The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-16
MAN OVERHEARD"
The Story Of Jonah's Voyage and
It's Sequel
Men who sleep Regardless of Impending
Danger, and Awake Too Late 70
Escape the Consequences
OF Their Folly.


ton this week, the reverend doctor be-
ing still absent from New York city
on his summer lecture tour. 1t is based
on the text:
$50 the shipmaster came to him, and said
unto him: What meanest thou. Oh. sleeper:
Arise, call upon thy God, II 50 be that God viii
think upon US, that we perish not"-Jonah.
Ia.
God told Jonah to go to Ninevah on
an unpleasant errand. He would not
go. lie thought "a get away from his
duty by putting TO sea. With pack
under his arm. find him on his way
to JOppa, a sea port lie goes down
among the shipping, and says to the
men lying around on the docks:
(Which of these vessels sails to-day?"
The sailors answer: "Yonder is a yes
sci to Tarshish. / think, il you hur-
~, you Iaay get on board her" Jo-
nah steps on board the rough craft,
asks how much the fare is, pays it.
Anchor is weighed, sails are hoisted,
and the rigging begins to rattle in the
strong breeze of the Mediterranean.
Joppa is an exposed harbor, and it
DOGS not take long for the vessel to get
out on the broad sea. The sailors like
what they call spanking breeze"
and the plunge of the vessel from the
crest of a tall wave is celebrating to
those at home on the deep But
the strong breeze becomes a
gale, the gale a hurricane. The
affrighted passengers ask the cap
tain II he ever saw anything
like this before "Oh, yes" he says;
''this is nothing" Mariners are slow
TO admit danger to landsmen. But,
after awhile. crash goes the mast, and
the vessel pitches so far ''a-beam's-
end" there is fear she will not be
rightcd. The captain answers few
questions. and orders the throwing
out of boxes and bundles, and of so
much of the cargo as they can get at.
The captain at last confesses there is
but little hope, and tells the passen-
gers that they had better go to pray
ing 1t is seldom that a sea captain is
an ATHEIST, He knows that there is a
God, for he has seen Him at every
point of latitude between Sandy Hook
and Queenstown. Capt. Moody, COM
handing the Cuba, of the Cunard line,
at Sunday service led the music and
sang like a Methodist. The captain
of this Mediterranean craft, having
set the passengers to praying, goes
around examining the vessel at every
point. He descends into the cabin to
see whether, in the strong wrestling
of the waves, the vessel had sprung
aleak, and he finds Jonah asleep.
Jonah had had a wearisome tramp, and
had spent many sleepless nights about
questions of duty, and he is so sound
asleep that all the thun6er of the
storm and the screaming of the pas
sengers does not disturb him. The cap
tain lays held of him, and begins to
shake him out of his Inconsistencies
with the cry: Don't you see that we
are all going to the bottom? Wake up
and go to praying, if you have any
God to go to. What meanest thou, On,
sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if
so be that God will think upon us, that
we perish not" The rest of the story
/ will not rehearse, for you know it
well. To appease the sea, they threw
Jonah overheard.
Learn that the devil takes a mans
money and then sets him down in a
poor landing place. The Bible says he
paid his fare to Tarshish. But see him
get out. The sailors bring him to the
side of the ship, lift him over 1.-THE
guards" and let him drop with loud
splash into the waves. He paid his
fare all the way TO Tarshish, but did
not get the worth of his money. Meth
err does anyone who turns his back on
his duty and does that which is not
right.
There is a young man who, during
the past year, has spent a large part
of his salary in carousal. What has
he gained by it? A soiled reputation,
a half-starved purse, a dissipated look,
petulant temper, a disturbed con-
science. The manacles of one or two
bad habits that are pressing tighter
and tighter will keep on until they
wear TO the bone. You paid your fare
to Tarshish. but you have been set
down in the midst of a sea of dis
quietude and perplexity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday horse
hirel
One hundred dollars for wine sup
persl
One hundred dollars for cigars!
One hundred dollars for frolics that
shall be nameless!
Making four hundred dollars for his
damnation!
Instead of being in Tarshish now, he
is in the middle OF the Mediterra-
mean. Here is literary man, tired of
the faith of his fathers, who resolves
to launch out into what is called Free
Thinking. He buys Theodore Park
ers works for twelve dollars; Remains
Life of Christ" for one dollar and fifty
cents; Andrew Jackson Davis works
for twenty dollars. Goes to hear inf
dels talk at the clubs, and to see spir-
itualism at the table-rapping. Talks
glibly of David, the Psalmist, as an
old libertine; of Paul as a wild en-
thusiast; and of Christ as a decent
kind of a mana little weak in some
respects, but almost as good as him
self Talks smilingly of Sunday as N
good day to put little extra black
ing on ones boots; and of Chris
tians as, for the most part, hypo-
critics; and of eternity as "the
great to be-" the everlasting
now" or 1.-The infinite what is it,"
Some day he gets his feet very wet,
and finds himself that night chilly.
The next morning has a hot mouth,
and is aeadachy. Send word over to
the store that he will not be there to-
day. BaNhes his feet; has mustard
plasters; calls the doctor. The med
zeal mar says aside: This is going TO
be n bad case OF congestion of the
lungs" Voice fails Children must