The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-01-11

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patriotism and public spiritedness and
elo9uencs and moral power would not
be pointed out now, for all our public
men are thus characterized. Politics
has beel swept. garnished, glorified,
ennobled, until nothing more is to be
desired. Walk through all aldermanic
councils and sheriffalities and guber-
Material rooms and presidential man
sions and find the truth of what I, the
spirit of the twenty-frst century, tell
you, who were of the nineteenth CEN
tury and now come down on terrestrial
visitation
But we cannot STAY long here, for
it is almost time for us to retrace our
way heavenward. This voluntary exile
must soon end. And, passing out, we
go through national museum, where
we are shown among the curiosities an
enffel1 rife, howitzer, hotchkiss
shell, an ambulance-curiosi Of that
age, but, alas! no curiosity to us Of the
nineteenth century, for some OF our
own kindred went down under their
stroke or were carried off the field by
those wheels.
But" say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty first century, and you and
/ say to each other, 1--WE must go home
now, back again to Heaven. We have
staid long enough on this terrestrial
visitation to see that all the best things
foretold in the Scriptures and which
we read during our earthly residence
have come to pass, and all the Davidic,
Solomonic and Paulinian and johann
mean prophecies have been fulfilled, and
that the earth, instead Of being ghast-
ly failure, is the mightiest success in
the universe. A star redeemed. A
planet rescued! A world saved! It
star led with a garden, and it is going to
clos. with garden. What a happiness
that we could have seen this old world
after it was righted and before it
burned, for it's internal fires have near
ly burned out to the crust, according
to the geologist, making it easy for the
theclogian to believe in the conflagra-
tion that the Bible predicts. One ele-
ment taken from the water and that
will burn, and another element taken
from the air and that will burn, and
surrounding planets will watch this old
ship of world on fire and wonder if all
it's passengers got safely off. Before
that planetary catastrophe, HE us back
to Heaven. Farewell, spirit of the
[twenty-first century! Thanks for your
guidance! We can stay no longer
away from doxologies that never end,
in temples never closed, in day that
has no sundown. We must report to the
immortals around the throne the
transformations we have seen, the vic
tories of truth on land and sea, the
hemispheres irradiated, and Christ on
the throne of earth, as He is on the
throne of Heaven"
And now you and have left our es-
cort as we ascend, Tor the law of grav-
| itation has no power to detain ascend
iEg spirits. Up through immensities
and by stellar and lunar and solar
splendors, which cannot be described
by mortal tongue, we rise righer and
higher, till we reach the shining gate
| as it opens for our return, and the
| questions greet us from all sides:
.sWhat is the news? What did you find
in that earthly tower? What have you
to report in this city of the SUM-
Prophetic, apostolic, sanity inquiry
And, standing on the steps of the
house of many mansions. we cry aloud
the news: "Hear it, all We glorifed
Christian workers of all the past cen.
turtles! We found your work was sue
| cessful, whether on earth you toiled
with knitting needle, or rung a trowe
Oh rising wall, or smote shoe last
or endowed university, or swayed 9
scepter; whether on earth you gave
a cup of cold water in the name of 9
disciple, or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.
And now I look up and see the cast
i Ing down at the bejeweled and radiant
crowns at the sacred feet of the en-
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey i!
casting down before those feet thu
crown Of India saved. Missionary Jud
I son is casting down the crown OF Bur
ma saved. Missionary Abeel casting
4 down the crown Of China saved. Davit
i Livingston casting down at those fee
the crown of Africa saved. Mission
/ ary Brainerd casting down the crow
of this country's aborigines saved
Souls that went up from all the de
nominations in America in holy riv
airy, seeking which could soonest cas-
down. the crown of this continent a
q the Saviour's feet, and America saved