The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-08
prayer meetings, on the rolls Of which

prayer meetings, on the rolls of which
were the names of the most eminent
senators and representatives who
then controlled the destinies of this
republic-the one congressional prayer
meeting in 1857 and the other in
1865. The record is in the hand
writing of the philanthropist. Will
liam Z. Dodge, then member of con-
gress. There are now more Christian
men In the national legislature than
ever before. Why will they not band
together in a religious movement
which, before the Inauguration of the
next president, shall enthrone Christ
in the hearts of this nation? They
have the brain, they have the elo-
quenee, they have the influence. God
grant them the grace sufficient Who
in congressional circles will establish
the capitoline prayer meeting in 1897?
Let the evening of the last decade of
this century be irradiated with such a
religious splendor. There are the OPP
portunities for national and interna-
tional charge, all bridled and saddled.
Where are the riders to mount them?
Here, also, are opportunities all
ready for those who would enter the
Kingdom of God. Christ said that the
Kingdom of Heaven was to be taken
by violence. BY one flash you may
enter. Quicker than any equestrian
ever dashed through castle gate you
may pass into the pardon and hope of
the Gospel. As quickly as you can
think Yes" or NO." as quickly as you
can make a choice, SO quickly may
you decide the question of etsrDal
destiny. No one was ever slowly
converted. He may have been think
ing about it 40 years, but not one inch
of progress did he makeJuntil the mo-
ment of assent, the very second in
which he said II will" That instant
decided all. Bring out the worst z, 200
men in all the earth, and here are 200
opportunities OF immediate and eter-
nal salvation. II will deliver thee
1000 horses if thou be able to set
riders upon them"
The cavalry suggests speed. When
once the reins are gathered into the
hands of the soldieriy horse man, and
the spurs are struck into the TANKS,
you hear the rataplan of the hoofs.
Velocity is the word that describes
the movement-accelera momeu-
tum-and W hat we want in getting into
the kingdom of God is celebrity. You see,
the years are so swift, and the weeks
are so swift, and the days are SO
swift, and the hours are so swift, and
the minutes are so swift, we need to
be swift. For lack of this appropriate
speed many do not get into Heaven at
all. Here we are in the last Sab
bath of the year. Did you ever
know twelfth month quicker
to be gone? The golden rod
of autumn speaks to the golden
rod of the next autumn, and the S-'o-
Gus of one spring time to the crocus of
another springtime, and the snow
banks of adjoining years almost reach
each other in unbroken curve. We are
in too much hurry about must things.
Business men in too much hurry rush
into specuiations that ruin them and
ruin others. People move from place to
place in too great haste, and they wea-
out their nerves. and weaken the
hearts action. But the only thing in
which they are afraid of being too
hasty is the matter of the souls saliva
ton. Yet did anyone ever get dam
aged by too quick repentance or too
quick pardon or too quick emancipa-
ton? The Bible recommends tardi-
ness, elaboration and snail-like
in some things, as
when it enjoins- us to be slow
to speak, and slow to wrath, and slow
to do evil, but it tells US: THE Kings
business requireth,haste," and that our
days are as the flight of weascr's
shuttle, and calculates: Escape for
thy life. Look not behind theSss
neither stay thou in ali the plain"
Other troops may fall back, but
mounted years never retreat. They
are always going ahead, not on an easy
canter, but at full run. Other regi-
ments hear the command of "Halt!'
and pitch their tents for the night.
The regiments of the years never hear
the command of HALT" and never
pitch tent for the night.
Obi will it not be grand when from
the windows and doors of the House
of Many Mansions" we look out and
see passing along the golden boule-
Yards of Heaven the whitehorse
cavalry that st. John describes in
John Wesley said he
thought horses had souls; but take
the story in Revelation as fgurative
or literal, you must admit that
none but cavalry horses are
mentioned as being in Heaven. John,
xix, IA: 1.-The armies which were in
Heaven followed Him upon white
horses" You see, they are mounted
troops. Their Leader is in deep Grim
son attire. His vesture, we are told,
is clipped in blood" not blood of hui
man slaughter, as many other con-
querors have their attire, but His
own blood, blood of crucifixion agony,
the blood by which He redeemed
you and me. That deep red of gar
ment is a vivid contrast with the
snowy white charger on which our
Lord is seated. And no saved sinner
can gaze on that red and that white
without remembering that, though his
sins were once red like crimson, they
have become whittier than snow. Oh,
those celestial cavalcades whom our
Conqueror in scarlet shall lead on
the streets OF Heaveni Wide
streets, hundreds of mounted |
troops abreast, long streets, thou
sands in sight followed by coming |
thousands through the long day |
If Heaven which hath no setting |
sun. Mind you, only the cavalry are |
N that shining procession, those who
Jared all things for God, those who |
had in them the spirit of holy dash.
We who did easy work may look al
hat procession, but will not be a part |
If it. There they passl the eques-
,rians and equestriennes of Heav- |
IN, regiments of evangelists, |
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