The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-08
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thousand which were redeemed from tho
earth.D
A great prima donna, who can now do
any thing with her voice, told me that
when she first started in music her teach
/ er in Berlin told her she could be a good
singer, but a certain note she could never
reach. ''And then" she saids II went TO
| work and studied and practiced for years
until did reach it," But the song Of the
singer redeemed, the Bible says, the ex-
alted harinonists who have never slnned
! could not reach and never will reach
Would you like to hear me in very poor
way play snatch Of that tune? I can
give you only one bar Of the music on
this Gospel harp: "Unto Him that hath
loved us and washed us from our sins in
his own blood, and hath made us kings
and priests unto God and the Lamb,
to Him be glory and dominion forever
and ever. Amen" But before leaving
this interrogatory, why God let sin eonle
into the world let me say that great bat
ties seem to be nothing but suffering and
outrage at the time of their occurrence,
yet after they have been long while past
we can see that it was better for them to
have been fought, namely, Salamis, Ink
ernan, Toulouse, Arbella, Agincourt,
Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan.
So now that the great battles against sin
and suffering are going on we see mostly
that which is deplorable. But twenty
thousand years from now, standing In
glory, we shall appreciate that Heaven is
better of than if the battle of this worlds
sin and suffering had never been project
ed.
But now come nearer home and put a
dark saying on the gospel harp, style OF
question that is asked a million times
every year. Interrogation the fourth:
Why do I have it SO hard while others
have it so easy? Or why do l have so
I rroa Il
while others go around with full
portemonnaie! Or, why must 1 wear
these plain clothes while others have 10
push hard to get their wardrobes closed,
so crowded are they with brilliant attareg
Or, why should / have to work SO hard
while others have three hundred and six
ty-five holidays every year? They are all
practically one question. ] answer
them by saying, it is because the
Lord has His favorites and he
puts extra discipline upon you, and
extra trial, because He has for you extra
glory, extra enthronement and extra
! felicities. That is no guess of mine, but q
divine say-so: ''Whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth." 'fWell, )" says some one,
! 81 would rather have a little less in
Heaven and little more here. Discount
my heavenly robe ten per cent, and let
me now put it on, a fur-lined overcoat;
put me in a less gorgeous room of the
: a house here in better neighborhood."
I No, no; God is not going to rob Heaven,
+, which is to be your residence for nine
I hundred quadrillon OF years, to FIX
! up your earthly abode, which you
will occupy at most for less than
l century, and where you may, perhaps,
stay only ten years longer, or only year,
or perhaps a month more. Now you had
better cheerfully let God have his way,
) for, you see, he has been taking care of
i folks for near seven thousand years, aud
: knows how to do it, and can see what is
best for you better than you can yourself
| Don't think you are too significant TO be
divinely cared for. 1t was said that Diana,
the goddess, could not be present TO keep
her temple at Ephesus from burning, be-
, cause she was attending upon the birth Of
him who was to be Alexander the Great.
But tell you that your God and my God
? is so great in small things as well as large
l things that he could attend the cradle Of a
babe and at the same time the burning OF
q world.
And God will make it all right with You,
I and there is one song that you will sing
l every hour of your first ten years in Heav-
I en-, and the refrain of that song will be:
''Iam so glad God did not let me have my
own way" Your case will be all fixed up
in Heaven and there will be such re-
4 versal in conditions that we can hardly
: find each other for some time. Some OF
us who have lived in frst-rate houses
here and in first-rate neighbOrhOods will
? be found, because Of our iukewGrmness
of earthly service, living on one Of the
back streets Of the celestial city, and clear
down at the end Of IL at No. sos, or
! 900, or 1905, while some who had
, unattractive earthly abOdes, and a
! cramped one at that, will, in the
:, Heavenly city, DO in house fronting the
royal plaza, right by the imperial
fountain, or on the heights overlooking
the River Of Life, the chariots of saliva
ton hating at your door while those visit
: you who are more than conquerOrs, and
those who are kings and queens unto
God forever. You, my brother, and you,
= | my sister, who have it 50 hard here will
have il 50 fine and grand there that You
viii hardly know yourself and viii feel
: disposed to dispute your own iden tity,
I and the first time / see you there ! will
: cry out: Didn't / tell you 50 when you
: sat down there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
: and looked incredElous because you
thought it too good to be trueY And you
will answer: "YOu were right the half
was not told mel" 50 this morning I
. open your dark saying Of despOndency
! | and complaint on my Gospel harp and
give Won lust one bar Of music, for / do
! not pretend to be much OF q player. 'The
! Lamb which is IN the midst OF the throne
: shall lead them To living fountains OF
I
from their eyes" But i must confess /
am little perplexed how some of you
good Christians are going TO get through
the gate, because there viii be 80 many
there to greet you, and they wtltall want
d TO shake hands at once and will ali want
o the first kiss. They will have heard that
{. you are coming, and they will oil press
3 around to welcome you and viii want you
5. to say whether you know them after being
q 50 long parted.
q But here must slow upi lest in trying
It to solve mysteries / add to the mystery
Q that we have already wondered cit, name.
n ": why preachers should keep on after
o an the hearers are tiredY So / gather up
Q into one great armful all the why's, and
I. hows. and wherefores Of your life and
r mine which we have not had time or the
Is ability 10 answer and write on them the
"A | words Hadiourned to eternity" / rejoice
a t,at we do not understand all things now,
,r fcr If we did what would we learn in
l. Heavenq IL we knew it all down here In
= ehe freshman and sophomore class, what
l. earould be the use Of our going UP 20 stand
n amid the juniors and the seniorsg III we
10 could put down one leg Of the compass
V. and with the other sweep a circle
"A clear around all the inscrutables;
IA IL We could lift our little steel
ri yards and weigh tho throne OF tho
" omnipotent; IL we could with Dur seven
Id dayr clock measure eternity, what would
AZ ~ 1eft for this heavenly revsiatfouF SO /
IA ,,oya that we cheerfully adionrn what lis
-e now bevond our comprehension, and as
sr according to R0ilins the historian, Alex
s. ander the Great, having obtained the gold
IL casket in which Darine had kept his rare
m ~fr,r,a t1aad that aromatic "a. a5tef hare