The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-22

traders must bring them from the Arc
tic. What fish, but our nets must sweep
them for the markets. What music,
but it must sing in our halls. What
eloquence, but il must speak in our
senates. Hoi Co the national banquet,
reaching from mountain to mouns
thins and from sea to seal TO pfepars
that banquet, the sheep-folds and the
aviaries OF the country sent their besb
treasures. The orchards piled up od
the table their sweet fruits. The
presses burst out with new wines. To
sit at the table came the yeomanry of
New HAMPSHIRE; and tile lumbermen
Of Maine, and the Carolinlan from the
rice plantation, and the western enii-
grant from the pines of Oregon;
and we were all brothers-broth-
ers at a banquet Suddenly the
feast ended. What meant those
mounds thrown up at Chickamauga,
Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South
Mountain? What meant those golden
grain fields, turned into a pasturing
ground for cavalry horses? What
meant the corn fields quilted with
the wheels of the heavy supply train?
Why those rivers of tears, those lakes
OF bloodS God was ahgryi Justics
mnst come. A handwriting on tile
wall. The nation had been weighed
and found wanting. Darkness! Dark
nessi Woe to the northl Woe to the
soulful Woe to the easti Woe to the
westl Death at the banquet.
l have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of the vicious,
and of those who despise God will be
very sudden. The wave Of mirth had
dashed to the highest point when the
invading army broke through. 1t was
unexpected. Suddenly, almost always,
comes the doom of those who despise
God, and defy the laws of men.
How was it at the deluge? Do
you suppose it came through long
days before were sure it was coming?
No. suppose the morning was bright;
that calmness brooded on the waters;
that beauty sat enthroned on the hills;
when suddenly the heavens burst, and
the mountains sank like anchors into
the sea that dashed clear over the
Andes and the Himalayas.
The Red sea was divided, The
Egyptians tried to cross it. There
could be no danger. The Israelites
had just gone through; where they
had gone, why not the Egyptians? Obi
it was such a beautiful walking place?
A pavement of tinged shells and pearls,
and on either side two great walls of
water-solid. There can be no dan
ger. Forward, great host of the
Egyptiansl Clap the eyndbals, and
blow the tfutnpets of 1icteryl
After theml We will catch them
yet, and they shall be destroyed. But
the walls begin to tremblel They roclll
They fall The rushing watersi The
shrek of drowning meni The swim
ming of the war horses in vain for the
shorel The strewing of the great host
on the bottom of The sea, or pitched by
the angry wave on the beach-a bat
tered, bruised and loathsome wreclzI
Suddenly destruction came. One half
hour before they could not have be-
lieved it. Destroyed; and without
remedy.
am just setting forth fact, which
you have noticed as we'll as I. Ana
MAS comes to the apostle. The apos-
tie saysi did you sell the land for so
much?" He says: YES" 1t was a
lie. Deadi as quick as that! Sapphire,
his wife, comes in. Ibid you sell the
land for so much?" yes" 1t was q
lie; and quick as that she was deadl
Gods judgments are upon those who
despise Him and defy Him. They come
suddenly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt! Do you suppose that any OF
the people knew that he was coming?
Did you hear of the flap of his great
wing? Mol MOI Suddenly, unexpected
ly, he came.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to
shoot a bird standing on a sprig near
by. If they are skilled, they pride
themselves on taking it on the wing;
and they wait till it starts. Death
is an old sportsman; and he loves to
take men dying under the very sun.
He loves to take them on the wing.
Oh! fee to God this night If there be
one in this presence who has wandered
far away from Christ, though he may
not have heard the call of the Gospel
for many year. invite him now to
come and be saved. Flee from thy
sin! Flee to the stronghold of the
Gospel! Now is the accepted time;
now is the day of salvation.
Goodnight, my young friendsI may
you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him
who never slumbers! May you awake
in the morning strong and well. But
oh! art thou despiser of God2 Is this
thy last night on earthi Should'st
h. IN &
by something, thou knowest not what,
and there be shadows floating in the
room, and handwriting on the wall,
and you feel that your last hour is
come, and there be a fainting at the
heart, and a tremor in the limb, and a
of the breath-then thy doom
would be but an echo of the words of
the text: ''In that night was Belshaz-
Ear, the king of the Chaldeans, slain"
Obi that my Lord Jesus would now
make Himself so attractive to your
souls that you can not resist Him; and
( you have never prayed before or
ihave never prayed since those days
when you knelt down at your mothers
knee, then that tonight you might
pray, saying:
Just as am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bid st me come to Thee,
o Lamb OF God, comet
But if you can not think of so long a
prayer as that, l will give you a short.
err prayer that you can say; God ba
merciful to me, a sinnerl" Or il
you can not think of so long q. prayer
as that, I will give you a still
shorter one that you may utteri