The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-02-08
PAST EXPERIENCES.
Dr.. Talmage Says They Should Be
Our Guides for the Future.

some Practical and Timely Sugges-
tIons as to Right LivinE-Our
Life ms sea Tale That
Is Told"
copyright, 1889, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,
In this, holiday discourse DIR. Tai
mage takes the opportunity of Of
fering some very practical and USE
full suggestions; text, Psalms, xc, 9:
Eve spend our years as tale that is
told"
The Israelites were 40 years in the
wilderness, and during 3s years of the
40 nothing is recorded of them, and l
suppose no other emigrants had a
duller or more uninteresting time
than they had. So they got to telling
stories - stories concerning them
selves or concerning others; stories
about the brick kilns of Egypt, where
they had toiled in slavery; stories
about how the waters of the Red sea
piled up into palisades at their cross
ing; story of how the lantern hung in
the heavens to guide them by night;
story of ibises destroying the reptiles
of the wilderness; stories of personal
encounter. It must have been an aw-
full thing to have had nothing to do
in 3s years except to get lost every
| time they tried to escape from the
wilderness, So they whiled away the
time in story telling. Indeed, there
| were persons whose one business was
| to narrate stories, and they were
paid by such trifies as they could pick
up from the surrounding listeners. 70
such instances our text refers when 1T
says: ''We spend our years as tale
that is told.''
| At this tremendous passage from
the year 1899 to the year 1900 it will
do us all good to consider that our
1 whole life is story told-a good
story or bad story; a tragic story OF
mirthful story; wise story or q
foolish story; clean story or filthy
story; story of success or story OF
failure. ''We spend our years as 9
tale that is told"
In the first place I remark that
every persons life is very interest
ing story. My text does not depre
ciate "a tale that is told" We have
all of us been entertained by tns
story teller when snow. bound in thu
rail train; or in the group winters
night in the farmhouse; or gathered
around a blazing hearth with som'
hunters at the mountain inn. Indeed
it is praiseworthy art to imperson
ate good story well. If you doub
the practical and healthful and inspir
ing use Of such q story. take dowl
from the library Washington irving
''Tales of Traveller or Nathanie
Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" Blu
as interesting as any of these woul'
be the story of many an obscure life
! if the tale were as well told. Why d.
we all like biographies and autobio.,
rarnies? Because they are stories 9
eminent human lives. But the stor.
of the life Of backwoodsman, OF
man who looks stupid, of one abou
whom you never heard aword, must b
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