The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-22

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! this very moment-ysbether You sit or
stand-loolzs into your eyes.and says:
! "Other sheep l have which are not of
/ this fold"
! Again / remark that the Heavenly
Shepherd is going to find great many
sheep among those who have been full
of evil habit 1t makes me sad to set
Christian people give up prodigal as
/ lost There are those who talk as
| though the grace of God were a chain of
forty or fifty links, and after they had
run out there was nothing to touch the
depth of very bad case. If they were
hunting and got off the track of the
deer they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost
game than they have been looking for
that lost soul People tell us that if
man have -delirium tremens twice, he
can not be reclaimed; that after a
woman has sacrificed her integrity,
she can not be restored. The Bible
has distinctly intiInated that the Lord
Almighty is ready to pardon four hum
dred and ninety times; that is, seventy
times seven. There are men before
the throne of God wko have wal
saved by the grace of Jesus, and
washed in His blood, they stand
there radiant now There are those
who plunged into the very lowest of
all 4he hells of New York, who have
for the tenth time been lifted up, and
finally, by the grace of God, they stand
in Heaven gloriously rescued by the
grace promised to the chief of sinners.
Do not put your trust in bromide of
potassium, or in Jamaica ginger, or
anything that apOthecaries can mix.
Put your trust only in the Eternal
God, and He will see you through.
Some of you do not have temptations
every day. 1t is periodic temptation
that comes every six weeks, or every
three months, when it seems as if
the powers of darkness lzindle
around you tongues the fires of
at such a time, as some of
you do, to seek medical counsel; but
your first and most importunate cry
must be to God. If the fends will
drag you to the slaughter, make them
do it on your knees. ., God! now
that the paroxysm of thirst is coming
again upon that man, help him.
Fling back into the pit of hell
the fend that assaults his soul
at this moment. Oh! my heart
aches to see men go on in this
fearful struggle without Christ There
are in this house those whose hands SO
tremble from dissipation that they can
hardly hold book, and yet have to
tell you that they will yet preach the
Gospel, and on communion days carry
around cOnsecrated bread, acceptable
to everybody because of their
hsly life and their consecrated
behavior. The Lord is going to
save you. Your home has got to
be rebuilt. Your physical health has
got to be restored. Your worldly busi-
ness has got to be reconstructed. The
church of God is going TO rejoice over
your discipleship. 'Other sheep have
which are not of this fold" While I
have hopes for all prOdigsls there are
some people in this house when | give
up. l mean those who have been
church gOers all their life, who have
maintained outward morality, but who,
Notwithstanding twenty, thirty, forty
years of Christian advantages, have |
never yielded their heart to Christ. |
They are Gospel hardened. 1 could |
call their names now, and if they |
would rise up they would rise up in |
scores. Gospel hardened! A sermon
has no more effect upon them than the |
shining moon on the city pavement. |
As Christ says: ''The publicans and |
hariots will go into the king |
dom of God before them" They |
have resisted all the impOr-
tunity of Divine mercy, and have
gone, during these thirty years,
through most powerful earthquakes of
religious feeling, and they are farther |
away from God than ever After
awhile they will lie down sick, and |
dead. No hope!
But / turn to outsiders with hope |
that thrills through my body and soul. |
"Other sheep l have which are not Of |
this fold" You are not GOspel-bar-
dened. You have not heard or read |
many sermons during the last few |
years. As you came in to-day every
thing was novel, and all the services |
are suggestive of your early days. |
How sweet the opening hymn
sounded in your ears, and how
blessed is this hour. Everything sug-
gestive of Heaven. You do not weep, |
but the shower is not far off. You
sigh. and you have noticed that there
is always a sigh in the wind before the
rain falls. There are those here who
would give anything if they could find
relief in tears. They say: 'Oh, |
my wasted life! Oh, the bitter
past! Oh the graves over which /
l have stumbled. Whittier shall
| flv? Alas for the future.
Everything is dark-so dark, so dark.
God help me! God pity mer' Thank
the Lord for that last utterance. You |
have begun to pray, and when a man
begins to petition, that sets all Heaven
flying this way, and God steps in |
and beats back the hounds of tempta-
ton to their kennel, and around |
about the poor, wounded soul puts
the covert of his pardoning mercy.
Hark! l hear something fall. What |
was that? 1t is the bars of the fence
around sheep-fold. The shepherd lets
them down, and the hunted sheep of
the mountain bound in; some of them,
their fleece torn with brambles, some
of them, their feet lame with the dogs;
but bounding in. Thank God! "Other
sheep | have which are not of this
fold
strict Justice.
Dr. Francis Parkman, the late his
torian, had a strict idea of justice. A
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