The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-29

nave Deen the result. hnaL SAM
the steamer Rothsay Castle, on thu
way from Liverpool to Dublin, de
stroying no human lives? A drunken
cea captain. What blew up the Ber
Sherrod on the Mississippi and SEN
$50 to horrible death? A drunken
crew. What drove on the breakers q
steamer making her way from New
York to Charleston, and sent whole
families, on the way home from su m
mer watering places, to the merciles.
depths of the sea? A drunken sea
captain. Gather up from the depth:
of the rivers, and lakes, and oceans
the bones of those shipwrecked by in
| toxicated captains and crews, and you
could build out of them a temple OF
horrors, all the pillars and affairs and
ceilings fashioned of human skulls.
1t is possible that such Mountain OF
Inebriacy can ever be made plain?
Yonder, also. is the Mountain Of
Crime, with its strata of fraud, and
malpractice, and malfeasance, and
blackmail, and burglary. and piracy,
and embeZzlement, and libertinism
and theft, all it's height manned with
the desperadoes, the cutthroats, the
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plunderers, the marauders, the pill
layers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the
bandits, the tricksters, the forgers,
the thugs, the garotters, the fire fiends,
the dynamiters, the shoplifters, the
kleptomaniacs, the pyromaniacs, the
dipsomaniacs, the smugglers, the kid
napers, the Jack Sheppards, the Rob
ert Macaires, and the Macbeths OF
villainy. The crimes of the
worldl Am not right in
calling them, when piled up togeth-
err, a mountain? But we can not
bring ourselves to appreciate great
heights except by comparison. You
think of Mount Washington as high,
especially those of you who assembled
as of old, on mule-back, or more re-
Gently by rail-train, to the Tip Top
| House. Oh, mol That is not highl For
1t is only about 5000 feet, whereas ris-
| ing on this Western Hemisphere are
Chimborazo, $1,000 feet high, and
Mount Sahama, $4,000 feet high, and
Mount Sarota, "a, 500 feet high. But
that is not the highest mountain on
the Western Hemisphere. The high
est mountain is the noun tain of crime,
and is it possible that this mountain,
before our Zerubbabel, can never be
made plain?
There is also the Mountain of War,
the most volcanic of all mountains
the Vesuvius which, not content, like
the Vesuvius of Italy, with over
whelming two cities, Herculaneum
and Pompeii, has covered with it's
fiery scoria thousands of cities, and
would like to whelm all the cities of
both hemispheres. Give this noun
tain full utterance, and it would cover
up Washington and New York and
London as easily as a householder,
with. his shovel, at ten o'clock at
night, banks a CRATE fire with ashes.
The mountain is pile of fortresses.
barricades, and armories, the
worlds artillery heaped wheels
above wheels, colum biads above
columbiads, 74-pounders above IA
Founders, wrecked nations above
wrecked nations. This Mountain of
War is not only loaded to cannonade
the earth, but it is also a cemetery,
holding the corpses of 10000, 900 slain
in the wars of Alexander and Cyrus,
60, OOO, 900 slain in Roman wars, $50, 600
slain in war with Turks and Saracens,
and holding about $4,000, 600, 900
corpses, not million, but billion,
which was the estimate made by Ed
mund Burke more than a hundred
years ago of those who had been de-
stroyed by wars, SO that you would
have to add many more millions now.
The mightiest, grandest movement
for driving brutal war out of the earth
dates from January IL, 1897. The men
who on either side of the sea did most
to effect that plan of arbitration have
made themselves immortal. The even
ing of the present administration of
the United States government has
been honored with the gladdest
event of the IL centuries. All
civilized nations will copy the
sublime example. impore the
illustrious senate of the Unit
ed States to allow nothing to interfere
with a vote of ratification, that the
bells of all Christendom may ring out,
peace on earth, good will toward
men," Senators, many of you my per-
sonal friends, let me say that this is
the opportu nifty of your lives. BY en-
phatlc and enthusiastic vote rise to
the favor of all the good on earth and
all the mighty in Heaven. Let the
"AyeI aver of our American senate
resound through all the capitals of
Europe, and make all the arsenals and
armories of the round world hear that
there shall be no more murder among
nations.
But, my friends, mightier, higher,
vaster, hotter, m ore raging is the vol
canic Mountain of War. 1t has been
blazing for hundreds of years, and
will keep on blazing until, until-but
dare not hazard a prophecy. Can it
be that its fires will ever be put out?
Can it be that its roar will ever be ST.
fenced? Can it be that before our Ze-
rubbabel that blazing mountain will
ever become a plain?
There is also the long range of noun
tains, longer than Appalachian range,
longer than Caucasian range, longer
than Sierra Nevada range-the piled
up opposition of bad literature, bad
homes, bad institutions, bad amuse-
ments, bad centuries, bad religion;
Paganism, Hindooism, Buddhism,
Mohammedanism, and buttressed
and enthroned Godlessness devoted
to ambition and lust and hydra
headed, argus-eyed abomination, as
it stands with lifted fist and
hooking lips, challenging Jehovah up
on the throne of the universe to strike
if He dare. Oh, it Is great mountain,
as my text declares. There is no use
in denying it. The most authentic
statistics declare it. The signs of the
times prove it. All Christian workers
realize ii. 1t is mountain. 1.-THE
mountain can never be brought down."
says worldly speculation. 1.-THE noun