The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-26

ard the drought strikes them the first
year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction of half
dozen houses and the owners impa-
tient for occupancy is not to be pitied,
but give your sympathy to that me-
chanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid all
the limitations of journeyman.
Go forth to be busy body in other
mems matters, so far as you can help
ing them out, and help them on. The
world is full of instances of those who
spend their life in such alleviations. but
there is one instance that overtops and
eChpses all others. He had lived in
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
He was charioted along streets yellow
with gold. and stopped at gates glisten-
ing with pearls, and hosann naed by i'm
mortals coroneted and in snowy white.
Centuries gave him not pain. The
sun that rose on him never set. His do
minions could not be enlarged, for they
had no boundaries, and uncontested
was His reign. Upon all that luster and
renown and environment of splendors
He turned His back and put down His
crown at the foot of His throne. and on
a bleak December night trod His way
down to a stone house in Bethlehem of
our world. Wrapped in what plain
shawl, and pursued with what enemies
on swift camels, and howled at with
what brigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepul-
chral crypt, until the subsequent cen
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by sculptured cross. and painted can
vas, and resounding doxologies, and
domed cathedral, and redeemed ma
tions.
He could not see a woman doubled up
with rheumatism but He touched her.
and iDflamed muscles relaxed, and she
stood straight up. Ee could not meet
funeral of young man but be broke up
the procession and gave him back TO bis
widowed mother. With spittle on the
tip of His finger he turned the mid
night of total blindness into the mid
noon of perfect sight. He could not see
a man down on his mattress helpless
with palsy without calling him up to
health and telling him to shoulder the
mattress and walk off. he could not
find a man tohgue~tied but He gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see man with the puzzled and inquir-
ing look of the deaf without giving him
capacity TO hear the march of life beat
ing on the drum of the ear. He could
not see a crowd of hungry people but
He made enough good bread and a sur
plus that required all the baskets.
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ber, once at the hypocrites with eIon-
gated visage and the other time when
a sinful crowd had arraigned an unfor-
tunate woman, and the Lord, with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered, gave permission to anyone who
felt himself entirely commendab bic to
hurl the first missile. All for others.
His birth for others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as
cension for others. His enforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment of others is 60
ing to Edenize the round earth. That
spirit induced John Pound to establish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
to become a temperance reformer and
Peter Cooper to establish his institute
and Slater to contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch to leave
more than $100,OOOOOO for the improve
ment of her race and Cornelius Vander-
bilt to flood churches and charitab BILE
institutions with his benevolence. And
though our means be limited and our
opportunities circumscribed, we can do
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mems mattersl" Be usybodies in i'm
proving them. With kind words, with
earnest prayers, with self-sacrifcing
deeds, with enlarging charities, let US
go forth on a new mission.
And now my words are to the invis-
ible multitudes l reach week by week,
but yet will never see in this world, but
whom | expect to meet at the bar OF
God and hope to see in the blessed
Heaven. The last word that Dwight L
Moody, the great evangelist, said TO me
a Plainteld, n. j., and he repeated the
message for me to others, was: Never
be tempted under any circumstance
TO give up your weekly publication OF
sermons throughout the world" That
solemn charge / will heed as long as
have strength TO give them and The
newspaper types desire TO take them
Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and ye in the sheep
pastures of Australia and ye amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand and
ye among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves of Ceylon and ye Ar
menians weeping over the graves OF
murdered households in Asia Minor and
ye amid the idolatries of Benares on
the Ganges and ye dwelers on the
banks of the Androscoggin and the
Alabama and the Mississippi and the
Oregon and the Shannon and the Rhine
and the Tiber and the Danube nd the
Nile and the Euphrates and the Cas-
plan and Yellow seas; ye of the foUl
corners of the earth who have greeted
me again and again, accept this poiEt
blank offer of everything for nothing;
of everything of pardon and comfort
and illumination and safety and
Heaven, without money and without
price," What a gospel for all lands, all
zones, all ages! Gospel of sympathy! |
Gospel of hope! Gospel of emancipa-
ton! Gospel of sunlight! Gospel of !
enforcement! Gospel of eternalavi.-
tory! Take it. all ye people. until your
sins are all pardoned and your sorrows
all solaced and your wrongs all righted |
and your dying pillow be spread at the
foot OF ladder which, though like the
one that was let down to Bethel. may
be throrged with descending and as
cending immortaIs, shall nevertheless |
have room enough for you to climb.
foot over foot, on rungs of light. till you
go clear up out of sight of all earthly |
perturbation. into the realm where
the wicked cease from troubling ard |