The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-01-22


of Melanchon, who took learned pro-
fessor's chair at twenty-one years; of
Luther, who had conquered Germany
| for the reformation by the time he was
thirty-fve years. And it is all very
well for us to show how early in life
one can do very great things
for God and the welfare of the
world. But some of the might
est work for God has been done
by septuagenarians and octogenarians
and nonagenarians. Indeed, there is
work which none but such can do.
They preserve the equipoise of senates,
of religious denominations, of reform
atory movements. Young men for az
ton, old men for counsel. Instead of
any of -you beginning to fold up your
energies arouse anew your energies.
With the experience you have obtained
and the opportunities of observation
You have had during long life, you
ought 10 be able to do in one year now
more than you did in ten years
right after you had passed out Of
your teens Physical power less, your
spiritual power ought to be more. Up to
the last hour of their lives what power
for good old DR.. Archibald Alexan-
der. old DIR. Woods. old DIR. Halves,
old DIR. Minor, old DIR. McIlvaine, old
DIR. Tying, old DIR. Candish, old DIR.
Chalmersi What have been Bismarck
to Germany, and Gladstone to England,
and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America
in the time of an advanced age? Let
me say to those in the afternoon of
life: Don't be putting off the harness;
when God wants it off He will take It
off. Don't be frightened out of life by
the grip as many are. At the first
sneeze of an influenza many give up all
as lost No new terror has come on
the earth. The microbes as the cause
| of disease were described in the Tai
mud seventeen hundred years ago as
invisible legions of dangerous ones
Don't be scared out of life by all this
talk about heart failure. That trouble
has always been in the world. That
is what all the people that ever passed
out of this life have died of-heart fall
ure. Adam had it, and all of his de-
scendants have had it or will have it.
Do not be watching for symptoms or
You will have symptoms of every thing.
| Some of you will yet die of symptoms
| Symptoms are often only what we see
in the country, a dead owl nailed on a
barn door TO scare living owls. Put
your trust in God, go to bed at ten
o'clock, have the window open six
inches to let in the fresh air, sleep on
your right side and fear nothing. The
old maxim was right: "Get thy spindle
and distaff ready, and God will send
| thee fax"
/ have seen day break over Mont
Blanc and the MatterborD. over the
heights of Lebanon. over Mount Wash
inghton, over the Sierra Nevadas, and
mid-atlantic the morning after de-
parted storm, when the pillows were
liquid Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas,
but the sunrise of the soul is more
effulgent and more transporting. 1t
bathes all the heights of the soul and
illumines all the depths of the soul
and whelms all the faculties, all
the aspirations, all the ambi.
tions, all the hopes with a light
that sickness can not eclipse, or
death extinguish, or eternity do any
thing but augment and magnify.
preach the sunrise. As look at that
Ahaz's dial / remember that it was a
sign that Hezekiah was going to get
well, and he got well. So i have to tell
all you who are, by the grace of God,
having your day turned from decline
toward night to ascent toward morn
ing that you are going to get well, well
of all your sins, well of all your sor-
rows, well of all your earthly dis
tresses. Sunrise!
But, says some one, all that you say
may be true, but that does not hinder
the horrors of dissolution. Why, you
who are the Lords are not going to
die. All that the grave gets of you as
compared with your chief, your immor-
tai nature, is as the clippings of your
finger nails as compared with your
whole body. AS you run the scissors
along the edge of your thumb nail and
you cut off that which is of no use, but
rather a hinderance, you do not mourn
over the departure of that frag-
ment which flies away. Death will be
only the scissoriug-off of that which
could be of no use, and the soul has NO
funeral over that which would be an
awful nuisance if we could not get rid
of it. This body as it now is, what a
| failure it would make of Heaven if our
departing soul had to be burdened with
it in the next world. While others
there go ten thousand miles a minute,
we would take about an hour to walk
four miles, and while our neighbor
immortals could see hundred
miles we could see only ten miles, and
the f1eetest and the healthiest of our
bodies if seen there would make ii
necessary to open in Heaven an asylum
for cripples. No; no; one of the best
possible things that will happen to us
will be the sloughing off of this body
when we have no more use for it in its
present state. !. When it shall come up
in its resurrected form we will be very
glad to get it back again, but not as it
is now with its limitations and bewarf-
ments innumerable. Sunrisei
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of Heavenly rest,
| And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.
Sunrise! But not like one of those
mornings after you had gene to bed
late, or did not sleep well, and you get
up chilled and yawning, and the MORN
ing bath is a repulsion, and you feel
like saying to the morning sun shining
into your window: Il do not see what
you find to smile about; your bright
ness is to me mockery." But the in
rlsh of the next world will be a morn
ing after sound sleep, a sleep that
nothing can disturb, and you will rise,