The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-10

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of God Is offered to our SOULS should
we not seize it regardless of all
non-essentials?
But come now to the last part of my
text. 1t tells us which we are to seek
the Lord, "While be may be found !"
When is that? Old age? Youmay not
see old age. Tomorrow You may
not see tomorrow. Tonight You
may not see tonight. Nowl 0. if
could only write on every heart, in
three capital letters, the word NOW
| Nowl
Sin Is an awful disease. hear peo-
| pie say with toss of the head and
with trivial manner: "Oh, yes, 1'm
sinner" Sin Is an awful disease. It
is leprosy. 1t is dropsy. 1t is con-
sumption. 1t is all moral disorders in
one. Now you know there is crisis
in disease. Perhaps you have had
some illustration of it in your family.
Sometimes the physician has called,
and he has looked at the patient and
said: THAT case was simple enough;
but the crisis has passed. If you had
called me yesterday, or this morning,
| could have cured the patient. It is
too late now; the crisis has passed. !"
Just so it is in the spiritual treatment
of the soul-there is a crisis.
There are some here who can remem-
Der instances in life when, if they had
bought certain property, they would
have become very rich. A few acres
that would have cost them almost
nothing were offered them. They re-
fused them. Afterward large village
or city sprung up on those acres of
ground, and they see what mistake
they made in not buying the property.
There was an opportunity of getting
| 1t. 1t never came back again. And so
it is in regard to a mans spiritual and
eternal fortune. There is chance; If
you let that go, perhaps it never comes
back. Certainly, that one never comes
| back.
A gentleman told me that at the bat
tie of Gettysburg he stood upon a
height looking off upon the conflicting
armies. lie said it was the most ex-
citing moment of his life; now one
army seeming to triumph, and now
the other. After awhile the host
wheeled in such a way that he knew
in five minutes the whole question
would be decided. He said the emo
ton was almost unbearable. There is
just such time to-day with you. The
forces of light on one side, the forces
death on the other side, and in few
moments the matter will be settled for
eternity.
There is time which mercy has set
for leaving port. If you are on board
before that, you will get n passage for
Heaven. If you are not on board, you
miss your passage for Heaven. AS in
law courts, a case is sometimes
adjourned from term to term, and from
year to year, till the bill of costs eats
up the entire estate, so there are men
who are adjourning the matter of
religion from time to time, and from
year to year, until heavenly bliss is
the bill of costs the man will have to
pay for it.
Why defer this matter, oh, my dear
hearer? Have you any ida that sin
will wear out2 that it will evaporate?
that it will relax its grasp? that you
may find religion as man accidental
ly finds a pocket-bOok? All, no! No
man ever became Christian by acct
dent, or by the relaxing of sin. The
embarrassments are all the time in
creasing. The hosts of darkness are re-
cruiting, and the longer you postpone
this matter the sleeper the path will
become. / ask those men who are be-
fore me now, whether in the tel or
fifteen years they have passed in the
postponement of these matters, they
have come any nearer God or Heaven?
l would not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, so far as they may not
have found the peace of the Gospel,
in regard to the matter. Your hearts,
you are willing frankly to tell me, are
becoming harder and harder, and that
if you come in Christ it will be more of
an undertaking now than it would
have been before. The throne of judg-
ment will soon be set; and, if you have
anything to do toward your eternal
salvation, you had better do it now,
for the redemption of your soul is
precious; and it ceaseth forever.
Oh, if men could only catch one
glimpse of Christ, know they would
love Hi m! Your heart leaps at the
sight of a glorious sunrise or sunset.
Can you be without emotion as the sun
VI IIRHLCOuSnCSS EIScS OenIHu calvary
and sets behind Joseph's sepulcher?
He is blessed Saviour! Every nation
has it's type of beauty. There is Ger
man beauty, and Swiss beauty, and
Italian beauty, and French beauty;
but care not in what land man first
looks at Christ, be pronounces Him
''chief among ten thousand, and the
One altogether lovely"
The diamond districts of Brazil are
carefully guarded, and a man does not
get in there except by pass from the
government, but the love of Christ is a
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasures for eternity. ITO
day, if We will hear His voice, harden
not your hearts"
Take the hint of the text that have
no time to dwell upon-the hint that
there is time when He can not be 4
found. There was a man in this city,
eighty years of age, who said to
clergyman who came in: do you
think that man eighty years of age
can get pardoned?" Oh, yes" said
the clergyman. The old man
said: ST can't; when 1 was twenty
years of age-I am now eighty years
the spirit of God came to my soul, and
l felt the Importance of attending to
these things, but / put it off. / re-
jected God, and since then have had
no feeling" well, said the minister,
wouldn't you like to have me pray with
you?" Yes " reDlied the old man. tbut