighter in the contrast! A dying sol
dier was asked by friend: "Hare you
any message to send to your father?'
YES" said he. Tell him have gone
home ''Well," said the friend, shave
You any message to send to oyourwife?" ?"
''Yes. Tell her l have gone home"
"You have other friends. Would you
like to send message to them" "Yes.
Give them the same message; they will
all understand it. Tell them l have
gone home.'' And that heavenly home
will compensate, will fully atone for
all the hardships and the trial and the
annoyances and the vexations of the
earthly home. In that land they never
hunger, and consequently there will
be no nuisance of catering for appetite.
In nthatland of the white robes they fave
TO mending to do. and the air of that
hilly country makes them all well. No
rent to pay there; every man owns his
own house. and a mansion at that. 1t
will not be so great change to step
into the chariot of the skies if on earth
you rode. 1t will not be so great
change il on earth you had all the lux
uries and satisfactions. 1t will not be
so great a change for you to sit down
on the banks of the river of life if on
earth you had country seat.
But, oh, the joy for the weary feet
when they step into the celestial equip
age, and, oh, the joy of those to whom
home was martyrdom on earth when
they go into that home where they will
never have to do anything that they do
not want to do! What change from
the time she put down the rolling pin,
to the time she took up the scepter!
If Chatsworth park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the Celestial
City, they would be looked at as unin-
habitable rookeries, and Lazarus him
self would be ashamed to be seen going
in or out of them, SO great are the pal
aces awaiting all Gods dear children,
and so much grander the Heavenly
architecture than the earthly. 1t is
often not only the toll of the house
keeping, but it is the sickness and the
sorrow that go along. 1t is simple
fact that one-half of the women of the
land are invalids. The mountain lass
who has never had an ache nor pain
may consider household work of no
very great weariDess. and at the even
tide may skip out to the fields and
drive the cattle home. and until ten
o'clock at night may fill the cabin with
laughing racket, but. oh, to do the hard
work of the household with a shattered
constitution-after six weeks whoop-
ing cough has ragged in the household,
making the nights as sleepless as the
days, then it is not so easy. And then
this work of the house has often to be
undertaken when the nerves are shat
tered with some bereavement that has
put desolation in every room OF the
house and sent the crib into the garret
because its occupant has been hushed
into slumber that needs no mothers
lullaby. oh, it was great deal easier
for her to brood the whole flock than
to brood part of them. now that the
rest have gone! You may tell her that
her departed children are in the bosom
of loving God, but, motherlike, she
will brood both fiocks, putting one
wing of care over the flock in the house,
putting the other wing of care over
the flock in the grave. Nothing but the
old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ
can take woman happily through
home trials. All these modern reli-
eions amount to nothing. They do not
help. They do not comfort when there
is a dead babe in the house. Away
with them and give us the old-fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ, that has COM
forted so many il the days of sorrow
and trouble!
Romance and novelty may for little
while seem to be substitute. The
marriage day has only gone by, jus1
gone by, and all household cares are
! atoned for by the joy of being togethe,
and by the fact that when it is late al
| night it is not necessary to discuss
whether it is time to go. All the mis-
haps of the newly married couple in The
way of household affairs are not mat
tiers of anxiety or apprehension, hui
merriment.. The loaf of bread turnee
into a geological specimen, the slushy
custard and jaundiced and measly bis
cults! oh, it is very bright sunligh
that falls upon the cutlery and mante
| ornaments of a new home! Romance
and novelty will do for little while
but after awhile the romance is al