The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-20

- give Us the stdblSblcS OF now many
hearts are crushed under the heel OF
this worst demon of the centuries?
How many hopes blasted? How many
children turned out on the world, ac-
cursed with the stigma of debauched
ancestry? Until the worm of the dis
tillerr becomes the worm that new
err dies, and the smoke of the
heated wine watts becomes the
smoke OF the torment that ascendeth
up forever and everl Alcoholism,
swearing-not with hand unplifted to-
ward Heaven, for from that direction
it can get no help, but with right
hand stretched down toward the perdi-
ton from which it came up-swearing
that 1T viii not cease as long as there
are any homesteads to despoil, any
magnificent men and wep1eH to dss
stroy, any immortal souls to damn;
bny more nations to balk, any more
civilizations to extinguish.
Then there is what in America re
call socialism, IN France communism,
end in Russia nihilism-the three
names for the same thing-and having
but two doctrines in its creed: o.
There is no God; C2) there shall be ne
rights of property. One of theft chisf
Journals printed the sentiment: "Dyn-
amite can be made out of the dead
bodies of capitalists as well as out of
hogs" One of the leaders of COM
munism left inscribed on his
prison where he had been just
ly ipcareerated; these Words: "When
once you are dead, there is an
end of everything; therefore, We
scoundrels, grab whatever you can
only don't let yourselves be grabbed.
Amen!" There are in this country
hundreds of thousands of the lazy
scoundrels. Honest men deplore it
when they can not get work, but those
of whom speak will not do work
when they can get it. 1 tried to en-
ploy one who asked me for money. ]
said: down in my cellar l have
some wood to saw, and / viii
pay you for it." For little while /
heard the saw going, and then heard
it no more. 1 went downstairs, and
found the wood, but the workmen had
disappeared, taking for company both
buck and saw,
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean, TOO wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy to earn living"
and among the mightiest obstacles to
be overcome are those organized ele-
ments of domestic, social and political
ruin.
There are also the Businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and
political corruption, and multiform,
! hydra-headed, million-armed abomina-
tions all over the land. While the
mightiest agencies for righteousness
on earth are good and healthful news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for in
telligence and Christian achieve
ment is among them, what word
among the more than one hum
ured tho usands words in our vocabu-
larry can describe the work of that
archangel of mischief, corrupt litera-
ture? What man, attempting anything
for God and humanity, has escaped
stroke of filthy wing? What good cause
has escaped its Underwent? What 9TH
er obstacle in all the land so appal-
! ling?
Our leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and it
was an humble home, about five miles
from Jerusalem. Those who were out
doors that night said that there was
stellar commotion, and music that
came out OF the clouds, as though the
front door of Heaven had been set
open, and that the camels heard His
first infantile cry.
Then He came to the fairest boyhood
that mother was ever proud of, and
from - to 80 years of age was off in
India, if traditions there are accurate,
and then returned to His native land,
and for three years had His pathway
surrounded by blind eyes that He
illumined. and epileptie patients to
whom He gave rubicund health, and
tongues that He loosed from silence
into song, and those whose flu
nerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their
only boys, and those whose fevered
pulses He had restored into rhythmic
throb, and whose paralytic limbs He
had warmed into healthful circula-
tiod-pastor at Capernaum, but fam
ing evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling
seas into solid sapphire, and for the
rescue of race submitted to court
room filed with bowling miscreants,
and to a martyrdom at the sight
of which the sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then tread
ing the clouds homeward, like snowy
mountain peaks, till Heaven took Him
back again, more a favorite than He
had ever been, but, coming again, He
is on earth now, and the nations are
gathering to His standard. Following
Him were the Scotch Covenanters, the
Theban legion, the victims of
the London Haymarket, the Pied
montese sufferers, the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs, the Huguenots and uncount-
ed multitudes of the past, joined
by about four hundred million of the
present, and with the certainty that
all nations shall huzzah at His chariot
wheel, He goes forth, the moon un-
der His feet and the stars of Heaven
for His tiara-the mighty leader, He
of Drumclog, and Boutwell, bridge,
and Bannockburn, and the one
who whelmed Spanish Armada,
Coming up from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah, travelling
in the greatness of His strength,
mighty to save" and behind whom we
fall into line to-day and march in the
campaign that is to take America for
God. Hosanna! Hosanna! Wave all the
palm branches! At His feet put down
your silver and your gold, as in Heav-
en- you will cast before Him your cor
onets.
The very things that have been
quoted as perils to this nation are