The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-10

through enough DuSInaSS Trouble al
most to kill you. I know it. / al not
understand how the boat could live
one hour in hat chopped sea
But 4 do not know By what process you
got astray; some i'm one way, and some
in another, and IL you could really see
the position some Of you occupy before
/ God this morning, your soul would
burst into an agony of tears, and you
would pelt the heavens with the cry:
s'God have mercy" Sinai's batteries
have been numbered above your soul
and at times nave heard IL thunder:
1.-The wages of sin is death" "AH
/ have sinned and come short of the glory
Of God" BY one man sin entered into
the world. and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned." 1.-THE soul that sinneth,
it shall die"
When Se~bastopol was being lombard
ed two Russian frigates burned all
night in the harbor, throwing a glare
upon the trembling fortress; and some
of YOU are standing in the night OF your
souls trouble. The eannonade and the
c~onfiagration. the multiplication of your
sorrows and troubles / think must make
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shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text ms a
door wide enough to let us all out and
TO let all Heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out Thrum it
on the harps with all the strings atune.
With all the melody possible let the
heavens sound il to the earth and let
the earth tell it to the heavens THE
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all" / am glad that the prophet
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by Him" Him of the mange Him
of the bloody sweat, Him of the resur-
rection throne, Him Of the crucifixion
agony. son Him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us all"
''Ohf' says some man, that is not
generous, that is not fair; let every man
carry his own burden and pay his own
debts" That sc unds reasonable. II 1
have an obligation and have the means
to meet il, and l come to you and ask
you to settle that obligation, you right
ly say: "Pay your own debts" If you
and / walking down the street. both
hale, hearty and well, I ask you to
carry me, you say and say rightly:
Oh NOaA w ACC0s D0b pup
pose you and i were in a regiment and
/ was wounded in a battle, and / fell
unconscious at your feet with gunshot
fractures and ~dislocations, what would
you do? You would call to your com
rades, saying: 'Come and help; this man
is helpless; bring the ambulance; let us
take him to the hospital;" and / would be
a dead lift in your arms, and you would
lift me from the ground where l had
fallen and put me in the ambulance and
take me to the hospital and nave all
kindness shown me-. Would there be
anything meal in your doing that?
Would there be anything ~bemeaning
in my accepting that kindness? o. no.
You would be mean not to do it. That
is what Christ does. If we could pay
our debts then it wonld be better to go
up and pay them, saying: Here, Lord,
here is my obligation; here are the
means with which / mean to settle that
obligations; now give me a receipt; cross
it all out" The debt is paid. But the
fact is, we nave fallen in the battle; we
have gone down under the hot fire of
our transgressions; we have been
wounded by the sabers of sin, we
are helpless, we are undone !"
Christ comes. The loud clang
heard in the sky on that Christ
mas night was only the bell, the re-
sounding bell of the ambulance. Clear
the way for the Son of God. He comes
down to bind up the wounds, and to
scatter the darkness, and to ave the
lost. Clear the way for the Son of God.
Christ comes down to us. and we are a
II 1oo1 1ffk - IIa 11ac not 1sfN &c 9TH @L1
tips of His fingers. He does not lift us
with one arm. He comes down upon
His knee, and then with a dead lift He
~raises us to honor and glory and i'm
mortality. The Lord hath laid on
Him the iniquity of us all" Why,
then. will no man carry his
sins? You can not carry successfully
the smallest sin you ever committed.
You might as well put the Apennines
on one shoulder and the Alps on the
other-how much less can you carry all
the sins of your lifetime? Christ comes
and looks down in your face and says:
ST have through all the lacera-
tons of these days, and through all the
tempests OF these nights; / nave come
to pear your burdens and to par
don you sins and to pay your
debts. Put them on my shoulder; put
them on My heart-" ION Him the
Lord hath laid the ~iniquity of us all"
Sin has almost pestered the life out
of some of You. AT times it has made
You cross and unreasonable, and it has
spoiled the brightness of your days and
the peace of your nights. There are
men who have been riddled of sin. The
world gives them no solace. Gossamer
and volatile the world, while eternity,
as they look forward to it, is black as
midnight. They writhe under the stings
of a conscience which proposes to give
no rest here and no rest hereafter; and
yet they do not repent, they DO not
pray, they do not weep. They do not
realize that just the position they occupy
is the position occupied by scores, hum
areds and thousands of men who never
found any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling expe-
riences we should heal on all sidesl
There is a man in the gallery who
would say: ST had brilliant surround
ings; i had the best education that one
of the best collegiate institutions of
this country could give, and / observed
all h moralities of life, and / vas
self-righteous, and / thought / was
all right before God as / was all
right before men; but the Holy Spirit
came to me one day and said: You are