The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-02-16

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God. I admire the David of my text
gate of his castle as much as admire
him when with his four fingers and
thumb clutched into the grizzly locks
of Goliath's head, which he had decapi-
tated, and Saul admiringly asks:
Whose son art thou, young man 2" and
David, bIushing with genuine moIesty,
responds: am the son of thy servant,
Jesse, the Bethlehemite.
Oh, the wolid needs day of iudg-
ment to give many of the stay at homes
proper recognition. In the different
wars the sons went to the front and on
ships deck or battlefield exposed their
lives and earned the admiration of the
country. But how about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons the noble sentiments
that inspired them to go and then gave
them up, when perhaps few words of
earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the self
sacrifice and the fidelity of thousands
who never in all their lives received one
word of praise. Oh, ye unknown, We
faithful and Christian and all enduring
stay at homes! have no power now to
do you justice, but tell you of one who
has the power, and of the day when He
will put it forth. 1t will be the day
when the thimble, and the ladle, and the
darning needle, and the washtub, and
the spinning wheel, and the scythc, and
the thrashing machine, and the ham
mer, and the trowel and the plow, will
come to as high an appreciation as
74-pounder, or the sword, or the batter
ing ram that pounded down the wall.
or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
Now, here is another important point.
AS there are SO many people in the
world who amount to little or nothing.
you ought to augment yourself, and if
not able. like David. to be worth 10000
times more than others. you can COM
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
twice as much, read twice as much.
give twice as much, go to church twice
as much. Instead of spending your
time finding fault with others, substi-
tute your fidelity for their derel'ction
and default. In any church there are
ten members worth all the other ] 900.
In every great business firm there is
one man worth the other three part
ners. In every legislative hall, state or
rational, there are five men worth all
the other so or 100. Take the srgges-
tion of my text and augment yoarself.
Make your one talent do the wcrk of
two, or your five talents do the work of
ten, or your ten talents do the work of
20. Multiply your words of encour-
agement. Multiply the number of
boosts you can. give to those wto are
trying to climb. Instead of being one
man in battalion, by your faith in
God and new conservation be whole
regiment. l like the question of gem
efal of small army when some. one
was counting the number of officers
| and soldiers of the opposing force and
the small number of their own army,
and the general cried out in indigls-
ton: "How many do you take me to
be-" David was 10000 men. You
ought to be at least two men in this
battle for God and Righteousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend Jeremiah c. Lanphier, OF New
York, is dead at 80 years of age. But
| they are mistaken. That man ca new
er die. He will live as long as Heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized
| vivified and arousing prayer meetings.
He established the MONDAY Fulton
street prayer meeting, famous thve ugh
| out Christendom, and more honc-ed OF
God than any devotional meeting since
| the world began. He introduced the
little bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were prolix or exhortaEtions too long
| winded. Finding that many business
men are from IL noon to one O'Clock
at comparative leisure, he widely an.
nounced that at IL o'clock of the 23d OF
September, 1857, there would begin a
| prayer meeting of one hour in the small
| upper room of the Reformed church
on Fulton street, New York. Lar phieI
/ went to that room at 12 o'clock and sa,
| alone. At 1880 man entered and
others came until there were six wor-
shippers present. The meeting IN the
following MONDAY numbered 20. and
the next day 40. Then the meeting be.
came too large for the room, and it was
| taken into the main auditorium, and
for Al years that service has been the
| religious center of Christendom Re.
quests for prayer from all parts CT the
earth have come there, and the prayers
offered been answered sometimes with
a resound that was heard Throughout,
Christendom. Hundreds of thousand.
of souls have stepped into that Be:hesds
and been healed. That meeting started
the great revival of 1858. in which i
was estimated 100000 souls were con
verted. When Monday morning. De
cember Is, his soul ascended, think
he was met at the gate of Heaven BY
a welcoming throrg as mighty as thai