The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-02

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it may do all its work in 20
minutes. Christianity has been
planting its batteries for nine-
teen centuries, and may go on in the
work through other centuries; but
when those batteries are thoroughly
planted, those fortresses are fully
built, they may all do their work in
"a hours. The world sometimes de-
rides the church for slowness of move-
ment. Is science any quicker? Did it
not take science 5,652 years to find out
SO simple thing as the circulation of
the human blood? With the earth and
the sky full of electricity, science took
$500 years before it even guessed that
there was any practical use that might
be made of this subtle and mighty ele-
ment. When good men take posses
sion of all these scientific forces, and
all these agencies of invention, do
not know that the redemption of the
of half day. Do we not
read the queens speech at the
prorouguing of parliament the day
before in London? If that be SO,
is it anytE ing marvellous to believe
that in "a hours Divine communica-
ton can reach the whole earth2 Sup
pose Christ should descend on the ma
tions-many expect that Christ will
come among the nations personally
suppose that tomorrow morning the
Son of God, from lowering cloud,
should descend upon these cities.
Would not that fact be known all the
world over IN "a hours? Suppose He
should present His Gospel in few
words, saying: Il am the Son of God;
1 came to pardon all you sins and to
heal all your sorrows; to prove
that | am supernatural being, have
just descended from the clouds. Do
you believe me, and do you believe me
now?" Why, all the telegraph sta
tions of the earth would be crowded
just after a shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show
you it is not among the impossibilities
or even the improba bilities that Christ
will conquer the whole earth, and do
it instanter, when the time comes.
There are foretokenings in the air.
Something great is going to happen.
l do not think that Jupiter is going to
run us down, or that the axle of the
world is going to break; but mean
something great for the worlds bless
ing and not for the worlds damage is
going to happen. 1 think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough,
the famines and plaques. Enough, the
Asiatic choleras. Enough, the wars.
Enough, the shipwrecks. Enough, the
conftagrations. / think the world
could stand right well procession Of
prosperities and triumphs. Better be
on tho lookout. Better have your OBJ
servatories open toward the heavens,
and the lenses of your most powerful
telescopes well polished. Better have
your Leyden jars ready for some new
pulsation of mighty influence. Better
have new fonts of type in your print
ing offices 20 set up some astounding
good news. Better have some new
banner that has never been carried
ready for sudden professions. Better
have the bells in your church towers
well hung, and rope within reach,
that yon may ring out the marriage of |
the Kings Son. Cleanse all your court
houses, for the Judge of all |
the earth may appear. Let all |
your legislative halls be gilded,
for the great Law-giver may be |
about to come. Drive off the thrones |
of despotism all the occupants, for the |
King of Heaven and earth may be |
about to reign. The darkness of the |
night is blooming and whitening into |
the lilies of morning cloud, and the |
lilies reddening into the roses of |
stronger day-it garlands, whether
white or red, for Him on whose head |
are many crowns. 1.-THE day is at
hand"
Zone more ray of the dawn see in
fact chronological and mathematical. |
Come now, do not let us do another |
stroke of work until we have settled |
one. matter. What is going to be the |
final issue of this great contest be- |
tween sin and righteousness? Which |
is going to prove himself the stronger,
God or Dia bolus? Is this world going
to be all garden or all desert? Now, let
us have that matter settled. If we be-
lieve Isaiah, and Ezekiel, and Hosea,
and Micah, and Malachi, and John and
Peter, and Paul, and the Lord himself,
we believe that it is going to be all gar
den. But let us have it settled. Let
us know whether we are working on
toward a success or toward dead fail
ure. Is there is a child in your house
sick, and you are sure he is going to
get well, You sympathize with present
pains, but all the foreboding is gone.
If you are IN a cyclone off the Florida
coast, and the captain assures you the
vessel is stanch and the winds are
for a better quarter, and he
is sure he win bring you safe into the
harbor, you patiently submit to pres
ent distress with the thought of
safe arrival. Now, l want to know
whether we are, coming on to-
ward dismay, darkness and defeat.
or on toward light and blessedness.
You and l believe the latter, and il
so, every year we spend is one year
from the worlds woe, and
every event that passes, whether
bright or dark, brings us one event
nearer happy contamination, and by
all that is inexorable in chronology
and mathematics l commend you to
good cheer and courage. If there
is anything in arithmetic, if you
subtract two from five and leave
three, then by every rolling sun
we are coming on toward nag
nificent terminus. Then every winter
passed is one severity less for our poor
world. Then every summer gone by
brings us nearer unfading arbores-
cence. Put your algebra down on the
top of your Bible and rejoice.
BrotherI brotherI all l am afraid OF
iS not that Christ will lose the hattie