The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-13
SUBSCRIPTION: Sl.OO Per Year.


Ephrairn that day did his work in re-
tirement.
Oh. the world needs day of indg'
ment o give many Of the stay at homes
proper recognition. In the different
wars the sons went 10 the front and on
ships deck or battlefield exposed their
lives and earned the admiration OF the
country. But how about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons the noble sentiments
that inspired them TO go and then gave
them up. when perhaps few words OF
earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the self
sacrifice and the fidelity OF thousands
who never in all their lives received one
word of praise. Oh. ye unknown, ye
faithful and Christian and all enduring
stay al homes! have no power now 10
do you justice, but | tell you OF one who
has the power, and of the day when He
will put it forth. 1t will be the day
when he thimble, and The ladle, and the
darning needle, and the washtub, and
the spinning wheel. and the scythe. and
mer. and the trowel, and the plow, will
come to as high n appreciation as
"A FOUNDER, or the sword, or the batter
ing ram that pounded down the wall.
or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self-control and moral proves in
staying at home than he could have
shown commanding in the field. He
was a natural warrior Martial airs
stirred him. The glitter of opposing
shields fired him. He was one of those
men who feel at home in the saddle.
patting the neck of a paving cavalry
horse. But he suppressed himself. lie
obeyed the command Of the troops
whom he would like to have command
ed.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terIitzes have been in backwoods
kitchens or in nursery with three chill
dren down with scarlet fever. soon to
join the two already in the churchyard,
or amid domestic wrongs and outrages
enough 10 transform angels into devils,
or in commercial life within their own
countirg-rooms in time of Black Fri
day panies, or in mechanical life in their
own carpenter shop, or on the scat1oId-
ing of walls swept by cold or smitten by
heat. No telegraphic wires reported
the crisis of the conflict, no banner was
ever waved to celebrate their victory,
but God knows and God will remember.
and God will adjust, and by Him tie
falling Of tear is as certainly noticed
as the burning of world and the 1ut-
ter of sparrow's wing as the flight of
the apocalyptic arohangeL
Oh, what p God we hive for smag
things as well as big thingsp i1aviu
no more helped at the front than helped
at home. The four regiments mobil
lied for the defense of the throne OF
Israel were right in protesting against
David's exposure of his life at he front.
Had he been pierced of an arrow. or
cloven down with battleax, or fatally
slung from snorting war charger. what
Il disaster TO the throne of Israel! Alb
solom, his son, was low fellow and un-
fit to reign; his two chief characteris-
tics were his handsome face and his
long hair-so long that when he had it
cut that which was scissored OIL
200 shekels after the kings
weight" and when man has nothing
but handsome face and an eXuberance
of hair. there is not much of him. The
capture and Staying of David would have
been a calamity irreparable. Unneces-
sary exposure would have been crime
for David, as it is crime for you.
In nine cases out of ten the fatali.
ties every day reported are not the
fault of engineers or brakemen or con-
ductors or cab drivers, but of the stu
pidity and recklessness of people at
street or railroad crossings. They
would like to have the Chicago limited
express train. with 800 passengers, adj
eertised TO arrive a a certain hour iC
a certain city slow up to let them get
two minutes sooner to their destination,
not one farthing of their own OF any
one else's welfare dependent on wheth-
er they arrive one minute before 12
o clock or one minute after. You ought
to get permission from railroad super
intendent to mount beside the engineer
on locomotive to realize how many
evils Of recklessness there are in the
world-funeral professions whipping
up to get across before the coweatcher
strikes the hearse; man of family, with
wife and children beside him in a wag-
on, evidently having made close calcu-
lation as to whether a stroke from the
locomotive would put them backward
or forward in the journey to the village
grocery; traveller on railroad bridge
hoping that he could get to the end Of
the bridge before the train reaches It..
You have no right TO put your life in
peril unless by such exposure some
thing is to be gained for others. What
in thousands of America rs
during our recent tAmerico-Sranish war
because the surrender
came so soon, and they could not have
the advantage of being shot at San
Juan hill. or brought down with the
yellow fever and carried on a litter
10 transport steamers. already so many
floating laZarettos, instead of thanking
God that they got no nearer 10 the
slaughter than Tampa or Chattanooga
or the encampment at their own state
capital. mad at the government. mad
at God, because they could not get TO
he front in time TO join the 1000 corpses
that are now being transported from
the tropics 10 the national cemeteries
of the United States! Exposure and
daring are admirable when duty calls.
but keep out of peril when nothing
practical and useful is to be gained for
your family or your country or your
God admire the David of my text
as he suppresses himself and enters the
gate of his castle as much as | admire
him when with bis four fingers ard
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