The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-06-09

such possibility. What Christ will ds |
With all the babies In the next world con /
clude FROM what He did with the babies II |
Palestine when He Rugged them and kissed
When come Of you grown people Roouf
OF this world, your doubtful destiny will b. |
an embarrassment to ministers officiating |
at your nbsequiee, whotwil have to bt
cautious 50 as not to hurt surviving
friendss BIZ Then the dfrling children &c
nsss m aas smS 81 .Sat good Jonn Cal
vim was = kician and metaphysical
and hY the froclivfties OF his nature put
some khingt In an unfortunate way. Logic
has ~ use fand metaphysics has Its use
buttboy are notgood at making creeds.
do&matics, the apologetics and the her.
menSuficsl The defect In some OF the
cre6ds Is that 3hey try to tell us-nll about
thas DEGREES 81 God. Now, the only human
b6inx that was ever competent to haudi,
thai subject was Paul, and he would not
have been competent had ne not been IN
| spired. belieye In the sovereignty OF God,
and believe In hans free agency, but nc
| one can harmonlze the two.t 1t Is not
neceesary that we narmonizo them.
IS Every sermon that have ever heard
HHAf attempt ed such harmonization was to
me- as clear as London fog, as clear as
Imud, My:brother Ut the Nineteenth GEN..
- =
igive us Paul's statement and leave out
Iyour sowns
Better ono chapter OF Paul on that sub
| ject than all OF Calvln's Institutes, able
and honest and mighty as they are. Do
| not try to measure either the throne OF dcd
/ or the thunderboits OF God with your little
steel pen.
/ What do you know about the decreesi
You cannot pry open the sdoor OF Gods
/ eternal counsels.s You cannot explain. tue
mysteries Of Gods government now, much
less the mysteries OF His government five
hundred quintiillon ears ago..
d But now that the old creeds have been
put under public scrutiny something radi-
cal must be done. Some wodld spit them,
some would carve them, some would elon-
/ gate them, some would abbreviate them.
At the present moment in the present
shape they are a hindrance.. Lazarus Is
alive, but hampered with the cid grave
clothes. II you want one glorious church,
!, free and unincunlbered, take of the eere-
ments OF old ecclesiastical vocabulary.
Loose her, and let her gol
II Again. my text has good advice concern
ing any Christian hamperel and bothered
aud bound by fear OF his own dissolution.
TO such the book refers whom It speaks OF
those who through fear OF death were all
most OF us, oven live have the Christian
hope. are towards about death.
!, Backed up by the teachlngs OF your Bible,
: Just look through the telescope some bright
!. night and see how many worlds there are
| and reflect that all You have. seen, COM
: pared with the number ofworlds In exist
/. enee, are less than he fingers OF your right
hand as compared with oil the fingers oil
| the human race. How foolish, then, for us
Q | to think that ours is the only world fit fol
4 | us to stay In.
q One Of our ffst reaiizatIons In getting
q out OF this world. I think. will be that In
8 this worli we were very much pent up and
/ had cramped apartments and were kept on
q the limits. The most, even OF oEf small
!. world, Is water, and the water says to th'
II hum IN race, "Don't come hore or you vii
y DROWN fow thousand feet up the at
9 / mosphers is uninhabitable, and the at
n mosphere says to .he human race, sd on
n come up here or you cannot breathe" 4
II few miles down the earth Is furnace o
al Are, and the fire says, Don't come here o
q you will burn" The caverns OF the mount
10 aims are full OF poisonous gases, and ths
N gases say, "Don't come here or you will b
q asphy xlated."
And pneumonias and pieurisies ana con
y sumptions and apoplexies go across TIM
re earth In fiocks, in droves, In herds, and |
Y. is a world OF equlnoxes aud cyclones an
A. gravea. Yet we are under the delusto
g. that It Is the only place fit to stay In. w
a. want 10 stick to the wet plank In midocea
ID while tho great ship, the City Of God, 9
L. the Celestial line, goes sailing past an
d would gladly take US up IN a iifeboat. NJ
ID Christian friends, let me tear of your de
ly spondencies and flights about dissolution
~ My Lord commands me regarding yor
he saving, "Loose him, and let him Co."
Id Heaven Is ninety-llve per cent. bette
or than this world, a thousand per cent. bot
n, ter, million per cent. better. Take tn
re gladdest, brightest, most jubilant day
| Ind IF tlar
Is: all into one hour, and that hour would b
Sc q requieu, a fast day, gloom, horror
Isl as comp, red with the poorest hour the
have had In heaven since the first towe
I'd was built or It's first gates swung or 1t
ed first song caroied.
ia ooh" yor say, "that may be true, but
X. am so afraid Of crossing over from tn
,is world to the next, and fear the snappir
lis OF the cord between soul and body" Wei
of all the surgeons and physicians and sc
mt entists declare that there Is no paDg at q
ed parting of the body and soul, and all ii
ot restlessness at the closing hour oil life
OF involuntary and no distress at all.
M "But," you say, II fear to go becau
w. the future is so full OF IN ystery." Well,
will tell you how to treat the mysterie
so The mysteries have ceased bothering N
ID. for do as the judges OF your courts oft
nd do. They hear all the arguments In Il
ey case, and they say, II will! take the
Of week" So l have heard all the argumen
he in regard to the next world, and SCI
cir things are uncertain and full OF myster
to and so / fold up the papers and -eser
TO until the next world my decision abo
re- them. can there study all the mysteri
to better advantage, for the light will
re-. better and my faculties stronger, and
ret will ask the Christian philosophers, W
,bt have had all the advantages OF heaven
|. a centuries, to help me, and may be p
lie. mitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, a
A think thsre will be only one mystery lie
es. that will be how one 80 unworthy as mys
The got into such an enraptured place.
ted The only part OF the Journey ma
are wears ago to Palestine that I really dref
ON ed was the landing at Joppa. That Is
len port OF entrance for the Holy Land, p
her there are many rocks, and In rough wea
sti- or people cannot land at all. The boz
ion taking the peop!s from the steamer to
der docks must run between reefs that looI
,m- to me to be about flfty feet apart. and
,st. mfsstroke Of an oarsman or an unexpec'
18th wave has sometimes been fatal, o
tric hundreds have persisted along tn
'ec- reefs. Besides that, as We left P
hat Said the evening before, an old. tr
the eler said: 1.-THE wind is just right
AID give you a rough landing at Joppa; inde
I think you will not be able to land at a
80, The fact was that when our Medtterran'
an steamer dropped anchor near Joppa
IA, al we put out for shore In the small boat.
'ua water was us still as though 1t lad b.
nc sound asleep hundred years, and
hos landed as easily as / entered this pull
~ Well. your fears have pictured for you
appalling arrival at the end OF your voy'
- OF life. aud they say that the seas will
high and that the breakers Will swat