The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-17

with or without us, will be made over
into scene of arborescence and purity.
DO not think that such a consummation
depends upon our personal fidelity. 1T
will be done anyhow. Gods cause does
not go a-begging. If all the soldiers of
Jesus Christ now living should become
deserters and go over to the enemy, that
would not defeat the cause. A large
part of the IZble is taken up with tell
ing us what the world will be. There is
a large army, human and angelic, now
in the field, but Gods reserve forces are
more numerous and more mighty than
those now at the front, and If He could
in Gideon's time rout the Midianltes
with a crash of crockery, and if He
could in Shamgar's time overcome host
with an OK goad, and if in Samson's S
time He could defeat an army with a
bleached jawbone, and if the walls of
Jericho went down under a blast of
perforated rams horn, and if in Christ's
dav blind eyes were cured by oint-
ment of spittle, then God can do any
thing He says He will do. AS yet He
has taken only one sword out of whole
armory of weapons. Do not get nervous,
as if the Lord were going to be defeat
ed The redemption of these hem
ispheres was settled in Heaven, and
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and
Malachi and ST. John only reported
what the Lord God Almighty had de-
cided upon. My only fear is that our
regiment will not get into the fight to
10 something worthy of the Christ who
redeemed us and we be left in lazy en-
campment at Tampa when we ought
to have been at Santiago.
Oh, that coming day of the worlds
perfection! The earth will be so
changed that the sermonology will be
changed. There will be no more calls
to repentance, for all will have re-
pented; no more gathering of aims for
the poor, for the poor will have been
enriched; no hospital Sunday, for dis
iointed bones will have been set and
the wounds all healed, and the in
durable diseases of other times will
have been overcome by materia med
lea and pharmacy and a dentistry and
a therapeutics that have conquered
everything that afflicted the nerve or
lung or tooth or eye or Emb-health-
ology complete and universal. The poul-
tice and the ointment and the panacea
and the catholicon and the surgeons
knife and the dentists forceps and the
scientists X ray will have fulfilled their
mission. The social life of the world
will be perfected. In that millennial age
L imagine ourselves standing in front
of a house lighted for Ievee. We enter
among groups filled with gladness and
talking good sense and rallying each
other in pleasantries and in every pos
sibie way forwarding good neighbor-
hood; no looking askance, no whispered
backbitings, no strut of pretension, no
oblivion of some ones presence be-
cause you do not want to know him;
each one happy, determined on making
some one else happy; words of honest.
appreciation instead of hollow flattery;
suavities and genialities instead of in
fiations and composites; equipage
and upholstery and sculpture and paint
ing paid for; two hours of mental and
moral improvement; all the guests able
to walk as steadily down the steps of
that mansion as when they 0scended
them; no awakening next morning with
aching head and bloodshot eye and in
competent for the days duties; the
social life as perfect as refinement and
common sense and culture and prosper
'ty and religion can make it; the earth
made better than it was at the start,
and all through gospelizing influences,
or indirectly.
1 suppose the greatest tidal wave that
ever rolled the seas was that which in
1868 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake. At africa, Peru, the wave was
so feet high and swung warships mile
forward on the land. At San Pedro,
CAL, the wave was 60 feet high. 1t
moved on to the Sandwich islands and
submerged some of them and beat
against the shores of New Zealand and
rolled up the beach of Japan and
not until it had encircled the
entire globe. Oh, what wave! But
the earthquake that shook the noun
tain where our Lord died started a
higher and swifter and mightier tidal
wave that will roll round and round
the earth until all its rebellions and
have gone under.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of Bosworth, which was fought
between Richard III. and, the earl of
the king falling and the earl
when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it to the
earl, seated on horseback, while the
dying and the dead of the battle were
lying all around. But it is more thrill
ing spectacle as we look forward
the centuries and see the last
armed and imperial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory put upon the conqueror on the
white horse of the Apocalypse and all
nations hail the power Of Jesus
name." That the whole earth will be
redeemed is one of the things long ago
settled in Heaven.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined to the
One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golgotha will be the sub
ects of a supernal felicity without any
taking off. The old adage- says that
'beggars must not be choosers," and
the human race in its depleted state
had better not be critical of the mode
oy which God would empalace all of US.
could easily think of a plan more
complimentary to our fallen humanity
than that which is called the ''plan of
salvation" If God had allowed us to
10 part of the work of recovery and He
10 the rest, if we could do three-quar-
-ers of it and He do the last quarter,
f we could accomplish most of it and
lie just put on the finishing touches,