The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-20

/ IS the vast aud overlapping fortunes
In this country, and they say 1t MEANS
concentrated wealth, and luxurious
ness, and display, and moral ruin. It
is my obServatioz that tits the people
who have but limited resources who
make the most sp1urge, and | ask you,
Who are efidoWing colleges and
theological seminaries? Did you ever
hear of Peter Cooper, and James
Lonox, and sainted William E. Dodge,
and the Lawrences, Amos and Abbott,
while / refrain from mentioning living
benefact6rs Who, Quite rs generous
and Christian, are in this assembly, at
this moment planning what they can
do in these days, and in their last will
and testament in this campaign that
proposes taking America for God? The
| widows mite, honored OF the Lord, is
to have it's part in this continental
capture; but we must have more than
that; and more right away Many of
the men that expect to get the blessing
for bestowing the widows mite will
not get the blessing. In the first place,
they are not widows, and in the next
place, they have no ''n1ight."
The time is eoming-hasten it, Lord
laid 1 think YOU add 1 will see it,
when, as Joseph, the wealthy ArimaA
thean, gave for the dead Christ cost
ly mausoleum, the afluent men and
women of this country viii rise in
their strength aud build for our King,
our Jesus, the throne of this American
continent
Another thing quoted for discour-
agement, but which 1 quote for en-
enlargement, is foreign immigration
now that from Castle Garden we turn
back by the first poor ship the foreign
vagabondis,n-we are getting people,
the vast majority of whom come to
make an honest living; among them
some of the bravest and the best
If you should turn back from
| this land to Europe the
foreign ministers of the Gospel and
the foreign attorneys, and the foreign
merchants, and the foreign philan-
thropists, what robbery of our pull
pits, and court rooms, our store houses,
and our benefcent institutions, and
what a putting back of every
monetary, merciful, moral and res
| ligious interest of the land! This COM
mingling here of all nationalties I'M
der the blessing of God will produce
in seventy-ive or one hundred years
the most magnificent style of man
| and women the world ever saw. They
will have the wit of one race, the
eloquence of another race, the kind
ness of another the generosity of an
other, the aesthetic taste of an
other, and when that man and
woman step forth, their brain
and nerve and muscle an INTERVIEWING
of the fibers of all nationalities, moth.
ing but the new electric Photographic
apparatus, that can see clear through
body, mind and soul, can take of them
an adequate picture But the foreign
population of America is less than II
per cent. of all our population, and why
all this fuss about foreign immigra-
ton? Eighty-nine born Americans to
IL foreignersl If 80 of US New Jersey
men, or SO OF us Ohioan, or Workers, or
SO of us Georgians, or 80 of us Yankees
are not equal to II foreigners, then we
are starveling, lilliputian group of
humunculi that ought to be wiped out
of existence.
On our side, the great and mighty
theologians of the land, the heavy ar
tiilery, and the hundreds of thousands
of Christian children, the infantry.
But now what are the weapons by
which, under our omnipotent leader,
the real obstacles in the way of our
country's evangelization, the 10000
mile Sebastopols, are to be leveled?
The first columbiad, with range
enough to sweep from eternity to
eternity, is the Bible, millions of its
copies going out, millions on millions
this, the monarch of books, that has
made all the difference between China
and the United States, between Africa
and America; book declaring
in every style of phraseology that
all nations are to be converted, and
does not that include our nation? If
the Apocalyptic angel is to fly across
the continents, will he not fly across
this continent? The worst insult
could offer you would be to doubt
your veracity, and shall we doubt
Gods promise? Then there are all the 1
Gospel batteries, manned by 20, 900 pas
tors and home missionaries, over the
head of each one of whom is the shield
of Divine protection, and in the right
hand of each one the cleaning, two4
eug0Q sworn Oh Gl1O 1uuulnlC0 OplI4Ol
Hundreds of thousands of private sol
diers for Christ, marching under the
one-starred, blood-striped flag of I'M
manuel!
They are marching on! Episcopa cy,
with the sublime roll of its liturgies;
Methodism, with it's battle cry of 1.-THE
sword of the Lord and John Wesley"
the Baptist church, with its glorious
navy sailing up our Oregons and Sac
ramentos and Mississippis; and Pres |
byterianism, moving on with the bat
tie cry of 1.-The sword of the Lord and |
John Knox"
And then, after awhile, will come
over the land, the 100000 conversions
in 1857 eclipsed by the salvation
of millions in day, and the |
four American armies of the Lords |
host marching toward each other, the
eastern army marching west, the west
ern army marching east, the northern |
army marching south, the southern |
army marching north; shoulder to |
shoulder! TrampI Tramp! Trampl |
Until they meet midcontinent, having |
taken America for God!
The thunder of the bombardment is |
already in the air. and when the last
bridge of opposition is taken, and the |
last portcullis of Satan is lifted, and |
the last gun spiked, and the last tower
dismantled. and the last charger of /
iniquity shall have been hurled back |
upon its launches. what time of re- |