The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-26
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tian or not do not know, but I know
that he considered appreciation OF fut-
ure existence the mightiest hindrance 70
self-destruction.
For who could bear the whips and soorRs OF
time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans CON
tumeiy.
The pangs of dispisd love. the laws delay,
The tnsolence of of1ee, and the spurns
That patient merit OF the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quetus make
With a. bare bodlSing Who would fardela fAar.
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 4 u
But that the dread OF something after death
The undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns-puzzIes the willf
Would to God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right verdict
and while in q case of responsibility
they say: ''While this man was demented
he took his life," in the other case say.
Having read infdel books and attended
tnhdel lectures, which obliterated from
this mans mind all appreciation Of any
thing like future retribution, he commit
ted self-slaughter.
Ahl infdelity, stand up and take thy
sentenced In the presence of God and
angels and men, stand up, thou monster,
they lip blasted with blasphemy, thy
cheek SCARED with lust, thy breath foul
with the corruption of agesl Stand up
Oth14 llAiAt BOats DuAHdEQ OF lud nALIOuHe
leper of the centuries Stand up, thou
monster infidelity! Part man, part
panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand
up and take thy sentenCel Thy hands
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed. thy feet crimson with the human
gore through which thou hast waded,
stand up and take thy sentenced Down
with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs
and groans of families thou hast blasted
nd wpI had NF
sharpened for others. and let thy music
be the everlas ting miserere OF those
whom thou hast dammedl 1 brand the
forehead Of inhdelity with all the crimes
of -immolation for the last century
on the part Of those who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should
seem to be unbearable, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest, do
not consider yourself as worse than
others. Christ Himself was tempted to
cast Himself from the roof of the temple,
but as He resisted, 50 resist ye. Christ
came to medicine all our wounds In
your trouble 1 pres scribe life instead of
death. People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it. have gone
songful on the way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology of your life with as
much precision as He keeps the chronolo-
gy of nations, your death as well as your
cradle.
Why was it that at midnight just ae
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free from
bondageP The four hundred and thirty
years were up at twelve o'clock that
night. The four hundred and thirty years
were not up at eleven, and ono O'Clock
would have been tardy and too late. The
four hundred and thirty years were up at
twelve O'Clock, aud the destroying angel
struck the blow, and Israel was free.
And God knows just the hour when 1t is
time to lead you up from earthly bond
age BY His grace make not the worst
OF things but the best Of them. If you
must take the pills do not chew them.
Your everlasting rewards win accord with
your earthly pertur bations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa chain of gold as heavy
as had been a chain of iron. For the ask
ing-and do not know TO whom / speak
in this august assemblage, but the word
may be especially appropriation your
asking you may have the same grace that
was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius,
who down in the darkest of dungeons,
dated his letter from ''the deleotable
orchard of the Leonine prison"
And remember that this brief life of
ours is surrounded by a rim, very thin
but very important rim, and close to that
rim is a great eternity, and you had bet
ter keep out of it until God breaks that
rim and separates this from that. To get
rid Of the SORROWS of earth, do not rush
into greater sorrows. To get rid Of
swarm of summer insects leap not into
jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and it is so
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens,
oonfounding astronomers as 10 what
it can be, is the waving Of the ban.
ners of the procession come TO take
the conquerors home from church mtli
tant to church triumphant and you and
have ten thousand reasons for wanting TO
go there, but we will never get there
either by self-immolation or impenttenoy.
All our sins slain by the Christ who came
to do that thing. we want TO go in at Just
the time divinely arranged, and from q
couch divinely spread, aud then the oiang
Of the sepulchral gates behind US will bs
overpowered by the clang Of the opening
Of the solid pearl before u.s. o God,
whatever others may choose, give mo
Christians life, Christians DEATH
Christians burial, a Christians immor-
talityl