The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-13

am SICK. Mother and father have
been here frequently and begged me
to come home; but my love for you and
my hope for brighter days have always
made me refuse them. That hope
seems now beyond realization, and
have returned to them. It is hard,
and battled long before doing it. Nav
God bless and preserve you, and take
from that accursed appetite, and has
ten the day when we shall be again
living happily together. This will be
my daily prayer, knowing that He
has said, "Come unto me, all We that and
are heavy laden, and will gives you
rest From your loving wife,
"MARY.'
"And so 1 wandered on and wan
dered on" says that man, until one
night l passed Methodist meeting
house, and said to myself, "Ill go in
and see what they are doing;' and I
got TO the door, and they were singing.
All may come whoever will
This man eceives poor sinners still,
And dropped right there where was,
and said: God have mercyrand He had
mercy on me. My home is restored,
my wife sings all day long during
work, my children come out long
way to greet me home, and my house.
hold is a little heaven. l will tell you
what did all this for me. 1t was the
truth that this day you proclaim: ON
him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us ALL Yonder is woman
who would say: L wandered off
from my fathers house. heard the
storm that pelts on lost soul; my feet
were blistered on the hot rocks. I
went on and on, thinking that no one
cared for my soul, when one night
Jesus met me, and He said: Poor
thing, go home; your father is waiting
for you, your mother is waiting for
you. Go home, poor thingr And, sir,
l was too weak to pray, and 1 was too
weak to repent, but l just cried out-I
sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on
the shoulders of Him of whom it is
said the Lord hath laid on Him the
iniquity of us ALL"
Someone comes here to-day and
stand aside. He comes up three steps.
He comes to this place. must stand
aside. Taking that place He spreads
abroad his hands, and they were
hailed You see His feet; they were
bruised. He pulls aside the robe
and shows you his wounded
heart. 1 say: "Art thou wcary?"
''Yes," He says, Weary with
the worlds Woe" 1 say: ''Whence
contest Thou?" He says: II came from
Calvary" 1 say: "Who comes with
Thee?" He says: ''No one; 1 have
trodden the wine-press alone" 1 sayt
"Why comest thou here?" 'Ohw He
says, 81 came here to carry all the
sins and sorrows of the people," And
He kneels. He says: "Put on my
shoulders all the sorrows and all
the sins" And, conscious of my
own sins first, 1 take them and
put them on the shoulders of the Son
of God. l say: 'Canst Thou bear any
more, oh Christi" He says: Eyes,
more" And gather up the sins of all
those who serve at these affairs, the
officers of the Church of Jesus Christ
l gather up their sins and l put them
on Christ's shoulders, and say; ''Canst
Thou bear any more?'' He says: Eyes,
more" Then 1 gather up all the sins
of a hundred people in this house, and
put them on the shoulders of Christ,
and say: "Canst Thou bear more2'
He says: ''Yes. more" And I gather
up all the sins of the assembly, and
put them on the shoulders of the Son
of God, and L say: ''Canst Thou bear
them?" YES" He says, more
But He is departing. Clear the way
for Him, the Son of God. Open the
door and let Him pass out. He
is carrying our sins and bearing
them away. We shall never see them
again. He throws them down into the
abyss, and you hear the long reverbe-
rating echo of their fall. ION him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us
all" VIII you let Him take your sins
to-day? Or, did you say: II will take
charge of them myself, I will risk
eternity on my own account?" know
not how near some of you have come
to crossing the line.
A clergyman said in his pulpit one
Sabbath: Before next Saturday night
one of this audience will have passed
out of life" A gentleman said to an
other seated next to him: II don't be-
heve it; / mean to watch, and if it
doesn't come true by next Saturday
night, / shall tell that clergyman his
falsehood." +" The man seated next to
him said: Perhaps it will be yourself, :"
"Ohl no." the other replied, II shall
live to be an old man." That night he
breathed his last. To-day the Saviour
calls. All may come God never
pushes a man off God never DESTROYS
anybody. The man jumps off, he
jumps off. 1t is suicide-soul suicide
if the man perishes, for the invitation
10 EGvvbocoavar will LET him coune.K
whosoever, whosoever, whosoever!
While God invites. how blest the day,
How sweet the Gospels charming sounds
Come, sinner, haste. OF haste away
While yet pardoning God is found.
In this day of merciful visitation,
while many are coming into the king
dom of God, join the procession Heay-
onward.
Seated in my church was man who
came in who said: 81 don't know that
there is any God" That was on Fri
day night. said: 1--WE will kneel
down and find out whether there is
any God" And in the second
seat from the pulpit we knelt. He
said: Il have found Him. There is
God, a pardoning God. feel Him
here" He knelt in the darkness of sin.
He arose two minutes afterward in
the liberty of the Gospel; while an
other sitting under the gallery on Fri
day night, said: ''My opportunity is
gone;last week might have been saved;
not now-the door is shut" Behold
the Lamb of God who taketh away the
sin of the world ''Now is the ac-
eepted time. Now is the day of saliva