The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-01-25
PILLARS OF SMOKE
q. pivine Symbol That Typiies
@ cod,s Power and Mercy.

r.fuage Speaks OF tne s
- which Truth Has Trt-
.-,hantly struggled
Martyrs to Faith. !.
..,,rht 1899, by Louis Klopsch.1
ss t0pyise Washington,
0 .-;.ls through which the truth
s s ..s str,,eeled are by DIR. Talmage here
81 sa-tb IS ~ Gnn;der a Bible symbol of great
.,stiveness :. 4. and power, text, Solo
sssl.. sano 3:6: ''Who is this that
..h ant of the wilderness like pill
r, 81 smoke z
: ,... - .rchiteeture of the smoke is won
|sI. 4 .... !. !. rhether God with His finger
-. .-- Il into q cloud, or rounds itinto a
- q points it in spire, or spreads
i 1. wing. or, as in the text, hoists It
|zs !. r;llar. Wstch it winding up from
|Rss.. ..untry farmhouse in the early
S.. .;nr showing that the pastoral in
/ ssss,;,s have begun, or see it ascending
the chimneys Of the city, telling
sgst N. homes fed, the factories turning
yaluable fabrics, the printing
,.,. preparing book and newspaper,
.Il lie ten thousand wheels OF work
s. s-soa;on. On clear day this vapor
:ss,.. a. mounts with such buoyancy
ss .ureads such delicate veil across
3Ss "a and traces such graceful lines
93s,rle and semicircle and waves and
si.. and sinks and scars and scatters
n xuch afluence of shape and color
7ssd surcestiyeness that if you have
~ noticed it you are like man who
20 ii lis life lived in Paris and yet
- seen the Luxembourg, or all his
y IL Rome and never seen the vatican,
ID Ills life at Lockport and never
Niagara. Forty-four times the
- speaks Of the smoke: and it is
1sf time that somebody preached a
pu recognizing this strange, weird,
fffnl, elastic, charming, terrific and
safine vapor. Across the Bible
.1bAts the smoke of Sinai, the smoke
-
aen. me smoke Of al tne smo1e y
As tne smoke u tue so'.anio n.i1,'
veg touches tnenl' anu IL my .eA.
1Iosious church Of God coming up
s. me wilderness IKE pii'als y
the hrst place, these pliars OF
Y NJ text indicate the sunerlng
shafch of God has endured. Wnat
ean " the chnrcn. mean not 9
ngs not q sect, Dut those VINO IN
ges ana al lands and OF al Delle1s
9od and are trying to do right. For
centuries the heavens nave pesn
1lsn tne smoke q mar iuoih. =
ae q sac, you couid glroie the
.na tne nfes oi persecution
q laylor' burned .. 1auielen'
burned =. o1ioru' 0onn nos
q laeu q omlthneio' oonn hooper
Il s. ulouces'er' oohn nuss'
sss=s j = ~ s. 1ons taAce' Lawrence oaun.
1lnea at 0oVehtry' JOIN o. Arc
3 = Aouen.
tsAsants nave represented catno-
~ oosa fro1estant ana Oatnolie
sss'csa cIueillss. ne ea.nolles :
sas tslsn " nunneric we're =,
s.s.s put % tne worst torIurss
]. .neil eio,nlhg, hols'ea N n.
sa'eys Win Welghts susPenaee
iss'' 1nen ie. down. ana ear'
anu nose anu tongue Wer'
a' .aau leu NOT Plates o. iIoi
I asaanst the tenderest part o
-
bancroft, the historian, say'
sssse q Maryland: In the liant
s.snoalcs nad opened to Profes
~ might not De said publicly
.s..c priest or bishop might ut
j, aslsn q voice OF persuasion, nj
mgnt teach the young. II
ssa enid OF papist would but be
fxs Pos'ate, the law wrested TO
.1 ms parents q share OF thel
~sen' 'ne sio".n ~ ~
sss.n..
"a 1..e'n ]. = Is Wen as Frotestantlsn
1al esfs. Il Goes seem q
one sect got complete dom
~ any land fhp devil nf norSacl1