The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-02-14

with the sunlight in our faces. We
are not fighting in miserable Bull
Run of defeat. We are on the way to
final victory. We are not following
the rider on the black horse, leading
US down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white
horse, with the moon under His feet
and the stars of Heaven for His tiara.
Hail, Conqueror, hail!
l know there are sorrows and there
are sins, and there are sufferings all
around about us, but as in some bit
ter cold winter day, when we are
thrashing our arms around us to keep
our thumbs from freezing, we think
of the warm spring day that will
come, OF in the dark winter night we
look up and we see the northern
lights, the windows of Heaven IL
lumined by some great victory, just
so we look up from the night of suf-
fering and sorrow and wretchedness
in our cities, and we see a light
streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way
to morning-more than that, on the
way to "a morning without Clouds"
l want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles Of sin are all going to be cap
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be SO COM
plete that not man on earth or an
angel in Heaven or "a devil in hell will
dispute it. How do [ know? / know
it just as certainly as God lives and
that this is holy truth. The old Bible
is full of it. The nation is to be
saved. 1t makes a great difference
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward a defeat or toiling
on toward victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which speak, have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity
than our cities have ever seen. Some
people seem to have morbid idea of
the millennium, and they think when
the better time comes to our cities
and the world people will give their
time up to psalm singing and the re-
latipg of their religious experience,
ard as all social life will be purified
there will be no hilarity, and as all
business will be purified there will be
no enterprise. There is no ground for
such an absurd anticipation. In the
time of which l speak, where now one
fortune is made there will be hun.
dred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon con-
fidence between man and man. Now,
when that time comes of which |
speak, and all double dealing, all dis
honesty and all fraud are gone out of
commercial circles, thorough conf
dence will be established, and there
will be better business done and
larger fortunes gathered and mightier
successes achieved.
country have come from the work of
goddess spectators and infamous
stock gamblers. The great foe to
business is crime. When the right
shall have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified the commercial
code, and shall have thundered down
fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands of honest
men the keys of business, blessed time
for the bargain makers. I am not
making a guess. I am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In many of the churches Of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockery.
1 have not cultivated ear nor culiva-
ted voice yet no man can do my singing
for me. l have nothing to say against
artistic music. The two dollars or five
dollars 1 pay to hear one of the great
queens of song is good investment.
But when the people assemble in re-
ligious convocation, and the hymn is
read, and the angels of God step from
their throne to catch the music on
their wings, do not let us drive them
away by our Indifference.
Mr.. Eesler, of England, had theory
that if the natural forces of the wind
and tide and sunshine and wave were
rightly applied and rightly developed
it would make this whole earth a
Paradise. In book of great genius
and which rushed from edition to edi-
tion he said: Fellow men, / promise
to show the means of creating Para
disc within ten years, where every
thing desirable for human life may
be had by every man in superabund-
ance without labor and without paw
where the whole face of nature ehall
be changed into the most beautiful
farms, and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable
refinements of luxury, and in the
most delightful gardens-where he
may accomplish without labor in one
year more than hitherto could be
done in thousands of years, and may
level continent, sink valleys, create
lakes, drain ponds and swamps and
intersect the land everywhere with
beautiful canals and roads for trans
porting heavy loads of many thou
sand tons and for travelling a thou
sand miles in "a hours.
'From the houses to be built will
be afforded the most cultured views
to be fancied. From the galleries.
from the roof and from the turrets