The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-03-14
You forget you ever
it into temples.

it into temples. You forget you ever
saw the less glorious waters at Chats
worth, England, or Versailles, France,
as you stand in the balcony of the pail
ace overlooking the Finland gulf, be-
wiioe-eu and transported as you look
at the one display called the Golden
Stairway fountain. The water rolls
down over "a steps one foot high and
20 feet long. All of these "a steps are
covered with sheets of FURNISHED gold.
Silver step of the water on stairs OF
gold! What glee Of liquids! Rolling,
| dashing, foaming, enrapturing splen-
dors! Chorus of floods! Poetry of wa
ters! Doxology of torrents! But that
which most impressed me there and
| elsewhere is the abundance of water,
| the fact that there are so many waters
| that the continents can afford to throw
them away into the sea, Hudsons and
| Ohios, Oregons and AmaZons, Rhines
and Danubes and Volgas, and SO abun~
! dant that the earth can afford to have
its oceans evaporate into the heavens,
Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa
cifics. How rich the earth is with wa
ters! Best beverage of all the nations,
for after the richest banquet with the
richest beverages everyone wants at
least sip of it-water, cool water.
God descended water!
With still more abundance is the air
distributed An earth full of it. A sky
full of it. Swiftest and strongest eagle
cannot fly SO high as not to have it in
the nostril or under the wing. And
what aff1uence of sunlight! No one but
the infinite God could dispense so much
of it. The golden candlestick set on
the blue mantel OF the heavens! So
great that the Almighty is compared to
it, the psalmist crying out: "The Lord
4 God is sum-" 1t is high time that We
recognize in our liturgies and in our
formulas of prayer the three most
abundant blessings of the universe
which come to all.
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening of communication be-
tween our earth and the planet Mars.
| Experiments are being made, but they
will not succeed We cannot build
fire large enough to attract the att
5 tention of that world or lift lens
powerful enough to see any response
interstellar. We do not positively
: know that that world is occupied by
: living beings, or that if it is occupied
communication with them would be
E desirable. 1t might not be so good q
e world as this, and thus communica-
E ton with it would be debasing. But
l rejoice to know that Heaven is in
$ touch with other worlds, for their
;, improvement and depot for glorious
t arrivals. It is thoroughfare between
a this world and that world and conn
+ ing and going perpetual. Going out OF
e this world is as natural as coming in
e to it, but the one is with pang and
/ the other is with rapture il we are
d fitted for the uplifting process. It
d get so frightened about that asthma
t or that cough or that influenza or
d that threatened pneumonia. The
e worst thing that fatal disease can
n do is to usher you into coronation and
, enforcement. It shall be well with
s. you. Take as good care of your health
q as you can, have all the sanitary laws,
n keep in this world as long as you
l. are permitted to stay and then when
8 the heavenly call comes be glad to go.
ir I do not care much about what your
y. "last words" are going to be. People
,e put too much emphasis on "last
e. words" / woud rather know what
E. your words are now, in days Of health
le and with mental faculties in full play
e. your words of kindness, your words
ot of sympathy, your words of helpful
re ness, your words of prayer. So live
" that if you do not say word during
" the last day of your life there will bs
ir no doubt here about the place OF your
y destination. You will go right into
as sanity, prophetic, evangelistic, apos
Sc tolic, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic
p deific presence.
lis 1t shall be well with you. Mother
YOU will 60 right up into the posses
is sion of the babe that the scarlet feve
ell or Group took out of your arms.
u sorrow that still stings you, and yo'
so often say she would now be SO man,
nd years old if she had lived. You vii
re. 90 into the presence of the old folks
it's for I hope you are of Christian an
We cestry, and you will find that the
as have no dimness of sight or haltin
ITS gait that requires staff, for the
ell have taken a draught from the four
ill tain of perpetual youth that spring
ct from under the throne of God. Oh
,ut the blissful companionship of Heave
in which you shall enter! 1t shall b
act well with you. I ring this bell {
m emancipation and triumph. I like th
MA way the sexton rings the bell OF tn
zes old country meeting house. ! used
tar stand and admire him pulling th
.ul. rope of that bell. He rings it goo
In. while, so that every farmhouse With
mo five miles hears it. He may halt
IA moment to take breath and give tn
h.. sweet sounds time to stir up all II
-, echoes of the hills. And when he
ore old and not strong enough to pull Il
Do rope any more, then he sits and Ii
ior tens while his son rings the churt
ure bell. So my text seems bell OF i
~ yitation and victory. I began to rfl
III a, in the opening of this discourse.