The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-11-28

pOcuI ever "IlttCu, dulSc LoSl,
and to the painters their greatest
themes in the Elaboration of the
Magi," "The TRANSPORTATION" "The
Last Supper" The CruciiNion, The
Entombment," THE Last Judgment"
and that all the schools of painting
put forth their utmost genius in pre-
senting The Madonna?"
These words also recognize far
reaching influences. Job probably
had no adequate idea of the distance
of the worlds mentioned from our
world, but he kne,r them to be far
off, and we, who have the advantage
of modern sidereal investigation,
ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with the question of
the text, as it puts before US the fact
that worlds hundreds of thousands
of miles distant have a grip on our
world. There are cweet influences
which hold us from afar. There may
have been in our ancestral line per-
haps 200 years ago some consecrated
man or woman who has held over
all the generations since an influence
for good which we have no power to
realize, and we in turn, by our
virtue or vice, may influence those
who shall live 200 years from now.
Moral gravitation is as powerful as
material gravitation, and if, as my
text teaches and science confirms,
the Pleiades, which are millions of
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earth we ought to be impressed with
how we may be influenced by others
far away back and how we may in
fuence others far down the future.
That rill away up among the Allie
ghanies, so thin you think it will
becomes the mighty Ohio rolling into
the Mississippi and rolling into the
sea. That word you utter, that deed
you do, may augment itself as the
years go by until rivers cease to roll
and the ocean itself shall be dried
up in the burning of the world.
Paul, who was all the time saying
important things, said nothing more
startlingly suggestive than when he
declared: None of us liveth or
dieth to himself" Words, thoughts,
actions, have an eternity of flight.
AS Job could not bind the sweet in
fluences of the Seven Stars, as they
were called, SO we cannot arrest or
turn aside the good projected long
ago. Those influences were started
centuries before our cradle was
rocked and will reign centuries after
our graves are dug. Oh, it is a tre-
mendous thing to live! God help us
to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Pleiades. They will take you into
their observatories on a clear night
and aim their revealing instrument
toward the part in the heavens where
those seven stars have their habi-
tude, and they will point to the con-
stellation Taurus, and you can see
for yourself. But it is impossible
to point to influences far back that
have affected our character and will
affect our destiny. We know the in
fluences near by-paternal, maternal,
conjugal-but by the time we have
gone back two generations or at
most three our Investigations falter
and fail. Through the modern in
teresting habit of searching back to
find the ancestral tree we may find
long list of names, but they are
| only names. The conservation OF
abandonment of some one 200 years
ago was not recorded. 1t would not
be so important if you and / by our
good or bad behavior blessed or
blasted only those Immediately
around us, but our goodness or our
badness will reach as far as the
strongest rays of Alcyone - yea
across the eternities. Under this
consideration what do you think oi
those who give themselves up tc
so years of their existence as though
they were shells or pebbles or pods
instead of embryo eternities?
Notice also in my text the infu
ence of other worlds upon this world
We all regard the effect which ou1
continent has upon other continent!
or one hemisphere upon the othe1
hemisphere. Great harvest or drough
affects the other side of our world
A panic in Wall street, New York, ha!
it's echo in Lombard street and ths
bourse. The nations of the eartl
cablegrammed together all feel th'
same thrill of delight or shock of woe
But we do not appreciate the infiu
ence of other worlds upon our world
The author of my text rouses us t,
the consideration. It takes all tn
worlds of known and unknown as
tronomy to keep our world in it's or
bit, every world dependent on othe
worlds. The stellar existence is fel
all through the heavens. Every con
stellation is a sisterhood. Our plane
feels the benediction of Alcyone an
all the other stars of the Pleiade:
Yea, there are two other worlds tina
decide the fate of a.ur world, it's re
demption or its de.2alition. Thos
two worlds are the. headquarters @
angelology and dGnonology. Fro1
the one world came, Christ, come mil
istering spirits, come all gracious il
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