The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-23


fdgets, burning out the coating o
your stomach with wine logwoOdeC
and strychnined, walking with thi1
shoes to make your feet look delicate
pinched at the waist until you art
nigh cut in two, and neither par
worth anything, groaning about sicl
headache and palpitation of the heart
which you think came from God
when they came from your own folly
What right has any man or woman
to deface the temple of the Holy
I Ghost? What is the ear? Why, it i:
the whispering gallery of the human
! soul. What is the eye? 1t is the OBJ
| servatory God constructed, its tele
scope sweeping the heavens. So won
derful are these bodies that Goo
names his own attributes after diff
ferent parts of them. His omniscience
- it is Gods eve. His omnipresence-
| it is Gods ear. His omnipotence-it
is Gods arm. The upholstery of the
midnight heavens-it is the work o1
Gods fingers. His life-giving power
it is the breath of the Almighty. His
dominion-'the government shall be
upon his shoulder" A body so divine
| ly honored and so divinely constructed
let us be careful not to abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty
to take care of your health, is not the
whole tendency toward longevity? II
/ toss my watch about recllessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind II
up any time of day or night hap
! pen to think of it and often let it run
! down while you are careful with your
watch and never abuse it and wind 1t
up just at the same hour every night
and put it in a place where it will
not suffer from the violent changes OF
| atmosphere, which watch will last the
| longer? Common sense answers.
! Now. the human body is Gods watch.
! You see the face of the watch, but the
| beating of the heart is the ticking of
| the watch. Oh, be careful and do not
| let it run down!
! There are aged people who would
| have been dead 25 years ago bat for
| the defenses and the equipoise of re-
/ ligiOn. You have no more natural re-
sistance than hundreds of people who
| lie in the cemeteries to-day, slain by
| their case as kind and pleasant as
! they could, and it was called cOnges-
tion of the brain or something else,
but the snakes and the blue flies that
seemed to crawl over the pillow in the
sight of the deliriOus patient showed
what was the matter with him. You,
the aged Christian man, walked along
by that unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar of the Christian
life. You went to the right; he went
to the left That is all the difference
between you. Oh, if this religion is
protest against ali forms of dissipa-
ton, then it is an illustrious friend of
longevity. with long life will sat
isfy him.
Suppose you had a supernatural
neighbOr who came in and said: Sir,
l want you to call on me in every eXi-
gency. l am your fast friend; | could
fall back on $2O,OOG,OOO; L can fore
see a panic ten years; l hold the con-
trolling stock in 30 of the best none
tary institutions of this country;
whenever you are in any trouble call
on me and l will help you; you can
have my money and you can have my
influence; here is my hand in pledge
of it," How much would you worry
about business? Why, you would say:
'I'll 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; l can foresee a panic
thousand years; l have all the re-
sources of the universe; and 1 am
your fast friend; when you get in
business trouble or any other trouble,
call on me and l will help you; 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 Dan
iel? Is there not rest in this? Is
there not an eternal vacation in this?
oh" you say. "here is a man who
asked God for a blessing in certain
enterprise. and he lost $4,000 in it.
Explain that" l Will. Yonder is a
factory, and one wheel is going north,
and the other wheel is going south,
and one wheel plays latarally. and the
other plays vertically. l go to the
manufacturer. and l say: 20 manu-
facturer, your machinery is a contra
dictiOn. Why do you not make all the
wheels go one way?" We'll" he says,
Il make them to go in opposite direc-
the right result. You go downstairs
and examine the carpets we are turn
ing out in this establishment. and YOU
will See" l go down on the other
fioo-, and l see the carpets, and 1 am
obliged to confess that, though the
wheels in that factory go in opposite
directions, they turn out a beautiful
result, and while / am standing there
looking at the exquisite fabric an old
Scripture passage comes into my
mind: "All things work together for
good to them who love God" is there |
not rest in that? Is there not tonic /
in that? Is there not longevity in |
that?
Suppose a man is all the time worried |
about his reputation One man saws he |
les, another says he is stupid, another |
says he is dishonest, and half a dozen |
printing establishments attack him, |
md he is in a great state of excitement |
md worry and fume and cannot sleep. |
But religion comes to him and saws: |
Man, God is on your side. He will take |
,are of your reputation. If God be
With you, who can be against you?''
How much should that man worry
bout his reputation? Not much. If
hat broker who some years ago in
Vail street, after he had lost money,