The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-23

and the LORD supper are aQueuuctS. w a.
ter to slake the thirst, water to wash the
unclean, water tossed high up in the light
of the sun of righteousness, showing US
the rainbow around the throne. o, was
there ever a garden so thoroughly irri-
| gated? You know that the beauty of YER
sailles and Chatsworth depends very much
upon the great supply of water / came
to the latter place, Chatsworth, one day
| when strangers are not TO be admitted;
but by an inducement which always seemed
as applicable to an Englishman as an
American, got in, and then the gardener
went far up above the stairs of stone and
/ turned on the water. l saw it cleaning
on the dry pavement, coming down
from step to step until it came so
near 1 could hear the musical rush,
| and all over the high, broad stairs
| it came foaming, flashing, roaring down,
| until sunlight and wave in gleesome
wrestle tumbled at my feet. So it is with
| the Church of God. Every thing comes
| from above; pardon from above, joy from
/ above, adoption from above, sanctificR-
tion from above. o, that now God would
! turn on the waters of salvation, that they
| might flow down through this heritage,
and that to-day we might find this very
| place to be "Elim, with twelve wells of
water and threeAscore and ten palm trees"
Harkl / hear the latch of the garden
gate. and look to who is coming.
hear the voice Of Christ. 81 am come
into my garden"
say: "Come in, 0 Jesus we have
been waiting for Thee; walk ell through
the paths. Look at the flowers; look at
| the fruit; pluck that which thou wilt for
thyself."
Jesus comes into the garden and up TO
that old man, and touches him and says;
! "Almost home, father, not many more
aches for thee; | will never leave thee;
take courage little longer and / will
steady thy tottering steps, and l will
soothe thy troubles and give thee rest
Courage, old man"
Then Christ goes up another garden
| path, and he comes to a soul in trouble
and says: "Peacel all is well. 1 have
seen thy tears. have heard thy prayer
The sun shall not smite thee by day nor
the moon by night. The Lord shall pre-
serve thee from all evil; He will preserve
thy soul. Courage, 0 troubled spiritP
Then L see Jesus going up another gar
| den path, and l see great excite ment
among the leaves, and hasten up that
garden path to see what Jesus is doing
there, and 10 he is breaking off flowers,
sharp and clean from the stem, and l say:
"stop, Jesus, don't kill those beautiful
! flowers"
into my garden to gather lilies, and I
mean to take these up to a higher terrace
for the garden around my palace, and
there / win plant them; and in better soil
and in better air they shall put for tn
| brighter leaves and sweeter red olence, and
no frost shall touch them forever"
And looked up into his face and said:
! "Well, it is His garden, AMI He has a right
to do what He will with it. Thy will be
done"-the hardest prayer man ever
made.
1t has seemed as If Jesus Christ took the
best. From many of your households the
best one is gone. You know that she was
too good for this world. She was the
gentlest in her ways, the deepest in her
affections. And when at the last the sick
ness came you had no faith in medicines
You knew when the hour Of parting had
come and when, through the rich grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surren-
dered that treasure, you said, lord
| Jesus, take it. 1t is the best we have;
take it. Thou art worthy" The others in
the household may have been Of grosser
mold. She was of the finest. One day
man was taking from the depot TO a
village. He was very rough and coarse,
and very blasphemous. But after a while
he mellowed down as he began to talk of
his little son whom he had lost. "Oh, sir"
rest Of ms. He never used any bad lam
guage; no, sir. 1 never heard him use a
bad word in my life. He used to say his
prayers, and we laughed at him; but he
would keep saying his prayers, and L
often thought: Il can't keep that child
and / said to my wife: Mother we can't
keep that child But, sir, the day he was
drowned, and they brought him in and
laid him down on the carpet, so white and
so beautiful my heart broke, sir, knew
we couldn't keep him"
| The Heaven of your little ones viii not
be fairly begun until you get there. All
the kindnesses shown them by immortals
will not make them forget You. There
| they are, the radiant throngs that went
| out from your homes. / throw a kiss TO
the sweet darlings. They are oil well now
ia the palace. The crippled child has a
| sound foot now.
A little lame child says: "Ma, will be
lame in Heavenr"
"No, my darling, you won't be lame IN
| Heaven?"
| A little sick child says: "Ma, will be
! sick in HeavenY'
"No, my dear, you won't be sick in
| Heaven"
A little blind child says: "Ma, will 1
! be blind in Heavenf"
"No my dear, you won't be blind in
| Heaven. They are all well there"
notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them, and 1 can
| not get in. 1t is so with kings garden.
| The only glimpse you ever get OF such
| garden is when the king rides out In his
/ splendid carriage. IL Is not so with this
garden, this kings garden. I throw wide
open the gate and tell you ali to come in.
No monopoly in relig ion. Whosoever will
may. Choose now between desert and a
garden. Many Of you have tried the
garden Of this worlds delight. You have
found it has been chagrin. So il was
with Theodore Hook He made all the
world laugh. He makesus laugh now when
read his poems; but he could not make
his own heart laugh. While in the midst
of his festivities he confronted looking
glass, and he saw himself, and said:
''There, that is true. / look just as ! am,
done up in body, mind and purse" So IL
was Of Shenstone, of whose garden / told
you at the beginning of my sermon. He
sat down amid those bowers and said. 81
have lost my road to happiness. / am an
CRY and envious and frantic, and despise
every thing around me just as 10 becomes
madman to do. o, ye weary soulsl come
into Christ's garden to-day and pluck a
little hearts, ease. Christ is the only rest
and the only pardon for perturbed spirit.
Do you not think your chance has almost
Gomez You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for some
good opportunity ia which tp accept
Christ, bat have postponed 10 FIVE, ten,
twenty, thirty years, do you not feel as il
now your hour of deliverance and pardon,
and salvation had Gomez o man, what
gradge hast thou against thy poor soul
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