The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-02-02

OUT anu 70 get her on, and u get nSr
on the right way again will require
more of omnipotence than 1t required
to build her and launch her. So 1
am not surprised that, though in
the dry dock of one word our world was
made. il will take the unsleeTed arm
of God to lift her from the rocks and
put her on the right course again. It
is evident from my text, and it's COM
parisoR with other texts, that it would
not be SO great an undertaking to
thake a whole constellation of worlds,
and whole galaxy Of worlds, and a
whole astronomy of worlds. and swing
them in their right orbits. as to take
this wounded world, this stranded
world, this bankrupt world. this de-
stroyed world. and make it as good as
when il started.
Arm OF the Lord. awake, awake
Put on thy strength the nations shake
Aye. 1t is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm. but the bare arm.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism,
with its one hundred and seventy
six million victims. It's bible Is
the Koran, book not quite as
large as our New Testament, which
was revealed to AIohammed when in
epileptic fits, and. resuscitated from
these fits, he dictated it to scribes.
Yet it is read to-day by more people
than any other book ever written,
Mohammed, the founder of that re-
ligion, a polygamist. with superhuity
of wives, the first step of his
religion on the body, mind
and soul of woman; and no
wonder that the heaven of the Koran
is an everlasting Sodom, an infinite
seraglio. about which Mohammed prom
ises that each follower shall have in
that place seventy-two wives, in addi-
tion TO all the wives he had on earth,
but that no old woman shall ever enter
Heaven. When a bishop of England
recently proposed that the best way of
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion, but engraft upon
it some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesi-
astical joke, at which no man can laugh
who has ever seen the tyranny and
domestic wretchedness which always
appear where that religion gets foot
hold. 1t has marched across continets.
and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner In America, and
what it has done in Turkey it would
like TO do for our nation. A religion
that brutally treats womanhood ought
never to be fostered in our country.
But there never was religion so alb
surd or wicked that il did not get dis
ciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make a large diseipleship of
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion
has been making steady progress for
hundreds of years, and Notwithstanding
all the splendid work done by the Jes-
sups, and the Goddells. and the Blisses,
and the Van Dykes. and the Posts. and
the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thomplxins, and scores of other men
and women of which the world was not
worthy, there it stands. the giant of
sin, ohammedanism, with one foot
on the heart of woman, and the other
on the heart of Christ, while il mum
bles from its minaretS this stipend
Gus blasphemy: "God is great. and
Mohammed is His prophet. Let the
Christian printing presses at Beyrout
and Constantinople keep ON with their
work, and the men and women of God
in the mission fields toll until the Lord
crowns them, but what we are all hop
ing for is something supernatural from
the heavens, as yet unseen. something
stretched down out of the skies, some
thing like an arm uncovered, the bare
arm Of the God of nations!
There stands also the arch demon of
alcoholism. Its throne is white and
made of bleached human skulls On
one side Of that throne of skulls
kneels, in obeisance and worship, de-
mocracy, and on the other side repub-
licanism, and the one that kisses the
cancerous and gangrened foot of this
despot the oftenest gets the most bene-
dictions. There is "a Hudson river, an
Ohio, a Mississippi OF strong drink
rolling through this nation, but as the
rivers from which talze my
figure of speech empty into the At
lantic or the gnlf, this Inightier flood
of sickness and insanity, and domestic
ruin, and crime, and bankruptcy, and
woe, empties into the hearts, and the
homes, and the churches, and the time
and the eternity ofa multitude beyond
all statistics TO number or describe
All nations are mauled and sacrificed
with baleful stimulus or killing mar
cotic. The pulque of Mexico, the
cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of Per-
sia, the opium of China, the guavo Of
Honduras, the wedro of Russia, the
soma of India, the aguardiente of Mo-
rocco, the aralx of Arabia, the mastic
of Syria, the razi of Turkey, the beer
of Germany, the whisky of Scotland,
the ale Of England, the all-drinks of
America, are doing their best to stupe-
fy, inflame, dement,, impoverish, bru-
talize and slay the human race. Human
power, unless re-enforced from the
heavens, can never exterpate the evils
! mention.
Much good has been accomplished
by the heroism and fidelity of Chris
tian reformers, but the fact remains
that there are more splendid men and
magnificent women this moment going
over the Niagara abysm of inebriety
than at any time since the first grape
was turned into wine, and the first
head of rye began to soak in brewery.
When people touch this subject they
are apt to give statistics as
to how many millions are in
drunkards' graves. or with quick
tread marching on toward them. The
land is fall OF talk of high tariff and
low tariff, but what about the highest
OF all tariffs In this country. the tariff
of nine hundred million dollars which
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