The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-11-28
NO.. 40.

tease is certain. Inc Soou lnnuenceS
of the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help
from the heavenly world, and the Di-
vine power will overcome the de-
moniac. o man, o woman, expand
your idea and know the magnitude
of a contest in which three worlds are
specially interested. From all the
seven worlds which my text calls the
Pleiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two worlds
that / am now mentioning. My only
hope for this world is in the reen-
forcement that is to come from an
other world. But that is promised,
and so l feel as sure of the ratifica-
tion of all evil as though looking out
of my window to-day l saw the parks
and the gardens Towering into anoth-
flying through the midst of Heaven
with the news that the kingdoms of
this world have become the kingdoms
of our Lord.
My text called Job and calls us to
consider 1.-The sweet Influences" We
put too much emphasis upon the acid
tiles of life, upon the irritations Of
life, upon the disappointments Of
life. Ammianus Marcellinus said that
Chaldea was in olden times overrun
with lions, but many of them lost
their power because the great swamps
produced many gnats that would get
into the eyes of the lions, and the
lions to free themselves of the gnats
would claw their own eyes out and
then starve. And in our time many .
lion has been overcome by gnat.
The little singing annoyances of life
keep us from appreciating the sweet
influences. And how many of these
last there are! Sweet influences Of
home, however plain it may be! That
| is the harbor into which we sail.
That is the goal for which we run.
That is the place where we rest.
There abide all confidence and affec-
tions. There we lay our plans. There
we extend our sympathies. There
we talk over our successes. There
we unload our griefs. Its four walls
shut out prying and inquisitive
world. Thank God for the home in
which we were born, the home in
which we now live, the home in which
we expect to die!
| Not sufficiently do we recognize tho
sweet influences of the wife. We men
are of a rougher mold, and our voice is
loud, and our manners need to be
tanned, and gentleness is not as much
| of a characteristic as it ought to be,
and we often say things We ought to
| take back. 1t is to change this that the
good wife comes in. The interests OF
the twain are Identical That which
from outsiders would be considered
criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly suggestion, sweet influences
that make US better men than we oth-
erwise would have been or could have
been.
The sweet influences of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought
for long while was Alcyone, the CEN
ter of the constellation of the Plei-
AIDES, world of our future residence,
as we hope; world of chorus and il
| Elimination, world of reunion, world
where we shall be everlas stingly COM
plete, world where our old faculties
will be intensified and quickened and
new faculties implanted, world of high
association with Christ, through
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets-Habakkuk and st.
John, of Patmos, and Edward Young,
his Might Thoughts" turned into
eternal day; and Horatius Bonar, OF
modern hymnology; and Hannah More,
and Mrs. Hemans and Mrs Sgourney,
who struck their harps till nations lis
tened; and David, the victor over Co.
Hath with what seemed Insufficient
weapons; and Joshua, of the pro-
longed day in GIDEON; and Havelock.
the evangelist hero, and those thou
sands of men of the sword who fought
on the right side. What company to
move in. What guests to entertain!
What personages to visit! What
choirs to chant! What banquets with
lifted chalces filled with "the new
wine of the kingdom!" What victories
to celebrate!
Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost,
with all His trans forming and COM
fortingan emancipa ting power! When
that power is Iuily 1elU, Unere VIII Dc
no more sins to pardon and no moro
wrongs to correct and no more sor-
rows to comfort and no more bondage
to break. But as the old-time ship
captains watched the rising of the
Pleiades for safe navigation and set
sail in Mediterranean waters, but
were sure 20 get back into port before
the constellation Orion came into
sight, the season of cyclone and hurri-
cane, so there is time to sail for Heav-
. en-, and that is while the sweet in
, fuences are upon us and before the
storms overtake the delay. Open all
, your soul to the light and warmth and
| comfort and inspiration of that Cos.
pei which has already peopled Heaven
! with millions of the ransomed and i.
helping millions to that glorious desti
: nation. Do not postpone the things
f of God and eternity till the storms O.
/ life swoop and the agitations of Z
: great future are upon us. Do not dar,
: wait until Orion takes the place of tn,
III Vayr rrI i i