The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-28
Fer the BULLETIN.
THAT SINLESs PLACE..

Heasef is place CT sinlessness; or, in
otaer words, perfection in holiness. John
in Revelation says, "17.ers shall IN norise
enter into Il anything that dsfleth, neither
irhGtsoerer irorketh Accumulation or nuEesh a
lie" And in the last chapter he thus speaks
Of those who shall not enter in through the
gates into the city: Without the gates are
dogs ind sorcerers, and lcAoremsagers, and
'anrdeFers. and idoLatcrs, and lAosoerer loreth
and nauket6 tieD
Go to some great metropolis, You will
see corruption there, if you say you do not
find it at home, or in your own heart. Oil
sirs, men may talk of "no hell" asd style
it the doctrine Of an efFete theology. They
overlook the fact that hell already burns
nearer to- their present home-a hell of
corruption on earth Yea, God often rises
up in His majesty and by some great provi-
dence smothers some inchoate hell, that,
Etna-like, threatens to belch forth an in
candescent fame Of corruption over world.
Witness His judgments on a Sodom, a
Gomorrah, and, if We could enter the arcana
OF the Most Holy, perhaps in the same
category might be found such cities asa
Fompeii. The world was once deluged to
sweep away race whose sins had be-
come intolerable before n luhg.sufferiRR
and holy God And yet--and vet some
men would have such beings as drunkards
and "dO9s, and sorcsrers, and 'chorenoagers,
ard ,a,rderers, and tdctaters and Edrs' infest
the very temple of God with thir rocking
denominations, and virtually make the Holy
Jesus a party to their impurity. Ii Heaven
Is partly composed of such mongrel race
l say, if the theory of the men Of sad
vanced thought" be true, then, l ask, to
what purpose, brethren, do we attempt as
Christians to obey God when He says, "Be
We holy, for am holy" and without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord ?" Oh my
brethren, what a joyful thought !-Hcayen
is dc6led not with impurity! And what a
surprise that will be, when washed from
sin, to be ushered into city of purity, and
where no impure thought shall touch the
soul. All, as soon expect TO find sin in
Jesus, the ''holy and undefled," as in that
one who has been washed in His blood and
admitted to glory. Here sin and its results
sicken our souls. For years and years We
see and read and often feel its denominations
Some arc slowly, some are swiftly dccaying
under the blight of sin Some rejoice to
add corruption to corruption, and thus more
| rapidly decay. Some lead lives of infamy
and disgrace. Some, under the dominion Of
vice, will pursue virtue hither aud
thithcr, and would drive it weeping from
earth to hell. Some, in their greed for
money, day by day ply, undaunted by law,
their ungodiy avocations. Some lie drum
ken for hours, for days-poor beset;ed
wretches, in the gutter-the companions Of
brutes that wallow in the miro. Some, re-
joicing in iniquity, drinking it in like
water" Use every endeavor TO seduce other,
into their own self-created hells. Oh you
may be thankful that you arc not brought
like many others, face to face with such
frightful monsters. But suppose you were
suppose for years that all deep-dyed mon
sters in sin were confined in walls with you
What overpowering emotion would fill youl
breast were YOU suddenly released and
placed alone with myriads of "the good
the true, the beautiful" in a Heaven where
the very purity of God is stamped upon al
things, and in all its wonderfulness fills the
souls of the redeemed. And, blessed be
GoDl thousands shall be there in white
robes of purity. God will redeem a mighty
host, (Which no man can number" Yes
thousands arc marching up from America
and thousands from Mexico, and thousand
from Europe and Asia and Africa and the
distant isles of the sea; yea, they shall
center in through the gates Into the city
to join with the one hundred aud forty an.
four thousand in the never-ceasing Holy
holy, holy Lord God A{mighty" Do you
my friends, want to be in that evcr-happ,
throng? Then our prayer to God must be
More purity give me- strength to o'erconle
More freedom from eaTths stains, more lOnSings 10
home;
More fit Tor the kingdom, used would he;
More blessed and hOly-moTe, Savior, like Thee"