The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-03

passions, and capsized mid-ocean, and
they are thousand miles away from
any shore of help. They have for years
been trying to dig their way out They
have been digging away, and digging
away, but they can never be delivered
unless now they will hoist some signal
of distress. However weak and feeble
it may be, Christ will see it, and bean
down upon the helpless craft, and take
them on board; and it will be known
on earth and il Heaven how narrowly
they escaped, escaped as with the
skin of their teeth"
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between a
great many business pcrplexities. If a
man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning and come away at 8
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion; but how shall you
find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise to
sunset, and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are
frequently dunned by creditors
whom you can not pay, and
when from Monday morning until
Saturday night you are lodging bills
that you can not meet? You walk day
by day in uncertainties that have kept
your brain on fire for the past three
years. Some with less business trou-
bles than you have gone crazy, The
clerk has heard noise in the back
counting room, and gone in and found
the chief man of the firm raving
maniac; or the wife has heard the
bang of pistol in the back parlor and
gone in, stumbling over the dead body
of her husband-a suicide. There are
men pursued, harassed, trodden down
and scalped of business perplexities,
and which way to turn next
they do not know. Now, God will
not be hard on you. He knows what
obstacles are in the way of you being
Il Christian, and your first effort in the
right direction He will crown with sue
cess Do not let Satan, with cotton
bales, and kegs, and hogSheads, and
counters, and stocks of unstable
goods, block up your way to Heaven.
Gather up all your energies. Tighten
the girdle about your loins. Take an
agonizing look into the face of God,
and then say, Here goes one grand
effort for life eternal" and then bound
away for Heaven, escaping ''as with
the skin of your teeth"
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men, who went
up incOrrupt from the contaminations
and perplexities of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Broad street, State street and
Third street. On earth they were
called brokers, or stock jobbers, or re-
tailers, or importers; but in Heaven,
Christian heroes. No faggots were
heaped about their feet; no inquisition
demanded from their recantation; no
soldier aimed pike at their heart; but
they had mental tortures, compared
with which all physical consuming is
rs the breath of a spring morning.
l find in the community large class
IF men who have been so cheated so
led about, SO outrageously wronged,
hat they have lost their faith in every
5hlng. In world where everything
seems so topsy-turvey, they do not see
low there can be any God. They are
COMPOUNDED, and frenzied, and mis-
Elaborate arguments to
prove to them the truth of Christian
ty, or the truth of anything else, touch
hem nowhere. Hear me, all such
men. l preach to you no rounded
periods, no ornamental discourse; but
1ut my hand on your shoulder, and in
ute you into the peace of the Gospel.
Here is a rock on which you may stand
irm, though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
urf clear above Eddystone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these
rOubles of the world. AS long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from His
and hence all these out
ages and all these woes. God is good.
Cor many hundreds of years He has
,een coaxing the world to come back
o Him; but the more He has coaxed,
he more violent have been men in their
esistance, and they have stepped back,
md stepped back until they have drop
'ed into ruin.
J Try this God, We who have had the
after you and who havs
bought that God had forgotten you.
Try Him, and see if He will not help.
Try Him, and see if He will not pardon.
Try Him, and see if He will not save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom
o sweet as the towering of Christ's |
Elections. The sun has no warmth |
with the glow of His heart.
he waters have no refreshment like |
he fountain that will Stake the !
hirst of thy soul At the |
the reindeer stands with his |
p and nostril thrust in the cool noun |
ain torrent, the hunter may be coming |
through the thicket. Without crack |
ng stick under his foot, he comes |
lose to the stag, aims his gun, draws |
he trigger. and the poor thing rears in |
IS death agony and falls backward, its |
ntlers crashing on the rocks; but the |
anting hart that drinks from the |
of Gods promise shall |
ever be fatally wounded, and shall
ever die.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make
ne strong pull for Heaven. No half.
-ay work will do it. There some
mes comes a time on shipboard when
must be sacrificed to save
ne passengers. The cargo is nothing;
ne rigging is nothing. The captain
uts the trumpet to his lip and shouts:
Cut away the mast" Some Of
GU have been tossed and driven, and
GU have, in your efforts to keep the
-orld, well-nigh lost your soul.
ntil you have decided this matter let
else go. Overheard with
IL those other anxieties and burdens.
gu will have to drop the sails of
our pride and cut away the mast.
With one earnest cry for help, put your
luse into the hand of Him who helped
aul out of the breakers of Melita, and
-ho, above the shrill blast of the