The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-03-25

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will meet him? He is not eleven feel
high. but a hundred feet high His bed
stead hi ms long an the continent His
name Id Doubt His common food is in
fidel books. and skeptical lectures, and
ministers who do not know whether
the Bible is inspired at all or inspired
in spots. and Christians who are more
infidel than Christian. You will never
reach the promised land unless you slay
that giant Kill Doubt or Doubt viii
kill you. How to overcome this giant?
Pray for faith, go with people who have
faith. read everything that cncorr-
ages faith, avoid as You would ship
fever and smallpox the people who
lack faith. In this battle against King
Og use not for weapons the crutch OF "a
limping Christian, or the sharp pen OF
a conference.-the, but the sword of
truth, which is the word of God The
word '.if' is made up of the same num-
Der of letters as the word ''Og." and it
is just as big a giant. If the Bible be
true. III the soul be immortal If
| Christ be God. If our belief and be-
havior here decide our future destiny.
| If If. If / hate that word ''if %
| Noah Webster says it is con.
junction; say It Is an armed
giant. Satan breathed upon it a
curse when he said to Christ I'll
thou be the Son of God.H What a das-
tardly and infamous IF !" Against that
| giant ''if'' hurl Jobs ST know and
Paurs 81 know II know that nv
Redeemer nveth." 81 know in whom
/ have believed" Down with the 'sif, -
and up with II know" Oh. that gaint
doubt is such cruel giant 1t attacks
many in the last hour. 1t could not let
my mother alone even in her dying
moments After a life of holiness and
conservation, such as l never heard of
in anyone else, she said to my ia
Their: Father. what if, after all, our
prayers and struggles should go for
nothing?" Why could she not, after al
the trials and sickness, and bereave-
ments of long life and the infirmities
of old age, be allowed to go without
such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the
giant? Do You wonder have a grudge
against the old monster? If could 1
would give him a bigger bounce than
Satan got when, hurled out of Heaven,
the first thing he struck was the bot
tom of perdition. f #SH
Another impression from my subject:
The march of the church can not be inn
peded by gigantic opposition That
Israelitish host led on by Moses was
the church, and when Og, the giant
him of the iron bedstead-came out
against him with another host-a
fresh host against one that seemed
worn out--things must have looked
bad for Israel. No account is given
of the bedstead of Moses, except that
one in which he first slept-the
cradle of aquatic vegetation of the
Nile, where the wife of Ghenephres,
the king, found the floating babe, and
having no children of her own, adopted
him. Moses of Ordinary size, against
| Og of extraordinary dimensions. Be-
sides that, Og was backed up by sixty
| fortified cities. Moses was backed up
seemingly by nothing but the desert
that had worn him and his army
| into group of undiscirlined and
exhausted stragglers. But the Israel
ties triumphed If you spell the name
of Og backward you turn it into the
word go" and Og was turned back
ward and made to go. With Og's
downfall all the sixty cities surren-
dered. Nothing was left of the giant
except his iron bedstead, which was
kept in n museum at Rabbath to show
how tall and stout he once was.
So shall the last giant of opposl-
ton in the church's march succumb.
Not sixty cities captured, but all the
cities. Not only on one side of Jordan,
| but on both sides of all the rivers.
The day is coming. Hear it all We who
are doing something for the conquest
of the world, for God and the truth,
the time will come when, as there was
nothing left of Og, the giant, but the
iron bedstead kept at Rabbath as a
curiosity, there will be nothing
left of the giants of iniquity, except
something for the relic hunters to ex-
anime. Which of the giants will be the
last slain l know not, but there will be
| a museum somewhere to hold the relics
of what they once were. A rusted
sword will be hung up the only relic of
the giant war. A demijohn-the only
relic of the giant of inebriation. A
roulette ball-the only relic of the
the giant of hazard. A pictured certi-
fcate of watered stock-the only relic
of the giant of stock gambling. A
broken knife-the only relic of the giant
of assassination. A yellow copy of
Tom Paine-the only relic of the giant
unbelief. And that museum will do for
the later ages of the world what the
iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the
earlier ages. Do you not see it makes
all the difference in the world whether
we are fighting on to a miserable de-
feat, or toward a final victory? All the
Bible promises prophesy the latter, and
so 1 cheer you who are the troops of
God, and though many things are
dark now, like Alexander, / review
the army by torchlight, and give you
the watchward which Martin Luther
proclaimed: 1.-THE Lord of Hostsp'
Whatever your work and wherever,
you work for God-forwardl You in
your way, and in my way. With holy
pluck fight on, with something of the
strength of Thomas Troubridge, who at
Inkermann had one leg shot off and
the foot of the other leg, and when
they proposed to carry him off
the field replied: No; I do
not move until the battle is
won" Whatever be the rocking of the
church or state, have tSle calmness of
the aged woman in an earthquake that
frightened everybody else, and who,
when asked if she was not afraid, said:
mo; am glad that have God who
can shake the world" Whether vour