The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22

FOR some emolumeNts OF crumbs to fall to
their feet, waiting all day long and waiting
all night long.
Why are, those wr etched women taken
up for drunkenness nd carried up to the
courts and put IN pris bon, of courses What
viii you do with the grog shops that make
them drinkl Nothin /. Who are those priss-
oners in jail2 One of them stole a pair Of
shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched purse. All sof them crimes
banging society less tbs n twenty and
thirty dollars. but what will you do with
the gambler who last night robbed the
young man of a Thousand dolIars2 Moth
ing. What shall be- done with that one
who breaks through and destroys the puri-
ty of a Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfid Y that beats the STRAIT
egg of he'll, filings q shrinking, shrieking
soul into bottomles.s perditions Nothing
What viii you do with those who fleece
that young man, &C sting him to purloin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who Ame to an officer of
my church and told Il be story and frantical-
~ asked what he might dos Nothing. ALL
We do well to punish small crimes, but
have sometimes thong. 1T it would be better
in some of our cities, if the officials would
only turn out from the jails the petty GRIM
inals the little Offende rs, ten-dollar des-
peradoes, and put in their places
some of the menster5 of iniquity who
streets so swiftly thai honest men have to
leap to get out o. the way of being run
over. Oh, the da unable schemes that pro-
fessed Christian men viii sometimes en-
gage in until God puts the finger of retri-
button into the co3lar of their robe of hy-
pocrisy and rips it. clear to the bottom!
But all these V Tongs are going to be
righted 1 expect to live to see the day. I
think l hear in the distance the rumbling
OF the Kings chariot. Not always in the
minority is the church of God going to be;
Or are good men going to be. The streets
IRE going to be filed with regenerated
populations. Three hundred and sixty bells
r; yng in Moscow when one prince was mar
rio Vi; but when Righteousness and peace
ks each other in all the earth ten
thol lsand times ten thousand bells
shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enricl Bed; hunger fed; crime puri-
fed; Ignorance enlightened; all the
cities s'avedI Is not this a cause worth
working in9 Oh, you think sometimes, it
does not amount to much You toll in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
encouragement. People have no faith and
say: .'It does not amount to any thing;
| YOU might as well quit that" Why, when
/ Moses stretched his hand over the Red
/ Sea. it did not seem to mean any thing
| especially. Persons came out, 1 suppose, and
/ said: s'Ahat' Some of them found out
/ what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
/ narted V did not amount to anything,
] this street ching out of his hand over the
seal But after awhile the wind blew all
night from 1he east, and the waters were
1 gathered into Il glittering paisade on either
side, and the pillows reared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits! Wheel into
/ line, oh, Israel I march, march Pearls
crash under their feet. Flying spray gathers
into rainbow archt IS of victory for the con-
ouerors to march under. Shout of hosts
| on the beach answer ing the shout of hosts
amid the sea. And when the last line OF
the Israelites reach III e beach, the cymbals
clap and the shields ella ng and waters rush
over the pursuers, and the swift-hngered
winds on the white keys of the foam play
the grand march of Israel de.6veral and the
awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and 1 go forth, and all the people
of God go forth, and they stretch forth
their hands over the sea, the boiling sea Of
|, crime and sin and Indebtedness. 1T don't
amount to anything people say. Don't
it, Gods wings of help will after awhile
begin to blow. A path viii be cleared for
the army of Christian philanthro pists. The
path will be lined with the treasures OF
Christian beneficence, and we will be
greeted to the other beach by the clapping
of all Heavens cymbals, while those who
/ pursued US and derided US and tried to de-
strOy us will go down under che sea, and
all that will be left of them will be cast
1 high and dry upon the beach. The splint-
I cred wheels of the chariot are thrust out
/ from the foam, the breathless nos tril OF a
/ rjderleSs charger.