The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-08-08
all the time getting the victory, and
their shot and shell all gone.

cOuraglng InougnL IN the TACT That
the secular printing press and the
pulpit seem harnessed in the same
team for the proclamation of the
Gospel. Every banker in this capital
tomorrow, every Wall street banker
tomorrow in New York, every State
street banker tomorrow in Boston,
every Third street banker tomorrow
in Philadelphia, every banker in the
United States and every merchant
will have in his pocket treatise on
Christianity, 10, 20 or 80 passages of
Scripture in the reports of sermons
preached throughout the land to-day.
1t will be so in Chicago, SO in New
Orleans, SO in Charleston, so in Bos-
ton, so in Philadelphia, so in Cincin-
natl, so everywhere. know the tract
societies are doing grand and glo-
rious work, but tell you there is no
power on earth to-day equal to the
fact that the American printing press
is taking up the sermons which are
preached to q few hundred or few
thousand people, and on Monday
morning and Monday evening scatter
ing that truth to the millions. What
an encouragement to every Christian
man!
The fact is that infidelity and ag-
nosticism are founded on igno-
rance geological, ignorance chemical,
ignorance astronomical ignorance
geographical. We have heard what
the enemies of Christianity have had
to testify. Now put before you the
testimony of the church on earth and
the church in Heaven. Not fifty, not
a thousand, not million, but all of
the church on earth and all of the
redeemed in Heaven. Will you take
the evidence of those who have wit
messed as well as felt the power of
religion, or will you prefer the tes-
timony of those who begin by declar-
ing that they have never witnessed
or felt it's power? You tell me that
on certain 4th of March, 20 years
ago, president of the United States
was inaugurated. How do / know it?
You tell me there were 10000 per-
sons who distinctly heard his inaugu-
raj address. 1 deny both. I deny
that he was inaugurated. deny that
his inaugural address was delivered.
You ask why? / did not see it.
did not hear it. But you say there
were 10000 people who did see and
hear him. Is not the testimony of
the 10000 who were present worth
more than the testimony of one who
was absent? Now, there are some
men who say they have never seen
Christ crowned in the heart, and they
do not believe it is ever done. There
is group of men who say they have
never heard the voice of Christ, that
they have never heard the voice Of
God. They do not believe that any
thing like it ever occurred. I point
to twenty, hundred thousand or a
million people who say: "Christ was
crowned in our hearts affections, we
have seen Him and felt Him in our
soul, and we have heard His voice; we
have heard it in the storm and dark
ness; we have heard it again and
again" Whose testimony will you
take? These men who say they have
not heard the voice of Christ, have
not seen the coronation, or will You
believe the thousands and tens OF
of what they saw with their own eyes
and heard with their own ears?
Young man, do not be ashamed to
be friend of the Bible. Do not put
your thumb in your vest, as young
men sometimes do, and swagger
about talking of the glorious light OF
nature and of there being no need
of the Bible. They have the light of
nature in India and China and in all
the dark places of the earth. Did
you ever hear that the light of
nature gave them comfort for their
trouble? They have laneets to cut
and juggernauts to crush, but no com.
fort. All, my friends, you had better
stop your skepticism. Suppose you
are put in crisis like that of Col.
Ethan Allen. I saw the account and
at one time mentioned it in an ad-
dress. A descendant of Ethan Allen.
who is an infidel, said it never oc-
CURED. Soon after l received let
ter from a pr -ssor in one of our
colleges, who is also descendant of
Ethan Allen and is Christian. He
wrote me that the incident is accu-
rate; that my statement was anthem
tic and true. The wife of Ethan AL
len was a very consecrated woman.
The mother instructed the daughter
in the truths of Christianity. The
daughter sickened and was about to
die, and she said to her father: "Fa-
cher, shall take your instruction or
shall I take mothers instruction? I
am going to die now; must have
the matter decided" That man, who
had been loud in his infdelity, said
to his dying daughter: my dear,
you had better take your mothers
religion" My advice is the same to
you, o young man! You know reli-
gion comforted her. You know what
she said to you when she was dying.
You had better take your mothers
religion. Ha
Mr.. Grumpy Speaks.
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