The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-11-10

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him, and You will vote for him unless
You love God less than your party;
then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitrocris, the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so
fascinated with her beautiful village
Of .Ardericca that she had the river
above Babylon changed so it wound
this way and wound that, and curved
this way and curved that, and though
You sailed on it for three days every
day you would be in sight of this ex-
quisite village. Now, I do not care
which way you sail in morals, or which
way you sail in life, if you only sail
within sight of this beautiful group
of divine commandments. Although
they may sometimes seem to be
little angular, do not care which way
you sail, if you sail in sight of them
you will never run aground and you
will never be shipwrecked. Society
needs toning up on all these subjects
| tell you there is nothing worse to
fight than the ten regiments, with
bayonets and sabers of fire, marching
down the side of Mount Sinai. They
always gain the victory, and those
who fight against them go under.
There are thousands and tens of thou
sands of men being slain by the
Decalogue. What is the matter with the
young man of whom read, dying in
his designations? In his dying delirium
he said: Now. fetch on the dice. It
is timel No, no! Bring on more wine!
Oh, how they rattle their chains!
del T oh ut
The cards are ma rked! Oh, death! oh,
death! Fiends. fiends, fiends!" And
he gasped his last and was gone. The
ten commandments slew him.
/ suppose when in the city of Sodom
there were four candidates .put up for
Office, and Lot did not believe in any of
them, he did not register. / suppose If
there came a crisis in the politics of
Babylon, where Daniel did not believe
in any of the candidates, ,he staid at
home on election day, praying with his
face toward Jerusalem. But we have
no such crisis, we have no such
exigency, thank God. But / have to
say to you to-day that the moral
character of rulers ALWAYS affects the
ruled; and / appeal to history. Wicked
tone of all the nation of Judah, and
threw them into idolatry. Good King
Josiah lifted up the whole nation by
his excellent example. Why is it that
to-day England is higher up in morals
than at any point in her national his
tory? 1t is because she has the best
ruler in all Europe; all the attempts
to scandalize her name a failure.
The political power of the Talleyrand
brooded, all the political tricksters of
the last ninety years. The dishonest
vice-presidency of Aaron Burr blasted
this nation until important letters were
written in cipher, because the people
could not trust the United States mail.
And let the court circles of Louis XIV.
and Henry VIII. march out, followed
by the debauched nations.
But / shall not leave you under the
Encouragement of the ten command
ments, because we have all offended
There is another mountain in sight,
and while one mountain thunders the
other answers in thunder; and while
Mount Sinai, with lightning, writes
doom, the other mountain, with
lightning, writes mercy The only
way You will ever spike the guns
of the Decalogue is by the spikes
of the cross. The only rock that will
ever stop the Slnaitic upheavals is the
Rock of Ages. Mount Calvary is
higher than Mount Sinai. The English
survey ,expeditio2, l know, say that
one Sinaitic peak is seven thousand feet
high and another eight thousand and
another nine thousand feet high, and
travellers tell us that Mount Calvary
is only bluff outside of the wall of
Jerusalem; but Calvary in moral sig
nifcance overtops and overshadows
all the mountains of the hemispheres,
and Mount Washington and Mount
Blanc and the Himalayas are hill
locks compared with it. You know
that sometimes one fortress will silence
another fortress Moultrie silenced
Sumter; and against the mountain of
the law l put the mountain of the
cross 1.-The soul that sinneth, it shall
die" booms one, until the earth jars
under the cannonade. ''Save them
from going down to the pit, / have
found a ransom" pleads the other,
until earth and Heaven and hell
tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands the one, sur
renders to Christ, who commands the
other.
Once by the law our hopes were slams
But now in Christ we live again.
Aristotle says that Mount Etna erupt-
ed one day and poured torrents of
scoria upon the villages at the base,
but that the mountain divided its
flame and made lane of safely for all
those who came to rescue their aged
parents. And this volcanic Sinai
divides it's fury for all those
whom Christ has come to rescue
from the red ruin on both sides.
Standing as 1 do to-day, half way be-
tween the two mountains-the noun
tain of the Exodus and the mountain
of the nineteenth of John-an my ter
ror comes into supernatural calm, for
the uproar of the one mountain sub
sides into quiet. and comes down into
so deep silence that l can hear the
other mountain speak-aye, / can hear
it whisper: The blood, the blood, the
blood that cleanseth from all sim"
The survey expedition says that the
Sinaitic mountains have wadys, or
water courses-Alleyat and Ajelah-
emptying into Feiran. But those
streams are not navigable. No boat
put into those rocky streams could sail.
But have to tell you this day thai
the boat of Gospel rescue comes right
up amid the water courses of Sinaitic
gloom and threat, ready to take us
off from under the shadows into the