The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-02-11

haustion. But, my friends, the fort
resSes of sin are never to be taken in
that way. If they are taken for God it
will be by storm; you will have to
bring up the great siege guns OF the
| Gospel to the very wall and wheel the
flying artillery into line, and when the
| armed infantry of Heaven shall con-
front the battlements you will have to
give the quick command: Forward!
Charger
| All, my friends, there is work for
you to do and for me to do in order to
this grand accomplishment. l have a
pulpit preach in it. Your pulpit is
the bank. Your pulpit is the store.
Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your
pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the
mechanics shop. 1 may stand in my
place and, through cowardice or
through self-seeking, may keep back the
word ought to utter; while you, with
sleeve rolled up and brow besweated
| with toll, may utter the word that will
| jar the foundations of Heaven with the
shout of great victory. Oh, that we
might all feel that the Lord Almighty
is putting upon us the hands of ordi-
nation! / tell you, every one, go forth
and preach this Gospel. You have as
much right TO preach as 1 have or any
man living.
Hedley Wears was wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to him. He became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed
at him and said: "You are hypocrite;
you are as bad as ever you were" Still
he kept his faith in Christ and after
awhile, finding that they could not turn
him aside by calling him q bypocrite,
| they said to him: ''Oh, you are moth
ing but Methodistp This did not dis
turb him. He went on performing his
Christian duty until he had formed all
his troops into Bible class, and the
| whole encampment was shaken with
| the presence of God. So Havelock
went into the heather temple in India
| while the English army was there and
| put candle into the hand of each of
| the heather gods that stood around in
the heather temple, and by the light
of those candles held up by
the idols Gen. Havelocl1 preached
righteousness, temperance, and judg-
| ment to come. And who will
say on earth or in Heaven that Have
| lock had not the right to preach? In
| the minister's house where L prepared
for college there worked a man by the
| name of Peter Croy. He could neither
read nor write, but he was man of
God. Often theologians would stop in
the house grave theologians --and at
| family prayer Peter Croy would be
called upon to lead; and all those wise
men set around, wonder-strucl1 at his
religious efficiency. When he prayed
| he reached up and seemed to take
hold of the very throne of the AL
| mighty, and he talked with God until
the very heavens were bowed down in
to the sitting room. Oh. if l were dy-
ing l would rather have plain Peter
Croy kneel by my bedside and COM
mend my immortal spirit to God than
the greatest archbishop arrayed in
costly canonicals. Go preach this Cos
pei. You say you are not licensed. In
the name of the Lord Almighty, l IL
cense you. Go preach this Gospel,
preach it in the Sabbath schools, in tho
prayer meetings, in the highways, in
the hedges. Woe be unto you if you
preach it not!
Iremark again that in order to be
qualified to meet your duty in this
particular age you want unbounded
faith in the triumph of the truth and
the overthrow of wicledness. How
dare the Christian church ever get dis
couraged? Have we not the Lord AL
mighty on our side? How long did it
take God to slay the hosts of
Sennacherib or burn Sodom or
shake down Jericho? low long
will it take God, when he
once arises in His strength, to over
throw all the forces of iniquity? Be-
tween this time and that there may be
long seasons of darkness and the
chariot wheels of Gods Gospel may
seem to drag heavily; but here is the
promise and yonder is the throne, and
when omniscience has lost its eye
sight and omnipotence falls back
impotent and Jehovah is driven
from His throne, then the Church
of Jesus Christ can afford to be
respondent, but never until then.
Despots may plan and armies may
march and the congresses of the ma
tions may seem to think they are ad-
justing all the affairs OF the world,
but the mighty men of the earth are
only the dust Of the chariot wheels oe
Gods providence. And l think be-
fore the sun of the next century
shall set the last tyranny will fall,
and with a splendor of demonstra-
tion that shall be the astonishment of
the universe God will set forth the
brightness aud pomp and glory and
perpetlity of His eternal government.
Out of the starry flags and emblazoned
insignia of this world God will make a
pat for His own triumph, and return
ing from universal conquest He will sit
down, the grandest, the strongest,
highest throne of earth His footStooL
l prepare this sermon because L want
to encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. Hosts OF
the living God, march on! march oni
His spirit will bless you. His shield
will defend you. His sword will strike
for you. March on! The besiegement
will soon be ended. Only few mora
steps on the long way; only few morn
sturdy blows; only a few moro
battle cries, then God will put tha
laurels upon your brow, and from tbs
living fountains of Heaven will batho
off the sweat and the heat and the dust
of the conflict. March on! march on!
For you the time for work will soon be-
passed, and amid the outhashings OF
the Judgment throne and the trumpet
ing of resurrection angels and the up.
heaving of a world of graves, and the
hosanna and the groaning of the saved
and the lost we shall be rewarded for
our faithfulness or punished for Qua
stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God OF
Israel from everlasting 10 everlasting,
and let the whole earth be filed with