The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-07-26
1q1RE FOR ANXIETY.
/ =. ralu,age Prescribes for Those
in Trouble.
...s.es Them to Follow the Example
II the Disciples, Who "Went
..d Told Jesus"-COmfOrt
for the RereaveJ.
a.onyrieht, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,

Washington,
m. Talmage, who has finished his
,,ur Of England and Scotland, where
.lopsands thronged to hear him
sa,resoeyer he preached, is now on
i. way to Norway and Russia, in
.a;ch countries he is already well
t.oxn through the publication of
.,.nslations of his sermons. In the
allowing discourse, which he has
..pt for publication this week, he
,;,es . prescription for all anxiety
s.d vorriment and illustrates the Di-
y;ue sympathy for all who are in any
and Of struggle. The text is Mat
tbeF IA, IL: "And His disciples went
ead told Jesus"
An outrageous assassination had
~ taken place. To appease a re-
,1nssful woman King Herod ordered
de death of that noble, self sacrific-
- prophet, John the Baptist. The
athp Of the disciples were thrown
ia grief and dismay. They felt
4hemselyes utterly defenseless. There
I ~ no authority to which they could
aepeal and yet grief must always find
]: 1rpsession. If there be no human
III 10 hear it, then the agonized soul
0ilf CRY it aloud to the winds and the
woods and the waters. But there
ms an ear that was willing to listen.
There is a tender pathos and at the
nne time q most admirable picture
ii Ne words of my text: ''They went
ma told Jesls." He could understand
u their grief, and He Immediately
asoothed it. Our burdens are not
! 1ore, than half so heavy to carry if
1ncther. shoulder is put under the
ether end of them. Here we find
Christ, His brow shadowed with grief,
t(seding amid the group of disciples,
Who, with tears and violent gesticula-
tons and wringing of hands and out
~ Of bereavement, are expressing
their woe. Raphael, with his skilled
brush putting upon the wall of a pal
aee some scene of sacred story, gave
not 10 skillful stroke as when the
flaip hand of the evangelist writes:
They went and told Jesus"
1p the first place, I commend the
1ehasior of these disciples to all bur-
Aeaef souls who are unpardoned.
here comes time in almost every
rms history when he feels . from
tclhe source that he has an erring
nature. The thought may not have
such heft as to fell him. It may be
enly like the flash in an evening cloud
- after very hot summer day. One
4 nan to get rid of that impression will
ep to prayer, while another will slim
nate himself by ardent spirits, and
mother man will dive deeper in sec
4 ularities. But sometimes a man can
ntgetF nd of these impressions, The
aet is, when man finds out that his
sternity is poised upon a perfect un-
Agtsilty and that the next moment
a foot may slip, he must do some
Ming violent to make himself forget
where he stands or else fly for refuge.
some Of you crouch under a yoke,
nd you bite the dust, when this mo-
hent you might rise up a crowned
ecaQueror. Driven and perplexed as
ce have been by sin, go and tell
sesus. To relax the grip of death
nom your soul and plant your un-
4 eAaetled feet upon the golden throne,
NArist let the tortures of the bloody
Mount transfix Him. With the beam
y q His own cross He will break down
Ne door of your dungeon. From the
Worms OF His own crown He will pick
aough gems to make your brow blaze
N.th eternal victory. In every tear on
his vet cheek, in every cash of His
sae. in every long, blackening mark
q Aceration from shoulder to shoul-
eer, n the grave-shattering, Heaven
snattering death groan, I hear Him
Him that cometh unto me
Mn in nowise cast out"
d h but you say, instead of cur
e my wound, you want to make an
.t1er Wound-namely, that of conyic-
uon!' Have you never known a sur
oa p come and find chronic dis
80 and then with sharp caustic burn
~ eut? So the grace of God comes
- me old sore of sin. 1t has long
= ranking there, but by Divine
g is burned out through these
q conviction, "the flesh coming
Mas the flesh of little child
81 .Ssfe sin abounded grace much
aboundeth." With the 10000
vi erdoned sins of your life, go and
will never get rid of your sins
my other way. And remember
tne broad invitation which ex.
70 you will not always be ex.
-. King Alfred, before modern
- PAGES were invented, used to di.
s the day into three parts, eight
each, and then had three waz
Its. By the time the first candle
- burned to the socket eight hour.
4 one. and when the Sc cond can
30 burned to the socket another
81 hours had gone, and when al
.nree candles were gone out ther
~ had passed. Oh, that some oi
I nsfead OF calculating our day,
nts and years by any earthly
ece, might calculate them BY
nbers ct opportunities and mer