The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-01

nubltcly thank God that never proposed
It home TO give anything for any cause Oe
humanity or religion but the other par6S
ner In the domestic firm approved it. And
when 1t seemed beyond my ability and
| faith in God was necessary, she had three
fOurths of the faith. But 1 know men
who, when they contribute to charitable
objects, are afraid that the wife shall find
/ it out What q whitening curse such
wife must be to good mani
Then there are others u9der the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
/ get things cheapest2 You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
| You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
| he bucket. You buy -four by the barrel,
they buy it by the pound. You get ap-
| parel cheap because you pay cash. They
| pay dear because they have to get trust
| ed. And the Bible was right when it said:
| The destruction OF the poor is their power
~.
Then there are those who made a mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows
all there days. ''Do you not know that
that man was once in PRISON." Is whisper
ed. Or. "Do you know that that man once
/ attempted suicide?'' Or, "Do you know
that that man once absconded?" Or. 500
/ you know that that man was once dis
/ charged for dishonesty" Perhaps there
was only one wrong deed in the mans
| life, and that one act haunts the subse-
| quent half-century of his existence.
/ Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their RASH
ness throws them into wild enterprises, or
| their trepidation makes them decline
great opportunity, or there is a vein of
melancholy in their disposition that de-
| feats them, or they have an endowment of
over-mirth that causes the impression of
| insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in their
| personal appearace, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
| fashioned heir features and their COM
| plexion, and their stature, the size of their
nose and mouth, and hands and feet, and
| gave them the gait and the general
| appearance; and they forget that much
of the worlds best work, and the
church's best work, has been
done by homely people; and that Paul the
| Apostle is said to have been hump backed,
| and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia,
while many of the finest in appearance
have passed their time before fattering-
| looking glasses, or in studying killing at
titudes, and in displaying the richness Of
wardrobes-not one ribbon, or vest, or
sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring Of
| which they have had brains enough ca
| earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivitIes from The
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to one even after he is born again.
| They have a natural crankiness that is
| two hundred and seventy-five years old.
1t came over with their -grandfath-
ers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. Il
was born on the banks of the Thames, or
the Clyde, OF the Tiber, o. the Rhine, and
has survived all the plaques ana epidem-
les of many generations, and is living TO
| day on the banks of the Hudson, or the
| Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La
| Plata. And when a man tries to stop this
! evil ancestral proclivity he is like man
on 4 rock in the rapids of Niagara bold
ing on with grip from which the swifs
currents are tryin to sweep Vim n o ne
| abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an over burdened world,
an overworked world! 1t is an awfully
tired world. 1t is a dreadfully unfortu-
nate world. Scientists are trying to find
out the cause of these earthquakes in all
| lands, cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some
/ say this and some say that. have taken
/ the diagnosis of what is the matter with
the EARTH 1t has so many burdens on il
and so many fires within it, it has a fit.
1t can not stand such a circumference and
such a diameter. Some new Cotopaxi, or
| Sromboli, or Vesuvius, vii. open, and
| then all will be at peace for the natural
world. But what about the moral woes of
the world, that have rocked all nations,
and for six thousand years science pro-
poses moth ing but knowledge, and many
people that know the most are the most
uncom forted?
In the way of practical relief for all dis
advantages and all woes. the only voice
that is worth listening to on this subject
is the voice of Christianity, which
is the voice of Almighty God. Whether
1 have mentioned the particular dis.
advantage under which you labor or
not, distinctly declare, in the name of
my God, that there is a way out and a wav
up for all of you. You can not be any
worse off than that Christian young
woman who was in the Pemberton mills
when they fell some years ago, and from
under the fallen timbers she was heard
singing:
am going home to die no more.
Take good courage from that Bible, all
Of whose promises are for those in bad
predicament. There are better days,foF,
you, either on earth or in Heaven. 1 put
my hand under your chin and lift your
face into the light of the coming dawn.
Have God. on your side, and then you
have for reserve troops all the armies of
Heaven, the smallest company of which is
10000 chariots, and the smallest battalion
$4,000, the lightnings of Heaven their
drawn swords.
An ancient warrior saw an overpower-
ing host come down upon his small CONF
pany of armed men, and, mounting his
horse with handful of sand, he threw il
in the air, crying:
'Let their faces be covered with conf u
sion2"
And both armies heard his voice, and
history says it seemed a S though the dust
thrown in the air had become so many
angels of supernatural deliverance, and
the weak overcome the mighty, and the
immense host fell back, and the small
number marched on. Have faith in God.
and though all the allied forces of dis
enlargement seem to come against you ia
battle array, and their laugh of defiance
and contempt resounds through all the
| valleys and noun tains, you might. by
faith in God and importunate prayer pick
up handful of the very dust of your hus
| initiation and throw it into the air, and it
shall become angels of victory over all th q
armies of earth and hell. The voices OF
your adversaries, human and satanic,
| shall be covered with confusion, while
you shall be not only conquerer, but more
| than conqueroT, through that grace which
has so often made the fallen helmet of an
overthrow antagonist the footstooI OF q
Christian victory.
Governor RusL and the Burglar.
Milwaukee Sentinel
A gentleman who was in Madison, Wis,