The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-06-09

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and belittle the place of their residence,
and there has been more damage, f.
nancial and moral, done to our city by
this hypercriticism than can ever be es-
timated. The course of our city has
been onward and upward We have a
citizenship made up of hundreds of
thousands of as good men and women
as inhabit the earth, and feel honored
in being citizen of Brooklyn, and pro-
pose to stay here until join the popu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder, now
all abloom with spring howers-sweet
| types of resurrection
My thanks must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and chill
dren who have helped, and sometimes
helped with self sacrifices that / know
must have won the applause of the
heaveps- If you could only read with
me few of the thousands of letters
that have come to my desk in The
Christian Herald Office, you would know
how deep their sympathy, how large
their sacrifice has been. ''I have sold
my bicycle and now send you the mon
ey," is the language of one noble
young man who wrote to The Christian
Herald. This is no dead sons gift to
me, and ] have been led to send it to
you," writes a mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in York,
Pa, sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks TO all the newspaper press.
Have you noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all the secular newspapers have
been, and Of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty
exceptions? You say that sometimes
newspapers get things wrong. Yes,
but which Of us does not sometimes get
things wrong? If you want to find
man who has never made mistake, do
not waste your time by looking in this
pulpit. Thanks to the editors and re-
porters and publishers. Gentlemen
of the Brooklyn and New York print
ing press, if you never report any
thing else that / say, please to report
that Yes, l see you are getting it all
down.
AS a church we from this day make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons We will offer
more faithful prayers We will do bet
ter work in all departments We will
in the autumn resume our lay college,
We will fill all the rooms of this mag
nificent pile with work for God and
suffering humanity. More prayers have
been offered for this church, and on
both sides of the sea, than for any
church that has ever existed, and all
those prayers will be answered. Clear
the track for the Brooklyn tabernaclel
"Sing We to the Lord, for He hath tri-
umphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath He thrown into the sea-"
But do you not now really think that
Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon?
Do you not think she ought to have
waited till the Israelitish host got clear
over to Canaan before she struck her
knuckles against the timbrel or tam
BOURNE? Mirfhml You do well to have
the tambourine ready, but wait little
before You play it. You are not yet
through the journey from Egypt to the
Promised Land. You will yet have to
drink out of the bitter water of Marah,
and many of your army will eat SO
heartily of the fallen quails that they
will die of collie, and you will at the
foot of Sinai be scared with the thun-
der, and there will be fiery serpents in
the way and many battles to fight, and
last of all the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriaml l have no objections to the
tambourine, but do not jingle its bells
or thump its frightened parchment until
you are all through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. If
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles of this life
we would never shout at all. Copy the
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo-
ment you get victory celebrate it.
The time and place to hold a jubilee for
the safe crossing of the Red sea is on its
beach and before you leave. 1t is aw-
full, the delayed hosannahs, the belated
hallelujahs, tho postponed doxologies,
the trains of thanksgiving coming in SO
long after they are due.
1t is said, do not rejoice over a reviv-
al too soon; the new members might
not hold out. Do not thank God for
the money you made to-day, for to-
morrow you may lose 1t all and more
Do not be too grateful for your good
health to-day, for tomorrow you may
get the grip. Do not be too glad about
your conversion, for you might fall
from grace. Do not rejoice too soon
over a church's deliverance, because
there might be disasters yet to come.
Oh, let US have no more adjourned graf
itudei
The time to thank God for rescue
from temptation is the moment after
you have broken the wine flask. The
time to thank God for your salvation is
the moment after the first flash of par
don. The time to be grateful for the
comfort of your bereft soul is the first
moment of Christ's appearance at the
mausoleum of Lazarus. The time for
Miriams tambourine to sound its most
jubilant note is the moment the last
Israelite puts his foot on the sand on
the parted inland ocean. Alas, that
when Gods mercies have such swift
wings our praises should have such
leaden feet!
Notice that Miriam's song in my text
had for its burden the overthrown cav
airy. It was not so much the infantry
90 the men on foot over whose defeat
she rejoiced with ringing timbrel,
but over the men on horseback-the
mounted troopsl THE horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea-"
There is something terrible in cav
airy charge. You see it is not like
soldier afoot, thrusting a bayonet or
striking with a sword, using nothing
but the strength of his own muscle
and sinew, for the cavalryman adds
to the strength of his own arm the
awful plunge of steed at full gallon