The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-06-25


rleS-mysteries that were barred an.
bolted from all human inspection. ant
they have wrenched their whole mora
nature out of joint by trying to plucl
fruit from branches beyond their reach
or have come out on limbs of the tire,
from which they have tumbled int
ruin without remedy. A Thousand
trees of religious knowledge from
which we may eat and get advantage
but from certain trees of mystery how
many have plucked their ruin! Elec
ton, free agency, trinity, resurrection
in the discussion of these subject.
hundreds and thousands of people rdir
the SOUL There are men who actually
have been kept out of the kingdom O.
Heaven because they could not under
stand who Melchisedec was not!
Oh, how many have been destroyed
by an unhealthful inquisitiveness. II
is seen in all directions. There are
those who stand with the eye-start
and mouth-gape of curiosity. They
are the first to hear a falsehood, build
it another story high and two wings tc
it. About other peoples apparel, about
other peoples business, about other
peoples financial condition, about
other peoples affairs, they are over
| anxious. Every nice piece of gossip
stops at their door, and they fatten
and luxuriate in the endless round OF
the great world of tittle-tattle. They
invite and sumptuously entertain at
their house Col. Twaddle and Esquire
Chitchat and Gov. Smalltalk. Who
ever hath an innuendo, whoever hath
a scandal, whoever hath a valuable
secret, let him come and sacrifice it to
this goddess. of splutter. Thousands
of Adams and Ewes do nothing but eat
fruit that does not belong to them.
Men quite well known as mathema-
ticianS failing in this computation of
moral algebra; good sense plus good
breeding, minus curiosity, equals mind
ing your own affairs.
Then, how many young men, through
curiosity, go through the whole realm
of French novels, to see whether they
are really as bad as moralists have pro-
nounced them! They come near the
verge of the precipice just to look off.
They want to see how far it really is
down, but they lose their balance while
or, catching themselves, Chamber up,
bleeding and CHASTITY, on the rock, glib
bering with curses or groaning inef-
fectual prayer. BY all means encour-
age healthful inquisitivness, by all
meant discourage illy-regulated Curl
osity.
The subject also impresses me with
the fact that fruits that are sweet to
the taste may afterward produce great
agony. Forbidden fruit for Eve was so
pleasant she invited her husband also
to take of it; but her banishr1ent from
Paradise and 6, 900 years of sorrow, and
wretchedness, and war. and woe, paid
for that luxury. Sin may be very
sweet at the start, and may induce
great wretchedness afterward. The
cup of sin is sparkling at the top, but
there is death at the bottom. Intoxi-
cation has great exhilaration for
awhile, and it fllips the blood, and it
makes a man see five stars where
others can see only one star,
and it makes the poor man
rich, and turns cheeks which are
white red as roses; but what
about the dreams that come after,
when it seems falling from great
or is Frustrated by other fan
cied disasters, and the perspiration
stands on the forehead-the night dew
Of everlasting darkness and he is
ground under the horrible hOof of
shrieking with lips that
crackle with all-consuming torture?
Rejoice, o young man, in thy youth,
and let thy heart cheer thee in the
lays of thy youth; but know thou that
for all these things God will bring thee
INTO judgmentw Sweet at the start
horrible at the last. Go into that hail
Of revelry, where ungodly mirth stag
gers and blasphemes. Listen to the
'enseless gable, see the last trace of
dashed out from the
faces made in Gods own image.
Aha! ahaw says the registering in
ebriate; this is joy for you; fill high
your cups, my boys. l drink to my
vifes misery and my children's rags
Ind Iny Gods defiance" Aud he knows |
not that a fiend stirs the goblet in his |
hand and that adders uncoil from the |
lregs and thrust their forked tongues |
Kissing through the froth on the rim. |
The Philistines jeered and laughed and |
shouted at Samson. Oh, they wanted |
lin to make sport for them, and he |
made sport for them! How bright and |
raw was the scene for a little while! |
After awhile the giant puts one hand |
Lgainst this pillar and the other hand
against that pillar, and bows himself |
md 5000 merry-makers are mashed |
l. WIZ
urous at the start awful at the last.
That one Edenic transgression did |
lot seem to be much, but it struck a
low which to this day makes the earth
tagger. To find out the consequences
# that one sin you would have to COM
,el the world to throw open all its
Prison doors and display the crime, and
brew open all its hospitals and dis
lay the disease, and throw open all |
he insane asylumS and show the |
and open all the
epulchers and show the dead, and
pen all the doors of the lost world and
how the damned. That one Edenic
stretched chords of
Misery across the heart of the world
nd struck them with dolorous wall
ng, and it has seated the plaques upon
he air and the shipw reclts upon the
empest, and fastened, like a leech,
anime to the heart of the sick and dy-
ny nations. Beautiful at the start,
orrible at the last. Oh, how many
ave experienced it!
Are there here those who are votaries
f pleasure? Let me warn you, my
rother. You pleasure boat is far from
hore, and your summer day is ending
oughly, for the winds and the waves
re loud voiced, and the overcoming
LIQUIDS are all awrj the and agleam with
error. You are past the 'narrowS,"
nd almost outside the Hook" and if
he Atlantic take the free, frail mortal,
hou shalt never get to shore again.