The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-03-04
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be carried to Heaven? It would not be
of enough importance or significance t<
be carried heavenward. II at the next
| quadrennial election you are made
| president of the United States, do you
suppose that news would be carried to
Heaven? Do you suppose that the news
of, a revolution in France, or Spain,
would be carried to Heaven?
These things are not of enough inn
| portance, but there is one item that ID
sure TO be carried. It is the salvation
of your soul; It is your repentance be
fore God. The flying hoofs of Gods
couriers clash through the gates. and
| the news goes from gate to mansion,
and from mansion to temple, and from
temple TO throne, and 'tthere is Joy in
Heaven" among the angels of God over
one sinner forgiven.
| 1t must be of vast Importance to be
| of any moment in Heaven, your saliva
| ton, in that land where gladnesses are
the everyday occurrence, in that land
| where the common stones of the field
are jasper, and emerald, and chryso'
prasus, and carbuncle, and sardonyx.
And yet the news of your salvation
1
You remember, years ago, stage
driver in the White mountains became
very reckless. he had a large number
of passengers on the stage, and the
stage was drawn by six horses. wild
and ungovernable, and he drove near
the precipice, and he drove off, the
stage withrits precious freight rolling
down the embankment, and many
were slain, but few were saved. 1 sup
pose when they wrote home they wrote
with congratula ton of their rescue.
| The angels OF God look down, and
| they see men driving on the edge of
great precipices of ruin and danger,
drawn by Wild leaping, foaming and
ungovernable perils in this life, and
If any shall escape before they cap
size do you not suppose the angels
of God rejoice, crying: ''Good! Goodl
Saved from SIM. saved from death,
saved from hell, saved forever?"
| The supreme court of the United
States does not adjourn for anything
trifling. 1t must be the death of a
cabinet minister or the death of a
president, or some matter of very great
moment When find all Heaven ad-
| journing its other joys for this one joy,
/ make up my mind it is of very great
| Importance if Heaven can afford to ad.
| journ all other festivities to celebr ate
this one triumph. DO you wonder that
so many of these Christian people
have toiled night and day in this
work of soul-saving if it is of such vast
Importance? Do you wonder that Net
Il f1akr.v,T ard Efplau nd Tichov1 AoI,
and John Wesley, and George White,
field, and Paul, and angels, and Christ,
| and God, stripped themselves for the
work? Around that one soul circles the
1 mist, the fire, the darkness, the joy, the
| anthem, the walling, the hallelujah and
the woe of Gods universe. If the soul
is saved then lips come to trumpet, and
fingers to harp, and hammer to bell,
and is joy among the angels of
| God over that one soul forgiven" For
such soul plead. ff8#4s1
Having found in my own experience
| that this religion is comfort and a
| joy, / stand here to commend it to you.
In the days of my infancy 1 was car
ried by Christian parents to the house
of God and consecrated in baptism to
the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost; but that did not save me. In
after time / was taught to l1neel at the
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and -sisters-the
most of them now in glory; but that
did not save me. In after time Tread
Doddridge's ''Rise and Progress" and
Baxter's ''Call to the Unconverted,' y and
all the religious books around my IA
IL L Il. I l.. 4
me. ,
But one day the voice of Christ came
into my heart saying: Repent, re-
pent; believe. believes" and accepted
| the offer of mercy, and though no
doubt there was more JOY in Heaven
over the conversion of other souls, be-
cause of their far-reaching influence,
verify believe when gave my heart to
God there were some spirits in Heaven
| the gladder for the deed. There il
| joy in Heaven among the angels of God
over one sinner that repenteth."
l. Turn this day to the Lord who
bought you. Let this whole audience
surrender themselves to Jesus Christ.
| If for ten, twenty, fifty years, you
have not prayed, begin now to pray.
'Oh," you say, 81 can't pray. Can
you not say: ''God, be merciful to me,
sinner" NO. you say, 81 can't
say that" Then can you not look
to the throne of mercy? NO."
you say, ST can't look up" Can
you not then give some signal,
| like that which was given by the lad in
| the hospitaI? He was sick, and suffer
! ing, and dying, and wanted speedily to
| go away from all suffering and pain:
and he said to his comrades in the hos
pital:t at is strange to me that Jesus
| doesn't see me when He goes through
| here nights and takes others to Himself.
He goes through here and He doesn't
see me. I must be asleep and He doesn't
know / want to CO."
Nov, I'N tell you how I'll arrange
| it. I'll go to sleep with my hand up,
and then when Jesus comes through
the hospital by night He will see my
hand lifted and He will know by that
| 1 want to go with Him" So it was
done. for that night Jesus went
through the hospital and took the suf-
fering lad. and the next morning the
nurse, passing through the wards of
the hospital, saw dead hand lifted.
braced on one side against the pillow
and the left hand holding the elbow of
the right arm. Jesus had seen the
signal and answered it.
| OF sick soul, wounded soul, dying
soul, canst thou give some signal?
| Wilt thou not lift one hand or one
prayeR2 God grant that this day there
! NJ " be i0v in Haovau among the aupola