The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-27

tired Of theocracy. They said: I'VE
don't want God indirectly interfering
with the affairs of the world; give us a
monarchy" The world had mon
archy. From a monarchy it is going
TO have limited monarchy. After
awhile the limited monarchy is given
up, and the republican form of govern
ment will be everywhere dominant
and recognized. Then the world will
get tired of the republican form OF
government, and it will have an
anarchy, which is no government at
all And then, all nations finding out
that man is not capable of righteously
governing man, will cry out again for
a theocracy, and say: ''Let God
come back and conduct the af-
fairs of the world. Every step
monarchy, limited monarchy, re-
publicanism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocracy and
the last theocracy, or segments of the
great circle of the earth on which God
sits. But do not become impatient be-
cause you can not see the curve of
events, and therefore conclude that
Gods government is going to break
down. History tells us that in the
making of the pyramids it took two
thousand men two years to drag one
great stone from the quarry and put it
into the pyramids. Well now, if men
short-lived can afford to work SO slowly
as that, can not God in the building of
the eternities afford to wait? What
though God should take ten thousand
years to draw circle? Shall we take
our little watch, which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock of eter-
nal ages? If, according to the Bible, a
thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then according to that calcu-
lation the six thousand years of the
worlds existence have been only to God
as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
sooner completed. You resolve that
you will do what good you can. In
one week you put word of counsel in
the heart of Sabbath-school child.
During that same week you give let
ter of introduction to a young man
struggling in business. During the
same week you make an eXhortation in
a prayer meeting. 1t is all gone; you
viii never hear of it perhaps, you
think. A few years after man comes
up to you and says: you don't know
me, do you?" You say: ''No, / don't
remember ever to have seen you"
why" he says: II was in the class
over which you were teacher; one Sum
day You invited me to Christ; accepted
the offer; you see that church with
two towers yonder?" Yes you sag.
He says: THAT is where 1 preach. :"
or, ''Do you see that governors house?
That is where / live" One day man
comes to you and says: ''Good morn
ing" You look at him and say: why
you have the advantage of me; / can
not place you" He says: Don't you
remember thirty years ago giving a
letter of introduction to young man
letter of introduction to Moses III.
Grinnell?' "Yes. yes. I do" He says:
ST am the man; that was my first step
toward a fortune; but I have retired
from business now, and am giving my
time to philanthropies and public in
terests. Come up and see me-" Or a
man comes to you and says: 81 want
to introduce myself to you. went in
to a prayer meeting in Atlanta some
years ago; / sat back by the door; you
arose to make an exhortation; that talk
changed the course of my life, and if l
ever get to Heaven, under God 1 will
owe my salvation to you," In only
ten, twenty or thirty years the circle
swept out and swept back again to
your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle.
and does not return for great while.
saw bill of expenses for burning Lati-
mer and Ridley. The bill of expenses
says: