The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-25
SUBSCRIPTION: sl.OO Per Year.

we must look out on that large uiass Of
persons in our day who would throw dis
credit upon the Lords day. There are
two things which Christian people ought
never to give up: the one is the Bible, the
other is the Sabbath. Take away oney
and you take both. Take either. and
farewell to Christianity in this country,
farewell to our civil and religious hber-
ties. When they go, all go. He who has
ever spent Sunday in Paris, or Antwerp
or Rome, if he be an intelligent Chris
tian, will pray God that the4day viii never
come when the Sabbath Of Continental
Europe shall put its foot upon our shores.
l had friend in Syracuse who lived TO be
one hundred years Of age. He said TO me
in his ninety ninth year: 81 went across
the mountains in the early history Of this
country. Sabbath morning came. We
were beyond the reach of civilization.
Ny comrades were all going out for an
excursion. I said: mo, won't go; Il is
Sunday Why, they laughed. They said;
we haven't any Sunday here.' oh,
yes,' SAID, you have. brought it with
me over the mountains
There are two or three ways in which
we can war against Sabbath breaking
usages in this day, and the first thing Is
to get our children right upon this subjeos
and teach them that the Sabbath day is
the holiest of all the days, and the best
child under the paternal roof to keep tho
Lords day there are nine hundred and
ninety chances out Of a thousand it will
never learn to keep the Sabbath. You
may think to shirk responsibility in the
matter, and send your child to Sabbath
school and the house Of God. That viii
not relieve the matter. / want to tell you
in the name of Christ, my maker and my
Judge, that your example viii be more
potential than any instruction they get
elsewhere, and if you disregard the Lords
day yours elf, or in anywise throw con-
tempt upon 1t, you are blasting your chill
dren with an infinite curse. 1t is rough
truth / know, told in rough way; but il
is Gods truth, new ertheless. Your child
may go on to seventy or eighty
years of age, but that child viii never
get over the awful disadvantage Of hav-
ing had a Sabbath breaking father or
a Sabbath breaking mother. 1t is the JOY
of many of us that we can look back to ON
early home where God was honored, and
when the Sabbath came it was a day OF
great conservation and JOY. We remem-
Der the old faces around the table that
Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt when
we think of those blessed associations,
and we may have been off and committed
many indiscretions and done many wrong
things, but the day will never come when
we forget the early home in which Gods
day was regarded, and father and mother
told us to keep holy the Sabbath.
There is another way in which we can
war against the Sabbath breaking usagea
of the country at this time, and that is by
making our houses of worship attractive
and the religious services inspiring.
plead not for gorgeous audience cham
Der; plead not for groined rafters or
magnificent fresco; but / do plead for
comfortable churches, home-like churches
places where the church going popula-
ton behave as they ought to. Make the
church welcome to all, however poorly
clad they may be, or whatever may have
been their past history; for / think the
Church Of God is not so much made for
you who could have churches in your own
house, but for the vast population OF our
great cities who are treading on toward
death, with no voice Of mercy 10 arr
rest them. Ah2 when the pr0dig8A
comes into the church, do not stare &c
him as though he had no right to come.
Give him the best seat you can find
for him. Sometimes a man wakes up
from his sin, and he says: "I'll go to the
house Of God" Perhaps he comes from
one motive, perhaps from another. He
finds the church dark aud the Christian
people frigid land there are no people on
earth who can be more frigfd than Chris
tian people when they try, and the music
!
pose one OF these men enters the church.
AS he comes in he hears a song which his
mother sang when he was a boy; no re-
members it. He sits down, and some one
hands him a book, open at
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me.
fFYes,U he says, 81 have heard that
many times" He sees cheerful Christian
people there, every mans face psalm Of
Ar,C Co Ia IN IN
have this so every Sunday? have heard
that the house of God was a doieful place,
and Christians were lugubrious and re-
pelingl / have really enjoyed myseltP
The next Sabbath the man is again in the
same place. Tears of repentance start
down his cheek, he begins to prayi and
when the communion table Is spread, he
sits at ii, and some one reaches over and
says: 81 am surprised to find you here.
I Thought you didn't believe in such
things" "Ahp' he says, 81 have been
| captured. 1 came In one day, and found
| you were all so loving and cheerful here
| that I concluded would come among you.
Where thou goest I will go; thy people
shall be my people, and thy God my GOO.
Where thou diest will 1 die, and there viii
| 1 be buried"
Ahl you can't drive men out Of the ir
sins, but you can coax them out you can
! charm them out.
| I would to God that we could all come to
/ a higher appreciation Of this Sabbath her.
/ itagei We can not count the treasures OF
! one Christian Sabbath. It spreads out
/ over us the two wings Of the archangei OF
/ mercy. Oh, blessed Sabbath blessed
| Sabbath They scon a great deal about
the old Purftanic Sabbaths, and there Is q
/ wonderful amount Of wit expended upon
/ the subject now-the Sabbaths they useu
to have IN New England
never lived ia New Englan d, Dut
would rather trust the old Puritanlo SAD
bath, with all its faults, than this modern
Sabbath, which is fast becoming no SAD
hath at all. II our modern Sabbattsm
shall produce as staIwart Christian enaf =
| acter as the old New England Purltsihio 70
! Sabbatism, shall be satisfied ana bnali
| be surprised.
Oh. blessed dayi Blessed dayi should
like to die some Sabbath mornings Hueh
the air Is full Of church music ah1 lue
bells are ringing. Leaving my nome
group with a dying blessing; l shoulu las
to look off upon some Chrlstlah u5 ~
blaoe chanting the praises OF Goa ~
went nm 10 ioin the one hundred ana Lorty
| and four thousand and the thousands y
thousands standing around the throne oi
Jesus. Harki hear the bell OF tne oiu
kirk on the hillside OF Heaven ln {
wedding bell, for behold the DIIuosl -. ~.
cometh. 10 is a victor's bell lot We hts
moro than conouerors through Him Whc
hath loved us. It is a Sabbath bell for 4
calls the nations Of earth and Heaven q
everlasting repOse-
oh when thou city Of my God'
Shall Thy courts ascenaf
3 Where congregations ne'er Dreak -.
3 Ana sabbaths have no enas~
r Il one has lost bY death az the eeares
8 and rnoat cherished intmacies Of this lite
D then tins he must accept bis situation .
: providence has appointed Il for hiIa, an
~ the nest he can with what ProVidenc