The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-12-14
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/ than are enlisted, and we want it done
softly, imperceptibly, gently, no es-
citement, one by one!
We talk good deal about the good
times that are coming, and about the
worlds redemption. How long before
! they will come? There is a man who
says five hundred years. Here is man
! who says two hundred years. Here is
some one more confident who says in
| fifty years. What, fifty years? Do You
propose to let two generations pass off
the stage before the world is con-
/ verted?
Suppose. by some extra proionga-
| tion of human life, at the next fifty
| years you should walk around tho
world, you would not in all that walk
| find one person that you recognize
| Why? All dead, or so changed YOU
/ would not know them. In other
words, if you postpone the redemption
of this world for fifty years, you adj
NIT that the majority of the two whole
| generations shall go off the stage un-
| blessed and unsaved. ! tell You the
church of Jesus Christ can not consent
to it. We must pray and toll and have
| the revival spirit and we must strug-
| gle to have the whole world saved be-
| fore the men and women in middle life
pass off.
''Oh!' you say, "it is too vast an en-
terprisc to be conducted in so short a
time. Do you know how long il
would take to save the whole world il
each man would bring another? It
would take ten years. BY a calcula-
ton in compound interest, each man
bringing another, and that one an
other and that one another, in ten
years the whole world would be
saved If the world is not saved in
the next ten years it viii he the
fault of the church OF Christ.
Is it too much to expect each one to
bring one? Some of us must bring
more than one, for some will not do
their duty. | want to bring ten thou
sand souls. ] should be ashamed TO
meet my God in judgment if, with all
my opportunities of commencing Christ
to the people, 1 could not bring ten
thousand souls. But it will all depend
upon the revival spirit. The hook and
line fishing will not do it,
1t seems to me that God is preparing
the world for some quick and univcr-
a
gave me a telegraph chart of the world
On that chart the wires crossing the
continents and the cables under tho
sea looked like veins red with blood.
On that chart l see that the headquar-
ters of the lightning are in Great Brit
ain and the United States. In London
and New York the lightnings are sta
bled, waiting to be harnessed for some
quick dispatch That shows you that
the telegraph is in the hands OF Chris
tianity.
1t is a significant fact That the man d
y.,,l-1sinvented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian-Prof. Morse-and
that the man who put the telegraph
under the sea was an old-fashioned
Christian-Cyrus w Field-and that
the president of the most famous Of
the telegraph companies of this coun-
try was an old-fashioned Christian
William Orton-going from the com
munion table on earth straight TO his
home in heaven. What does NIL that
mean?
/ do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let MS know
whether -four is up or down, or which
flly won the race at the derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
| suppose the telegraph was invented
and built TO call the world to God
In some of the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on small scale. For
instance in His love and His kindness.
But until Of late, forelnowledge, omni-
science, omnipresence, omnipotenco,
seem to have been exclusively Gods
possession. God desiring to make the
race like himself, gives us species of
knowledge in the weather probabili-
ties, gives MS a species of omniscience
in tclegraphy, gives us species Of ON
nipresence in the telephone, gives us
species of omnipotence in the steam
power. Discoveries and inventions all
around about us, people nre asking
what next?
! will tell you what next. Next a stu
pendous religious movement. Next, the
crash of dcspotisms. Next, the worlds
expurgation. Next, tho Christ-lil<e do
minion. Next, the Judgment. What
becomes Of the world after that care
not. 1t will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it up in tho
drydocls Of eternity, like an old man
of-war gone out of service. Or, fit it
up like ship of relief to carry bread
to some other suffering planet. Or, let
it be demolished. Farewell, dear old
world that began with Paradise and
ended with judgment confagration.
One summer ] stopped on the Isle Of
Wight and / had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with
two or three hundred young men who
were in training for the British navy.
You remember when the training ship
went down there was a thrill Of horror
all over the world. o. my friends,
this world is only a training-ship.
On it we are training for Heaven. The
old ship sails up and down the ocean
of immensity, now through the dark
wave of the midnight, now through
the goldcn-crested wave Of tho
morn, but sails on and sails on.
After awhile their work will be done,
and the inhabitants of Heaven will
look out and find world missing. The
cry will be: Where is that earth
where Christ died and the human race
were emaucipated? Send out fleets Of
angels to find the missing craft" Let
them sail up and down cruise up and
Gown the ocean of eternity, and they
will catch not one glimpse Of her
mountain masts, on her top-gallants
of floating cloud. Gone down. The
training-ship of a world perished in
the last tornado. Oh! let it not be
that she goes down with all on board.
hut rather may IL be said of her passen-