The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-07-12


photograph. The cylinder containing
the words was sent on to Washington
and the next day that cylinder, from an
other photographic instrument, when
turned, gave back to me the very words
Ii had uttered the day before, and with
the same intonations. Scold into phono-
graph, and it will scold back. Pour mild
words into photograph, and 1t Will re-
turn the gentieness.
Society and the world and the Church
are Photographs. Give them acerbity
and rough treatment you will get back.
Give them practical friendliness, and
they will give back practical friendliness.
A father asked his little daughters
Mary, why is IL shat every body loves
your" She replied. Il don't know, uu-
less it is because / love every body" "a
man that hath friends must show himself
friendly" We want something like that
spirit of sacrifice for others which was
seen in the English channel, twhere, in
the storm a boat containing three men
was upset, and all three were in the va
ter struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief and a rope
was thrown to one of them, and
ing: First fling it to Tom; he
is just ready to go down. can last some
time longer" 4 man like that, be he
sailor or landsman, be he in upper ranks
Of society or lower ranks, will always
have plenty of friends. What is true
MAYNARD is true Godward. We must be
the friends of God if we want Him to be
our friend. We can not treat Christ bad
ly all our lives and expect Him to treat rs
lovingly. l was reading Of a sea fight, in
which Lord Nelson captured a French
officer, and when the French officer Of
fered Lord Nelson his hand Nelson re-
piled: First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand" Surrender OF
our resistance to God must precede Gods
prOffer Of pardon to us. Repentance be-
fore forgiveness. You must give up your
rebelious sword before you can get
grasp of the D ivine hand.
Oh, what glorious state of things to
have the friendship OF GOdi Why, we
could afford to have all the world against
and all other worlds against US if we had
God for US. He could in a minute blot
out this universe. 1 have no idea that
God tried hard when He male all things.
The most brilliant thing known to US is
light, and for the creation of that He only
used a word OF command. AS out OF a
flint a frontiersman strikes q span K, so
out of one word God struck the MONDAY
sun. For the making of the present
universe do not read that
God lifted so much as a finger. The
Bible frequently speaks of Gods hand,
and Gods arm, and Gods shoulder, and
Gods foot; then suppose He should put
hand and arm and shoulder and foot to
utmost tension, what could He not make?
That God, OF such demonstrated and I'M
demonstrated strength, you may have for
your everlasting friend. But a stately
and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as
apprOachable as a country mansion on
summer day when all the doors and VIM
dOws are wide open. Christ said: 81 am
the door," And He is a wide door, a
high door, a palace door, an always
open door.
NY four-year- child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after, when her
mother came home, and then she burst
into weeping aud soma of the dome5tics,
not understanding human nature, said to
her: ''Why did you not cry before?" She
answ cred: F'There was no one to cry to. 4"
Now have to tell you while human sym
pathy may be absent, Divine sym pathy is
always accessible. Give God your love
and get His love; your service and secure
His help; your repentance and have His
pardon. God a friend? Why, that means
all your wounds medicated, all your sor-
rows soOthed, and if soma sudden catas-
| trophe should hurl you out of earth it
would only hurl you into Heaven. II God
is your friend, you can not go out of the
world too quickly or suddenly, so far as
your own happiness is concerned"
There were two Christians last Tuesday
who entered Heaven; the one was stand
ing at a window in perfect health watch.
ing q shower. and the lightning instantly
slew him; but the lightning did not flash
down the sky as swiftly as his spirit
| flashed upward. The Christian man who
| died on the same day next door
had been for a year or two failing in
health, and for the last three months
| had suffered from a disease that made
/ the nights sleepless and the days
an anguish. Do you not really think that
! the case of the one who went instantly
was more desirable than the one who en-
| tered the shining gate through a long
| lane of insomnia and congestion? In the
| Que case it was like your standing YEARLY
at door. knocking and waiting, and
wondering if it viii ever open, and knock
| ing and waiting again, while in the other
case it was a swinging open of the door
at the first touch of the knuckle. Give
your friendship to God, and have Gods
friendship for you, and even the worst
accident will be victory.
How refreshing is human friendship;
and true friends, what priceless treas
/ uresl When sickness comes, and trouble
! comes, and death comes, we send for our
friends first OF ALL and their appearance
| in orr doorway in any crisis is re-en-
| forcement, aud when they have entered
we say: ''Now it is all right" Oh, what
! would we do without friends, personal
friends, business friends, family friends
| But we want something mightier than
| human friendship in the great exigencies.
! When Jonathan Edwards, in his final
hour, had given the last goodbye to
all his earthly friends, he turned on his
| pillow and closed his eyes confident
| " saying: CHOW where is Jesus of Naz :
| areth,s my true and never-failinl
friend?" Yes, 1 admire human friend
ship as seen in the case Of David and
Jonathan, of Paul aud Onesiphorus, of
| Herder and Goethe, OF Goldsmith and
| Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletcher, of
CowleY and Harvey, of Erasmus and
Thomas More, OF Leasing and Mendels-
sohn, of Lady Churchill and Princes
Anne, of Orestes and Pylades, each re-
uuesting that himself might take the
point of the dagger so the other might b.
spared, of Epaminoudas and Pelopidas,
who locked their shields in battle deter
mined to die together: but the grandest,
the mightiest, tn tenderest friendship in
all the universe is the friendship be-
tween Jesus Christ and a believing soul.
Yet after all 1 have said feel have
only done what James Marshall, the
miner, did in 1913 in California, before
its gold mines were known. He reached
in and put upon the table of his en-