The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-06
TEE Or AND NEW YEAR.

The year A. D., 1875, has filed out its
allotted portion of Time. One more rev
olution of the earth in its orbit around
our great central life giving, regulator,
the benefcient Sun, has been accom-
plished; one more link in the lengthen-
ing chain of terrestrial existence has
been forged one cycle nearer to the
great and eventful day, when the God
Of Nature, shall visit this atom of his
creation in majesty and splendor, accom-
panied by an innumerable host of His
Holy Angels, when the earth shall be
purified by fire, has been completed
one more year of commingled joy and
sorrow, Of blasted hopes, of epheme ral
longing. fleeing as the BoreaIis race
realized but to fade away of ambition
unsated, of gravellIng 10 the dust for the
things that perish, of the idolatrous wor-
ship of the yeElo1O deamon who wins vo-
taries but to leave his curse to eat into
the captive soul, and to transform into an
idolater of yellow perishable dust, the
noblest of Gods works-man-made in
the likeness of his Creator-and randy
glorious in mental and moral attributes.
Is not his body living temple in which
the mighty God the Prince of Peace, has
condeecended to dwell and become very
mean, and in which, for the redemption
of fallen humanity, he suffered and died
a cruel and torturing death. The great
| est blessing ever vouchafed to mortality
was attained when God died that man
| might not forever perish. The concep-
ton is too lofty for US gravellers in the
dust; can the finite comprehend the in
| fnity. We are better fitted to Join the
seneeless cry of Great is Diana of the
Ephesians," than to realize that the
lord God omnipotent reigneth, that His
mercy endureth forever, and is over all
his works With God thousand years
are but as a moment of ime-roIl on
old or young earth, (Which ever you may
| be, for we know not,) to thy appOin-
ted destinity-one year less is it permit
ted thee to fly through time. The be-
ginning of the end may soon clOthe thy
flight with wings Of radiant flames, and
through this fiery death you may rise
to new creation purified and cleansed
from the weight of sin you now carry,
bnrGening your flight and cloging your
appointed destiny far more than the
crushing weight of a thousand similar
unpeopIed orbs piled upon you. So
much does the moral in sight of the
Creator overbalance and outweigh sense
less, soulless matter. On the of 18th De-
oember a new eccIesiastical year began,
1875 years have been added to the rec
ords of the irredeemable past since the
angels of heaven visited this once IN
important pigmy world, (now the most
honored of Gods works) and worshiped
the child Goldman, and sang IN alteration
of JehoYah's wonderful mercy, conde-
scension and love, " Glory to God in the
highest on earth, peace and good will
towards man." This great epoch in the
| worlds history, as marked by the
records of temporal computation has its
yearly return. And with this eventful
period begins the ecclesiastical year-we
| call it Christmas. 1t is soon followed by
the beginning of the secular year, an
unimportant and arbitrarily adopted
date known as the beginning of new
temporal year, commencing on) the first
day of the month, January. We are
standing upon the dividing line which
separates the old from the new year.
We have much to be thankful for, in
more worldly point of view in the last
twelve months-time would fail to par
ticuIarize little of our blessings. Hope
points cheerfulIy to theifuture; may every
bright picture she paints be realized to
the fullest by the readers of the BULLE-
TIN. May their every day avOcations
instead of having the effect of engross-
ing the mind and supplanting the afec-
tons due to the Maker of heaven and
earth, of soul and body, by substituting
an earthly idol for a veritable golden
calf increase theworship of the great
Jehovah.
Let us be ever mindful of His grandeur,
and glory and benevolence, but also OF
our frailty, our selfshness and our de-
PRAYED nature. Let the New-year be
beginning point with as all to lead
more rational, useful and better life
than we did the past dead year.
The following dispatch was sent to Col.
| Loan on Monday last
o. 1919