The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-02-26

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that is becoming-an almost universal
trouble through much reading i'm rail
cars, and the ovrr-pressure of study in
the schools where children are ex-
pected to be philosophers at ten, boys
and girls at fourteen with spectacles- I
say with all such trouble Christ is in
sympathy Witness blind Bartimeus.
Witness the two blind men in the
house. Witness the two blind men near
Jericho. Witness the man born blind
Did He not turn their perpetual mid
night into midnoon, till they ran up
aud down clapping their hands and say
ing: Il see! / seer That Christ is
in sympathy with those who stammer,
or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man with
impediment of speech and gave him
command of the tongue SO that he
could speak with ease, and, putting His
fingers into the ears, returned the tym-
panum- Is there lack of circulation
in your arm. think of Him who cured
the defective circulation and inactive
muscles of a patient who had lost the
use of hand and arm, by saying,
stretch forth thy handI'' and the veins
| and nerves and muscles resumed their
offices, and though in doing SO the
| joints may have cracked from long
disuse, and there may have been
strong sensation from elbow to finger
| tip, he stretch it forth! And nothing
is the matter with you. but you may
appeal to the sympathetic Christ. And
if you feel yourself to be great sim
ner, hear what He said to that repent
ing Magdalen, while with a scalding
sarcasm He dashed her hypocritical
pursuers-
And see how He made an immortal
liturgy out of the publican's cry,
''God be merciful to me a sinner"
prayer so short that the most over
whelmed offender can utter it, and yet
long enough to win celestial dominions-
1t was well put by man who had been
converted, and who remembered that
in his dissolute days be found it hard
to get occupation. because he could not
present certificate for good character.
In commencing Christ to the people he
said: BLESS God, / have found out
that Jesus will take a man without a
characteri'' Christ on a level with
suffering humanity. My text says:
He came down with them and stood
in the plain" No climbing up through
attributes you can not understand. No
ascending of the heights of beautiful
rhetoric of prayer. No straining after
elevations you can not reach. No
hunting for a God that you can not
find. But going right straight to Him
and looking into His face and taking
His hand and asking for His pardon,
His comfort, His grace, His Heaven.
Christ on the level. When during
the siege of Sebastobol an officer had
commanded a private soldier to stand
on the wall exposed to the enemy, and
receive the ammunition as it was hand
ed up, while he, the officer, stood in a
place sheltered from the enemy's guns,
Gen. Gordon leaped upon the wall to
help, and commanded the officer to
follow him, and then closed with the
words: Never order a man to do
anything that you are afraid to do
yourself Glory be to God, the Cap
tain of our salvation has Himself
gone through all the exposures
in which He commands us to he cour-
ageous He has been through it all,
and now offers His sympathy in similar
struggle. One of the kings of England
one night in disguise walking the
streets of London, and not giving &C
count of himself, was arrested and put
in miserable prison. When released
and getting back to the palace, he or
dered thirty tons of coal and large
supply of food for the night prisoners
of London. Out of his own experience
that night he did this. And our Lord
the King aforetime endungeoned, and
sick, and hungry, and prosecuted, and
slain, out of His own experiences is
ready to help all, and pardon all, and
comfort all, and rescue all.
Oh! join Him in the plain. AS long
as you stay up in the mountain of your
pride you will get no help. That is
reason SO many never find the saliva
ton of the Gospel. They sit high up
in the Mont Blanc of their opinion
ativeness, and they have their opinion
about God, and their opinion about the
soul, and their opinion about eternity.
Have you any idea that your opinion
will have any effect upon the two
tremendous facts-that you are sin
ner, and that Christ is ready at your
earnest prayer to save you? In the final
day of accounts, how much will your
opinion be worth? Your opinion will
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blast of the archangels trumpet.
When the lie of this planet shall be
threshed out with the fail of thunder
bolts, nobody will ask about your opin,
ions. Come down out of the mountain
of opinionativeness and meet Christ on
the plain, where you must meet Him or
never meet Him at all, except as you
meet Him on the Judgment throne.
A Christ easy to get at! No armed
sentinel to challenge you. No ruthless
officer to scrutinize the papers you pre-
sent. Immediate response. Immedi'
ate forgiveness. Immediate solace
Through what a struggle people must GO
to get pardon from worldly authority
By what petition, by what hinderance,
by what nervous strain of anxiety, by
what adroitness. A count of Italy
was condemned to be put to
death at Milan. The countess,
hearing of the sentence, FASTENED
to Vienna to seek his pardon. The
death warrant was already on its way.
The countess, arriving in Vienna in the
night, fastened to the palace cafes.
The attendants forbade her entrance az
all, and especially at night, but she
overcame them with her entreaties,
and the empress was Weakened and tho
countess pleaded before her for the
life of her hus band, and then the
emperor was awakened to hear tina
same plea Communication of sen,
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