The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-20

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der of the demolition, and this
moment, if we would pause
in our service, we should hear
the crash, crashl Just as in the siclzIy
season you sometimes hear the bell at
the gate of the cemetery ringing al.
most incessantly, so 1 found that the
bell at the gate of the cemetery where
ruined souls are buried was tolling by
day and by night l said: 81 will ex-
plore." l went as a physician goes
into fever lazaretto, to see what prac,
tical and useful information l might
get. That would be foolish doctor
who would stand outside the door OF
an invalid writing Latin prescription.
| When the lecturer in a medical college
is done with his lecture, he takes the
students into the dissecting room, and
| he shows them the reality. / went and
saw, and came forth to my pulpit to
report plague, and to tell how
sin dissects the body, and dissects tho
mind, and dissects the soul. ''Oh!"
say you, ''are you not afraid that in
! consequence of such exploration of the
iniquities of the city other persons
might make exploration, and do them
selves damage?" 1 reply: eff, in COM
pany with the commissioner of police,
and the captain of police, and the in
spector of police, and the company of
two Christian gentlemen, and not with
the spirit of curiosity but that you
may see sin in order the better to COM
bat it, then, in the name of the eternal
God, go? But, if not, then stay away"
! Wellington, standing in the battle of
Waterloo when the bullets were buz-
zing around his head, saw civilian on
the field. He said to him: 'Sir, what
are you doing here? Be
off," "Why," replied the civil
ian, ''there is no more danger here for
me than there is for you" Then Well
lington flushed up and said: God and
my country demand that be here, but
you have no errand here" Now | as
an officer in the army of Jesus Christ,
went on that exploration and on to
that battlefield. If you bear like
commission, go; if not, stay away. But
you say: Don't you think that some
how the description of those places in
duce people to go and see for them
selves?" / answer, yes. just as much
as the description of yellow fever in
some scourged city would induce peo-
pie to go down there and get the pesti-
lence. But | may be addressing some
stranger already destroyed. Where is
he, that I may pointedly yet kindly
address him? Come back! and wash
in the deep fountain of a Saviour's
mercy. do not give you cup or a
chalice, or a pitcher with limited
supply to effect your ablutions. I
point you to the five oceans of Gods
mercy. Oh! that the Atlantic and Pa
cific surges of Divine forgiveness might
roll over your soul. AS the glorious
sun of Gods forgiveness rides on to-
ward the mid-heavens, ready to SUBJ
merge you in warmth and light and
love, bid you good morning! Morning
of peace for all your troubles. Morning G
of liberation for all your incarcera-
| tions. Morning of resurrection for
your soul buried in sin. Good morn
ing! Morning for the resuscitated
household that has been waiting for
your return. Morning for the cradle
and the crib already disgraced with
being that of a drunkard's child.
| Morning for the daughter that has
trudged off to hard work because you
did not take care of home. Morning
for the wife who at forty and fifty
years has the wrinkled face, and the
stopped shoulder, and the white hair.
Morning for one. Morning for all.
Good morning! In Gods name, good
ming!
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel You have had longer
sleep than usual. You say: "Where
am l? a thousand miles from home.
/ have no family to take to church to-
day. My pastor will not expect my
presence. l think | shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
book. Then l will write few bust
ness letters, and talk to that merchant
who came in on the same train with
me-" Stop! you can not afford to do it.
But, you say, 81 am worth five hun
dred thousand dollars" You can not
afford to do it. You say am worth one
million. You can not afford to doit. All
you gain by breaking the Sabbath you
will lose. You will lose one of three
things: your intellect, your morals or
your property and you can not point in
the whole earth to single exception
to this rule. God gives us six days and
keeps one for Himself. Now, if we
try to get the seventh, He will upset
the work of the other six.
o. strangers, welcome to the great
city May you find Christ here, and
not any physical or moral damage.
Men coming from inland, from distant
cities, have here found God, and found
Him in our service. May that
be your case to-day. You
thought you were brought tc
this place merely for the purpose
of sightseeing. Perhaps God brought
you to this roaring city for the purpose
of working out your eternal salvation.
Go back to your homes and tell them
how you met Christ here-the loving
patient, pardoning and sympathetic
Christ. Who knows but the city which
has been the destruction of so many
may be your eternal redemption.
A good many years ago Edward Stan
ley, the English commander, with his
regiment. took a fort. The fort was
manned by some three hundred Span
iards. Edward Stanley came close uI
to the fort, leading his men. when a
Spaniard thrust at him with a spear
intending to destroy his life; but
Stanley caught hold of the spear
and the Spaniard in attempting tc
jerk the spear away from Stanley
lifted him up into the battlements
No sooner had Stanley taken his posi-
ton on the battlements than he swung
his sword and his whole regiment
leaped after him and the fort