The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-12-03

A mother with a dead babe in her
arms came to the god Veda, and asked
to have her child restored to life. The
god Veda said to her: ''You go and
get a handful of mustard seed from a
house in which there has been no sOr-
row, and in which there has been no
death, and l will restore your child to
life" So the mother went out, and
she Vent from house to house, and
from home to home, looking for plaes
where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but
she found none. She went back to
the god Veda, and said: MY mission
is a failure; you see ! haven't
brought the mustard seed; can't find
place where there has been no sor-
row and no death. ''Oh," says the god
Veda, understand, your sorEows are
no W5rse than the sorrows of others;
we all have our griefs and all have 6at
heartbrealls.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough Of it's eva.
That sermon of the future will be an
every day sermon, going right down
into every mans life, and it will teach
him how to vote, how to bargain, how
to plOw, how to do any work he is
called to, how to WELD trowel and
pen and pencil and yardsticl and
plane. And it will teach women how
to preside over their -hou seholds and
how to educate their children, and how
to initiate Miriam and Esther and
Vashi, and Euniee, the mother of Tim
othy; and Mary, the mother of Christ;
and those women who on northern
and southern battlefields were mis-
taken by the wounded for angels Of
mercy fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, have to tell you the sermon of
the future will be reported sermon.
If you have any idea that printing was
invented simply to print secular books,
and stenography and photography
were coutriVed merely to set forth
secular ideas you are mistaken. The
printing press is to be the great agency
of gospel proclamation. 1t is high
time that good men, instead of de-
nOunciug the press, employ it to
scatter forth the gospel of Jesus
Christ. The vast majority of people in
our cities do not come to church, and
nothing but the printed sermon can
reach them and call them to pardon
and life and peace and Heaven.
So L can not understand the nervous
ness of some of my brethren of the
When they see newspaper
man coming in they say: Alas! there
IS reporter" Every added reporter
is 1,0OO or $4,000, or 100000 immortal
souls added to the auditory. The
time will come when all the village,
town, and city newspapers will repro
luce the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
preached on the Sabbath will
reverberate all around the world; and
some by type and some by voice, all
nations Will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian
work, not only upon theological stu
dents and young ministers, but upon
all who preach the Gospel, and that is
all of y on, if you are doing your duty.
Do you exhort in prayer meeting? Be
short and be spirited. Doyou teach in
Bible class? Though you have to
study every night, be interesting. Do
you accOst people on the subject of re-
igion in their homes or in public
places? Study adroitness and use COM
non sense. The most graceful, the
most beautiful thing on earth is the re-
igion of Jesus Christ, and if you awl1~
vardl y present it, it is defamation. We
must do our work rapidly and
We must do it effectively. Soon
our time for work will be gone.
a dying Christian took out his
watch, and gave it to friend and said:
Take that watch, l have no more use
or it; time is ended for me and eternity
)egins." Oh, my friends, when our
watch has ticked away for US for the
asst moment, and our clock has struck
or us the last hour, may it be found
We did our work we'll, that we did
t in the very best way; and
whether we preached the Cos
bel in pulpits, or taught Sab
path classes, or administered to the
lick as physicians, or bargained as mer-
chants, or pleaded the law as attorneys,
n were busy as artisans, or as hus-
Jandmen, or as mechanics, or were like
Martha called to give a meal to hun
,ry Christ, or like Hannah to make 4
.oat for prophet, or like Deborah to
ouse the courage of some timed BaralS
n the Lords conflict, we did our work
n such way that it will stand the
est of the judgment. And in the
Ong procession of the redeemed that
march round the throne, may it be
ound there are many there brought to
rod through our instumen tality and
n whose rescue we are exultant. But,
you unsaved! wait not for the COM
ng sermon. 1t may come after your
'bsequies. 1t may come after the
tonecutter has chiseled our name on
he slab so years before. Do not wait for
great steamer of the Cunard or White
star line to take you off the wreck, but
lail the first craft, with however low
mast, and however poor rudder,
nd however weak a captain. Better
disabled schooner that comes up in
Ine than afull-rigged brig that comes
Ip after you have sunken. Instead of
Waiting for that sermon-it may be 30,
o years off-tal1e this plain invitation
f a man who, to have given you
piritual eyesight, would be glad to be
allied the spittle by the hand of Christ
'ut'on the eyes of blind man, and
Who would consider the highest COM
'liment of this service, if at the
lose 500 men should start from
hese doors, saying: Whether
e be a sinner or not, / know
lot This one thing 1 know.
whereas / was blind now l see.'
wifter than shadows over the plain,
uicker than birds in their autumnal
light, hastier than eagles to their
rey, HE you to sympathetic Christ.
he orchestras of Heaven have already
trung their instrumgRts to eslebrats
our rescue.