The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-15
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walk in on the stage in their long
gowns. The interest of the occasion
In passing on, and after awhile in
comes to climax of interest as the
valedictorian is to be introduced. Ed
has studied so hard and worked so
we'll that he has had the honor con-
ferred upon him There are rounds
of applause, sometimes breaking
into vociferation. 1t Is great
day for Ed. Bot away back in
the galleries are his sisters in their
plain hats and their faded shawls and
their old-fashioaed father and mother
dear me, she has not had a new coat
for six years-and they get up and
look over on the platform. and they
laugh and they cry, and they sit down,
and they look pale, and then they are
very much flushed Ed gets the gar
lands, and the old-fashioned group in
the gallery have their full share OF the
triumph. They have made that scene
possible, and in the day when God
shall more fully reward self-sacrifces
made for others. He will give grand
and glorious recognition. "As His
part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall His part be that tarrieth by
the stuff"
Fret not, ye aged ones Just tarry
by the stuff and wait for your share OF
the spoils. Yonder they are coming.
| hear the bleating Of the fat lambs
and l see the jewels CLINT in the SUM-
1t makes me laugh to think how you
will be surprised when they
throw chain of gold over your
neck, and tell you to go in
and dine with the King. i see you
backing out because you feel un-
worthy. The shining ones come up
on the one side, and the shining ones
come up on the other side, and they
push you on, and they push you mp,
and they say: Here is an old soldier
of Jesus Christ" and the shining ones
will rush out toward you and say;
Eyes. that man saved my souls"
or they will rush out and say: oh,
yes, she was with me in the last sick
ness" And then the cry will go round
the circle: "Come in, come in, come in,
come; we saw you away down there,
old and sick and decrepit and dis
couraged because you could not go to
the front, but as his part is that goeth
down to the battle, SO shall his part be-
that tarrieth by the stuff"
There is high consolation, also, in
this for aged ministers. see some OF
them here to-day. They sit in the
pews of our churches. They used to
stand in pulpits. Their hair is white
with the blossoms of the tree of life.
Their names marked on the roll of the
al hn
ton, Emeritus. They sometimes
hear tex announced which brings to
mind sermon they preached fifty years
ago on the same subject They preached
more Gospel on four hundred dollars
a year than some of their successors
preach on four thousand dollars. Some
Sunday the old minister is in church,
and near by in another pew there is a
husband and wife and a row of chill"
dren. And after the benediction, the
lady comes up and says: Doctor, you
don't know me, do you?" WELL"
he says, your face is familiar, but
can not call you by name. " why"
she says, you baptized me and you
married me and you buried my father
and mother and sisters" "Oh, yes"
he says, my eycsight isn't as good as
it used to be-" They are in all our
churches-the heroes of 1920. the
heroes of 1882, the heroes of 1857. BY
the long grave trench that out through
half century, they have stood sound
ing the resurrection. They have been
in more Balaklavas and have taken
more Sebastopols than you ever
heard OF. Sometimes they get
little fretful because they can not
be at the front. They hear tho
sound of the battle and the old war
horse champs his bit. But the sixty
thousand ministers of religion, this
day standing in tine brunt OF the fray,
shall have no more reward than those
retired veterans. my father, my fa-
ther, the chariots of Israel and the
horsemen thereof" "As his part Is
that goeth down to the battle, SO shall
his part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
Cheer up, men and women of unap-
preciated services. You will get your
reward, il not here, hereafter. When
Charles Wesley comes up tojudgment,
and the thousands of souls which were
waited into glory through his songs
shall be enumerated, we will take his
throne. Then John Wesley will come
up to Judgment, and after his name
has been mentioned in connection
with the salvation of the mill
lions of souls brought TO God through
the Methodism which lie founded, he
will take his throne. But between
the two thrones of Charles Wesley and
John Wesley. there will be a throne
higher than either, on which shall sit
Susanna Wesley, who with maternal
consecration in Epworth rectory, Lin
colnshire, started those two souls on
their triumphant mission OF sermon
and song through all following ages.
Oh, what day that will be for many
who rocked Christian cradles with
weary foot, and who patched worn-out
garments and darned socks, and out Of
a small income made the children COM
Portable for the winter. What day
that will be for those TO whom
the world gave the cold shoulder, and
called them nobodies, and begrudRed
them the least recognition, and
who, weary and worn and sick, tainted
by the Brook Besor. Oh, that will be
mighty day when the son OF David
shall distribute among them the gar
lands, the crowns, the scepters, the
chariots, the thrones. And then
it shall be found out that all who
on earth served God in inconspicuous
spheres, receive just as much
reward as those who filled the earth
with uproar of achievement. Then
they shall understand the height, the
depth, the length, the breadth, the
pillared and domed magnifcence Of