The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-20

poor of France who followed her cof-
fin, weeping and wailing until the air
rang again, because when they lost
Josephine they lost their last earthly
friend. Oh, who would not rather
have such obsequies than all the tears
that were ever poured in the lach-
rymals that have been exhumed from
ancient cities? There may be no mass
for the dead; there may be no costly
sarcophagus; there may be no elab-
crate mausoleum, but in the damp cell
lars of the city and through the lonely
huts of the mountain glen there will
be mourning, mourning, mourning, be-
cause Dorcas is dead: BLESSED are
the dead who die in the Lord; they
rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them"
speak to you of Dorcas the resur-
rected. The apostle came to where
she was and said: "Arise, and she
sat upi" In what a short compass
the great writer put that "She sat up"
Oh, what time there must have been
around that town when the apostle
brought her out among her old
friends! How the tears of Joy must
have started! What a clapping of
hands there must have beenl What
singing! What laughteri Sound it
all through that lanel Shout it down
that dark alleyl Let all Joppa hear
it! Dorcas is resurrected!
You and 1 have seen the same thing
many a time; not a dead body re-
suscitated, but the deceased coming
up again after death in the good ac-
complished. If a man labors up to so
years of age, serving God, and then
dies, we are apt to think that his
earthly work is done. No. His in
1uence on earth will continue till the
world ceases. Services rendered for
Christ never stop. A Christian wom-
an tolls for the upbuflding of church
through many anxieties, through
many self-denials, with prayers and
tears, and then she dies. It is Is
years since she went away. Now the
spirit of God descends upon that
church, hundreds of souls stand up
and confess the faith of Christ. Has
that Christian woman, who went away
Is years ago, nothing to do with these
things? / see the Towering out of
her noble heart. / hear the echo of
her footsteps in all the songs over sins
forgiven, in all the prosperity of the
church. The good that seemed to be
buried has come up again. Dorcas is
resurrected!
After awhile these womanly friends
of Christ will put down their needle
forever. After making garments for
others, some one will make garment
for them; the last robe we ever wear
the robe for the grave. You will have
heard the last cry of pain. You will
have witnessed the last orphanage.
You will have come in worn out from
your last round of mercy. I do not
know where you will sleep, nor what
your epitaph will be, but there will be
lamp burning at that tomb, and an
angel of God guarding it, and through
all the long night no rude foot will dis
turb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on.
Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undis-
turbed repose! Sleep on!
Asleep in Jesusl Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep!
Then one day there will be a sky
rending and whirr of wheels and the
flash of a pageant, armies marching,
chains clanking, banners waving, thun-
ders booming, and that Christian wom-
an will rise from the dust, and she will
be suddenly surroundeG-surroun
by the wanderers of the street whom
she reclaimed, surrounded by the
wounded souls to whom she had adj
ministered. Daughter of God, so
strangely surrounded, what means
this? 1t means that reward has come,
that the victory is won, that the crown
is ready, that the banquet is spread.
Shout it through all the crumbling
earth. Sing it through all the flying
Heavens. Dorcas is resurrected.
In 1855, when some of the soldiers
came back from the Crimean war to
London, the queen of England distrib-
uted among them beautiful medals |
called Crimean medals. Galleries were |
erected for the two houses of parlia- |
ment and the royal family to sit in.
There was a great audience to witness
the distribution of the medals. A |
colonel who had lost both feet in the |
battle of Inkermann was pulled in on |
a wheel chair; others came in limping |
On their crutches. Then the queen of |
arose before them in the name |
of her government and uttered words
Of commentator to the officers and !
men and distributed those medals. in
scribed with the four great battlefelds |
Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sc
vastopol. As the queen gave these to
], a xx-O,,pdad 0fFoarS tho hon1S Of r,,e;o
struck up the national air, and the
people, with streaming eyes, Joined in
the song
God save our gracious queen!
Long live our noble queeni
God save the queen!
And then they shouted: "Huzza,
luzza!" Oh, it was proud day for
those returned warriors! But bright
IT, better and gIadder day will come
when Christ shall gather those who
lave toiled in His service, good soldiers
IF Jesus Christ He shall rise before
hem, and in the presence of all the glo-
'ifed of Heaven he will say: 'Well
lone, good and faithful servant" and
hen He will distribute the medals of
,ternal victory, not inscribed with
works of righteousness which we have
lone, but with those four great battle
ields dear to earth and dear to Heaven
Nazareth, Gethsemane,
'alvaryi
A young man who declines to be indus
rlous, because his father has been indus
rious enough to accumulate fortune, con-
emns himself by such course to perpet-
al babyhood.-United Presbyterian.
How is it that Crimper did not have