The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-01-19

avra1g;a- and exhaus.iOu and an abbre' .,
l T.ore - more SPLENDID womanhood sac O
;eoed III that way IN our cities ,nah M U
nv other way. The Judgment gay Saa q
niv reveal the awful HOLOCAUST OF JahsnI
Ieryes and the suicidal habits OF m"en ~ /.
ur social life. The obituary 81 n sSar,t how
hay cot their death while standing N ar
; ~ of cauze waiting for the carriage OH I
raw night on the front steps. .d
While in their lifetime they possessed
4, The ability for the relic. OF pam anu
vet they have no TINS
for visitation of the poor or TO win tno
blessing of such as comes upon NOSE WV
administer to those who are reanx W ,pJT
;sh. Enough flowers in their dining Man =;
to bewitch a prince, but not one .ai That
heliotrope to perfume the room OIL .n"s
rheumatic on the back street, to whom
tta breath of one flower would be IKE
he oneuine Of the front door OF heaven:
Find me- one man or one woman VIM
III tbe rounds of pleasure and selhsnnes:
[as fo,,nd a piece Of happiness as large a.
That half dollar which the benevolent sha
Christlike soul puts into the pam ., sn e
hand of that mothe: whose cnlafe r;d;no
ss! 4.S!,,mnh through London at her JUDI
iao was not so sublime figure as Sueen
V;otor;a IN a hut near Bamorai CasIe
raad;no the New Testament to poor oy'
~ ~ the cadabounts for happiness
-, that IN kindness and usefulness anu
saif abnegatiou are to be found satisia.1
ton which all the gayeties Oh the "o'f
aggregated cannot afford: .hose
Emong the race OF gaoapou'S dar that
uho NEGLECT their homes In order 'hae
thav NAV attend to institutions that aIe
rasi,v excellent and do not so mucn ASK
| for help as demand It,. .., ,,,.
| am acquainted, as you are, WIN won
| a. xvho are members of so many Doaros y,
J;ract;on of benevolent institutions ana
have 10 stand at booth in SO many iairs
and must collect funds for so many orpiian-
AGES and preside at 80 many pnhah'n.op =,
ic meetings and are expected 70 pc ~ -, %
many different places at the same LINZ os
!nas .M servants, and If the little
ones waited to say their prayers at .heir
U,ntber's knee they would never say their
aven;ra PRAYERS at all. Such woman
.,oLos her nyu home so unattractlVe tn"s
tha bushand spends his evening at inc
ci,,hbouse or the tavern. The Children Oh
that house are as thoroughly orphan a: as
anv OF the fatherless and motheriess n ~,
lie ones. gathered in the orphanage ~,
{ which that gadabout woman is toliins 81
E in Nv al means let Christian women los
!. tor charitable institutions and give then
n az much of their time as they can SPAR
4 hnt the Hrst duty of that mother Is tn'
d duty she owes to her home.
O The hook of Samuel gives photograpl
D of Menhibosheth lame in both feet. Whe'
e Yce see any one lame in one foot or IAN
'e in both feet, we always wonder py VIVA
IS accident he was famed. PerhaPs ma
e have been in battle for MS country, I
y he may have been run over os "a so the dan
less driver or some explosion qua the Ia =.
9. ace. So YOU wonder how Mephlboshest J
re- Lecaue lame in both feet. The Bible X
Or a GOOD reason gives us the particuials'
e. tells ms that when he was ehld .
v. nnrse dropped him. She must ha'
a dronned him vel. hard, for he never aga
ID cot over the effect of that fall. Long
to ter the accident we find him at MI
tn David's table, but still our afternoon
h. called to the fact that his feet were crl
le- pied, though 50 long before nus =. nu !
i'm IN iii denartments of life there are tho
st. crinpled IN habits, crippled in morals, CT
ds Med for all time. The accident happen
lat In this way: Their mothers were gao
IN. houts and neglected their homes, and :
,ur work of training them was given over
nd incompetent nurses, and the nurses
on them fall into bad habits. told them
et- praving stories and gave them wrong
tions Of life and practically ruined th e:
md But Mephi5osheth was taken 6y d,
int David into the palace. ard seated az
self rovaI table. 60 by the grac, OF the ne
our eniy King these unfortunate ones may
He he seated at the Kings table in the hln
are palace, though the nurses did drop IN
to 90 that morally they were lame in b.
will feet e
less Now. what is the practical use OF
and present discourse? This: whereas
of many have ruined themselves and run
usi- others by becoming gadabouts among
this equations, among religious theories; am
ON churches, among neignporhoods, tne,
rasolved that we will concentrate o.
rail- what is right thought and right beha'
not and waste no time in vacillations ana
heir decisions and uncertainties, running az
hey in places where we have no business
Uni be. Life is so short we have no time
teri play with it the spendthrift. Find
They whether the Bible is true and VINE,
in your nature is immortal and wne'
ords Christ is the divine and only Saviour,
only whether you must have Him or De
hink comfted and whether there WIN prop
bout ever be a more ausplcious momene
the YOUR becoming His adherent,. and
rory. make this IL o'clock at noon OF Noven
Job d. the most illustrious minute that
the will ever have passed since inc oa,
it a your birth Until the ten millionth cycl
cles, the coming eternity, because by comp
Y to surrender of thought and will and
2 in ton and life to God, through .
Rted Christ you became new man, a
bout woman, a new soul, and God the Fa
,atis- and God the Son and God the
hem, Ghost and all angeldom, Cherubim
t? If Seraphim and archangel became you
h all lies
will. Found among the papers of the lea
irma- Samuel johnson was a prayer inscr
' the with the .7ords, "When my eye wal
There stored to its use," and it is a great
IN" ment when we get, over our moral b
chad. ness and gain spiritual eyesight. Tn
WITH a moment from which we may well
anti everything All the glory of Henry
ealed France vanished when in tourna
time. a lance extinguished his eye, and the
ity of disaster that can happen to us is to
found the vision of our soul put out 1t
lining have gone wrong so far, now go RICH
IRE in the morning and noon of your life
m to- been a moral defeat, make the event
: uses your life victory. The battle OF M
ashes 20, lost at , o'clock in the afternoon
urned' I gloriously won at D, and In your liz
emon- mine 1t Is not TOO iate 10 acnleVe
about thing worthy OF an immortal. oLart
3 and and keep on. DO not spend TOO mucn
'ephus in lacking ship. DAVID ielt the
scenes lance of fxedness of purpose whe
nks of cried out. "ldy heart is fixed, o Co
. very heart is fxed!" lEA
lurous An InfamouS Tramc,
i 70 "A Hamburg correspondent wrote
me n " that q British steamer sailed ther