The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24
Eoumenioal Echoes.

We arc glad to come here, L say be-
cause from this place flowed that lit
tie stream which was alluded to this
morning; here is fulfilled the vision Of
Ezekiel; from these thresholds went
our lie word of life. But il has gone
beyond England over the sea, and it is
filing the whole world with It's glory.
When We look back to the cradles Of
the race in the valleys of the Euphra.
ties and the Nile, the Elyssus and the
Tiber, those cradles are all, oyerturn-
ed and broken, but the cradle of Meth
odism is still sending forth the ST. cam
ofliving sons and daughters. They are
! toiling in our different fields of labor
very much as we read Of your Cornish
miners; each little gang is pushing IT'S
own way, working in own appointed
place. In times of silence, perhaps,
they hear the sound of the hammer or
the blast of some adjacent party or
gang working 20 the right or to the
left of them, and having pushed cut
beneath the sea they sometimes hear
he roll Of its waves. Only one man
about the mine knows all about it
The chief engineer. He looks down
through the soil. through the rock,
through the occan-sees where each
man is at work; he knows the amount
of metal or coal sent into the upper
world. SO we are all working in the
darkness of the under world, each OF
Of US. Sometimes on occasion like
this we are enabled TO come up into
the light and to study the whole plan
OF the working, and see what has been
done and what is to be done, and re.
joicein the amount Of light and pow
er that is sent into the world above
This field Of labor is so vast that it oc
cupies al our thoughts and demand
all our labor.
Bishop Henry Warren Of the b. Z
Church.
The following resolution was adop
ted at the recent Ecumemcal Confer
: ence: That in view of the essential
: pacific character of Christianity, thi
= Ecumenical Conference cannot Blu
deeply deplore the present aspect {
the professedly Christian world, so Of
ten desolated by destructive and san
d culinary wars, and during the time {
nominal peace, the resources Of tn
nations are exhausted in enormoJ
= preparations for war; which f0mer
mutual jealousy and hatred; impO;
upon the people intolerable burden
d Of taxation and military servitude, al
* exercise in many ways an inhuent
most injurious to the interests OF I
iigion and morality, The Conferen'
therefore, commends to the sympatt
II and support of the Churches al VII
and well-directed efforts to substitu
II arbitration or other forms Of amicab
Of and pacific references in the settl
. ment of international differences
, place of an appeal to the sword, an
thus help to hasten the coming of thi
Z" reign of peace so closely associate
Is by promise and prophecy with the L
ie innate triumph of Christianity.
- We remember the brilliant army
d men that have trod this soil, who
10 light and heart have gone out oyer 8
j. the earth. We remember the ma
y whose name we benr, whose dust Ii
d behind Us, whose heart, as We hear
rs this morning, Was strangely warmed
es not far from where we stand; who b
rs came a reformer in temperance HUI
to dred years before the Maine law al
" the Kansas constitution We're formel
r whose great soul was fred with the O.
II thusiasm of missions while it was
ID yet a Utopian idea, whose fires mar
matters could not quench; who, bcir
dead, speaks to-day in ten thousai
tongues; who more than any ms
that ever lived has woke this sin-cuI
4, Ell world into tue melodies and jul
" lees of song; whose lire has gone o.
into ali the earth, and his words in
the ends Of the world. Yes, Ii
" President, nillions-I believe son
- twenty millions-this day sit und
= the shadow Of that vine and tig-tr
: which the right hand Of the minIst
' of Methodism planted in this cons
=, Grated epot'-Rev. George Doug!ai
- Of the Methodist Church Of Canada.