The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-27

is not as rapid as hope for, charge
the whole thing to me. Good morn.
ing, all" He gets on the beast and
says: "Go along, you beast, but, ga
slowly, for these bandits sweeping
thFotigh the land may have left some,
body else wounded and half dead. =
Sympathy! Christian sympathy How
many such men as that would it take To
warm the cold world up? Famine In Ia
repthath. Everything dried up. There
is widow with a son and no food ex-
cept handful of meal. She is gath
ering sticks to lKindle fire to cook the
handful of meal Then she is going to
wrap her arms around her boy and
die: Here comes Elijah. His two
black servants, thes raven, have got
tired waiting on him: He asks
that woman for food Now, that hand
full of meal is to be divided into three
parts. Before it was to be divided in
to two parts. Now, she says to Elijah:
.Come in and sit down at this solemn
table and take a third of the last
morse1." How many women like that
Would Is take So warm the cold world
up?
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
i Views from the hand no generous action done.
1t was His strong sympathy that
brought Christ from a warm Heaven
to cold world. The land where He
dwelt had a serene sky, balsamic att
mosphere, tropical 1uxuriance. No
storm blasts In Heaven. No chill foun-
tains On d cold December night
Christ stepped out of warm Heaven
into the worlds frigidity. The Their
mometer in Palestine never drops be-
low zero, but December is cherries
month, and the pasturage is very poor
on the hilltops Christ stepped
Unt Of warm Heaven into the
cold world that cold December
night The worlds reception was
cold. The surf of bestormed
Galilee was cold. Joseph's sepulcher
was cold. Christ came, the great
warmer, to warm the earth, and all
ChristeRdom to-day feels the glow.
He will keep on warming the earth
until the tropic will drive away the
arctic, and the antarctic. He gave an
imitation of what He was going to do
when He broke up the funeral at the
gate of Main and turned it into re-
union festival, and when with His
warm lips He melted the Galilean hnr-
ricane and stood on the deck and
stamped His foot, crying, "Silence"
and the waves crouched and the
tempests folded their wings.
Ali / am so glad that the sun of
righteousness dawned on the polar
night of the nations. And if Christ is
the great WARMER, then the church is
the great hot-house, with its plants
and trees and fruits of righteousness.
Do you know, my friends, that the
church is the institution that pro-
poses warmth? / have been for %
years studying how to make the
church warmer. Warmer architec-
ture, warmer hymnology, warmer
Christian salutation. All outside ST.
berian winter, we must have it a
princes dollhouse. The only institution
on earth to-day that proposes to make
the world warmer. Universities and
observatories, they all have their
work. They propose to make the
world light, but they do not propose
to make the world warm. Geology In.
forms US, but it is as cold as the rock
it hammers. The telescope shows
where the other worlds are, but an
astronomer is chilled with looking
through it. Christianity tells US of
strange combinations and how inferior
affinity may be overcome by superior
affinity; but it can not tell how all
things work together for good. World
ly philosophy has great splendor,
but it is the splendor of moonlight
on an iceberg. The church of God
proposes warmth and hope-warmth
for the expectations, warmth for the
sympathies! OH / am so glad that
these great altar fires have been kim
died. Come in out of the cold. Come
in, and have your wounds salved.
Come, and have your sins pardoned.
Come in by the great Gospel fire.
place. Notwithstanding all the modern
inventions for heating, tell you there
is nothing so full of geniality and so
ciality as the old-fashioned country
fireplace. The neighbors were to come
in for a winter evening of socialitY. In
the middle of the afternoon, in the best
room in the house, some one brought
in great back log with great strain
and put it down on the back of the
hearth. Then the lighter wood was
put on, armful after armful. Then
shovel of Goals was taken from another
room and put under the dry pile, and
the kindling began, and the cracking,
and it rose until it became a roaring
flame, which filed all the room with ge-
niality and was reflected from the
family pictures on the wall. Then the
neighbors came in two by two. They
4 e. - so1,
ever and anon was stirred with tongs
and Teadjusted on the andirons and
there were such times of rustic repair
tee, and storytelling, and mirth as the
black stove and the blind register new
er dreamed of. Meanwhile the table was
being spread. and so fair was the
cloth and so clean was the cutlery they
glisten and glisten In our mind to-day.
And then the luxury of orchard and
farm yard was roasted aud prepared
for the table, to meet the appetites
sharpened by the cold ride. OIL my
friends, the Church of Jesus Christ is
the worlds fireplace, and the woods
are from the cedars of Lebanon, and
the fires are fires of love, and with the
silver tongs of the altar we stir the
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all the pictures on the wall-pictures
of those who were here and are gone
now. Obi come up close to the fire.
place. Have your worn faces transdg-
ured in the light. Put your cold feet,
weary of the journey, close up to the
blessed confagration. Chilled through
with trouble and disappointment, come
close up until you can get warm clea4