The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-08

tbeh HHysS being cOmTaSSed about
with no great cload OF witnesses"
Before get through. 4 VIII show
you that you SIGHT in an arena. around
which circle, in galleries above each
other. allthe kindling eyes and all the
sympathetic hearts of the ages, and al
every victory gained thsre comes down
the laundering applause of a great
multitude that no man can number.
Being compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses"
On the first eie7ation of the ancient
amPhitIIeater, on the day of celebta;
tfon, sat Tlberius, or Arg ;isttig or the
reigning kies so n the great arena
% spectatst4 That watch our struggles
AID In the first divine gallery, a.
shall call 1t, sits our Fins, one Jesus.
On His heeH are many crowns! The
Hcinan emperor got his place by cold
blooded conquests; but our King hath
come to His place by the broken hearts
healed. and the tears wiped away, and
the souls redeemed. The Roman en-
PeF6F sat, with foldei arms, indiffer.
ent as to whether tie sAordsman Or
the lion Reat, but our Kings smpa
titles are all with us. Nay, unheard-
of condescensionsl / see Him come
down from the gallery into tAg arena
to help MS in ms hgnt, shouting until
all tP aud down Ills voice is heard:
Fear not! 1 will help theel will
strengthen thee by the right hand of
my power"
They gave 60 the Fneh in the afena,
Ia the oldeh tiints; food to thicken
their blood, SO thai ii WcAid low Slow
", and THAI foF longer time the peo-
PIE might gloat over the scene. But
our King has no pleasure, in ehr
wounds, for we are e6he 81 His bone,
flesh Of AB Ilesh, blood of His blood.
In all the anguish OF our heart.
The Man Of Sorrows bore part.
Once, in the ancient amphitheater, a
lion with one paw caught the com
batants sword and With his 6ther paw
caught his shield. The inah took his
knife from his girdle and slew the
beast. The king, sitting III the gal
leFy, said: "Thst WA hot fair; the
lion Tnuet be slain by a sword. y
Other lions were turned out, and
the poor victim fell. You cry:
''Shamel shame!' at such mean.
ness. But the King, IL this sass, is
our brother, and Hi Will see that we
HAYS fair play. lie will forbid the
rushing out of more lions than we can
meet; lie will rot suffer us to be
tempted above that we are able.
Thank Godi The Ming Il y, the gal
lery! Ills eyes sFe Oh Us. His heart
Is with Ne, "Blessed are all they who
put their trust in Him.
look again, and l see the angelic
gallery. There they are; the angel
that swung the sword as the gate of
Eden, tho same that Ezekiel saw up
holding the throne OF God; aid from
which look AWAY, faF Tie splendor is
insdffsrsbie Here are the guardian
Angels. That one watched a patriarch;
this one protected a child. That one
has been pulling a soul out of temptas
ton! All these are nessefig RS 81 light!
Those drove the Spanish Armada on
the FBeks. This turned SIENNA
cherib's living hosts into a heap
of one hundred and eighty-f1ve
thousand corpses. Those yonder
chanted the Christmas earcl over
bethlehem, until the chant awolIe the
shepherds. These, at creation, stood
IN the balcony of Heaven and serenad-
ed the newborn world wrapped in
swaddling clothes of light. And there,
holier and mightier than all is Michael,
the archangel. To command an earth
ly host gives dignity; but this one is
leader of leader of the twenty thou
sand chariots of God. and of the ten
thousand times ten Thousand angels. /
think God gives command to the arch
angel, and the archangeI to the sera-
phim, and the seraphim to the cher
ubim, until all the lower orders of
Heaven hear the command, and GO
forth on the high behest.
Though the arena be crowded with
temptations, we shall, with the an
gelic help, strike them down In the
name of our God, and leap on their
fallen carcasses. Oh, bending throng
of bright, angelic faces, and swift
wings and lightning foot! hail you.
to-day, from the dust and struggle of
the arena!.
look again, and / see the gallery
of the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones up yonder? Hosea,
and jeremiah, and Daniel. and Isaiah,
and Paul, and Peter, and John, and
James. There sits Noah, waiting for
all the world to come into the ark;
and Moses, waiting till the last Red
sea shall divide; and jeremiah, wait
ing for the Jews to return; and John,
of the Apocalypse, waiting for the
swearing of the angel that Time shall
be no longer. Glorious spirits! Ye
were howled at; We were stoned; We
were spit upon! They have been in
the fight themselves, and they are all
with us. Daniel knows all about lions.
Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus.
In the ancient amphitheater, the
people got so excited that they would
shout from the galleries to the men in
the arena: AT it again!" "Forwardr'
Zone more stroker' "Loolx out!l
Fall back!" "Huzza! huzzaw So in
that gallery, prophetic and apostolic,
they can not keep their peace. Daniel
cries out: 1.-The God will deliver thee
from the mouth of the lionsr' David
exclaims: HE will rot suffer thy foot
to be movedp' Isaiah calls out: Fear
not! / am with thee! Be not dis.
mayedr' Paul exclaims: Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christr' That
throng of prophets and apostles can
not keep still. They make the welkin
ring with shouting and hallelujahs.
look again, and / see the gallery oil
the martyrs. Who is that? Hugh Lat
inner, sure enough! He would not apol.
ogize for the truth preached; and sc
he died, the night before swinging
from the bed post in perfect glee al
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