The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-08

officiating at the obsequies taking for
his text Proverbs 1887: The name of
hewicked shall rot,' or Jeremiah 1922:
He shall be buried with the burial of
an ass. drawn and cast forth beyond
the gates of jerusalem Our laws are
good and weA executed. Men do not
in our century have to wade chin deep
through moral slush in order to gain
office. The word politics. which in
your century, the nineteenth, often
stood for chicanery and falsehood and
billingsgate and moral turpitude and
filth, now stands for honor and justice
and truth and righteousness. Such
men as were in your congresses and
parliaments and reichstags pointed ent
as exceptions of craftsmanship and
patriotism and public spiritedness and
eloquence and moral power would not
be pointed out now, for all orr public
men are thus characterized: Politics
has been swept, garnished, gloriied,
ennobled, until nothing more is to be
| desired. Walk through all aldermanic
councils and sheriffalities and guber-
material rooms and presidential man
sions and find the truth of what I, the
spirit of the twenty-irst century, tell
you, who were of the nineteenth CEN
fury and now come down on terrestrial
visitation"
But we cannot stay long here, for
it is almost time for us to retrace our
way heavenward. This voluntary exile
must soon end. And, passing out, we
go through national museum, where
we are shown among the curiosities an
enfield rife, howitzer, a hotchkiss
shell, an ambulance-curiosities of that
age. but, alasl no curiosity to US of the
nineteenth century, for some of our
own kindred went down under their
stroke or were carried off the field by
those wheels.
But" 1 say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty first century, and you and
1 say to each other, 1--WE must go home
now, back again to Heaven. We have
staid long enough on this terrestrial
visitation to see that all the best things
foretold in the Scriptures and which
we read during our earthly residence
have come to pass, and all the Davidic,
Solomonic and Paulinian and johann
mean prophecies have been fulfilled, and
that the earth, instead of being ghast-
ly failure. is the mightiest success in
the universe. A star redeemed. A
planet rescued A world saved! 1t
started with garden, and it is going to
close with a garden. What a happiness
that we could have seen this old world
after it was righted and before it
L
ly burned out to the crust, according
to the geologist, making it easy for the
theologian to believe in the confagra-
ton that the Bible predicts. One ele-
ment taken from the water and that
viii burn, and another element taken
from the air and that will burn, and
surrounding planets will watch this old
ship of a world on fire and wonder if all
its passengers got safely off. Before
that planetary catastrophe, HE us back
to Heaven. Farewell, spirit of the
twenty-frst century! Thanks for your
guidance! We can stay no longer
away from doxologies that never end,
in temples never closed, in day that
has no shutdown. We must report to the
immortals around the throne the
Transformations we have seen, the VIC
tories of truth on land and sea, the
hemispheres irradiated, and Christ on
the throne of earth, as He is on the
throne of Heaven"
And now you and have left our es-
cort as we ascend, for the law of grav-
itation has no power to detain ascend
ing spirits. Up through immensities |
and by stellar and lunar and solar |
splendors, which cannot be described |
by mortal tongue, we rise righer and |
higher, till we reach the shining gate |
as it opens for our return, and the |
questions greet us from all sides: |
''What is the news? What did you find |
in that earthly tower? What have you
to report in this city of the sun?"
apostolic, sanity inquiry. |
And, standing on the steps of the |
house OF many mansions, we cry aloud |
the news: 'Hear it, all We gloriied |
Christian workers of all the past CEN
turtles! We found your work was sue
cessful, whether on earth you toiled
with knitting needle, or rung trowel
on rising wall, or smote a shoe last,
or endowed a university, or swayed a
scepter; whether on earth you gave
n cup of cold water in the name of
disciple, or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.
in that world we have just visited
he deserts are all abloom, and the will
lernesses are bright with fountains.
Sin is extirpated. Crime is reformed.
Disease is cured. The race is emanci-
Datcd. The earth is full of the k,nowl-
edge of God, as the waters cover the
sea- The redeemed of the Lord have
,one to Zion with songs and everlast-
ng JOY upon their heads The lord
Tod Omnipotent reigneth, and the
lingdoms of the world have become
he kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Jbrist.' Let the harpers of Heaven
trike the glad tidings from the strings
# their haTps, and the trumpeters
nut them in the mouth of their trum-
'ets, and the orchestra roll them into
he grand march of the eternities, and
IL the cathedral towers of the great
apital of the universe chime them all
yer Heaven"
And now look up and see the cast
ng down at the beieweled and radiant
rowns at the sacred feet of the en-
hroned Jesus, Missionary Carey is
asting down before those feet the
rown of India saved. Missionary judi I
on is casting down the crown of Bur-
Ia saved. Missionary Abeel casting ]
own the crown of China saved. David
livingston casting down at those feet