The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-03-11
men ths. Won newer IN the days Of your

men th1k you never in the days OF your
spiritual bondage had any appreciation
of what was to come. You are ready
to-day to answer, and If / give you an
Opportunity in the midst of this assem-
blaRe. you would speak out and say In
regard to the discoveries you have
made OF the mercy and the grace and
the goodness of God: 1.-THE half-the
half was not told mer'
Well, we hear a good deal about the
good time that is coming i'm this world,
when it is to be girded with salvation
Holiness on the bells Of the horses
The lions name patted by the hand Of
babe. Ships of Tarshish bringing
cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, dry,
barren. winter-bleached. storm-scarred,
thunder-split rock, breaking into Hoods
of bright water. Deserts into which
dromedaries thrust their nostrils be-
cause they were afraid of the simoom-
deserts blooming into carnation roses
and silver-tipped lilies
1t is the old story. Everybody tells
] il. Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul
told it, Ezekiel told 1t. Luther told it,
Ca win told it, John told it-everybod
teIls it; and yet--and yet when the
midniA hit shall fly the hills, and Christ
shall marshall His great army, and
China. dag. ing her idols into the dust,
shall hear the voice of God.
and wheel into line. and India
I DESTROYING her Juggernaut and
auatching up her little children
! iron the Ganges, shall hear the voice
of God. and wheel into line. and vine
covered ItaI,-. and all the nations OF
the earth shall hear the voice of God.
and fall into line; then the church
which has been toihng and struggling
through the icentmies, robed and gar
landed like u bride adorned for her
husband, shall put aside her veil and
look up into the face of her Lord and
| King. and saw: 1.-THE half-the hall
was not told mer' b%&
/ Well, there Is coming greater sur
prise to every CTristian--a greater sur
prise than anything ! have depicted
Heaven is an old story. Everybody
talks about it. There is hardly a hymn
4 IN the HYMN book that does not refer tc
IT. Children read about it in their Sab
bath school book Aged men put on tbel
spectacles to study it. We say It Is
J harbor from the storm. We call it on
home We say it is the house OF man,
! ynansions. We weave together al
sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilaran
! words: we weave them into letters
and then we spell it out in rose an
} lily and amaranth. And yet tina
] place is going to be surpris
t to the most intelligent Christian. Lik
D the queen of Sbeba, the report ha
D come to us from the far country, an
, many of us have started. 1t is deser
' march, but we urge ON the. camel'
e What though our feet be 6Estered wit
Z the way? We are Fastening to the pa
: ace. We take all our loves, and hopes
a and Christian ambitions as franklin
: cense, and myrrh, and cassia. to the gres
|. King. We must not rest. We must nc
+ halt. The night is coming on, and 1T
N not safe out here in the desert. Ure
e ON the camels. / see the doInes agaln
N the sky, and the houses of Lebanon
a and the temples and the gardens. 81
:. the fountains dance in the sun, and I'll
Ie gates fash, as they open to let In II
e poor pilgrims EEf
a. Send the word to the palace that v
N are coming, and that we are weary
n, the march of the desert. The King w
d, come out and say: Welcome to Il
Id palace; battle In these waters, reclil
E. on these banks. Take this cinnamo
st and fralxincese and myrrh, and put
upon censor, and swing
n before the altar" And yet, n
y friends, when Heaven bursts upC
IN us it will be greater surpri
10 than that-Jesus on the throne, and Y
lie made like Him! All our Christi;
m friends surrounding us in gloryl a
~ our sorrows and tears and sins gone
he forever! The thousands of Thousand
be the one hundred and forty-and-fo
ne thousand, the great multitude that
he man can NUM- Der, will cry world viii
in out end: 1.-The half-the half was 4
IT told us!'