The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-22

CemebeTys 4H6Fe In6y COIilS upi InSy
went down when the ship foundered
off Cape Hatteras. They come up from
all sides-from potter's field and out of
the solid masonry of Westminster
abbey. They come up! They come
up! All the hinderances to their better
nature huslked off. All their physical
| ailments husked off. All their him
drances to usefulness husked off. The
! grain, the golden grain, the God-fash-
ioned grain, visible and conspicuous.
Some of them on earth were such
! disagreeable Christians you could hard
! ly stand in their presence. Now in
| Heaven they are SO radiant you hardly
| know them. The fact is, all their i'm
| projections have been husked off.
| They did not mean on earth to be dis
agreeable. They meant well enough,
| but they told you how sick you looked,
and they told you how many hard
/ things they had heard about you, and
| they told you how often they had to
| stand up for you in some battles, until
} you wished almost that they had been
slain in some of the battles. Good,
| pious, cOnsecrated, well-meaning dis
agreeables.
There are monOpolies on earth, mo-
| nopolistic railroads, and monopolistic
telegraph companies, and monopolistic
grain dealers. but no monopoly in re-
ligiOn. All who want to be saved may
be saved, without money and with
out price," Salvation by the Lord Je-
sus Christ for all the people. Of
course, use common sense in this mat
ter. You can not expect to get to
Charleston by taking ship for Portland,
and you can not expect to get to Heav-
en- by going in an opposite direction.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. Through that
one gate of pardon and peace all the
race may go in.
But" says some one, do you really
think L would be at home in that su-
pernal society if l should reach it?" l
think you would. | know you would.
| remember that in the husking time
there was a great equality of feeling
among the neigh hbors. There at one
corn shock a farmer would be at work
who owned 200 acres of ground.
The man whom he was talking with
at the next corn shock owned but so
acres of ground, and perhaps all COW
cred by mortgage. That evening, at
the close of the husking day, one man
drove home roam span so frisl1y, SO
full of life, they got their feet over the
traces. The other man walked home.
Great difference in education, great
difference in worldly mean; but l
noticed at the husking time they all
seemed to enjoy each others society.
They did not ask any man how much
property he owned or what his educa-
tion had been. They all seemed to be
happy together in those good times.
And so it will bs in Heaven. Our
Father will gather His children around
Him, and the neighbors will come in,
and the past will be rehearsed. And
some one will tell of victory, and we
will all celebrate it. And some one
will of great struggle, and we will all
praise the grace that fetched him out
of it. And some one will say: Here
is my old father that l put away with
heartbreak. Just look at him, he is as
young as any of us!' And some one
will say: Here is my darling child
that buried in Greenwood, aud all
the after years of my life were
at her! She doesn't seem as is she had
been sick minute" Great sociality.
Great neigh borhood kindness.
do not know how you are consti-
tuted, but L am so constituted that
there is nothing that so awakens remi-
niscences in me as the odors of a corn
field when L cross it at this time of
year, after the corn has been cut and
it stands in the shocks. And so | have
thought it might be practically useful
for US to-day to cross the cornfeld,
and l have thought perhaps there
might be some reminiscence reused
in our soul that might be salutary
and might be saving. In Swe-
den, a prima donna, while her home in
the city was being repaired, took
house in the country for temporary
residence, and she brought out her
great array of jewels to show a friend
who wished to see them. One night,
after displaying these jewels, and
leaving them on the table, and
all her friends had gone, and
the servants had gone - one
summer Righ-she sat tn mixing
and looking into mirror just in front
Of her chair, when she saw in that
mirror the face of robber looking in
at the window behind her and gazing at
those jewels. She was in great fright.
but sat still, and, hardly knowing why
she did SO, she began to sing an old
nursery song, her fears making the
pathos of the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed while looking
at the mirror that the robbers face had
gone from the window, and it did not
come back. A few days after the
prima donna received letter from the
rObber, saying: Il heard that the
Jewels were to be out that night, and
came to take them at whatever hazard;
but when l heard you sing that nurs-
cry song, with which my mother so
often sang me to sleep, could not
stand it, and fed, and / have resolved
upon a new and an honest life"
Oh! my friends, there are jewels in
peril richer that those which lay upon
that table that night. They are the
Jewels of the immortal soul. Would
God that some song rolling up out of
the deserted nursery OF your childhood,
or some song rolling up out of the corn
fields, the song of the huskers twenty
or forty years ago, might turn all our
feet out OF the paths of sin into the |
path of righteousness. Would God |
that those memories waited in on
odor Of song might start at this mo-
ment with swift feet toward that |
blessed place where SO many of our
loved ones have already preceded US,
las shock of corn coLneth in in his |
season"
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