The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-01-17

and held on. and with shrek louder
than the thunder of the cataract he
went over When a man puts out |
from the shore of this world on the
construction. he has worse disaster
than that-shipwreck. eternal ship
wreck.
Blessed be God, there is boat COM
ing from the other side! Transporter
tion at last for our souls from the |
other shore; everything about this |
Gospel from the other shore: pardon |
from the other shore; mercy from the
other shore; pity from the other
shore; ministry of angels from the
other shore; power to work miracles
from the other shore; Jesus Christ
from the other shore. This is faith
full saying and worthy of all accepta-
ton that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save Sinners" and from
foreign shore I see the ferryboat COM
ing, and it rolls with the surges of
Savionr's suffering; but as it strikes
the earth the mountains rock, and the
dead adjust their apparel so that
they may be fit to come out. That
boat touches the earth, and glorious
Thomas Walsh gets into it in his ex-
piring moment, saying: HE has
come! He has comet My Beloved is
mine, and 1 am His" Good Sarah
Wesley got into that boat, and as she
showed off from the shore she cried:
Open the gates! Open the gates!"
l bless God that as the boat came
from the other shore to take David
and his men across, so, when we are
about to die, the boat will come from
the same direction. God forbid that
| should ever trust to anything that
starts from this side.
Again, my subject suggests that
when we cross over at the last the
King will be on board the boat. Ship
carpentry in Bible times was in its
infancy. The boats were not skill
fully made, and I can very easily i'm
agine that the women and the chill
dren of the Kings household might
have been nervous about going on
that boat, afraid that the oarsman or
the helmsman might give out and
that the boat might be dashed on the
| rocks, as sometimes boats were dashed
| in the Jordan, and then l could have
| imagined the boat starting and rock
ing, and they crying out: "Oh, we are
going to be lost. We are going down."
| Not so. The King was on board the
| boat, and those women and children
and all the household of the king
knew that every care was taken to
have the king-the head of the en-
pire-pass in safety.
Now, I want to break up a delusion
in your mind, and that is this: When
our friends go out of this world, we
feel sorry for them, because they have
to go alone; and parents hold on to
the hands of their children who are
dying, and hold on to something of
the impression that the moment they
let go the little one will be in the
darkness and in the boat all alone.
"Oh," the parent says, ''if | could only
go with my child, would be willing
to die half dozen times. l am afraid
she will be lost in the woods or in the
darkness; I am afraid she will be
very much frightened in the boat all
alone l break up the delusion
When soul goes to Heaven, it does
not go alone; the King is on board
the boat. Was Paul alone in the last
extremity? Hear the shout of the
sacred missionary as he cries out: 81
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand
Was John Wesley alone in the last
extremity? No. Hear him say:
"Best of all, God is with u.s." Was Sil
William Forbes alone in the last ex
tremity? No. Hear him say to hi.
friends: Tell all the people who are
coming down to the bed of death from
my experience it has no terrors.
"Oh," say great many people, "tha
does very well for distinguished Chris
tians, but for me, common man, fo1
me, common woman, we can't ex
pect that guidance and help" If
should give you passage of Scripture
that would promise to you positivel,
when you are crossing the river t.
the next world the King would be il
the boat, would you believe the prom
Use? "Oh, yes" you say, II would.
Here is the promise: when tho,
passest through the waters, l will b
with thee, and through the rivers
thev shall not overflow thee" Chris
at the sick pillow to take thc soul ou
. of the body: Christ to help the sou
down the bank into the boat; Chris
midstream; Christ on the other sid
to help the soul up the beach. B
,, comforted about your departe
! friends. Be comforted about you
. own demise when the time shall come
!. Tell it to all the people under the su
, that no Christian ever dies alone; tn
King is in the boat.
q Blessed be God, that when we leav
l this world we are not to have grea
I and perilous enterprise of getting int
I Heaven. Not dangerous Franklin e,
: pedition to find the northwest passag
O among icebergs. Only ferry. Tha
accounts for something you have neve
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