The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-21

| IAAS VI b1C %hEbu bCSAuR Tilt SdAFhtAOn
of God" nor the Christian anthem
which Column bus led on the morning of
the 18th of October, 1892, on the coast
of San Salvador. Like that flock OF
land birds which met the Santa Maria
and the Pinta and the Nina far out at
sea, indicating to the commanders ol
that fleet that they were approaching
some country, so whole flock of prom
ises and hopes, golden-winged and
songful, this morning alight around us,
assuring rs that we are approaching
the glorious period of American evan.
gelization. A Divine influence will We.
sweep the continent that will make in
| iquity drop like slack lime, and make
the most blatant infidelity declare it
was only joking when it said the Bible
said it was not true, and the worst
atheism announce that Il always did
believe in the God of nations. Let
others call for requiem and dead
march, 1 call for George Frederick
HandePs hallelujah chorus There
has been much talk of late about COM
munication with other worlds. Mars
has come go near we can
see its canals, and it has been
hoped that by signals after while
| we may communicate with other
stars. All, that will not be possible I'M
til our world has been reformed and
evangelical. 1t would not do for our
world in its long and ruined state to
have communication with other worlds.
1t would spoil their morals. But wait
until this world is fully redeemed, as it
will be, and then perha ps interstellar
correspondence may be opened. Till
| then, this smitten and sickened world
of ours must be quarantined from COM
ing too near the unfallen worlds. But,
thank God, the prophecies which
cheered Columbus in his great under
taking cheer us. America for God!
Yea, the ronnd world for God! There
can be no doubt about it!
| While studying the life of this italian
navigator, am also reminded of the
fact that while we are diligently look
ing for one thing, we find another.
| Columbus started to find India, but
found America. Go on and do your
duty diligently and prayerfully, and if
you do not find what you look for, you
will find something better. Saul was
hunting for the strayed animals of his
| fathers barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him a crown of
dominion. Nearly all the great inven-
tions and discoveries were made by men
who at the time were looking for
something else. Prof. Morse gone
to Europe to perfect himself
in chemistry, on returning hap
pens to take the packetship
Sully from Havre, and while in con-
versation with a passenger learns of
some experiments in France, which
suggest to him the magnetic telegra-
ply. He went to Europe to learn the
wisdom of others and discovered the
telegraph. Hargreaves by the upset
ting of machine, and the motion of
| its wheel while upset, discovered the
spinning jenny. So, my friend, go on
faithfully and promptly with your
work, and if you do not get the sue
cess you seek, and your plans upset,
you will get something Just as good and
perhaps better. Sail ahead on the voy-
age of life, keep a correct log-book,
brave the tempest, make the best use
of the east wind, keep sharp lookout
| and / warrant you in the name
of the God of Columbus that if
you do not find just what you
want of an earthly nature, you will find
Heaven, and that will be better. What
was WORKOUT India, crouching under a
| tropical sun, compared with salu brious
| and radiant and almost illimitable
| America; and what is all that this little
| world in which we live can afford you
compared with that supernal realm,
whose foliage, and whose fruits, and
| whose riches. and whose population,
and whose grandeurs, and whose wor-
ship, and whose Christ make up an af
| fiuence that the most rapturouS vocab-
ulary fails to utter?
| And, now, while / am thinking of
| this illustrious ship captain of Genoa,
| let me bespeak higher appreciation for
| the ship captains now in service, many
of them this moment on the sea, the
lives of tens of thousands of passen-
gers in their keeping. What an awful
responsibility is their! They go out
| through the Narrows, or start from
Queenstown or Southampton or Glas-
gov, not knowing what cyclone
or collisions or midnight perils
are waiting for them. 1t requires
| bravery to face an army of men, but
far more bravery to face an army of At
lantic surges led on by hurricanes. A
more stupendous scene is not to be wit
messed than that of ship captain
walking the bridge of steamer in the
midst of a cyclone Remember those
heroes in your prayers, and when
worn out in the service, and
they have to command inferior
craft or return to the land and go
out to service, do them full honor
for what they once were. Let the ship
companies award them pensions worthy
of what they endured until they start
on their last voyage from this world to
the next. Aye, that voyage we must
all take. landsmen as well as seafarers.
Let us be sure that we have the right
pilot, and the right chart, and the right
captain, and that we start in the right
direction. 1t will be to each of Us
who love the Lord a voyage more
wonderful for discovery than that
which Columbus took, for, after all we
have heard about that other world,
we know not where it is or how it
looks, and il will be as new as San Sal
vador was to the glorious captain of
the Santa Maria. Eye hath not seen,
ncr ear heard. neither have entered in
to the heart of man. Nay the light
from that golden beach flash on the
darkness, and we be able to
step ashore amid groves and orchards
and aromas such as this worlds
atmOsnhere never rinened or breathed