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

OUT GEItG nEUIF 4AE1r VIII b44G E4GEP
ton Of these few happy weeks when
you remained sober, my life has been
one OF sorrow. Many of the nights I
nave sat by the window, with my face
bathed in tears, watching FOR your
coming. I am broken-hearted, I am
sick Mother and father have been
mere frequently and begged me to
come home, but my love for you and
my hope for brighter days have always
made me refuse them. That hope seems
now beyond realization, and 7 nave re-
turned to them. 1t is hard, and / bat
tied long before doing it May God bless
and preserve you, and take from you
that accursed appetite and hasten the
day when we shall be again living hap
PLY together. This will be my daily
prayer, knowing that He has said:
"Come unto me all thai labor and are
heavy laden, and I viii give you rest.
From you loving wife. MARY
"And SO I wandered on and wandered
on" says that man, until n night I
passed a Methodist Westinghouse, and
/ said to myself: IN go in and see what
they are doing and I got to the door.
and they were singing:
All may come, whoever VIII,
This Man receives poor sinners still.
"And I dropped right there where /
was and / said, God have mercy and
| He had mercy ON me. My home is re-
stored, my wife sings all day long dur
ng work. my children come out a long
way to greet me home, and my house
hold is a little Heaven. I will tell you
what did all this for me. 1t was the
truth that ibis dav you proclaim: ION
him the Lord hath laid the ~iniquity of
us all"
Yonder is a woman who would say:
81 wandered off from my fathers
house; ! heard the storm that pelts on
a lost soul; my feet were blistered on
the hot rocks. / went on and on,
thinking that no one cared for my soul,
when one night Jesus met me and saids
Poor thing, go homel your father is
waiting for you, your mother is waiting
for your. Go home, poor thing and,
sir, / was too weak to pray, and / was
too weak to repent, but l just cried out,
/ sobbed out my sins and my sorrows
on the shoulders of Him of whom it is
said: The Lord hath laid on Him the
iniquity of us ALL"
There is a young man who would say:
IT had a Christian bringing up; / came
from the country to city life; l started
well; / had a good position, a good COM
mercial position. but one night at the
theater / met some young men who did
me no good. They dragged me all
through the sewers of iniquity, and ]
lost my morals and / lost my position,
and l was shabby and wretched. / was
| going down the street, thinking that
4 No nnn 0urad for mo xvh0n a
young man tapped me on the shout
der and said: George, come with me
and / will do you good / looked at
him to see whether he was joking or
not. I saw he was in earnest, and ]
said: What do you mean, STRIP We'll,
he replied, Il mean, if you will come
to the meeting tonight / will be very
glad to introduce you. / will meet you
at the door. VIII you Gomez Said
I, i will / went to the place
where l was tarrying. / fixed my
self up as well as 1 could. / buttoned
my coat over a ragged vest and went to
the door of the church, and the young
nan met me, and we went in; and as l
went in i heard an old man praying,
and he looked so much like my father I
sobbed right out, and they were all
around so kind and sympathetic that /
just there gave my heart to God, and I
know this morning hat what you say
is true; ! believe it in my own expert
ence. On Him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of us ALL"
o! my brother, without stopping to
look as to whether your hand trembles
or not, without STOPPING to look wheth-
er your hand is bloated with sin or not,
put it in my hand, let me give you one
warm, brotherly Christian grip, and ir-
vite you right up to the heart, to the
sympathy, to the pardon of Him on
whom the Lord laid the iniquity of us
all. Throw away your sins. Carry
them nc longer. / proclaim emancipa-
ton this morning to all who are bound,
pardon for all sin, and eternal life for
all the dead.
Some one comes here this morning
and 1 stand aside, He comes up these
steps. He comes to this place. Unjust
stand aside. Taking that place He
spreads abroad His hands and thee were
nailed. You see His feet, they were
bruised. He pulls aside the robe and
shows you His wounded heart. / say,
art thou weary ?" YES" He says,
weary with the worlds woe" | say,
whence CONTEST thou ?" He says,
'I come from Calvary" 1 say
"Who comes with Thee ?" He
says, mo enc; / nave tIod-
den the wine press alone!" l
say: "Why contest Thou here?" o." He
says, II came here TO carry all the sins
and sorrows of the people" And He
kneels and says: PUT on My shoulders
all the sorrows and all the sins" And
conscious of my own sins first, / take
them and put them on the shoulders of
the Son of God. / say: 'Canst Thou
bear any more, o Christi" He says:
Yea, more.' And gather up the sins
of all those who serve at these affairs, the
officers of the Church of Jesus Christi
gather up all their sins and put them
on Christ's shoulders. and say: 'Canst
thou bear any more?" He says: YEA,
more" Then I gathered up all the sins
of a hundred people in this house and l
put them on the shoulders of Christ.
and 1 say, ''Canst thou bear more?"
| He SAYS. ''Yea, more" And / gather
up all the sins of this assembly and I
! put them on the shoulders of the Son of
God, and I say: "Canst thou bear
them?' yea" He says ''morer'
But He is departing. Clear the wav
| for Him, the Son of God. Open the
door and let Him pass out He is car
rying our sins and bearing them away.
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