The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-01-15

matters mace Stralgnt, Tor this year
thou shalt die
1 advise also that you be busy in
Christian work. How many Sabbaths
In the year? Fifty-two. IL the text be
true of you, it does not say ut what
time you may GO. and therefore il is un-
safe to count on all of the ffty-two
Sundays AS you ms likely to 60 In
the first halt of the year as in the last
half, think we had better divide the
fifty-two into halves, and calculate only
twenty-six Sabbaths- Come, Christian
men. Christian woman, what can you
DO in twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide the
three hundred and sixty-five days into
two parts: What can you do in one
hundred and eigbty-two days? What,
by the way of saving your family, the
church and the world? You will not,
through all the ages of eternity in
Heaven, get over the dishonor and the
outrage of going into glory and hav-
ing helped none on to the same place.
1t will be found that many Sab
bath-school teacher has taken into
Esaven her whole class; that Daniel
Baker the evangelist, took thousands
into Heaven; that Doddridge has taken
in hundreds of thousands, that Paul
took in hundred millions How many
will you take in? IL you get into
Heaven, and find none there that you
sent, and that there are none to come
through your fundamentally, / beg of
you TO crawl under some seat in the
back corner, and never come out, lest
the redeemed get their eyes on you.
and some one cry out: THAT is the
man who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellowsI Look at
him, all Heavenr' Better be busy.
Better put the pillow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly.
Better cry the alarm. Better fall on
your knees Better lay hold with both
hands What you now leave undone
for Christ will forever be undone.
This year thou shalt der
In view of the probabilities men
toned, advise all the men and women
not ready for eternity to get ready. If
the text be true, you have no time to
talk about non-essentials, asking why
God let sin come into the world; or
whether the book of Jonah was in
spired; or who Melchisedec was, or
what about the eternal DEGREES. If you
are as near eternity as some of you
seemed to be, there is no time for any
thing but the question: What must
do to be saved?" The drowning man,
when plank is thrown him, stops not
to ask what saw-mill made il, or
whether it is oak or cedar, or who
threw 1t. If this year you are to die
there is no time for anything but i'm
mediately laying of God. 1t is high time
to get out of your sins. You say: 81 have
committed no great transgressions. But
are you not aware that your life has
been sinful? The snow comes down on
the Alps fake by flake, and it is SO
light that You may hold it on the tip oil
your finger without feeling any weight;
but the flakes gather; they compact,
until some day travellers foot starts
the slide, and it goes down in an ava
lanche, crushing to death the villagers
So the sins of your youth, and the sins
of your manhood, and the sins of your
womahood may have seemed only slight
inaccuracies or trifiing Emergencies from
the right-so slight that they are hard.
ly worth mentioning, but they have
been piling up and piling up, packing
together and packing together, until
| AhCy hAdhC mountain VI anu Ont
more step of your foot in the wrong di-
rection may slide down upon you an
avalanche of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing a desolate and lonely
plateau, a hungry wolf took after him.
J He brought his gun to his shoulder.
and took aim, and the wolf howled
} with pain, and the cry woke up pack
of wolves, and they came ravening out
J of the forest from all sides and horri
J bly, devoured him. Thou art the man.
Some one sin of your life summoning
: on all the rest, they surround thy soul
: and make the night of thy sin terrible
, with the assault of their bloody muzzles
Oh the unpardoned, clamoring, raven.
} ing, all-devouring sins of thy lifetime
/ A maniac was found pacing along
the road with torch in one hand and
! a pail of water in the other, and some
one asked him what he meant to do
| with them. He answered: with this
: torch mean to burn down Heaven,
and with this water / mean to put out
) the fires of hell" He was a maniac
] He could do the one thing just as well
: as the other. No time to lose if yor
want to escape your sins, for this year
: thou shalt die"
r Let me announce that Christ, the
r Lord stands ready to save any man who
wants to be saved. He waited for yoI
= before, and all your life He has wait
ed for you with blood on His brow, and
tears in His eye, and two outstretched
mangled hands of love.
You come home some night and FIND
the marks of muddy feet on your from
+ steps. You hasten in, and find an ex
: cited group around your child He fel
; into pond, and had it not been for
{ brave lad. who plunged in and brought
! him out and carried him home to b,
5 resuscitated, you would have been child
: less. You feel that you can not d.
, enough for the rescurer. You throw
: your arms around him. You offer hin
5 any compensation. You say to him
r Anything that You want shall bt
D yours / will never cease to be CRATE
. full" But my Lord Jesus sees YOU
soul sinking, and attempts to bring i
7 ashore. and you not only refuse Hin
thanks, but stand on the beach and say
Q drop that SOUL II want it saved,
d will save it myself"
> / wish you might know what a jol
. Jesus undertook when He carried you
case to Calvary. They crowded Him t.
r the wall. They struck Him. They
I spat on Him. They kicked Him. The.
E cuffed Him. They scoffed at Him
: They scourged Him They murderes
r Him. Blood blood As He stoop
5 down to lift you up. the crimson drop