The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-10-25

seEHOH- could preach udck 10 you
. minute ar two and say, never do you
FEAR 1 wish / had half as good hope
of Heaven as yoti have. Do not fear,
mother; wkateTer happefis; 10 harm
tvill cvef happen to you. was going
up long flight of stairs; and l saw
an aged woman, very decrepit and with
cane. creeping on up She made but
very little progress, and I felt very
exuberant; and l said to her: why,
mother, that is no way to go up
stairs" and threw my arms around
her and / carried her up and put her
down on the landing at the top OF
ths stairs; She said; "Thank
you, thank youj 1 am very
thankful" o; mother, when you get
through this lies Work and you
want to go upstairs and rest III the
good place that God has provided for
you will not have to crawl up pain.
fully. The two arms that were
stretched on the cross will be flung
around you, and you will be hoisted
with glorious lift beyond all weari>
hess and al .sttuggls. May the God
OF Abraham and Isaac he With yUa
until you see the lamb on the hill
tops.
Now, that aged minister has made
suggestion, and this aged woman has
made suggestions / will make sug-
gestion! Isaac going up the hill makes
me thihk of the great sacrifice. Isaac,
the only son of Abraham Jes1s; the
only Son of God. On those tfY6
',onlys" L built a fearful emphasis.
o Isaacl o Jesusi But this last
sacrifice VAS hire Tremendous
one When the knife was iifts6
over Calvary. there was no voice
that cried "Stopl'' and no hand
arrested it, Sharp, keen and tre-
mendous, it cut down through nerve
and artery until the blood sprayed the
faxes Bf Tie eSeeutioAers; and, the mid
day sun dropped veil of cloti6 over
its face because It could not endure
the spectacle. o Isaac, of Mount Mo-
riahl D Jesus, of Mount Calvaryl
Better could God have thrown away
into annihilatioh 3 thousand worlds
than to have sacrificed His only
Son. It was not one of ten sons
it was His only Son. If He had
not given Him up, you and | would
have persisted. "God so loved the
world that He gave His only" /
stop there. not becaiise have forgot
ten the Quotation, but because 1 want
to think: ''G0d ae loved tbs world
that He gave His oniy begotten Son.
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life" Great ,Godl break. my heart
at tie thought of that saGFihcs. Isaac
the only, typical of Jesus the Only.
You see Isaac going up the hill and
carrying the wood. o Abraham, why
not take the load off the boyP If he
is going 10 die 50 soon, why not make
his last hours easy3 Abraham knew
that iii carrying that wood up Mount
Moriah, Isaac Has to lie symbol Of
Christ carrying his own cross
up Calvary 1 do not know how
heavy that cross was-whether it
was made of oak, or acacia, o5
Lebanon cedar. 1 suppose it
may have weighed one, or two, or
three hundred pounds. That was the
lightest part of the burden. All the
sins and sorrows of the world were
wotfid afouiid that cross; The heft of
one, the heft of two worlds; earth aid
hell were on His shoulders. q
Isaac, carrying the wood of sac
rifice up Mount Moriah. o Jesus,
carrying the wood of sacrifice
up Mount Calvary, the agoniea
of earth and hei WRAPPED Around thBt
cross. shall never see the heavy load
on Isaac's back that / shall not think
of the crushing load on Christ's back.
For whom that load? For yea. Fof
you. For me. For me. Would that
all the tears that we have ever wept
over our sorrows had been saved until
this morning, and that we might now
pour them out on the lacerated back
and feet and heart of the Son Of God.
You say: IF this young man was
twenty or thirty years of age did not
he resist? Why was it not Isaac bind
ing Abraham instead of Abraham
binding Isaac? The muscle in Isaac's
arm was stronger than the muscle in
AbrHham's withered arm. No young
man twenty-five years of age would
submit to have his father fasten him
to pile Bf wood with intehtion 81
burning" Isaac was a willing sacris
fee, and so type of Christ who will
ingly came to save the world. If all this
armies of Heaven had resolved to force
Christ out from the gate, they could
not have done it. Christ was equal
with God. If all tie battalions OF
glory had armed themselves and
resolved to put Christ forth and make
Him eoiHe cut ard save this world,
they could not have succeeded In it.
With one stroke He would have top.
pied over angelic and archangelic
dominion.
But there was one thing that the
omnipotent Christ could not stand.
Our sorrows mastered Him. He could
not bear to see the world die without
an offer of pardon and he1p, and If
all Heaven had armed itself to keep
Him back, if the gates of life had been
bolted and double barred, Christ would
have flung the everlasting doors from
their hinges, and would have sprung
forth, scattering The hihdetihg hosts
of Heaven-like chaf before the whif1:
wind, as he cried: ''LoI / come to suf-
fer. Loi / come to die" Christ-a
willing Sacrifices Willing to take
Bethlehem humiliation, and Sahhedrim
outrage, and Golgotha hatchery. VIII.
ing to be bound. Willing to suffer.
Willing to die. Willing to save.
I have been toldsthat the cathedral
of st. Marks stands in quarter in the
center of the City of Venice, and that
when the clock strikes twelve at noon1
all the birds from the city and the re-
gions round about the city Ay to the