The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-07-05


looked up into the midnight heavens, and
the Lord God has, through some swing
ing world, famed upon his vision, and
the learned man cried out: 'eWho am II
Undonei Unclean! Have mercy, Lord
God I"
Again, remark, that the travelling dis
position of the world, which was averse
to morals and religion, is to be brought
on our side. The man that went down to
Jericho and fell amidst thieves was a
type OF great many travellers. There is
many man who is honest at home who,
when he is abroad, has his honor filched
and his good habits stolen. There are but
very Few men who can stand the stress Of
an expedition. Six weeks at a watering
place has damned many a man. In the
olden times God forbade the travelling Of
men for the purposes of trade because of
the corrupting influences attending it. A
good many men now can not stand the
transition from ono place to another.
Some mon who seem to be very consist
emit at nome in the way of keeping the
Sabbath, when they get into Spain n,
on the Lords day, always go out
to see the bull-fghts. Plato said
that no city ought to be built
nearer to the sea than ten miles, lest it
be tempted to commerce. But this trav--
cling disposition Of the world, which was
adverse to that which is good, is to be
brought on our side. These rail trains,
why, they are to take our Bibles; these
steamships, they are to transport our
missionaries; these sailors rushing from
city to city all around the world, are to
be converted into Christian herllds and
go out and preach Christ among the
heather nations. The Gospels are in
hnitely multiplied in beauty and power
since Robinson and Thompson, and
Burckhardt have come back and talked to
us about Sloan, and Capernaum, and
Jerusalem, pointing out to us the lilies
about which Jesus preached, the beach
upon which Paul was shipwrecked, the
fords at which Jordan was passed, the
Red Sea bank on which were tossed tbs
carcasses of the drowned Egyptians. A
ma9 said:
Il went to the Holy Land an infidel; I
came back Christian. 1 could not help
it."
I am not shocked at the idea of building
a railroad to the Holy Land. 1 wish that
all the world might go and see Golgotha
and Bethlehem. If we can not afford to
pay for muleteers now, perhaps when the
rail train goes we can afford to buy
ticket from ConstantinOpIe to Joppa, and
so we will get to see the Holy Land.
Then let G christians travel God speed
this night painting across the deep in the
phOs phorescent wake of the shining feet
of Him who from wave cliff to wave cliff
trod the stOrmed Tiberias. The japanese
come across the water and see our
and examine our Christiani-
ty, and go back aud tell the story, and
keep that empire rocking until Jesus
shall reign.
Where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horse
man and the jackals of the desert, have
been surrendered to the church, and we
reach forth our hands crying:
There is none like that; give it mel
So it has also been with the learning
ina the eloquence of tho world. People
say:
Religion is very good for women, it is
very good for children, but not for men,"
But we have in the roll of Christ's host
Mozart and Handel in music: Capova
and Angelo in sculpture; Raphael and
Reynolds in painting; Harvey and Boer-
laave in medicine; COwper and Scott in
poetry; GrOtius and Burke in statesman
hip; Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy;
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in
heOlOgy. The most brilliant writings of
riritual illusions. Through senatorial
peech and through essayist's discourse
Sinai thunders and Calvary pleads and |
SLOAN sparkles.
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in the |
courtroom and in the Senate chamber |
'ut he reserved his strongest eloquence |
or that day when he stood before the /
literary societies at Princeton commence |
1ent and pl eaded for the grandeur of our /
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'arlands while he was consuming Hayne, |
or when he opened the batteries of his
lOquence on Bunker HILL that rocking |
inai of the American revolution, but |
n that day when, in the famous Girard
will case, he showed his affection for the
christian religion and eulOgized the
'ible. The elOquence and learning that
ave been on the other side came over to
ur side. Where is Gibbons historical
en-? Where is Robespierre's sword?
"a ptured for God.
There is none like that; give it mel
So, also, has it been with the picture
taking of the world. We are very anx-
'us on this day to have the printing press
nd the platform on the side of Christian
y; but we overlook the engraver's knife
nd the painters pencil. The autiq
4 goes and looks at pictured ruins, or
xamlnes the chiseled pillars of Thebes
nd Nineveh and Pompeii, and then
ONES buck to tell US of the beastliness
ancient art; and it IS fact nov that
lany of the finest specimens merely ar
Stically cOnsidered-of sculpture and
ainting that are to be found amidst those
lins are not fit to be looked at and they
re locked up. How Paul must have felt
hen standing amidst those impurities
lat stared on him from the walls and the
avements and the bazaars of Corinth
3 preached Of the pure aud holy Jesus.
be art Of the world on the side Of OBJ
'enlty and crime and death.
In later days the palaces of kings were
formed with pictures. But what to IN
can Henry VIII. was a beautiful picturs
the Madonna? What to Lord Jeffries.
lie unjust judge, the picture of the Last
ldgment?" What to Nero, the IN
ashed, a picture Of the baptism in the
'rdan3 The art of the world still on the
do of supers titiOn and death. But that
being changed now. The Christian
fist goes across the water, looks at the
ctures, and brings back to his American /
udio much of the power of those old !
asters. The Christian minister goes
er TO Venice, looks at the "Crucifxion !
Christ" and comes back to his Ameri- =
n pulpit to talk as never before of the
ferings of the Saviour. The private =
urist goes to Rome and looks at :
aphael's picture of the Last Judg- I
ent." The tears start, and he goes :,
ok to his room in the hotel and prays n
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