The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-27


storms. Pull away, my ladsl Let US
reach them. Alas! one is washed off and
gonel There is one more to be saved. Let
US push out for that one. "Clutch the
rope, o dying man! Clutch it as with a
death grip. Steady now, on the slippery
places. SteadyI Therei Saved Savedl"
just as I thought. For Christ has declared
that there are some still in the breakers
who shall come ashore.
Other sheep l have which are not of this
fold.
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen, ana when I go fishing do not
wantto go among other churches, but into
the wide world; not sitting along a small
creek where eight or ten other persons are
sitting with hook and line; but, like the
fishermen of Newfoundland, sailing off
and dropping net away outside forty or
fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are
non church -goers here who will come in
Next Sabbath they viii again be in the
religious service. They are this moment
being swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will be heard in public prayer.
They will die in peace, their bed sur
rounded by Christian sYmpathies, and
be carried out by devout men to be buried,
and on their grave be chiseled the words:
Precious in the sight OF the Lord is the
death of His saints.
And on resurrection day you will get
up with the dear children you have al
ready buried, and with your Christian
parents who have already Won the palm.
And all that grand and glorious history
begins now.
Other sheep have, which are not of this
fold.
l remark again: The Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to find a great many of his
sheep among those who are positive re-
jecters of Christianity. l do not know
how you came to reject Christianity. 1t
may have been through hearing Theodore
Parker preach, or through reading Re
mans ''Life of Jesus" or through the inf
del talk of some young man in your store.
Itmay have been through the trickery of
some professed Christian man who dis
gusted you with religion. l do not ask
you how you became so; but you frankly
tell me that you do reject it. You do not
believe that Christ is a divine being, al
though you admit that he was a very
good man. You do not believe that the
Bible was inspired of God, although you
think that there are some very fine
things in it. You believe that the Scrip
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/ lieve that you do not believe.
| And yet you are an accom- modating
| man. Every body that knows you says
that of you. If I should ask you to do a
| kindness for me, or if any one else should
ask of you a kindness, yon would do it.
| Now have kindness to ask of you to-
day. 1t is something that will cost you
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! "dere IS mediclne that VIII cure you
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YOU"
you "oulo say nave no ueiio'
IN It,"
would say; ont you take u te
obllge meF"
| "Weli," you would say, III us any ac-
commodatlon to you III take It."
MY trlend' VIII you be Jus1 as accoiilino-
daIlhg IN ihaOoerS Oh Feligion'
| 1hefe are some OF you VINO nave louhu
out thaG Vhls world can not satlsIy youl
soul GU are Ike the man VINO toId me
after the service was over;
81 have tried this world and found it an
insufficient portion. Tell me of something
BETTER"
You have come to that. You are sick
for the need Of Divine medicament. Now
l come and tell you of a physician who
will cure you, who has cured hundreds
and hundreds who were sick as you are.
ooh" you say, 81 have no confidence in
/ IL,
But will you not try him? Accomodat te
me in this matter; oblige me in this mat
ter; just try him. am very certain hC
will cure you. You reply: 81 have nc
| special confidence in him; but if you ash
me as a matter of accommodation, introduce
him" So / introduce him-Christ, the
| physician who has cured more blind eyes
and healed more CHASTITY wounds, anC
| bound up more broken hearts, than all the
doctors since the time of Hsculapius.
That Divine physician is here. Are yoU
not ready to try him! VIII you not as
nure matter of exneriment state your case
| before him now? Hold nothing back from
him. If YOU can not pray, if you do no
know how to pray any other way, say:
| ooh. Lord Jesus Christ. this is a strang,
thing for me to dol know nothing about
the formulas of religion. These Christian
neonle have been talking so long abou'
what thou canst do for me, L am ready t.
do whatever thou commandest me to do.
am ready to take whatever thou command
est mo to take. If there be any power il
religion. as these people say. let me hav,
the advantaoe of it.U
WuI,ou trv that experiment? do no
ot this pofpt Of nv discourse say tha
there is ANYTHING i'm religion: but / simply
saw trv it-trv it. Do not take my coun
sci. or the counsel of any Clergyman, i
Won despise clergvmen. Perhaps we may
be talking professionally: perhaps we MAJ
he bvpocritfcal in our utterances; psrhap
our advice is not worth taking. Thel
take the counsel of some very respectable