The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-02-21

up and shrivels up and becomes more
splenetic until the time of his depar-
ture is at hand. He has enough of
the salt of grace to save him, but his
entrance into Heaven will be some
thing worth watching. What do they
want with him in Heaven, where they
have all gone into. eternal catholicity,
one grand commingling of Methodists
and Baptists and Episcopalians and
Lutherans and Congregationalists and
Presbyterians and a score of other de-
nominations just as good as any I
have mentioned? They all join in the
hallelujah chorus, accompanied by
harpers on their harps and trumpet
ers on their trumpets: Worthy 5
| the Lamb that was slain to receive
blessing and riches and honor and
glory and power!"
The bigot ascends with just enough
grace to save him. AS he comes up
to the shining gate he sees standing
| inside of it some whom he used to
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some other church of
some other denomination, and he
cries out: care you there?" l never
expected to see you in such glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth and in
your form of church government.
How did you get in?' Saved by
grace" is the Heavenly reply. Saved
by grace!" The bigot is embarrassed
and feels for his creed and his cate
chism, and, 10, they were left on the
| banks of the River Jordan as he
passed through. ard he cries out:
4 think l will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by grace! Saved
by grace!"
Again, the penurious Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per-
haps he was not converted until all his
habits of tight-fstedness were fixed
beyond recovery. The people who are
generous were taught to be generous
in childhood. You can tell from the
way the boy divides the apple what his
characteristics for generosity or mean
ness will be for the next so years, if he
lives so long. If he eat it all himself
while others look wistfully on, he will
be Shylock; if he give half of it to
some one who has no apple, he will be
an ordinarily generous man; it he give
three-fourths of it to another he will
be Baron Hirsch or a George Pea
body.
For 30 years this man has been prac-
ticing an economy which prided itself
on never passing pin without picking
it up, and if he responded at all in
church would put on the collection
plate so Insignificant coin that he
held his hand over it so that no one
could discover the smallness of the
denomination. Somewhere in the fif
ties or sixties of his life, during re
; vival of religion, he became Chris
tian. He is very much changed il
most respects, but his all-absorbing ac
quisitiveness still influences him. TX
: extract from him gift for an orphan
age or church or poor woman wht
has just been burned out is an achieve
:. ment. You and I know very good men
l their Christian character beyond dis
pute, and yet they are pronounced b.
all as penurious, and they know j
themselves and pray against it. W.
all have our bad habits, and yet expec
to get to Heaven, and this skinflint ha
= his mighty temptation. The passion
: of avarice well illustrated its strength
'' when in one of the houses of exhume'
Pompeii was found the skeleton of
> man who was trying to escape with 6
coins and silver saucepan. For thos
) valuables he dared the ashes an
scoria of Vesuvius which overwhelme
: him, and many good man has beel
. held nightly by ayarice.
But that brings me to the othe
q thought of my text, that there ar
. those who will. when they leave thi
/. life, bound into Heaven amid saluts
n tions infinite. For SO an entranc
% shall be administered unto you abuI
n dantly." Such exultant admission wi
J. await those who enter Heaven afte
IS on earth living a life for others an
Il without reference to conspicuity. o
a the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloos
[e or the Androscoggin is large famil.
d all of whom have been carefully an
n religiouslv reared. In the earle
a. stages of that family there were man
j. privation The mother of the hous
10 hold never had any amusements. Pc
of haps once in year poor theatric;
,e play was enacted in the neighborin
se schoolhouse or squawking concert
i'd the town hall, and that was all the d
o. version afforded for the winter seaso
t. I asked the manager of an insane as
n! lum in Kentucky: From what class
i'd persons do you get most of your p
pt tients?" and he said: From farmer
s. wives" I asked the same question
Id the manager of an insane asylum
Id Pennsylvania, and the same questit
de OF the manager of an insane asylum
OF Massachusetts,, and got the same repl
OF I'VE have on our rolls for treatme
n more farmers wives than perso
OF coming from any other class" Th
answer will be surprise to some;
at was no surprise to me. The simple re
.e. son is, farmers wives as gener
to thing have no diversion. It is brea
er fast, dinner and supper, sewing, sect
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