The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-06
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the Heavens as a curtain; and Isaiah the
mountains as weighed in a balance,
and the waters as held in the
hollow of the Omnipotent hand; and
God touched David until, in the lat
ter part of the Psalms, he gathers
great choir standing in galleries above
each other-beasts and men in the first
gallery; above them hills and mountains;
above them, fire and hail and tempest;
above them, sun, moon and stars
of light; and then, on the high
est gallery, arrays the hosts Of
angels; and then, standing before this
great choir, reaching from the depths OF
earth to the heights OF Heaven, like the
leader of great orchestra, he LES his
hands, crying "Praise ye the Lord. Let
every thing that hath breath praise ye the
Lord; :" and all earthly creatures in their
song, and mountains with their waving
Oedars, and tempests in their thunder and
rafting hail, and stars on all their tremb-
ling harps of light, and angels on their
thrones, respond in magnificent acclaim:
''Praise We the Lord. Let every thing that
hath breath praise the Lord" God knew
that the pensive and complaining world
would want to read it, and so he inspires
jeremiah to write: sob, that my head
were waters and mine eyes fountains of
tears" God knew that the lovers the
Wild, the romantic, and the strange would
I
write Of mysterious rolls, and winged
creatures, and flying wheels of fire. God
prepared it for all zones-for the arctic
and the tropics as well as for the temper
ate zone. Cold-blooded Greenlanders
would find much to interest them, and the
tanned inhabitants at the equator would
find his passionate nature boil with the
vehemence of heavenly truth. The Arab
ian would read it on his dromedary, and
the Laplander seated on the swift sled,
and the herdsman of Holland guarding
/ the cattle in the grass, and the Swiss girl
| reclining amid Alpine crags. Oh, when
| see that the Bible is suited in style, exact
ly suited to all ages, to all conditions, to
all 1ands,I can not help repeating the con-
i clusion of my text: ''The statues OF the
/ Lord are right"
| 1 remark again, the Bible is right In it's
| doctrines. Man sinner Christ Saviour
the two doctrines. Man must come
1 down--his pride, his Righteousness,
| his worldliness. Christ, the anointed
must go up. If it had not been for the
setting forth of the atonement, Moses
would never have described the creation;
| prophets would not have predicted; apos-
ties would not have preached. It seemB
to me as if Jesus, in the Bible, were stand.
| ing on the platform in a great amphtthea-
ter, and as if the prophets were behind
| him, throwing light forward on His sacred
person; and as if the apostles and evan
| gelists stood before Him, like foot-hghts
| throwing up their light into His blessed
countenance; and then as if all the earth
and Heaven were the applauding auditory.
/ The Bible speaks of Pisgah and Carmel
and Sinai, but makes all mountains bow
down TO Calvary. The fiocks led
/ over the Judean hills were emblems
of ''the Lamb of God that talzeth away
the sin Of the world;" and the lion leap
ing out of its lair was an emblem OF ''the
lion of Judah's tribe" / will, in my next
breath, recite to you the most wonderful
| sentence ever written: ''This is a faithful
saying, and worthy of all acceptatiOn, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners" No wonder that when Jesus
was born in Bethlehem Heaven SYM
pathized with earth, and q wave of Joy
dashed clear over the battlements and
dripped upon the shepherds in the words;
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men," In my
next sentence every word weighs a ton:
"God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever be-
lieveth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life" Show me any other
book with such a doctrine--sO high, so
deep, so vast.
Again, the Bible is right in it's effects.
do not care where You put tho Bible, it
just suits the place. You put 10 in the
hand Of a man seriously concerned about
his soul. / see people often giving to tho
serious soul this and that book. It may be
very well; but there is no book like the
Bible. He reads the commandments, and
pleads to the indictment eguilty.v He
takes up the Psalms of David and says.
"They just describe my feelings" He flies
to good works. Paul starts him out OF that
by the announcement; "A man is not
justified by works" Ee falls back in his
encouragement. The Bible starts him up
with the sentence; "Remember Lots wife.
Grieve not the Spirit. Flee the wrath to
come" Then the man in despair begins to
cry out: 'What shall / dor Where shall /
gO?0 and a voice reaches him, saying:
"Come unto me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and / will give you rest"
Take this Bible, and place 10 in the
hands of men in trouble? j. there any
| body here in trouble? All i might better
ask, are there any here who have never
been in troubley Put this Bible in the
hands of the troubled. Nou find that as
some Of the best berries grow on the
sharpest thorns, so soma Of the sweetest
consultations of Che Gospel grow on the
most stinging Affections. You thought
| | that death had grasped your child. Oh,
no; it was only the heavenly shepherd
: taking the lamb out Of the cold. Christ
bent over You as you held the child in
= your lap and putting his arms gently
I around the little one said: "Of such is
, the kingdom Of Heaven Put the Bible
, in the school. Palsied be the hand that
, would take the Bible from the college
and the school. Educate only a mans
head and you make him an inndei.
Educate only a mans heart and you make
him 81 fanatic Educate them both to-
gether and you have the noblest work Of
God. An educated mind without moral
principle is a ship without a helm q rush-
ing rail train without brakes or reversing
rod to control the speed. Put the Bible in
the family. There il lies on the table an
! unlimited power. Polygamy and unscrfpt-
ural divorce are prohibited. Parents are
kind and faithful, children polite and
obedient. Domestic sorrows lessenod by
/ being divided, joys increased by being
. multiplied. o father! q mOtherl take
r down that long-ueglected Bible and read
! IL yourselves and let you children read II.