The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-12

towering around Goodwin's Sands and the
Skerr1es. The sea- owning three-fourths
OF the earth, proposes to capture the
other fourth, and is bombarding the land
all around the earth. The moving
of our hotels at Brighton Beach
backward one hundred yards from
where they once stood, a type of
OF what is going on all around the world
and on every coast. The Dead Sea rolls
to-day where ancient cities stood. Pill
lars of temples that stood on hills geOlo-
glsts now find three-quarte rs under the
water or altogether submerged. The sea,
having wrecked so many merchantmen
and fotillas, wants to wreck the conti-
nents, and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. I speak
not Of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged e urope, and in No scow and
the Neapolitan Dominion and Marseilles
wrought such terrors in the eighteenth
century, but I look at the yellow feyers,
and the choleras, and the diphtherias,
and the scarlet fevers, and the typhoid
of our own time. Hear the wailing of
Memphis and Shreveport. aud New Or
leans and Jacksonville of the last few de-
cades. From Hurdwar, India, where
every twelfth year three million devotees
congregate, the caravans brought the
cholera and that one disease slew eight
cen thousand in eighteen days in BOssO-
rah. Twelve thousand in one summer
slain by it in India, and twenty five thou
sand in Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some
OF the finest monuments in Greenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are to
doctors who lost their lives battling with
Southern epidemics.
But now turn the leaf IN my subject
and I plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the night shade and the myrtle.
This age is no more characterized by
wonders Of disaster than by wonders of
blessing. Blessing Of longevity; the aver
age of human life rapidly increasing.
Forty years now worth four hundred
years once. Now I can travel from Man.
itoba to New Y ork in three DAYS and three
nights. In other times it would have
taken three months. In otherwords, three
days and three nights now are worth three
months of other days. The average of
human life is practically greater now than
when Noah lived his nine hundred and
fifty years and Methusaleh lived his nine
hundred and sixty-nine years. Blessings
of intelligence: The Salmon P. Chases,
the Abraham Lincolns and the Henry
Wilson's of the coming time will not be
required to learn to read by pine-knot
lights, or seated on shoemaker's bench,
nor will the Fergusons have to study as
tronOmy while watching the cattle.
knowledge rolls its tides along every
poor mans door, and his children may go
down and battle in them. If the philoso-
piers of the last century were called up
to recite in a class with our boys at the
Polytechnic, or our girls at the Packer,
those old philosophers would be sent down
to the foot of the class because the failed
to answer the questionsl Free libraries
in all the important towns and cities of
the land. Historical alcoves and poetical
shelves and magazine tables for all that
desire to walk through o. SIT down at
them. Blessings Of quick information:
Newspapers falling all around us thick as
leaves in September equinoctial. News
three days old, rancid and stale. We see
the whole world twice O day-through the
newspapers at the tea table, with an
extra" here and there between.
Blessing &C Gospel proclamationi Do
you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born in this cent
ury? and nearly all the Bible societies,
and nearly all the great phiIanthropic
movements? A secretary of one of the
denominations said to me the other day
in Dakota: you were wrong when you
said our denomination averaged q new
church every day Of the year; they estab-
Hshed nine In one week, so you are far
within the truth" A clergyman of our
own denomination said: II have Just been
out establishing FIVE mission stations"
tell you Chris tiapity is on the march,
while infdelity is dwinding into imbecil-
ity. While infdelity is thus dwiudling
and dropping down into imbecility and
indecency, the wheel of Christianity is
making about a thousand revolutions in a
minute. All the copies of Shakespeare,
and Tennyson, and Disrae1i, and of any
ten of the most popular writer's Of the
day, less in number than the copies of the
Bible going out from our printing presses.
A few years ago, in six weeks, more than
two million copies of the New Testament
purchased, not given away, but purchased
because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official Do
sitiOn to-day in Great Britain and in the
United States than ever before. Stop
that falsehOod going through the news
papers, have seen it in twenty-that the
Judges Of the Supreme Court of the
United States are all infdels except one.
By personal acquaintance 1 know three
OF them to be old-fashioned Evangelical
Christians, sitting at the holy sacrament
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose
that the majority of them are staunch
believers in our Christian religion. And
then hear the dying words of Judge
Black, a man who had been Attorney
General of the United States, and who
had been Secretary of the United States,
no stronger lawyer of the century than
Judge Black-dyiug, his aged wife kneeI-
ing by his side, end he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: go Lord
God, from whom I derived my existence
and in whom / have always trusted, take
my spirit to Thyself and let Thy richest
blessing come down upon my Mary"
The most popular book to- day is the
Bible, and the mightiest institution is the
church, and the greatest name among the
nations, and more honored than any
other, is the name of Jesus. Wonders Of
seh-sacTifce: A clergyman told me in
the Northwest that for six years he was a
missionary at the extreme North, living
four hundred miles from a Office,
and sometimes he slept out-of- doors in
winter, the thermometer sixty and sixty
five degrees below zero, wrapped in
rabbit-skins woven together. said: as
it possible? You do not mean sixty and
sixty-fve degree below zero?" He said:
Il do, and was happy"
All for Christ. Where is there any
other being that viii rally such enthusi-
asm? Mothers sewing their fingers of to
educate their boys for the gospel minis
try. For nine years no luxury on the ia
bic until the course through grammar
school and college and theological SEM
mary be completed. Poor widow putting
her suite into the Lords treasury, the !
face Of emperor or president impressed |
upon the coin not so cons pieuOus as the
blood with which she earned if. Millions
of good men and women, but more wora-
en- than men, to whom Christ is every
thing. Christ first and Christ last. and !
Christ forever. Why, this age is not so /
characterized by invent on and scientific
exploration as it is by gospel proclama- |
ton. You can get no idea Of it unless
you can ring all the church bells in one /
chime, and sound all the organs in one |
diapason, and gather all the congrega |
tons OF Christendom in one Gloria in |
Excelsis.
Mighty camp meetings. Mighty Ocean
Groves. Mighty Chautauquas Mighty |
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