The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-29

moneys gone. I have no treasures ON
earth I want treasures in Heaven. I
have a voice and q heart to serve God"
You say that that man has failed. He has
not failed-he has triumphed. Oh, wish
/ could persuade all the people who have
any kind of trouble never to give up.
wish they would look at the midnight
rider of the text, and that the four hOofs
Of the beast on which Nehemiah rode
might cut to pieces all your discourage.
ment and hardships and trials.
Give upl Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom Of God he can have
all his troubles hushed? Give upI Never
think of giving up. Are you borne down
with poverty? A little child was found
holding her dead mothers hand in the
darkness OF a tenement house, and some
one coming in, the little girl looked up,
while holding her dead mothers hand,
and said: sob, I do wish that God had
made more light for poor folks" Ny
dear, God will be your light, God will be
your shelter, God will be your home.
Are you borne down with the
bereavements of life. Is the house
lonely now that the child is
gone? Do not give up. Think of what
the old sexton said when the minister
asked him why he put SO much care on the
little graves in the cemetery-sO much
more care than on the larger graves, and
the old sexton said: ''Sir, you know that
'of such is the kingdom of Heaven and
think the Saviour is pleased when He sees
SO much white clover growing around
these little graves" But when the minister
pressed the old sexton for a more salts
factory answer, the old sexton said: ''Sir,
about these larger graves, 1 don't
know who are the Lords saints and who
are not; but you know, cir, it is clean
different with the BARNS" Oh. if yeu
have had that keen, tender, indescribable
sorrow that comes from the loss Of a
child, do not give up. The old sexton was
right. 1t is all well with the BARNS. Or,
if you have sinned, if you have sinned
acknowledgment until you have been
cast out by the church, sinned until you
have been cast out by society, do not give
up. Perhaps there may be in this house
one that could truthfully utter the
lamentation of another:
Once 1 was pure the snow, but fell
Fell like a snowflake from Heaven to hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth OF the street
Fell, to be scofed at, spit and beat;
Praying, cursing, wishing to die.
Selling my soul TO whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for q morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Do not give up. One like unto the Son
of God comes to you to-day, saying: $50
and sin no more:" while he cries out to
your assaiIants: 'Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone at her" Obi there
is no reason why any one in this house,
| by reason of any trouble or sin, should
give up. Are you a foreigner, and in a
strange land? Nehemiah was an exile.
Are you penniless? Nehemiah was poor.
| Are you hOmesick? Nehemiah was home
sick. Are you brOken-hearted? Nehe-
| miah was broken-hearted- But just see
him in the text, riding along the
| sacrileged grave of his father,
and by the dragon well, and
through the fish gate, and by the King 5
! pOOl,in and out, in and out, the moonlight,
falling on the broken masonry, throws a
/ long shadow at which the horse SHES, and
at the same time that moonlight kindling
! up the features of this man, till you see
not only the mark of sad Renaissance,
but the courage, the hope, the enthusiasm
! of man who knows that Jerusalem will
be rebuilded. I pick you up to-day out of
your sins and out of your sorrow, and put
you against the warm heart Of Christ.
| 1.-THE eternal God is thy refuge, and I'M
\. IL