The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
HUMAN TROUBLES.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Consultations Of Religion.
They Are sufacient to support the Chrls-
taan Amid scenes OF Trial and
Disastcr-God'a Hand
In Them All

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The reference here ie not to a cy-
clone. but to the long-eontinued blow
ing of the wind from an unhealthful
quarter. The north wind is bracinr,
the south wind Is relaxing, but the
east wind Is Irritating and full Of
threat. Eighteen times does the Bible
speak against tho east wind. Moses
describes the thin ears blasted by the
cast wind. The psalmist describes
! tic breaking Of the ships of Tarshish
by the east wind. The locusts that
plagued Egypt were borne in on the
east wind. This gourd that sheltered
Jonah was shattered by the east
wind; and in all the 5000 summers,
Rutumns. winters and springs of the
worlds existence the ~erst wind that
ever blew Is the east wind. Now, If
God would only give us "a climate of
perpetual nor'wester, how genial end
kind and placid and industrious Chris
tians we would ali be! But il takes
almighty grace to be what we ought to
be under the east wind. Under the
chilling and wet wing of the east
wind the most of the worlds
villiauies, fraunds, Outrages, suicides
and murders have been Matched out.
/ think if you should keep meteoro=
logical history of the days of the year.
and put right beside It the criminal
record of the country, you would find
that those were the best days for pub
lie morals which were under the north
or west wind, and that those were the
worst days for public morals which
were under the east wind, The points
of the compass have more to do with
the worlds morals and the church's
piety than you have vet suspected.
Rev. DIR. Archibald Alexander, emil
nent for learning and for eonsecra-
ton, when asked by one of his stu
dents at Princeton whether he always
had full assurance of faith, replied:
"Yes, except when the wind blows
from the east" DIR. Francia, dictator
of Paraguay, when the wind was from
the east, made oppressive enactments
for the people; but when the weather
changed, repented him of the cruel
ties. repealed the enactments, and was
In good humor with all the world.
Before l overtake the main thought
of my subject 1 want to tell Christian
people they ought to be observant of
climatic changes. BE on your guard
when the wind blows from the east.
There arc certain styles of temptation
that you can not endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind
blows from the east il you are of a
nervous temperament, go not among
exasperating people, try not to settle
bad debts, do not try to settle old DIS
putes, do not talk with bigot on res
ligiOn, do not go among those people
who delight In saying irritating
things, do not try to collect funds for
charitable institution, do not try to
answer an insulting letter. If these
things must be done. do them when
the wind is from the north, or the
south, or the west, but not when the
wind IS from the east.
You say that men and Women ought
not to be SO sensitive and nervous. Il
admit it, but 1 am not talking about
what the world ought to be; I am
talking about what the world Is.
! While there are persons whose dispo-
sition does not seem to be affected BY
changes in the atmosphere, nine out of
ten are nightly played upon by such
Influences. o Christian man! under
I o0NAA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES w nOL WIlEG nAIU
things against yourself, do not get
worried about your fuotnating expert
ence. You are to remember that the
barometer In your soul Is only an
swerinR the barometer of the
wea then Instead of sitting down
and becoming discouraged and
saying. st am not n Girls
tian because dent feel exhil-
Rrant" get up and look out of the
window and see the weather vane
pointing in the wrong quarter ard
then say: Get thee behind he, Satan
thou prince Of the power of the air;
get cut of my house! get out of my
heart, thou demon Of darkness horsed
on the east wind. Away" However
good and great YOU may be in the
Christian life, your soul will never be
independent of physical condition.
feel 1 am utteriuE C. most practical,
useful truth here, one that may give
relief to a great many Christians VINO
are worried and respondent at times
DR. Rush, a monarch in medicine.
after curing hundreds of cases of men,
tai depression, himself fell sick and |
lost his religious hope, and he would |
not believe his pastor when the pastor |
told him that his spiritual depression |
was only consequence of physical de-
preston. Andrew Fuller, Thomas |
Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Bos. |
ton, David Brainerd, Philip Melancthon |
were mighty men for God, but all of |
them illustrations of the fact that a |
mans soul is not independent of his |
physical health. An eminent physician |
gave as his opinion that no man ever
died greatly triumphant death whose |
disease was below the diaphragm. |
Staclxhouse, the learned Christian |
commentator, says he does not think |
Saul was insane when David played |
the harp before him. but it was a hypo- |
choDdria coming from inflammation of |
the liver. Oh, how many good people /
have been mistaken in regard to their /
religious hope, not taking these things |
into consideration The dean of Car
Isle, one of the best men that ever
lived, and one of the most useful, sat
down and wrote: Though / have
endeavored to discharge my duty as
we'll as 1 could, yet sadness and mel
ancholy of heart stick close by and
increase upon me. ! tell nobody, but / /
am very much sunk indeed, and I /
wish could have the relief
of weeping as / used 20. My days are