The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-05-21
SATURDAY NIGHT
SERMONS
,MA@ By
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SOUL HUNGER.


and thirst after righteousness. Matt
V. 6.
Hunger Is a mark of health lack OF
hunger symptom of disease. Hunger
and thirst are the sharpest spurs an
animal can feel. Hunger has made
civilized men cannibals; thirst has
made them maniacs. The city that
will not capitulate to shot and shell
will surrender for bread and water.
The edge is off Christ's figure to us
because of our plenty, but to those ORR
entails it was a vivid touch. The larger
part of the worlds inhabitants, the
hundred millions of India and China.
never know what it is from year to year
to have hunger entirely satisfied. The
chief burden of our physicians advice
is warming not to overeat. We gorge
and gormandize. From the stately
banquet at the swell hotel last night to
the social meeting of my Christian En-
deavor tonight no function is complete
without EATS" Our main object in
exercise is to stimulate our jaded appe-
tites Out the window of the restau-
rant where we have been picking over
the menu we look at the Italian street
laborers eating with relish their black
bread and . green cucumber Our
spiritual appetites are often stated with
big meetings, great sermons and deli
cious literature so that we have be-
come gospel hardened. We long for
our first relish t
A Tigers Idea Of Morals.
ChriSt's figure is that those whose
strongest desire is for goodness shall
be filled. If this statement is true it
distinguishes us from the brutes, and
evolutionists must qualify their doc
trines. Dust, seaweed. snake, monkey.
way to Bible statement that God made
man of dust and breathed into him his
own spirit. and he became living
soul. Man is more than an animal. A
tigers ideu Of morals is to have his
stomach full The radical difference
between us and sheep is not in the
ovcrcoat Of wool which we take off at
night and the sheep cannot. nor the
undercoat of flesh which we leave off
ut death The difference is this: there
never was sheep to which complete
satisfaction came through Il hungering
and thirsting after righteousness. and
there never was a man whose perfect
and lasting satisfaction came in any
other way. You can make your cat
happy il You have enough meat scraps
and saucers of milk, but God cannot
make a man happy that way because
man is not cat Nor can righteous.
ness come from throwing child into
the Gauges. beating on Il tomtom or
attending many meetings. Not out.
ward things, but inner hunger is the
essential Nothing that Christ has
done can avail us much until we have
the desire for rightness. There is bread
and whisky. A man prefers the wills
ky. There isn't much help for him un
til he chooses the bread.
World Hungry Folks.
Is Christ's statement true? Contrast
him with us. We are gloomy. sad
dark and forbidding.. He flashed JOY
us the sun flashes light. It's the differ
ence between coal breaker and light
house Inquire his secret! Il hunger
and thirst after righteousness. M!
meat is to do the will of him that SEN
me-" That is meat and drink that 70,
and l avoid. We hunger and thirs
for many things-money. health, posi-
ton most of all for that we call heav
en-. But to hunger and thirst aftel
Gods will is different. Indeed. when
come to analyze my prayers nine
| mine. and my actions speak even loud
| err than my prayers. Christ 'saw" th,
| multitude as no other man has eve
| seen them, with great love and sympa
| thy and true discernment. He saw
the mighty crowds. each individual
| with his separate hunger, and he point
out the satisfaction. TO Mary an,
Martha he gently shows that their mis-
/ cry is not in Lazarus tomb. but il
| their own hearts. To the multitude
grieving and raging over their wrong
he says: 1.-The supper is ready. YoV
are hungry because you will not come
/ You are caring for acres of ground
i yokes of oxen, not for Righteousness
/ Christ declares he has come to chang
! not one jot or title except human dc
sires for nothing else needs changin
till that is changed. Our miseries com
from not wishing Gods will first.
christ's Bread.
Most of us hunger for the fruits o
righteousness. but not for the RICH,
eousness itself. We want the pleas
ures of righteousness but not till "
have exhausted the pleasures of sir
When our desires are satisfied the
Sleep and in the silence we hear th
gnashing Of teeth in the outer darkness
toward which we are going. Soon til
appetites awake, and their clam0
browns the weeping and waiing W
heard from the region of the lost. Lik
boatman in the Whirlpool rapids. W
shrek for help. now clutch at an GA
and row for moment. now pray i
despair. till the waters of death sue
us from view. We fancy the purpos
of Christ's coming is to help us escap
punishment and get happiness II
really came to deliver us from our sin
and not the penalties of them Christ
work is to secure spiritual forgiveness
and give strength for the future. Th
fever of sin is overcome. and he,
power of resistance is ours tllroug