The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-08

he had only had sufficient cavalry at
Bautzen and Lutzen his wars would
have triumphantly ended. l do not
wonder that the duke of WELLINGTON
had his old war horse Copenhagen
turned out in best pasture, and that
the duchess of Wellington wore a
bracelet of Copenhagen's hair. Not
one drop of my blood but tingles as /
look at the arched neck and paving
hoof and painting nostril of Jobs cav
airy horse: Hast thou clothed his
his neck with thunder? He paweth in
the valley; he goeth on to meet the
armed men. The culver rattleth
against him, the glittering spear and
the shield. He saith among the trum-
pets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the bat
tie afar off, the thunder of the cap
tains. and the shouting"
think it Is $50 cavalry of the Chris
tian hosts, the grand men and wome2
who, with bold dash and holy reckless
ness and spurred-on energies, are to
take the world for God. To this army
of Christian service belong the evangel-
lists. 1t ought to be the business of
the regular churches to multiply
them, to support them, to cheer them,
to clear the way for them. Some of
them you will like, some of them you
do not like. You say some are too
sensational, and some of them are not
enough learned, and some of them are
cratic, and some of them are too
vehement, and some of them pray too
loudI Oh. fold up your criticism and
let them do that which we, the pas
tors, can never do. like all the
evangelists / have ever seen or heard.
They are busy now: they are busy
every day of the week. While we, the
pastors, serve God by holding the
fortress of righteousness and drilling
the Christian soldiery, and by marshal
ing anthems and sermons and
ordinances on the right side, they are
out fighting the forces of darkness
hip and thigh, with great slaughter"
All success to them! The faster they
gallop, the better like it. The keener
the lances they fling, the more 1 adj
mire them. We care not what conven-
tionality they infract if they only gain
the victory. Moody, and Chapman,
andi Mills, rand Jones, and Harrison,
and Munhall, and Maj. Cole, and Crit
tenden, and hundred others are now
making the cavalry charge, and they
are this moment taking New York and
Philadelphia and Cincinnati for God,
and wish they might take our ma
TONS capital.
Hear the tremendous facts: There
are now in this country nearly 166, 000
church congregations, with nearly 81
600, 900 communicates and seating ca
pacity in church for more than 43, OOO.-
600 people; in other words, room IN
the churches for three-fourths of the
population of this country, and about
one-third of the population of this
country already Christian. In other
words, we will have only to average
bringing two souls to God during the
next three years and our country is
redeemed. Who can not, under the
power of the Holy Ghost, bring two
souls to God in three years? And so
many will bring hundreds and thou
sands to God, most of you have to
bring only one soul to God and the
Gospel campaign for this continent
will be ended. If you can not bring
one soul to God, or two souls. or three
souls, in three years, you are no Chris
tian, and deserve yourself to be shut
out of Heaven. The religious pes
simists of this country are all the time
the obstacles as so great
and our forces as SO small that we half
of the time feel that we are attempt
ing an mpossibility. Take out of your
prayers and preaching some of your
stuffing of groans and put in some
q h e 4 go 80,
the United States will be gospel
lied, and if the United States be
America will be gospelized,
and America gospelized, we will take
Asia from the Pacific beach, and Eu-
rope from the Atlantic beach, and not
far from now the lost star we live on
will take it's place among the constel-
lations that never fell. Let the more
than 81 900, 600 communicates, as they
lift the sacramental cup to their lips,
take oath that they will not rest until
the other 10000, 900 are saved. The
are all saddled and bri-
died. Where are the men and women
to guide them? II will deliver thee 1000
horses, if thou be able to set riders
upon them" What two men can do for
good or evil is impressed upon me by
the fact that two Scotchmen, going
to California, each took something that
would remind him of his native coun
try. Then one took thistle, the ma
tional emblem of Scotland. The other
took a hive of bees. Years went by,
and the work of the two Scotchmen is
widely seen. The curse of the Pacific
slope is the thistle, and the blessing of
the Pacific slope is the honey found
everywhere in woods and fields. In
your life are you responsible for honey
Or thistles, and if one man can do SO
much good, and another SO much evil,
how much could be done for the ran
som of this country by 21 900. 900 peo-
pie all consecrated?
Get out of the way with your
1olorous forebodings, and charge your
dirges for what we have not done for |
the grand march of what we may do
and will do. The woman at Sedan, in |
whose house Napoleon the Last was
waiting to make surrender of himself |
and his army, said to the overthrown |
French emperor: What can do for |
your" And the despairing ex-
replied: Nothing; but |
draw down the blind SO that / |
can not be stared at" In this Gospel |
we have plenty to draw |
down the blinds. In Gods name, 1 |
say, pull up the blinds, and let the |
sun of the coming victory |
shine upon us. What we want in this |
for God is the self-a bnega-
ton and courage of the men of Sir |
Colin Campbell, who, as Lord Bishop
Cowle, of New Zealand, once chaplain
Of his army, told me, said to the |
troops: Men, no retreat from this |
place. Die right here" And they |