The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-13
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the earth and Heaven were the ape
plaudfng auditory. The Bible speaks Of
Pisgah, and Carmel, and Sinai, but makes
all mountains bow down to Calvary. The
hocks led over the Judean hills were em-
blems of s'the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins of the worlds" and the lion
leaping out of its lair was an emblem of
ssthe lion of Judah's tribe" / win In my
next breath recite to you the most Won
derfuI sentence ever written:
This is a faithful saying and worthy Of all
acceptatIon, that Christ Jesus came into the
world 30 save sinners.
No wonder that when Jesus was born In
Bethlehem Heaven sympathized with
earth, and q wave of joy dashed clear
over the battlements and dripped upon the
shepherds in the words:
Glory TO God in the highest and on earth
peace and good will toward men.
In my next sentence every word weighs
r ton;
60 so loved the world that he gave hla
only begOtten Son, that whosoever believeth
In Him should not perish, but have everlast'
ing life.
Show me any other book with such a
doctrine, so high, so deep, so vast.
f. Again; The Bible is right in its effects,
I do not care where you put the Bible, it
just suits the place. You put it in the
hand of 9 man seriously concerned about
his soul. / see people often giving to the
serious soul this and that book. 1t may
! be very well, but there is no book like the
/ Bible. He reads the commandments and
| pleads to the indictment, "Guilty." He
| takes up the Psalms of David, and says,
''They just describe my feelings" He
| files the good works; Paul starts him out
of that by the announcement, "a man is
/ No inetif1ad nyy the VvoFErs falls hack
in his encouragement; the Bible starts
him up with the sentences;
Remember Lots wife.
Grive not the spirit.
| Flee the wrath to come.
Then the man in despair begins TO cry
| out: "What shall / do? Where shall I
/ goP" And a voice reaches him, saying:
Come unto me all We who are weary and
heavy laden and will give you rest.
Take this Bible and place It in the hands
| of men in trouble Is there any body here
/ in troubled All, might better ask, are
there any here who have never been in
| troubleP Put this Bible in the hands of
the troubled. You find that as some of
the best berries grow on the sharpest
thorns, so some of the sweetest consola-
tions of the gospel grow on the most sting
ing af1iction. You thought that death
had grasped your child. o, no; it was
only the Heavenly Shepherd taking lamb
out of the cold. Christ bent over you as
you held the child in your lap, and putt
| ting his arms gently around the little one,
| said:
OF such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Put the Bible in the school. Palsied be
the hand that would take the Bible from
the college and the school. Educate only
a mans head and you make him an infideL
Educate only a mans heart and you make
him a fanatic. Educate them both to-
gether and you have the noblest work Of
God.
Put the Bible on the rain train and on
ship board, till all parts of this land and
all other lands shall have it's illumination.
This hour there rises the heather worship,
and in the face of this days sun smokes
the blood Of human sacrifice. Give them
the Bible. Unbind that wife from the
funeral pyre, for no other sacrifice is
needed since the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.
/ am preaching this sermon because
there are so many who would have you
believe that the Bible is an outlandish
book and obsolete. 1t is fresher and more
intense than any book that yesterday
came out of the great publishing houses.
| Make it your guide in life and your pillow
| in death.
This book will become in your last days.
when you turn away from all other books
a solace for your soul. Perhaps Is will be
your mothers Bible, perhaps the one given
/ you on your wedding day, it's cover now
| worn out and its leaf faded with age, but
It's bright promises will fash upon the
opening gates Of Heaven.
How precious Is the book divine.
BY inspiration given;
Bright as q lamp its doctrines shine
| To guide our souls 60 heaven.
This lamp, through all the tedious nighs
OF life, shall guide our way,
Till we behold the clearer light
OF an eternal day.