The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-15
NO.5

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associations. Wbss prospect OF social
publication can there be as long as at
summer watering places it II usual to see
! a young woman of exceuent rearing
stand, and simper, and giggle, and roll up
] her ewes sideways before one of those
| frst-cIass satyrs of fashionable life, and
/ on the ballroom floor join him in the
I square dance, the maternal chaperone
meanwhile beamIng from the wall on the
scene. Matches are made in Hea ven, they
say. Not such matches, for he BRINE
stone indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing oil our cities,
| By some these immoralities are called
peccadilloes, gallant les, eccentr cities
and are relegated to the realms OF iocular-
! ity, and few efforts are being made against
| it, God bless the "White Cross" move-
: raent, as it is called, the excellent and tall
| ented Miss Frances Willard, its ablest adj
vocate ON this side the sea, an organiza-
ton making a mighty assault ON this evilI
/ God forward the tracts on this ject
/ distributed by the religious tract societies
| of the land! God help parents in the
| great work they are doing in trying to
! start their children with pure princplesl
/ God help all legislators in their attempt to
! inhibit this crime.
But is this all Then It is only ques-
tion of time when tho last vestige OF pur-
ity and home will vanish out of sight.
Human arms. human pens, human voices
human talents are not sufficient, 1 begin
| to look up. listen for artillery running
down the sapphire boulevards of heaven
I watch to see if in the morning light
there be not the fash Of descending scim-
eters Oh, for God! Does it not seem
time for his appearance? Is it not time
for all lands to cry out:
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scat.
tered
got a letter few days ago asking mo
If did not think that the ear thqualle in
Charleston was the divine chast .sement of
that city for its sins. That letter I answer
now by saying that if all our American
cities got all the punishment they deserve
for their horrible impurities, the earth
would long ago have cracked open into
crevices stranscontuental, and taken down
all our cities; and Brooklyn and New
York would have gone so far under that
the tip of our church spires would be five
hundred feet below the surface. It is of
the Lords mercies that we have not been
! consumed
Not only are the affairs Of this world SO
a-twist, a-jangle and racked, that there
q
! but there is another reason. Have you not
noticed that in the history OF this planet
| God turns a leaf about every two thou.
sand years? God turned leaf and this
world was fitted for human residence.
About two thousand more years
passed along and God turned anoth-
er leaf, and it was the deluge.
About two thousand more years pass
ed and it was the appearance of
Christ. Almost two thousand more years
have passed by, and he will probably soon
turn another leaf What it shall be I can
not say 1t may be the demolition of all
these monstrosites of turptude and the
establishment of righ eousness in all the
earth. He can do it, AMI ne viii do It.
am as confident as if il were already ac-
complished. How easily he can do it my
text suggests. It does not osk God to
strike with his right hand, or stamp with
his foot, or hurl a thun1erbolt of his
power, but just to get up from the throne
on which he sits. Only that viii be noc-
essary.
Let God arise
1t will he no exertion OF omnipotonca. It
will be no bending or bracine for q mighty
lift. It will be no sending down the sky
Of the white horse cavalry Of Heaven or
/ rumbIing war cbariots. He VIII only rise.
Now he is sitting In the majesty and pa
| thence of his reign. He is from his ihrona
watching the ering of all the forces Of
blasphemy and drunkenn IS aud impurity
and fraud and Sabhath-breaking, and
when they have done their worst and are
most securely organized he will bestir
himself and say:
"My enemies have defad mo long
enough, and their cup Of iniquity Is full
pentance. This dispensation Of patience
is ended, and the faith of the good shall be
tried no longer"
And now God begins to rise, ond what
mountains give way under his right foot
and what continents sink under his left
foot know not; but stonding in the fun
height and radiance and grandeur Of his
| nature, he looks this way and that and
| how his enemies are scattered Blas-
phemers, white and dumh, reel down 60
their doom; and those who have trufiicked
in that which DESTROYS the bodies and
souls of men and families viii fly with cut
foot on the down grade Of broken decant-
ers; and the polluters OF society, that did
their bad work with large fortunes and
high social sphere, viii oy rtake in
their descent the degraded rabbla
Of underground city life rs they
tumble over the eternal pfeciaic and the
world shall be left clear AMI clean for
the friends Of humanity and the worshiD-
ers of Almighty God. The last thorn
plucked off, tho worl1 viii DO left a bloom
ing rose on the bosom Of that Christ no
came to gardenizs IL. This earth that
stood snarling with its tigerish passion,
thrusting out its raging claws, shall lie
down lamb at tho feet Of the Lamb Of
God who took away the sins of the world.
And now the best thing / can wish for
you, and the best thing can wish for my
self, is that we may be found his warm
and undIsguised and enthusiastic friends
in that hour when God shall rise aud his
enemies shall be scattered
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