The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-12-13

hold the mountain was full of horses
and chariots u frs round about Eli
sha-"
When the army of Ambiguous went
into battle, his soldiers were very
much discouraged, and they rushed
mp to tie general and said 70 hims
Don't you see we have few forces
and they have so many r1ore7' ana
the soldiers were affrighted at the
smallness of theft number and the
greatness of the enemy. Anti
genus. their commander, enlightened
himself up. and said, with indigna-
ton and vehemence: 'How many do
you ffckon ff1e to be7" And when we
see the EAST afihiss arrayed against
the cause of sobriety; Il may some-
times be very discouraging, but ask
you in making up your estimate OF
the forces of righteousness-Ia ask you
how many do you reckon the Lord
God Almighty to be? lie is our COM
mander. The Lord of Hosts is His
fiahe. / have the best authority for
saying that the ehaTiots Of God are
twenty thousand, and the mouutaitis
are full of them.
Have you any doubt about the need
of the Christian religion to purify and
make decent American politics? AT
every yearly or quadrennial election
we have In this country great manti-
actofies-maniifaeto of lies; and
they are FUN day and night, and they
turn out half a dozen a day. all
equipped and ready for full sailing.
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private and lies public and lies
prurient. Lies cut bias, and lies cut
diagonal. Long-limbed lies, and lies
with double-baclx action. Lies COM
planetary and lies defamatory. Lies
that SOME people believe, and lies that
all the people believe, and lies that
nobody believes. Lies with humps
like eamels and scales like eroeo:
dies, aid necks as long as
storlxs, and feet as swift as an
telope's, and stings like adders. Lies
raw and scalloped and PANIED and
stewed. Crawling lies, and jumping
lies, and soaring lies. Lies with at.
tachment screws and ruf6ers and
braiders and ready-wound bobbins.
Lies by Christian people. who never lie
except during elections, and lies by
people who always lie, but beat them
selves in presidential campaign.
oyou say that this is impractical BILE?
No. The time is coming just as GER
tainly rs there is God, and that this
is His Book, and that He has strength
and the honesty to fulfill His promise.
One of the ancient emperors used
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that which his couuselorS said
was impossible, and 1 have to
tell you to-day that mans impossi-
bilities are Gods easies. ''IIath He said,
and shall He not do it? Hath He COM
manded, and will He not bring it to
pass?" The Christian religion is COM
ing to talIe possession of every ballot
box, of every school house, of every
home, of every valley, of every noun
tain, of every acre of our national do
main. This nation, Notwithstanding
all the evil influences that are trying
to destroy it, is going to live.
Who shall have this hemisphere,
Christ or Satan? Who shall have the
shore of her inland seas, the silver of
her Nevadas, the gold of her Colora-
dos, the telescopes of her observat0ries.
the brain of her universities, the
wheat of her prairies, the rice of her
savannas. the two great ocean beaches
the one reaching from Baffin's bay to
Terra del Fuego, and the other from
Behring straits to Cape Horn-and all
the moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests of popula-
ton vast beyond all human computa-
ton? Who shall have the hemisphere?
You and 1 will decide that, or help to
decide it, by conscientious vote, by
Christian institutions, by support of
that philanthropies, by putting body,
mind and soul on the right side of all
moral, religious and national move
ments.
Ahl 1t will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to
me what becomes of this continent, so
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
All we want of it will be seven feet
by three, and that will take in the
largest, and there will be room and to
spare. That is all of this country we
will need very soon-the youngest of US
all But we have an anxiety about
the welfare and the happiness of the
generations that are coming on, and it
will be a grand thing if. when the
archangel's trumpet sounds, we find
that our sepulcher, like the one Joseph
of Arimathea provided for Christ, is in
the midst of a garden.
Have you faith in such a thing as
that? After all the chariots have been
and after all the war
chargers have been crippled, the
chariots which Elisha saw on the
morning of his peril will roll on in tri-
umph, followed by all the armies of
Heaven on white horses. God could
do it without US. but He will not.
The weakest of us. the faintest
of us, the smallest-brained of us,
shall have a part in the triumph.
We may not have our name, like
the name of Sostratus, cut in imperish-
able rock and conspicuous for CEN
turtles, but we shall be remembered in
a better place than that, even in the
heart of Him who came to redeem us
and redeem the world, and our names
will be seen close to the signature of
His wound, for, as to-day lie throws
out His arms to us, He says: Behold,
l have craven thee on the palms of
my hand"
BY the mightiest of all agencies, the
potency of prayer, beg you seek our
national welfare. Some time ago there
were four million six hundred thou
sand letters in the dead-letter post
office in this city-letters that LOST
their way-but not one prayer ever
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