The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-08

You know on a Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last.
I have fed you to-day with the bread Of
consolation. Let the table now be
cleared, and let us set on the chalice of
Heaven. Let the Kings cup-bearers
come in. Good-morning, Heaven!
''Oh, says some critic in the audience,
1.-The Bible cOntradicts itself. 1t inti-
mates again and again that there are to
be no tears in Heaven, and if there be
no tears in Heaven hov is it possible
that God viii wipe any away?"
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
sympathetic with all trial. The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
''Jesus wept." The scar on the back of
either hand, the scar on the arch of
either foot, the row of scars along the
line of the hair, will keep all Heaven
thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
Gentle! Why, His step is softer than
the step of the dew. 1t will not be
tyrant bidding you to hush up your cry
ing. 1t will be a Father who will take
you on His left arm, His face cleaning
into yours, while with the soft tips of
the fingers of the right hand, He shall
wipe away all tears from your eyes.
have noticed when the children get
hurt, and their mother is away from
home, they always come to me for COM
fort and sympathy; but I have noticed
when the children get hurt, and their
mother is at home, they go right past
me and to her; am of no account.
why should wish to linger in the wild,
When Thou ara waiting, Father, to receive
Thy child.
Still, if we could get any appreciation
of what God has in reserve for US, it
would make US so hOmesick we WOsIld be
unfit for our everyday work. Prof.
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University,
put in my hands a meteoric stOne-a
stone thrown off from some other world
to this. How suggestive it was to me.
And have to tell you the best repre-
sentations we have of Heaven are only
erolites flung off from that world which
rolls on, bearing the multitudes of the
redeemed. We analyze these Rrolites
and find them crystalizatiOns of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven
/ God shall wipe away ali tears from their
eyes.
Have you any appreciation of the good
and glorious times your friends are hav-
| ing in Heaven? How different it is
when they get news there of a Chris
tian's death from what it is here. 1t is
! the difference between embarkatiOn and
| coming into port. Every thing depends
upon which side of the river you stand
when you hear of a Christians death.
| If YOU stand on this side of the river
| you mourn that they go. If you stand
on the other side of the river you re-
/ II, ~
| between a funeral on earth and jubilee
in Heaven-between requiem here and
triumphal march there-parting here
and reunion there. Together! Have
YOU thought of it? They are together.
Not one of your departed friends in one
land and another in another land; but
together, in different rooms of the same
house-the house of many mansions.
Together!
1 never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing
there in the village cemetery, I looked
around and said: There is father, there
is mother, there is grandfather, there is
grandmother, there are whole circles OF
kindred;' and 1 thought to myself: ''To-
gether in the grave-tOgether in glory
l am so impressed with the thought that
do not think it is any fanaticism when
some one is going from this world to the
next if you make them the bearer of
dispatches to your friends who are gone,
saying:
"Give my love to my parents; give
my love to my children; give my love
to my old comrades who are in glory,
and tell them I am trying to fight the
good fight of faith, and 1 will join them
after awhile
believe the message will be deliv,
cred; and I believe it viii increase the
gladness of those who are before the
throne Together are they, all their
tears gone. No trouble getting good so
ciety for them. All kings, queens
princes and princesses. In 1851 there
was bill offered in the English Parlia.
ment proposing to change the almanac
so that the 1st of March should come i'm.
mediately after the 18th of February
But, oh, what glorious change in the
calendar when all the years of youl
earthly existence are swallowed up in
the eternal year of God!
Ny friends, take this good cheer home
with YOU. These tears of bereavement
that course your cheek, and of persecu
ton and of trial are not always to be
there. The motherly hand of God will
wipe them all away What is the use
on the way to such a cOnsummatiOn
what is the use of fretting about any
thing? Oh, whatan exhilaration it ought
to be in Christian work! See you the
pinnacle against the sky? 1t is the city
of our God, and we are approaching it
Oh, let us be busy in the few days thai
shall remain for us. The SaxOns and
the Britons went out to battle. The
Saxons were all armed. The Britoni
} had no weapons at all, and yet history
} tells US the Britons got the victory
Why? They went into battle shouting
three times "Hallelujahl' and at the
: third shout of ''Hallelujah" their enc
mics fed panic-struck; and so the
Britons got the victory.
And, my friends, if we could only ap
preciate the glories that are to come, We
would be so filed with enthusiasm tha
no power of earth or hell could stand be
fore US; and at our first shout the oppos
ing forces would begin to tremble, anC
at our second shout they would be rout
7 ed forever. There is no power OF
' earth or in he'll that could stanC
before three such volleys of hal
, lelujah. I put this balsam on ths
..-orn6s ~ vour heart RniOfco a , III,