The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-20

umphs. Better be on the lookout Bet
ter have your Observatories open toward
the heavens and the lenses of your MOST
powerful telescopes well polished. Bet
ter have all your Leyden jars ready for
some new pulsatiOn Of mighty influence.
Better have new foDts of type in your
printing offices to set up some astOund-
ing good news. Better have some new
banner that has never been car
ried, ready for sudden professions.
Better have the bells In your
church towers well hung. and rope
within reach, that you may ring out the
marriage of the Kings Son Cleanse all
your cOurt-houses, for the Judge of all
the earth may appear. Let all of your
legislative halls be gilded, for the great
Law-giver may be about to come. d rive
off the thrones of despotism all the Oc-
cupants, for the King of Heaven and
Earth may be about to reign. The dark
ness of the night is blooming and whit
ening into the lilies of morning cloud
and the lilies reddening into the roses OF
stronger day-ft garlands, whether white
or Ted, for Him on whose head are many
Gre Ens. "The day is at handr'
Ote more ray Of the dawn 1 see III facts
chronological and mathematical. Come
now. do not let US do another stroke OF
work until we have settled one matter
What is going to be the final issue of this
great contest between sin and righteous
ness? Which is going to prove himself
the stronger, God or DiabOlusS Is the
world going to be all garden or all des.
ert? N ow let US have thatmatter settled
If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and HO-
sea, and Micah and Malachi, and John
and Peter, and Paul and Christ, we
believe that it is going to be all garden.
But let us have this settled. Let us know
whether we are working on toward a sue
cess or toward dead failure. If there is
a child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get WELL you sympa-
thize with present pains, bat all the fore
boding is gone. If you are in cyclone
off the Florida coast, and the captain as
sures you the vessel is stanch and tho
winds are changing for better quarter,
and he is ure he will bring you safe into
the harbor, you patiently submit to pres
ent distress with the thought of safe ar
rival.
Now, want to know whether we are
coming on toward a dismay, darkne SIS
and defeat, or on toward light and
blessedness. You and 1 believe the lat
, ter, and if so, every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe,
and every event that passes, whether
bright or dark, brings us one event
nearer a happy cons ummatiOn, and by
all that is inexOrable in chronology and
mathematics, L commend you to good
cheer and courage. If there is any thing
in arithmetic, if you subtract two from
five and leave three, then by every roll
ing sun we are coming on toward
q magnificent terminus. Then every
winter passed is one severity less
for our poor world Then every
summer gone by brings us nearer unfad-
ing arborescence. But Tour algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If
1t is nearer morning at three O'Clock than
it is ct two, if it is nearer morning tfouT
O'Clock than it is at three, then we are
nearer the dawn of the sworld's deliver
arce. Gods clock seems to go very slow
ly, but the pendulum swings and the
hands move, and it will yet strike noon.
The sun and the moon stood still once;
they will never stand still again until
they stop forever. If you believe arith-
metic as well as your Bible, you must be-
lieve we are nearer the dawn. ''The day
is at hand"
There is a class of phe nomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may, after awhile,
make a demons tratiOn in this world
which will bring all moral and spiritual
things to a climax. Now l am no spirit
ualist; but every intelligent man has
noticed that there are strange and mys-
FERROUS things which indicate to him
! far off as sometimes we conjecture, and
| that after awhile from the spiritual and
| heavenly " Orld there may be demonstra-
| ton upon our world for its betterment. W
| call it magnetism, or we call it mesmer
| ism, or we call it electricity, because we
want some term to cover up our igno-
rance. l do not know what that is
/ never heard an audible voice from the
other world. am persuaded of this,
hot hat 4
| and the next is getting thinner and thin
ner, and that perhaps after awhile, at tho
| call of God-not at the call of the Dav-
export brothers or Andrew Jackson Da-
| vis-some OF the old scripturaI warriors
| some of the spirits of other days mighty
| for Coda Joshua, or a Caleb. or a David
or Paul-may come down and help US
in this battle against unrighteOusness.
Oh, how 1 would like to have them here
Him of the Red Sea, Him of the Valley
of Ajalon, Him of Mars Hill. History
says that Robert Clayton, of the English
| cavalry, at the close of a war, bought up
all the old cavalry horses least they be
| turned out to drudgery and hard work and
| bought piece of ground at Naversmire
| Heath and turned these old war horses
into the thickest and richest pasture to
spend the rest of their days for what
| they had done in other days. o ne dav q
| thunderstorm came up, and these war
| horses mistOok the thunder of tho
| skies for the thunder of BATTLE and
they wheeled into line-uo riders on their
| backs-they wheeled into line ready for
| the fray. And I doubt me whether,
when the last thunder of this battle fol-
| God and truth goes booming Through the
Heavens, the old scriptural warriors can
| keep their places on their throne. Me-
| thinks they will spring into the fight and
exchange crown for helmet and palm
/ branch for weapon, and come down Oui
/ of the Kings galleries into the arena,
! crying: make rOOml l must fight in this
| great Armageddon."
My beloved people, I preach this SER
mon because I want you to toll with the
| sunlight in your faces. l want you old
men to understand before you die that all
the work you did for God while yet your
ear was alert and your foot feet is 60
/ ing to be counted up in the final vic
! tories. want all these younger people
to understand that when they toll for
| God they always win the day; that al,
/ prayers are answered and all Christian
work is in some way effectual and that
| the tide is setting In the right direction,
and that all Heaven is on our side
/ sanity, cherubie, seraphic, archangelic
/ Omnipotent, chariot and throne, doKology
| and procession, principalities and do
/ minion. He who hath the moon under H is
| feet and all the armies of Heaven on
| white horses.