The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-16

those who serve the Lord Can you
sing? Go and sing for that man who can
not get well, and you win help him into
Heaven Let it be your brain, your
tongue, your eyes. your heart, your
lungs, your hands, your feet. your body,
your mind, your soul, your life, your
death, your time, your eternity
for God, feeling in your soul ito this
end was born" 1t may be helpful
to some IL recite my own experience
in this regard. I started for the law
without asking any Divine direction. I
consulted my own tastes liked law
yers, and / reveled in hearing the Ere
linghuysens and the Bradleys of the
New Jersey bar, and as assistant of the
county clerk, at sixteen years of age,
searched titles. naturalized foreign-.
ers, recorded deeds. received the con-
fession of judgments, swore witnesses
and juries and grand juries- But after
awhile l felt a call to the Gospel min-
istry and entered it, and I felt some
satisfaction in the work. But one sum
mer when / was resting at Sharon
Springs, and while seated in the park
of that village I said to N.Y.
sell. III nave ILL CSpCGAd1# WOIAA
to do in the world i ought to find it
out now and with that determination
prayed as had never before prayed,
and got the Divine protection, and wrote
il down i'm my memorandum-boolz. and
saw my life work then as plainly as
see it now. Oh, do not be satisfied
with general directions. Get specific
directions. Do not shoot at random.
Take aim and fire. Concentrate. Ma
poleon's success in battle came from his
theory of breaking through the enemy's
ranks Mt one point, not trying to meet
the whole line of the enemy's force
by a similar force. One reason why he
lost Waterloo was because he did
not work his usual theory, and
spread his force out over a wide range.
Oh, Christian man, oh, Christian
woman, break through somewhere.
Not a general engagement for God, but
particular engagement, and made in
answer to prayer. If there are one
billion six hundred million people in
the world then there are one billion
six hundred million different missions
to fulfill, different styles of work to do,
different orbits in which to revolve,
and if you do not get the Divine direc-
ton there are at least one billion five
hundred and ninety-nine million posi-
bilities that you will make a mistake.
On your knees before God get the mat
ter settled so that you can firmly say:
ITO this end was l born"
That is an instantaneous picture OF
what you may be. and what am sure
- - -.
that it is an imperfect picture, my apol-
ogy is what the apostle John said: 1T
doth not yet appear what we shall be. -
ITO this end was / BORN If did not
think so would be overwhelmed with
melancholy. The world does very well
for little while, eighty, or hundred.
or a hundred and fifty years, and /
think that human longevity may yet be
improved up to that prolongation, for
now there is SO little room between
our cradle and our grave we can not
accomplish much, but who would want
to dwell in this world for all eternity2
Some think this earth will finally be
turned into a Heaven. Perhaps il may,
but it would have to undergo radical
repairs and through Examinations and
evolutions and revolutions and transfer.
nations infinite to make it desirable for
eternal residence. All the east winds
would have to become west winds, and
all the winters changed to spring
tides, and the volcanoes extin-
guished, and the oceans chained to
their beds, and the epidemics forbidden
entrance, and the world so fred
up that think it would take more to
repair this old world than to make an
entirely new one. But / must say I do
not care where Heaven is if we can
only get there, whether a gardenized
America, or an unparalleled Europe, or
world central to the whole universe
ITO this end was I BORN If each one
of us could say that we would go with
faces shining and hopes exhilarant
amid earth's worst misfortunes and
trials. Only little while and then the
rapture. Only little while and then
the reunion. Only little while and
then the transfigu ration.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with wave of
Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was
especially besieged- The king and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed unless
the king of Poland, John Sobleski to
whom they had sent for help, should
with his army come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower the
inhabitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped until on the morn
ing of September ! l the rising sun threw
an unusual and unparalleled brill
fancy. 1t was the reflection on the
swords and shields and helmets of John
Sobiesld and his army coming down
over the hills to the rescue, and that
day not only Vienna, but Europe, was
saved. And see you not, oh We souls.
besieged with sin and sorrow, that
light breaks in, the swords and the
shields and the helmets of Divine
rescue bathed in the rising sun
of Heavenly deliverance? Let every
thing else go rather than let
Heaven go. What strange thing it
must be to feel ones self born to an
earthly crown, but you have been born
for a throne on which you may reign
after the last monarch of all the earth
shall have gone to dust. invite you to
start now for your own coronation, to
come in and take the title deeds to
your everlasting inheritance. Through
an impassioned prayer take. Heaven
and all of its raptures- What poor
farthing is all that this world can offer
you compared with pardon here and life
immortal beyond the stars, unless this
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