The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-11

! bAeLH the law unless al the same LltDo
you preach to them the Gospel. The
world is dying for lack Of kindness.
These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people sofs4e.
! times seem to think they have a mo-
nopoly of the rheumatis1ns, and The
neuralgias, and the headaches, and the
physical disorders of the wsrld; but l
tell you there are no worse heartaches
than arc felt by some of these young
people. Do you know that much OF
the work is done by the voting?
Raphael died at 81; Richclieu at 81,
Gustavus Adolphus died at So; Inno-
cent III. came to his mightiest infu-
ence at 81; COrtez conquered Mexico
at aOi Don John won Lepanto at %;
Grotius was attorney-ge neral at e4I
and have noticed amid all classes OF
men that some of the severest battles
and the toughest work come before 30:
Therefore we must have our seffitons
and our calculations in prayer meeting
all sympathetic with the young. And
so with these people further on in life.
| What do these doctors and lawyers
and merchants and mechanics care
about the distractions of religion?
! What they want is help to bear
the whitnsicalitie5 of patients,
! the browbeating of legal OPP
ponents, the unfairness of Gus
toners, who have plenty of fault=fnd
/ ing for every imperfection of handi-
work, but no praise for twenty ex-
/ cellences. What does that brain
racked, hahd-blistered man care for
Zwingle's Doctrine of Original Sin,
or Augustine's ''Anthfopology? You
might as we'll go to a man who has
/ the pleurisy and put on his side plas-
/ ter made out of Dr.. PARIS "Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence.
! In all our sermons there must be
help for everyone somewhere. TOu go
! into an apOthecary store. We see others
! being waited on; we do not complain
| because we do not Immediately get the
medicine, We know our turn will
come after awhile. And so, while all
parts of a sermon may not be apprO-
pirate to our case, if we wait prayer
fully, before the sermon is through we
shall have the Divine prescription.
! say to these young men who are go
! ing to preach the Gospel, these theo-
! logical students-I say TO them! We
want in our sermons hot more
metaphysics, nor more imaginatiOni
nor more logic, nor more pro-
! fundity. What we want in our
serhohs and Christian celebrations
is more sympathy. When Father
Taylor preached in the Sailors Bethel
at Boston the jack tars felt that they
had help for their duties among the
ratlines and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the OPERA:
tives in Oldham, England. all the
wOrlingmen felt they had more grace
for the spindles. When DIR. South
preached to kings and princes and
princesses, all the mighty men and
women who heard him felt preparation
for their high station.
DC y6u not know that this simple
story OF a Saviour's kindness is to re-
deem all nations? The hard heart of
this worlds obduracy is to be broken
before that story. There is in Antwerp,
Belgium, enc Of the tftost 1e1iiafta bio
pictures | ever saw. 1t is 1.-THE De-
scent of Christ from the Cross" 1t is
one of Rubens' pictures. No man can
stand and look at that Descent from
the Cross" as Rubens pictured it,
without having his eyes flooded with
tears, if we have any sensibility at all.
1t is an overmastering picture; one
that stuns you and staggers you and
haunts your dreams. One after
noon man stood in that ca
thcdral looking at Bubens DE
scent from the Cross" lie was
all absorbed in that scene of Saw
iour's. sufferings, when the janitor came
in and saidi at is time to close up
the cathedral for the night 1 wish
you would depart" The pilgrim looked
at that descent from the Cross"
turned round to the janitor and said;
No, no; not yet. Wait until they get
Him down" o, it is the story
of q Saviour's suffering kind
ness that is to capture the
world. When the bones of that
great behemoth of iniquity which
has trampled all nations shall be
broken and shattered, it will be found
out that the work was not done by the
hammer of the iconoclast, or by the
sword of the conquerOr, or by the
torch Of persecution, but by the plain,
simple, overwhelming force ef "thd
soft tongue that breaketh the bone"
Kindness! We all need more of it in
our hearts, our words and our behavior.
The chief characteristic of OR Lord
was kindness. A gentleman In En-
gland died, leaving his fortune by will
to two sons. The son that stayed a.
home destroyed the will and pretended
that the brother who was absent |
was dead and buried. The absens
brother after awhile returned and |
claimed his part of the property. |
Judges and jurors were to be bribed |
to say that the returned brother and |
son was no son at all, but only an inn |
poster. The trail came on. Sir |
Matthew Hale. the pride of thd |
English court room and for 20 |
years the pride of Jurisprudence, |
heard that this injustice was about |
to be practiced. He put off his official |
robe. He put on the garb of miller.
He went to the village where that trial |
was to take place. He entered the
courtroom. He somehow got inn
paneled as one of the jurors. ThI I
briber came around, and thu
man gave ten pieces of gold
to the other jurors, but as this
was only a poor miller the bri0er
gave to him only five pieces of gold. a
verdict was brought IN rejecting the
right of this returned brother. He was
to have no share in the inheritance.
Hold! my lord" said the miller.
Hold! we are not all agreed on this
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