The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19

VA ~uAAIBAcf hhQ ne got 10 ne IN worse
man2 No The physician said that
the state Of his pulse would not war
rant his living "a minute. oh. II the
east wind affects the spleen, and af-
fects the lungs, and affects the liver,
IL Will affect your immortal soul. APP
pealing to God for help, brace your
self against these whitening blasts and
destroying influences, lest that which
the psalmist said broke the ships of
Tarshish, shipwreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the east wind. THE Lord
brought the east wind He brings 1t
for especial purposei the east wind is
| just as important as the north wind,
or the south wind, or the west wind;
but not so pleasant Trial must come.
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast. Whoever did es-
cape it? Especially who that accom-
plished anything for church or state
ever escaped 1t? 1 was in the pulpit
of John Wesley, in London, a pulpit
where he stood one day and said: II
have been charged with ali the crimes
in the catalogue except one-that
or drunkenness, and a woman arose
in the audience and said: John, you
were drunk last night" So John Wes-
ley passed under the fail. I saw Id a
foreign Journal report of one of
George Whitefield's sermons-a sermon
preached a hundred and twenty or
thirty years ago. 1t seemed that the
reporter stood to take the sermon, and
his chief idea was to caricature it; and
these are some of the reportorial In
terlinings of the sermon of George
Whiteheld. After calling him by
nickname indicative of physical de-
feet in the eye, it goes on to says
Here the preacher clasps his CHA on
the pulpit cushion. Here he eIeFates his
voice. Hefe he lowers his voice. Holds
his arms extended. Bawls aloud
Stands trem bling Makes a frightful
face. Turns up the whites of his eyes.
Clasps his hands behind him. Clasps
his arms around him and hitgs him
self Reafs aloud. Holias. Jumps
Cries. Changes from crying. Hollas
and jumps again." Well, my brother,
if that good man went through all that
process, in your occupatio in your
profession, in your store; iii your shop.
at the bar, ia the sick room, in the edi-
toFial chair, somewhere, you will have
to go through similar process; you
can not escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard CRITICS m of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled Jerusalem Deliv-
cred" and 1t had such cold reception
it turned him into a raving maniac
Stillingfeet was slain BY his literary
enemies. The frown Of Henry VIII.
slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of
Wellington refused TO have the fehco
around his house, which had been de-
stroyed by mob, rebuilt, because he
reminder of the mutshility ard th-
certainty eff the popular favor.
And you will have trial of some sort.
You have had it already. Why need l
prophesy? might better mention an
his tOrical fact in your history Vou
are a merchant What a time YOU had
with that cid business partneri How
hard it was to get rid of himl Before
you bought him out, or he ruined both
of you, what magnitude Of annoyancel
Then, after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out, and to promise he would not open
a store of the same kind of business in
your street, did lie not open the very
same kind Of business as near to you
as possible, and take all your customers
as far as he could take them? And
then, knowing all your frailties and
weaknesses, after being in your busi-
ness firm for SO many years, Is he not
new spending his time in making a
commentary On What You furnished as
text? You are a physician, and in
your sickness, or in your absence, you
get neighboring doctor to take your
place in the sick room, and he ingratis
ates himself into the favor of that
family, so that you forever lose theft
patronage. Or, you take patient |
through Tho serious stages of fever,
and some day the impatient IA
ther or husband of the sick one |
rushes out and gets another medical |
practitioner. who cotf1es In just in |
time to get the credit of the cure Or, |
you are a lawyer, and you come in
contact with trickster in your pro-
fession, and in your absence, and coh- |
trary TO agreethent, he moves nom
suit or the dismissal of the case; or |
the judge on the bench, remem boring
an old political grudge, rules against |
you every time he gets chance, and |
says, with snarl. "1f you don't like |
my deeisiohi. take an exception" Or, |
you are a farmer, and the curculio |
stings the fruit, or the weevil |
gets into the wheat; or the |
drought stunts the Corn, or the
hgatontinued rains give you no
opportunity for gathering the har-
vest. Your best cow gets the hollow |
horn, your best horse gets fouHdsfed. |
A French proverb said that trouble |
comes in on horseback and goes away |
on foot. So trouble dashed in on you |
suddenly, but oh, how long it was in
getting away Came on horseback, |
goes away on foot. Rapid in coming, |
slow In going. That is the history of |
nearly all your trou bles. Again and |
again and again, you have experienced |
the power of the east wind. 1t may /
be blowing from that direction now.
My friends, God intended these trou-
bles and trials for some particular pur-
pose. They do not come at random. |
Here is the promisel Vie stayeth His |
rough wind In the day of the east |
wind" In the tower of London the |
swords and the guns OF other ages are |
FURNISHED and arranged into huge |
passion-howers, and sunhowers, and |