The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-20

| tern and the rifle, the horn and tn
hound, that deer they will have if the,
must needs break their necks in th
rapids. So if there were no noble stut
in your make up, if you were bifur
Gated nothing, if you were forlorn fail
ure, you would be allowed to go undis
turbed, but the fact that the whole pacl
is in full cry after you is proof positiv,
that you are splendid game and wortl
capturing.
Therefore sarcasm draws on you it
finest bead;" therefore the world goe'
cunning for you with its best winches
ter breechloader. Highest compliment
is it to your talent or your virtue o.
your usefulness. You will be assaileC
in proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mightiest Be
! ing the world ever saw had set aftel
| Him all the hounds, terrestrial and dia
bolic, and they Tapped His blood after
! the Calvarean massacre. The wOrlC
paid nothing to its Redeemer but {
bramble, four spikes and a cross. Many
who have done their best to make the
world better have had such a rough
L.
anticipation of tho next world, and they
would, if they could, express their owl
! feelings in the words of the baroness
of Nairn, at the close of her long life
when asked if she would like to live her
| life over again:
Would you be young again?
So would rot /.
One tear of memory given
Onward I'll HE.
Life's dark wave forded DER,
All but at rest on shore
Say, would you plunge once more.
With home so nigh?
If you might, would you now
Retrace your way,
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
Nights gloomy watches fed;
Morning, all beaming red;
Hopes smile around us shed,
Heavenward, away!
Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pur>
sued from youth to manhood and from
manhood unto old age. Very distin-
guished are Lord Stafford's hounds and
the earl of Yarborough's hounds and
the duke of Rutland's hounds, but all
of them put together do not equal, in
number or speed or power to hunt
down, the great kennel of hounds of
which Sin and Trouble are owner and
master.
But what is relief for all those pur-
sued of trouble and annoyance and pain
and bereavement? My text gives it to
you in word OF three letters, but each
letter is chariot if you would triumph,
or throne if you want to be crowned,
or a lake if you would slake your thirst
yea, chain of three lakes-G-o-d, the
one for whom David longed and the one
whom David found. You might as well
meet stag which, after its sixth mile
of running at the topmost speed
through thicket and gorge and with the
breath of the dogs on it's heels, has
come in full sight of Schroon lake and
try to cool its projecting and blistered
tongue with a drop of dew from a blade
of grass as to attempt to satisfy an i'm
mortal soul, when flying from trouble
and sin, with anything less deep and
high and broad and immense and infin-
ite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, it embosoms all distress. His
arm-it wrenches off all bondage. His
hand-it wipes away all tears. His
Christly atonement-it makes us all
right with the past, and all right with
the future, and all right with God, all
right with man, and all right forever.
Oh, when some of you get there it
will be like what the hunter tells of
when he was pushing his canoe far up
nr+ in, ha nd hn
foes, and a hundred miles, as he
thought, from any other human being.
He was startled one day as he heard
a stepping on the ice, and he cooked
his rife, ready to meet anything that
came near. He found man, barefoot
ed and insane from long exposure, ap-
preaching him. Taking him into his
canoe and hndling fires to warm him,
he restored him, found out where he
found all the village in great excite
ment. A hundred men were searching
for this lost man, and his family and
friends rushed out to meet him, and,
rs had been agreed at his first appear
ance, bells were rung, and guns were
and banquets spread and
the rescuer loaded with presents. Well,
when some of you step out of this will
1erness, where you have been chilled
md torn and sometimes lost amid the
cebergs, into the warm greetings of
Ill the villages of the gloriied, and
your friends rush out to give you well
coming kiss, the news that there is an
,ther soul forever saved will call the
.aterers of Heaven to spread the ban
Iuet and the bellmen to lay hold of the
'ope in the tower, and while chalices
lick at the feast and the bells clang
rom the turrets it will be seen so up
fitting l pray God may be there to
axe part in the celestial merriment.
md now do you not think the prayer
n Solomon's Song where he compared |
,hrist to reindeer in the night would |
make an eXquisitely appropriate per-
ration to my sermon: Until the day |
freak and the shadows flee away be |
hou hike a roe or young hart upon
he mountains of Bether?'
A steamer trunk has been patented, |
which, being air tight, may be at
ached to the waist belt in an emexs |
encY and used as a life preserver.