The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-11-30
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Ii I see ten or dfteen figures in hnOu
and I attempt to add them up, and add
them two or three times, make them diff
ferent each time. But / have admired
the way an accountant will take long
line Of figures, and without single mis-
take, and with great celebrity, announces
the aggregate. Now, in the last great
settlement, there viii be correct ac-
count presented. God has kept a long
line of sins, long line OF broken Sab
baths, long line of profaRe words, =
long line of discarded sacramSnts, q
long line Of misimprOved privileges.
They will all be added up, and before
angels, and devils, and men, the aggre-
gate will be announced. Oh, that will be
the great day of settlement. I have
to ask the question: Gam / ready for
it?" 1t is of more importance to me to
answer that question in regard to my
self than in regard to you, and It Is OF
more Importance for you to answer tt in
regard to yourself than in regard to me.
Every man for himself in that day.
Every woman for herself in that day. eff
you be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy.
self; if thou scornesk thou alone shall
bear it," We are apt to speak of the last
| day as an occasion OF vociferation-a
great demonstration OF power and pomp;
but there will be on that day, 1 think.
| few moments OF entire silence; l think q
| tremendous, an overwhelming silence; /
| think it will be such silence as the
| earth never heard, It will be at the
moment when all nations are listening
/ for their doom.
learn also from this parable of the
| text that our degrees of happiness In
| Heavenswill be graduated according to
| our degrees of usefulness on earth. Sew
| eral of the commentators agree in max
| ing this parable the same one as in luke,
where one man was made ruler over two
cities. Would It be fair and right that
! the professed Christian man who has
| lived very near the line between the
world and the church-the man who has
| often compromised his Christian chRrac-
/ ter-the man who has never spoken
/ out for God-the man who has
| never been known as q Chris~
| tian only on communion days
the man whose great struggle has been to
see how much Of the world he could get
| and yet win Heavens 1t right to sup
pose that that man will have as grand
/ and glorious a seat in Heaven as the man
who gave all his energies of body, mind
| and soul to the service of God? The dy-
! ing thief entered Heaven, but not with
| the same startling acclaim as that which
| greeted Paul, who had gone under scorch-
| ings, and across dungeons, and through
maltreatments into the kingdom OF glory.
| One star differs from another star In
glory, and they who toll nightly for
Christ on earth shall have a far greater
reward than those who have rendered
| only half r service.
Some OF you are fastening on toward
| the reward of the righteous. l want ts
| cheer you up at the thought that there
will be some kind of reward waiting for
| you. There are Christian people ia this
house who are very near Heaven. This
week some of you may pass out into the
light of the unsetttng sun. l saw blind
man going along the road with his stan,
and he kept pounding the earth and then
stamping with his foot I said to him
'tWhat do you do that for2" 'Oh,n he
said, 81 can tell by the sound Of the
ground when I am near dwelling"
And some of you can tell by the sonnd OF
your earthly pathway that you are COM
ing near your Fathers house. con-
gratulate you. Oh, weather beaten vOy.
ayers, the storms are driving you into
the harboT Just as when you were
looking for a friend, and came VI
to the gate of the house, and you
were talking with the servant when
your friend hoisted the window and shout.
ed: ''Come int come in!" Just so, when
| you come to the gate of the future world,
and you are talking with Death, the black
porter at tho gate, methinks Christ will
hoist the window and say: "COme In
come ini l will make thee ruler over ten
| cities" In anticipation of that land I do
not wonder that Augustus Toplady, the
author of Crock OF Ages" declared In
his last moment: II have nothing more
| to pray for; God has given me every
i thing. Surely EO man can live on earth
after the glorieg / have Witnessed" Oh,
| my brothers and sisters, how sweetit will
be, after the long wilderness march, to
| get home. That was a bright moment for
/ the tired dove in the time OF the Deiuge
when it found its way safely into the win
| dow Of the ark.