The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-04-05

and l will tell you what are his pros
poets for the eternal world. God has
thrust into our busy life sacred duty
when we are to look after our souls.
1t is exorbitant after giving six days
to the feeding and the clothing of these
perishable bodies that God should de-
mand one day for the feeding and the
clothing of the immortal soul? Our
bodies are seven-day clocks, and they
need to be wound up, and if they are
not wound up they run down into the
grave. No man can continuously
break the Sabbath and keep his physic-
al and mental health. Ask those aged
men, and they will tell you they never
knew men who continuously broke the
Sabbath who did not fail either in
mind, body or moral principle. A man.
ufacturer gave this as his experience.
He said: Il owned factory on the
Lehigh. Everything prospered. !
kept the Sabbath, and everything went
on well. But one Sabbath morning l
bethought myself of new shuttle, and
l thought l would invent that new
shuttle before sunset, and l refused
all food and drink until l had COM
pleted that shuttle. By sundown / had
completed it. The next day, Monday,
l showed to my workmen and friends
this new shuttle. They all congratu-
lated me on my great success. I put
| that shuttle into play. | enlarged my
business; but, sir, that Sundays work
cost me $4,000. From that day every
| thing went wrong. failed in business,
and lost my MILL" Oh, my friends,
keep the Lords day. You may think
it old fogy advice, but / give it to you
now: Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work, but the
Fseventh is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any
work." A man said that he would prove
that all this was fallacy, and so he
did. II shall raise Sunday crop"
And he plowed the field on the Sabbath,
and then he put in the seed on the
Sabbath and cultivated the ground on
the Sabbath. When the harvest was
| ripe. he reaped it on the Sabbath. and
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bath, and then he stood out defiant to
his Christian neighbors and said:
''There. that is my Sunday crop, and
it is all garnered." After awhile storm
came up and a great darkness, and the
lightnings of Heaven struck the barn,
and away went his Sunday crop. Be-
ware. young man, of all Sabbath break
ers.
Again, charge you. beware of asso-
citation with the dissipated. Go with
them and you will in time adopt their
habits. Why is that man fallen against
the curbstone, covered with bruises
and beastliness? Hewas as brightfaced
lad as ever looked up from the nur.
sery. His mother rocked him. prayed
for him. fondled him, and would not
let the night air touch his cheek and
held him and looked down into his low
ing eyes and wondered for what high
position he was being fitted. He en-
tered life with bright hopes. The world
beckoned him, friends cheered him
but the archers shot at him; vile mer
set traps for him, bad habits hooked
fast to him with their iron grapples:
his feet slipped on the way, and there
he lies. Who would think that that
uncombed hair was once toyed with
by fathers fingers? Who would
think that those bloated cheeks were
ever kissed by mothers lips? Would
you guess that that thick tongue onct
made household glad with it's limo
cent prattle? Utter no harsh words
in his ear. Help him up. Put the hat
over that once manly brow. Brush the
dust from that coat that once covered
generous heart. Show him the wa!
to the home that once rejoiced at thu
sound of his footstep. and with gentle
words tell his children to stand bacl
as you help him through the hall.
i That was kind husband once ant
anindulgent father. He will kneel will
them no more as once he did at famil.
I prayers-the little ones with claspe'
hands looking up into the heavens Will
J Thanksgiving for their happy home
+ Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh
turn your back upon these men. Shak'
off the skeptic. Shake off the idler
Shake off the pleasurist. You may d.
this work of election in politeness. bu
you may do it firmly. You are not un
der any circumstances to lose all the re
membrance of the fact that you are
. gentleman and must always act tn
, gentleman. A young man said to
Christian Quaker: 'Old chap, how di'
you get your money!
"Well," said the Quaker, Il got it b.
q dealing in an article in which tho
mayest deal if thou wilt-civility."
Al BE courteous, be polite, but be firm
Says..No' as if you meant it. If you sa
"No' in feeble way, they will keep O
/, with their imploration and their temp
tation, and after awhile you will stan
f in silence, and then you will say, afte
they have gone on little longer. Eyes,
q and then you are lost.
o. Oh, turn your back upon the bar
; auet of sin! / call you to better feas
: to-day. The promises of God are tn