The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-08

ttFcdk upon you It's vengeance, and YOU
be made "a target for devils to shoot at.
Do you not think Christ knew all about
persecution? Was he not Missed at2
Was He not struck on the cheek? Was
lie not pursued all the days of His life?
Did they not expectorate upon him2
Or, to put it in Bible language, They
spit upon Him. And can not He IN
derstand what persecution is? 'sCast
thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee"
Then there are others who CARY
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
fierce choleras and malignant fevers
take the castles of life by storm, we APP
peal to God, but in these chronic all
ments which wear out the strength day
after day, and week after week, and
year after year, how little resorting to
God for solaeei Then people depend
upon their tonics, and their plasters,
and their cordials, rather than upon
heavenly stimulants.
Oh, how few people there are COM
pletely welli Some of you, by dint of
perseverance and care. have kept living
to this time, but how you have had to
war against physical ailments! Ante
diluvians, without medical college and
inirnary and apothecary shop, multi
piled their years by hundreds, but he
who has gone through the gauntlet of
disease in our time and has come to 20
years of age is hero worthy of a
palm.
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai, and you run against rheumatisms
and cOnsumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy a burden sickness is! 1t
takes the color out of the sky, and the
sparkle out of the wave, and the sweet
ness out of the fruit, and the luster out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is hot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy distractions, how hard
it is to be patient and cheerful and as
siduousI
''Cast thy burden upon the Lord"
Does your head ache? His wore the
thorn. Do your feet hurt? His were
crushed of the spikes. Is your side
painful? His was struck by the spear.
Do you feel like giving way under the
burden? His weakness gave way I'M
der the cross. While you are in every
possible way to try to restore your
physical vigor, you are to remember
that more soothing than any anodyne,
more vitalizing than any stimulant and
more strengthening than any tonic
is the prescription of the text, Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and He will
sustain thee"
We hear great deal of talk now
about faith cure, and some people say
it can not be done and it is failure.
do not know but that the chief advance
of the church is to be in that direction.
Marvellous things come to me day by
day which make me think that if the
age of miracles is past it is because the
faith of miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member of my family, my
mother wants her case mentioned to
Mr.. Talmage.v
This was the case. He said: my
mother had dreadful abscess, from
which she had suffered untold agonies,
and all surgery had been exhausted up
on her, and worse and worse she grew
until we called in few Christian
friends and proceeded to pray about it.
We commended her case to God, and
the abscess began Immediately to be
cured. She is entirely well now, and
without knife and without any surg
ery'' So that case has come to me,
and there are score of other cases
coming to our ears from all parts of
the earth. Oh, Oye who are sick, go to
Christi Oh, We who are worn out with
agonies of body, Cast thy burden up
ON the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee!''
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were
perpetually kept burning. The SCARED
feet of Him who was 1.-THE resurrection
and the life are on the broken grave
hillock, while the voices of angels ring
down the sky at the coronation of an
other soul come home to glory.
Why will prodigals live on swines'
husks when the robe, and the ring, and
the fathers welcome are ready? Why
go wandering over the great Sahara
desert of your sin when you are in
vited to the gardens of God, the tree of
life and the fountain of living water.
Why be hOuseless and homeless forever
when you may become the sons and
daughters of the. Lord God Almighty?