The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-12-15

solatory Why, page after page and
chapter liter chapter aud book after
book in the Bible taken up with ailevi-
atoms, with paeifications, with con
dolences. The. Book seems like an
apothecary store. with one-ha1f of the
shelves occupied with balsams. Why
such ! superiority Of balsams? But after
awhile the membaneous Group carries
off your child, or your health gives
way under the grippe, or your prop
erty is swept off by a bad Investment,
or perhaps all three troubles come
at once-banlxruptcy, sickness and
/ bereavement. Now the consolatory
parts of the Bible do not seem to be
dispropOrtionate. You want some
thing off almost all the shelves of that
sacred dispensary. What has uncovered
and exposed to you the usefulness of
50 much of the Bible that was before
hidden2 The frosts have been full
filing their mission
Mid doses of medicine will do for
mild sickness, but violent pains need
strong doses, and so / stand over you
and ccunt out some drops that will al
leviate your worst troubles if you will
only take the medicine, and here it is;
In the world yea shall have tribula-
ton. but be of good cheer; have over
come the world" weeping may en-
dure for a night, but joy cometh in
the morning" Thank God for frosts.
What helped make Milton, the great
est of poets2r The frost of blindness.
What helped make Washington the
greatest of generals? The frosts of
Valley Forge. What made it appro-
pirate for one passing John Bunyan's
grave to exclaim: sleep on, thou
prince of dreamers?H The frosts of i'm
prisonment. The greatest college from
which we can graduate is the College
of Frosts Especial trial fits for cspe-
cial work. just now watch, and you
will see that trouble is preparative and
educational This is the grindstone on
which battle-axes are sharpened. /
have always noticed in my own case
thatswhen the Lord had some sepecial
work for me to. it was preceded by es-
pecial attack upon me. This is SO pros
verbal in my house that if for some
thing | say or do / get poured upon me
volley of censure and anathema, my
wife always asks: 81 wonder what
new opportunity of usefulness is about
to open? Something good and grand
is surely coming"
What is true in my case, is true on a
larger or smaller scale in the history of
every man and woman who wants to
serve the Lord. Without complaint
take the hard knocks. You will see
after awhile, though you may not APP
preciate it now, that by the breath of
a good and loving God frost is given
Let the corners of your mouth, so long
drawn down in complaint be drawn
up in smiles of content.
For many years. poets and essayists
have celebrated the grace and swift.
ness of the Arabian horses. The most
wonderful exhibition of horsemanship
that / ever witnessed was just outside
the city of Jerusalem-an Arab steed
mounted by an Arab. Do you know
where these Arab horses got their
heetness and poetry of motion?
Long centuries ago Mohammed, with
thirty thousand cavalry on the
march, could find for them not
a drop of water for three days Com
ing to the top of hill river was in
sight. With wild dash the thirty
thousand horses started for the stream.
A minute after an armed host was seen
advancing, and at Mohammed's COM
mand one hundred bugles blew for the
horses to fall In line, but all the thirty
thousand continued the wild gallop to
the river, except five, and they al
most dead with thirst, wheeled
into line of battle. Nothing
in human bravery and self-sacri-
fee excels that bravery and self-sacri-
fee of those five Arab ian war horses.
Those FIVE splendid steeds Mohammed
chose for his own use. and from those
five came that race of Arabian horses
for ages the glory of the equestrian
world And let me say that in this
great war of truth against error, of
holiness against sin and Heaven
against hell the best war horses
are descended from those who, under
pang. and self-denial and trouble,
answered the Gospel trumpet and
wheeled into line. Out of great tribu-
lation, out of great fires, out of great
frOsts, they came. And let me say it
will not take long for God to make up
to you Iii the next world for all you
have suffered in this. As you enter
Heaven He may say: Give this nan
one Of those lowered and colonnaded
palaces on that ridge of gold overlook
ing the Sea of Glass. Give this woman
home among those amaranthine
blooms and between those fountains
tossing in the everlasting sunlight.
Give her couch canopied with rain
bows to pay her for all the fatigues of
wifehood, and motherhood and house,
keeping, from which she had no rest
for forty years. Cup-bearers of
Heaven, give these newly-arrived
souls from earth the costliest
beverages and roll to their door
the grandest chariots, and hang
on their walls the sweetest harps tl1at
ever thrummed to fingers seraphic.
Give to them rapture on rapture, cele-
bration on celebration, jubilee on jubi-
lee, Heaven on Heaven. They had a
hard time on earth earning a liveli-
hood, or nursing sick children, or wait
ing on querulous old age, or battling
faisehUods that were told about
them, or were compelled to work
after they got short r-eathed and
and diIn-sight ted. Chamber
lains of Heayepl Keepers of the Kings
robes. Banqueters OF eternal royalty!
Make up to them hundred-fold, a
thousandfoid, million-fold, for all
they suffered from swaddling clothes
to shrodd. and let all those who, wheth-
er on the hills, or in the temples, |