The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-09-29

] God, when they came from your own
folly!
What right has any man or woman to
deface the temple of the Holy Ghost ?
! What is the car? II is the whispering
! gallery of the soul What is the eye? 1t
| is the observatory God constructed, its
telescope sweeping the heavens. What
| is the hand? An instrument so wonder
full that when the earl of Bridgewatcr
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
| treatses to be written on the wisdom,
| power and goodness of God, Sir Charles
| Bell, the great English anatomist and
! surgeon, found his greatest illustration
/ in the Instruction of the human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject.
| So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own=attribgtes after different
| parts of them. His omniscience-it is
Gods eye; His omnipresence-it is
| Gods ear; His omnipotence = it is
Gods arm; the upholstery of the mid
night heavens-it is the work of Gods
fingers; His life-giving power-it is
the breath of the Almighty; his domin-
! ion-''the government shall be upon his
| shoulder
But, you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
! got drunk, professors of religion have
misappropriatedt trust funds, professors
| of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If a man on a
White Star line steamer, bound for
| Liverpool in mid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star lines capacity
to take the man across the ocean? And
| if a man jumps over the gunwale of his
religion and goes down never to rise 3,
is that any reason for your believing e
that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one
case, if he had kept to the steamer,
| his body would have been saved; in
the other case, if he had kept to his re-
! ligion, his morals would have been
| saved.
There are aged people who would
have been dead 25 years ago but for the
defenses and the equipoise of religion.
| You have no more natural resistance
than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries to-day slain by their own
| vices. The doctors made their case as
| kind and pleasant as they could, and it
was called congestion of the brain or
| something else, but the snakes and the
| bluefiies that seemed to crawl over the
pillow in. the sight of the delirious pa
| tient showed what was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian man,
walked along by that unhappy one un-
| til you came to the golden pillar of Il
| Christian life. You went to the right,
| he went to the left That is all the
| difference between you. If this reIi-
gion is protest against all forms of
dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. with long life
will l satisfy Him."
Suppose you had supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: "Sir,
l want you to call on me i'll every eNi-
gency. l am your fast friend. l could
| fall back on $2O,000,0OO. 1 can foresce
| a panic ten years. | hold the cOntrOll-
| ing stock in 30 of the best monetary in
| stitutions of New York. Whenever you
are in trouble call on me, and | will
help you. You can have my money,
and you can have my influence. Here
is my hand in pledge for it" How
much would you worry about business? :?
| Why, you would say: ''I'Il do the best
l can, and then I'll depend on my
| friends generosity for the rest
Now, more than that is promised to
| every Christian business man. God
| says to him: 81 own New York and
London and ST. Petersburg and Peking,
and Australia and California are mine
[ can foresee panic a hundred years.
| have all the resources of the universe
and 1 am your fast friend. When ytu
get in business trouble or any other
trouble, call on me, and l will
| help. Here is my hand in pledge of
omnipotent deliverance." How much
should that man worry? Not much
What lion will dare to put his paw on
that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? /?
! Is there not an eternal vacation in this :?
oh" you say, here is Il man who
asked God for a blessing in a certain
| enterprise, and he lost So, 900 in it. En-
plain that"
| will. Yonder is a factory, and one
wheel is going north, and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel
plays laterally, and the other plays YER
tically. l go to the manufacturer and
l say: 80 manufacturer, your ma
chinery is a contradiction! Why do
you not make all the wheels 90 one
way?" ''Well," he says, 81 made them
go in opposite directions on purpose
and they produce the right result. You
nd
pets we are turning out in this estab-
lishment, and you will see" go down
on the other floor, and | see the car
pets, and I am obliged to confess that,
though the wheels in that factory 90 in
opposite directions, they turn out d
beautiful result. and while / am stand
ing there looking at the exquisite fab
ric an old Scripture passage comes into
my mind: "All things work together
for good to them who love God" IS
there not a tonic in that? Is there not
longevity in that?
Suppose a man rs all the time wor-
ried about his reputation? One man
says he lies, another says he is stupid,
another says he is dishonest and half
dozen printing establishments attack
him, and he is in great state of ex-
citement and worry and fume and can
not sleep, but religion comes to him
and says: Man, God is on your side.
He will take care of your reputation.
If God be for you. who can be against
you?" How much should that man wor-
ry about his reputation? Not much.
If that broker who some years ago in
Wall street. after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote a farewell letter to