The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-12-21

ions, small nations, nations that lived
/ year and nations that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which all other
nations have been judged. The judg-
mcnt day for individuals will probably
come far on in the future. Judgment
lay for nations is every day, every day
weighed, every day approved or every
day condemned. Never before in the
history OF this country has the Amer
ican nation been more surely in the
balances than it is this minute. Do
right, and we 60 up. Do wrong, and
we go down. 1 am not 90 anxious to
know what this statesman or that war
rior thinks we had better do with Cuba
and Porto Rico and the Philippines a.
| am anxious to know what God thinks
we had better do. The destiny of this
nation will not be decided ON yonder
capitoline hill or at Manila or at the
ballot box, for it win be
settled in Heaven.
Another thing decided in the high
places Of the universe is that this world.
with or without us, will be made over
into a scene of arborescence and purity.
DO not think that such q contamination
depends upon our personal fidelity. It
will be done anyhow. Gods cause does
not go a-begging. II all the soldiers Of
Jesus Christ now living should become
deserters and go over to the enemy, that
would not defeat the cause. A large
part Of the Bible is taken up with tell
ing us what the world will be. There is
a large army, human and angelic, now
in the field, but Gods reserve forces are
more numerous and more mighty than
those now at the front, and il He could
in Gideon's time rout the Midianites
with crash Of crockery, and II He
could in Shamgar's time overcome host
with an OK goad, and If in Samson's
time He could defeat IN army with 4
bleached jawbone, and If the walls OF
Jericho went down under blast of
perforated rams horn, and il in Christ's
day blind eyes were cured by oint-
ment Of spittle. then God can do any
thing He says He will do. As yet He
has taken only one sword out OF q whole
armory of weapons. Do not get nervous.
as il the Lord were going to be defeat
ed. The redemption Of these hem-
ispheres was settled in Heaven, and
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and
Malachi and st. John only reported
what the Lord God Almighty had de-
cided upon. Ny only fear il that our
regiment will not get into the fight to
10 something worthy Of the Christ who
redeemed us and we be left in lazy en-
campment at Tampa when we ought
to have been at Santiago. =
Oh, that coming day Of the worlds
perfection! The earth will be SO
changed that the sermonology will be
changed. There will be no more calls
to repentance, for all will have re-
pented; no more gathering Of aims for
the poor, for the poor will have been
enriched; no hospital Sunday, for dis
;;ointed bones will have been set and
the wounds all healed, and the in
durable diseases Of other times will
have been overcome by materia med
lea and a pharmacy and dentistry and
q therapeutics that have conquered
everything that afilicted the nerve or
lang or tooth or eye or limb health
olofy complete and universal. The poul-
tice and the ointment and the panacea
and the catholicon and the surgeons 8
knife and the dentists forceps and the
scientists x ray will have fulfilled their
mission. The social life Of the world
will be perfected. In that millennial age
I imagine ourselves standing in front
Of 4 house lighted for levee. We enter
among groups filled with gladness and
talking good sense and rallying each
other in pleasantries and in every pos
sibie way forwarding good neighbor-
hood; no looking askance, no whispered
backbitings, no strut Of pretension, no
oblivion Of some ones presence be.
cause you do not want to know him;
each one happy, determined on making
some one else happy; words Of honest
appreciation instead OF hollow hattery;
suavities and genialities instead Of In
fations and pomposities; equipagt
and upholstery and sculpture and paint.
| ing paid for; two hours of mental and
moral Improvement; all the guests able
to walk as steadily down the steps Of
that mansion as when they oscended
them; no awakening next morning with
aching head and bloodshot eye and in
competent .or the days duties; ths
social life Is perfect as refinement and
common sense and culture and prosper
.ty and religion can make il; the eartl
made better than 1t was 1t the start
and all through gospelixing influences
directly or indirectly.
lsuppose the greatest tidal wave tha1
ever rolled the seas was that which II
1868 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake. At africa, Peru, the wave VA
50 feet high and swung warships Z mil
forward on the land. At San Pedro
lCal.. the wave was 90 feet high. /
moved on to the Sandwich islands ami
submerged some Of them and bea
against the shores Of New Zealand AM
Lrolled up the beach Of Japan ant
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