The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-01

cave as 1lOn~Gdmer. III reached up
and took the sun by it's golden bit, and
stopped it, and the moon by its silver
| bit, and stopped it.
We have all yet to try the full pow
er of prayer. The time Will come
when the American church will pray
with its face toward the west and all
the prairies and inland cities will SUR
render to God; and will pray with face
/ toward the sea, and all the islands and
and ships will become Christian. Parents
who have Maynard sons will get down
on their knees and say, Lord, send
my boy home," and the bow in Canton
shall get right up from the gaming
! table and go down to find out which
ship starts first for America:
Not one of us yet knows how to pray.
All we have done as yet has only been
pottering. A boy gets hold of his
fathers saw and hammer, and tries to
make something, but it is a poor af-
fair he makes. The father comes and
takes the same saw and hammer and
builds the house or the ship. In the
childhood of our Christian faith we
make but poor work with these weap-
ons of prayer, but when we come to
the stature of men in Christ Jesus,
temple of God will rise, and the
worlds redemption will be launched.
God cares not for the length
of our prayers, or the num-
Der of our prayers, or the beauty of
our prayers, but it is the faith in them
that tells. Believing prayers scars
higher than the lark ever sang;
plunges deeper than diving bell ever
sank; darts quicker than lightning ever
flashed. Though we have used only
the back of this weapon instead of the
edge, what marvels have been wrought!
If saved, we are all the captives of
some earnest prayer. Would God that,
in desire for the rescue of souls, we
might in prayer lay hold of the re-
sources of the Lord omnipotent!
We may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admOnitiOn. Do not wait
until you can make a formal speech.
Address the one next to you. You
will not go home alone to-day. Be
tween this and your place of stopping
you may decide the eternal destiny of
an immortal spirit. Just one sentence
may do the work. Just one question.
just one look. The formal talk that
begins with sigh and ends with
a canting shuttle, is not what is
wanted, but the heart throb of
man in dead earnest. There is not
soul on earth that you may not bring
to God if you rightly go at it. They
said Gibraltar could not be taken. 1t
is rock LOCO feet high and three
miles long. But the English and
Dutch did take it. Artillery, and sap
pers and miners, and fleets pouring
out volIeys of death, and thousands of
men reckless of danger can do any
thing. The stoutest heart of SIN,
though it be rock and surrounded by
an ocean of transgression, under Chris
tan bombardment may hoist the flag
of redemption.
But is all this admOnition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My
text promises to all the faithful eternal
luster. They that turned many to
RICH teousness shall shine as the stars
forever" As stars the redeemed have
a borrowed light. What makes Mars
and Venus and Jupiter so luminous?
in the heavens, the stars pick up the
scatter ed brands, and hold them in
procession as the queen of the night
advances; SO all Christian workers,
standing around the throne, will shine
in the light borrowed from the sun of
ighteousness-Jesus in their faces,
Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their tri-
umph.
Christ left Heaven once for tour of
redemption on earth, yet the glorified
ones knew He would come back again.
But let Him abdicate His throne, and
go away to stay forever, the music
would stop, the congregation would
dispense, the temples of God be dark
ened, the rivers of life stagnate; and
every chariot would become a hearse,
and every bell would toll, and there
would not be room on the hillsides to
bury the dead of the great metropolis,
for there would be pestilence in
Heaven. But Jesus lives, and so
all the redeemed live with Him.
H shall recognize them as His COM
rades in earthly toll, and remember
what they did for the honor of His
name, and for the spread of His king
dom. All their prayers and tears and
work will rise before Him as He looks
into their faces, and He will divide His
kingdom with them; His peace; His
joy-their joy. The glory of the cen
trail throne reflected from the surroun-
ing thrones, the last spot of sin struck
from the Christian orb. and the entire
nature a-tremble and a-fash with
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ever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall be
like the stars in the fact that they
have a light independents of each other.
Look up at the night and see each
world show it's distinct glory. 1t is
not like the conflagration, in which
you can not tell where one flame stops
and another begins. Neptune, Hersch-
ell and Mercury are as distinct as if
each one of them were the only star;
SO our individualism will not be lost in
Heaven. A great multitude-yet each
one as observable, as distinctly recog-
nized, as greatly celebrated as if in all
the space, from gate TO gate. and from
hill to hill, he were the only in
habitant; no mixing up - no
mob no indiscriminate rush;
each Christian worker standing
out illustrious-all the story or
earthly achievement adhering to each |
one; his self-denials and pains and |
services and victories published. Be
fore men went out to the last war, the |
orators told them that they would all |
be remembered by their country, and |
their names be commemorated in poe
try and in song; but go to the grave
yard in Richmond, and you will find |
there 6, 600 graves, over each of which |
is the inscription Unknown" The |