The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-14

as to whether they are Christians or not
The doubt is settled. They are NOT
Christians. The best we can do with
these fish is to throw them back into
the stream, and go after them again
with the Gospel net.
$50 into all the world and preach
the Gospel" says Christ: into the fac
tory, the engine house, the club-room,
into the houses of the sick into this
dark lane, into the damp cellar, into
the cold garnet, into the dismal prison.
Let every man. woman and child know
that Jesus died, and that the gate OF
Heaven is wide open. With the Bible
in one pocket and the hymn-book in an
other pocket, and loaf of bread under
your arm, launch out into the great
deep of this worlds wretche 1ness-
The text is appropriate to all the I'M
forgiven. Every sinner would come to
God il he thought that he might come
just as he is People talk as though
the pardon of God were a narrow river,
like the Kennebec or the Thames, and
that their sin draws too much water to
enter it. No; it is not river, nor
bay, but sea. i should like to per-
suade you to launch out into the great
deep of Gods mercy. i am a merchant.
/ have bought cargo of spices in India.
have through a bill Of exchange, paid
Tor the whole cargo. You are ship
captain. give you the orders, and say:
Bring me those spices" ''You land in
India. You go to the trader, and say:
'Here are the orders:" and you find
everything all right. You do not stop
to pay the money yourself. " is not
your business to pay it. The ar
engagements were made before you
started. So Christ purchases your
pardon. He puts the papers, or
the promises, into your hand. Is it
wise to say: lean not pay for my re-
demption?'' God does not ask you to
pay Relying on what has been done,
launch out into the deep.
The Bibles promises join hands, and
the circle they make will compass all
your sins, and all your temptations,
and all your sorrows. The round table
of King Arthur and his knights had
room for only thirteen banqueters; but
the round table of Gods supply is large
of earth and Heaven to sit at, and for
the still mightier populations that are
yet to be.
Do not sail coastwise along your old
habits and old sins. Keep clear of the
shore. Go out where the water is deep
est. Oh, for the mid-sea of Gods
mercy 'Be it known unto you, men
and brethren, that through this man
is preached unto you forgiveness of.
sins" preach it with as much conf
dence to the eighty-year-o transgres-
sor as to the maiden. Though your
sins were blood red, they shall be snow.
white. The more ragged the prodigal,
the more compassionate the father.
Do you say that you are too bad? The
high-water mark of Gods pardon is
higher than all your stransgressions.
'tThe blood of Jesus Christ cleanesth
from all sim" Do you say that your
heart is hard? Did you say that your
iniquity is long continued? Suppose it
were ten ten times longer? Do yon say
that your crimes are black? Suppose
that they were ten times blaclzer. Is
there any lion that this Samson can not
slay? Is there any fortress that this Con-
queror can not take? Is there any sin
this Redeemer can not pardon?
1t is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by the three
armies of the Saracens in the pass of
Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, in
terrible earnestness, seized a trumpet
and blew it with such terrific strength
that the opposing army reeled back
with terror; but at the third blast of
the trumpet it broke in two. see
your soul fiercely assailed by all the
powers of earth and hell. I
put the mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lips, and i blow
it three times. Blast the first
"Whosoever will, let him come" Blast
the second-"Seek ye the Lord while
He may be found" Blast the third
Now is the accepted time; now is the
day of salvation" Does not the host
of your sins fall back? But the
trumpet does not, like that of Roland,
break In two. AS it was handed down
to us from the lips of our fathers,
we hand it down to the lips of our
children, and them to sound it when we
are dead, that all the generations of
men may know that our God is
pardoning Coda sympathetic God
loving God; and that more to Him
than the anthems of Heaven, more to
Him than the throne on which He slls,
more to Him than are the temples OF
celestial worship, is the joy of seeing
the wanderer putting his hand on the
door-latch of His Fathers house. Hear
it, all ye nations! Bread for the worst
hunger. Medicine for the worst sick
ness. Light for the thickest darkness.
Harbor for the worst storm.
DIR. Prime, in his book of won,.erfui
interest entitled Around the World
describes a tomb in India of marvellous
architecture. Twenty thousand men
were twenty-five years in erecting that
and the buildings around it. Stand
ing in that tomb, if you speak or sing,
after you have ceased you hear the echo
coming from a height of one hundred
and fifty feet 1t is not like other
echoes. The sound is drawn
out in sweet prolongation, as
though the angels of God were
chanting on the wing How many
souls in the tomb of sin will lift up the
voice of penitence and prayer? If now
they would cry unto God, the echo
would drop from afar-not from the
marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding back from the warm heart
of angels, flying with the news; fol
there is joy among the angels of God
over one sinner that repenteth!
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