The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-05-15

God wk9 wastes nothing, I think,
means thai this world, from pole TO
pole, has come TO perfection OF
foliage and fruitaRes Fer that
reason tIa Keeps the earth
running through space, though 50
many fires are blazing down in
its timbers and SO many meteoric ter
rors have threatened to dash IL 10
pieces As eoon As the earth 10 toms
pleted Christ will divide it up among
the good. The reason lie does not di-
vide now is because It is not done. A
kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple is
ripe. In ful6l1ment of the New Testa-
ment, THE meek shall inherit fhe
earth, and the promise of the Old Tes-
lament, He shall divide the spoil
with the strong" the world will be
apport:oned to those worthy to pos
sess it.
1t is not SO no+.-. In this country,
caPeble OF holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering 1000, 600. 900 people, we
have only 10000, 900 inhabitants, we
have 1000, 600 who ear not get Honest
work. and with their families an aggre-
CATION of 5000, 900 that are on the verge
ofstarvation. Something wrong. most
certainly. In some wat; there will be a
new superintendent Many of the
millionaire estates win crack to pieces
on the dissipation of grandchildren
and then dissolve into the possession
of the Masses who how have an in
sdficiency.
What, you say, will become Of the
expensive and elaborate Buildings now
devoted TO debasing amusements?
They will become schools, art CALLER
les, museums, gymnasiums and
churches, The world Is already get
ting Disguised with many Of these
aff1nsements, and no wonder. What
an Importation Of unciean theatrical
stuff we have within the last few years
had brought to our shoresl And pro-
fessors of religion patronizipE such
thingsl Having sold out to the devil,
why don't you deliver the goods
and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches,
and say: know all the world by these
presents that | am patron Of tins
cleanliness and a child of hen!" Sworn
to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
If you think these offenses are to go
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will nrt writ Tor the
Day of Judgment. All these palaces
of sin will become palaces of right
eousness. They will come into the
possession of those strong for virtue
and strong for God. He shall divide
the spoil with che strong"
China and Africa, the two richest
portions of, the earth by reason of
metals and Fare woods, and mex
hahstible productiveness, are not yet
divided up among the good because
they are not ready to be divided. Wait
Until all the doors that Livingstone
opened in Africa shall be entered; and
Bishop Taylor, with his bald Of self-
supporting missionaries, have done
their work, and the Ashantees and
Senegambians shall know Christ as
we'll as you know Him, and there shall
be on the banks. of the Nile and the
Niger higher civilization than is now
10 be found on the banks of the
Potomac or the Hudson; then Christ
will divide up that continent among His
friends. Wait until China, which is
half as large as all Europe; shall have
developed her capacities for RES and
tea and sugar am6hE edibles; and her
amethyst and sapphire, and topaz, and
opal, and jasper, and porphyry, among
precious woods; and turned up from
her depths a half-do7en Pennsylvania
of coal and iron, and 20 Nevadas of sill
yer, and so CALIFORNIA; of gold, and her
oO,0o0,000 of people shall be evangel-
iaedI then the Lord will divide it up
among the good,
If my text be not a deception, bat
the eternal truth, then the time Is
coming when all the farms will be
owned by Christian farmers, and ali
the commerce controlled by Christian
and all the authority held
by Christian officials, and all the ships
by Christian captains, and
all the universities under the instruc-
ton of Christian professors; Christian
kings, Christian presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
Common councils. Yet, what a scour-
ing out! what an upturning! what a
demolition! what resurrection must
precede this new apportionmentl
But" you say, "this is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that
time shall have passed up into an
other existence, and shall get no adj
vantage from that new apportiOn-
ment." All, you have only driven
me to the other more exciting
and transporting consideration, and
that is, that Christ is going
to divide up Heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial
world that have been in the posses
sion of the inhabitants for thou
sands of years, and they shall
as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filed
with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven out.
MANY of the victors from earth have
already got their palaces, and they are
pointed out to those newly arrived.
Soon after our getting there we will
ask to be shown the apostolic resi-
lences, and ask where does Paul live,
and John; and shown the patriarchal
and shall say: Where
does Abraham live, or jacob" and
shown the martyr residences, and say:
where does John Huss live, and
Ridley?" We will want to see the
where the chariots of
roll. / will want to see
the garden where the princes walk. We