The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-13
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VI iuFH my hGAa III SACcps DSAOES a
few hotirs haze rasssd ! shall stand on
Hoiiiit Zion with the one hundfed and
forty and four thousand, and with the
Just men made perfect aid we Shalt
sscIioe riches, and honor. and glory,
and majesty. and dominion unto God
and the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, con-
demned to burn at the state. on bis
way thither broke away from the
guardsmen, and went bounding.
and leaping, and jumping toward
the Are, glad to go to Jesus,
and to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare,
in his last moments, had sneh rapturs
| Gus vision that he. cited: "BpWaFd;
! upward, tipTardp' And so great wa
the peace OF one Of Christ's disciples;
that he put his finger upon the pulse
in his wrist and counted it and OBJ
Serted iti aud. SO great was his placid
lily that after awhile ffe said'
''Stoppedr' and his life had ended here
to begin in Heaven. But :-rander than
that was the testimony of the wornout
/ first missionary, when, in the Mamertine
| dungeon, he cried: Il am now ready to
| be offered. and the time of my depar-
ture is at hand; have fought the good
| Eght: 7 have finished my course, have
Kept the faith; hehcefotth there Is laid
up for me a crown of Righteousness;
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will give me in that day. and not to me
only, bnt to them that love His appear
ingl" Do you not see that Christ is
Chief in dying alleviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence we are speeding. When I
see the st1nseti say: zone day less I'd
live" Wheh / see the sprihg blossoms
scattered / say: another season gonS
forever" When I close the Bible on
Sabbath night, say: Another Sab
bath departed" When 1 bury friend
say: Another earthly attraction
gone forever. What nimble feet tho
years have! The roebucl1s and tho
liRhtnings run not SO fast. From de-
cade to decade, from sky to sky, they GO
at a bound. There is a place for US,
whether marked or not, where you
| and l will sleep the last sleep, and the
men are now living who will, with
solemn tread, carry us to our resting
place. Aye, it is known in Heaven
whether our departure will be a corr
onation or punishment. brighter
than banquetihg hall through which
the light feet of the dancers go up and
down to the sound of trimpeters will
be the sepnlchere through which riffs
the holy light of Heaven streameth.
God will watch you. lie will send His
angels to guard your sIumbering dust,
until, at Christ's behest, they shall
roll away the stone
So, also, Christ O chief in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ
Is the chief theme of the celestial
asctiption. all the thrones facing His
throne. all the palms waved before His
face, all the crowns down at His feet
Chefubih to cheru BIN, sera phin tc
seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit. shall recite the Saviour's earth
ly sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of Heaven,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the scars of His suffering, in
silence first, afterward breaking forth
into reclamation. The martys all the
purer for the fame through which
they passed, will say: ''This is tho
Jesus for whom we died" The abos-
ties, all the happier for the Shipwreck
and scourging through which they
went, will say: This is the
Jesus whom we preached at Corinth,
and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch
clad in white will say: This is the
Jesus who took us in His arms and
blessed us, and when the storms of
the world were too cold and loud,
brought us into this beautiful place"
The multitude of the bereft will say;
This is the Jesus who comforted ms
when our heart broke" Many
wh) wandered clear off from
God and plunged into vaga,
bondism, but were saved by
grace, will say: This is the Jesus
who pardoned us. We were lost on tho
mountains, and He brought US home
We were guilty, and He has made us
white as snow" Mercy boundless,
grace unparalleled And then, after
each one has recited his peculiar deliv-
erances and peculiar mercies, recited
them as by solo, all the voices will
come together into a great chorus,
which will make the arches echo and
TC-CCnO WIFI bHS eternal TeVer DraL1OU
of triumph.
Edward /. was so anxious to go to
the Holy Land that when he was about
TO expire he bequeathed one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars TO have his
heart, after his decease. taken to tho
Holy Land, in Asia Minor, and his re-
quest was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts
are already in the holy land OF
Heaven. Where your treasures are.
there are your hearts also. Quaint
John Buuyan caught a glimpse of
that place, and in his quaint way
he said: And / heard in my dl cam,
and. 10! the bells of the city rang
again for joy; and as they opened tho
gates to let in the men / looked in
after them, and, 10! the city shone like
the sun, and there were streets of
gold. and men walked on them, harps
in their hands, to ring praises withal;
and after that they shut up the gates,
which when / had seen / wished my.
self among them!''
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