The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-03-14
RELIGION A SOLACE.
DR.. Talmage Speaks Comforting
Words for the Righteous.
Discourse for Those Whose Lives
Have Many AExieties-All Is Well
for the Believer Trust
Thoroughly in God.
(Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. ~
Washington,

(copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Washington,
There is d great solace in this dis
course of DIR. Talmage for those whose
lives have many anHieties; text,
Isaiah $40: Say ye to the right
eous that it shall be well with him.
Here is a promise for people who
are all right, but who will come and
get it? How many, or, rather, how
few, people do you know who are all
right? If it were asked of any assem-
bly, that those who were sinless should
rise up, none would rise except lmbe-
Giles and religious cranks. An ac-
cident happened near 60 centuries ago
that started the human race IN the
wrong way, and we have not got over
it. We know great many splendld
men and splendid women, but they
will tell you that they have not al
ways done the right thing or thought
the right thought. If it were any OF
your business, they could give you an
inventory of frailties and mistakes and
infelicties that would be astonishing.
Here, then, you say, is Bible prom
Use that goes a-begging: Say ye to
the righteous that it shall be well
with him"
1t is my delightful work to-day to
show you that all the sons and daugh-
tiers of Adam and Eve may appropri-
ate the benedction of my text ii
they will first do the right thing. Over
here in the next street was man
who in great misfortune lost all he
had and was positively beggared, but
letter comes from some European
city where the land records are kept
| announcing to him that great for
tune is his. Now he is as opulent as
| he was pauperized. He. doffs his rags
| and puts on respectable attire and
moves into home appropriate for
man of vast estate. His worldly cir
cumstances were all wrong last year;
they are all right this year. On the
next street is a man who was from
perfect health Frustrated, and he
| seemed to be sick unto death, but a
skillful physician took correct dag
nosis of his disease and by prompt
and vigorous treatment restored him
to his former vigor. AS to his health
he was all wrong before; now he is
all right. In these two ways illus,
trate my theme.
By sin we have all been morally
bankrupted. Christ the Lord from
His infinite riches pays our debts and
emparadises us in His mercy. From
His richest wardrobe He puts on US
the clean robe of His righteousness
and gives us palace in the heavens
when we are ready to go up and take
it, Now, as to our spiritual estate, we
are all right. We were morally dis
eased, but Christ the physician, by
bath in the fountain of grace, cures
US. Now. as to our spiritual health
we are all right. That is the way WI
come to the righteousness spoken o
in the text. 1t is contributed right
eousness, made-over Righteousness
an imputed righteousness. The mo
ment you get into right relations witt
Christ the Lord that moment you cal
appreciate the magnificent comfort o
the text, and I defy you, in all thi
great book, from the first verse o
i the first chapter of Genesis to tn
!: last verse of the last chapter of Rev
elation, to find me a passage wit
higher and deeper and broader an
a ,onger comfort than that of the tex
: which is as deep as the Atlantic ocea
: half way between the continents an
Il high as the sun when the clock
q striking IL at noon. But I shall b
;. swamped with the oceanic tides {
: this subject unless the Lord help m
i to keep foothold. "Say to the righ
, eous that it shall be well with him"
= Bear in mind that but few peop
f can stand worldly success. Water
6 a good thing, but too much of it wi
o drown. Fire is a good thing, but to
f. much of it will destroy. Lightning
/, a good thing, but too much of it da
zles and blinds. Success is a goe
- thing, but too much of it has owe
;, whelmed many for this world and Il
> next If it were best for us, we wou
;. all be millionaires, live in palaces lii
the Alhambra and be as personally a
tractive as Cleopatra appeared to A
tony. But most of folks could n
o. endure such superabundance, and
lie is absolutely necessary in order
K keep them right that nine hundr'
,e and ninety-nine men out Of one tho
n sand should find life a struggle.
e. keeps them out of mischief. Aft
Ist Adam was elected from the premis
t. where by ten minutes of employme
" a day he could keep the garden al
D. dress it the best thing that could ha
he pen to him was compulsion to wo
IS. and fight. The ground that bloom
a with spontaneous flowers and rustl
tc with harvests that owed nothing
IS plow or hoe became hostile, and bra
Is. BILE was substituted for rose, and
n panther growled where before
81 fawned, and horn and fang and ht
". became belligerent. That Edenic eje
ut ment shows us as nothing else e.
81. could that idleness or only few m
at ntes of employment day are do
and overthrow.