The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-11-30

with his family to the verge OF star
vation, but continued his experiments
with vulcanized rubber until he added
more than can be estimated to the
worlds health and comfort, as well as
to his own advantage. Columbus and
John Fitch, and Stephenson and Rob-
ert Bruce, and Cyrus W. Field and 500
others were illustrations of what te-
nacity and pluck can do. Hard pound
ing" said Wellington at Waterloo,
'hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see who can pound the longest"
Yes, my friends, that is the secret,
not fight from obstacles in the way,
but "who can pound the longest"
The child had it right when attempt
ing to carry ton of COAL shovelful
at a time, from the sidewalk to the
cellar, and some one asked her: do
you expect to get all that coal in with
that little shovel?" And she replied:
''Yes, sir, if work long enough" BY
the help of God choose your calling
and stick to it, The gadabouts are
failures for this life, to say nothing
of the next.
lnoTe are many VIM AAA~
fraiIty in matters of religion. They are
not sure about anything that pertains
to their soul or their eternal destiny.
Now they are Unitariars, and now they
are Universalists, and now they are
Methodists, and now they are Presby-
terians, and now they are nothing at
ALL They are not quite sure that the
Bible was inspired or, If inspired,
whether the words or the ideas were
inspired or whether only part of the
Book was inspired. They think at one
time that the story in Genesis about
the garden of Eden is history, and the
month after they think it is an allie
CORY. At one time they think the book
of Job describes what really occurred,
but the next time they speak of it they
call it a drama. Now they believe all
the miracles, but at your next inter
view they try to show how these
scenes had nothing in them supernat-
ural, but can be accounted for by nat
ural causes. Gadding about among re-
ligious theories and never satisfied. All
the evidence is put before them, and
why do they not render verdict? IL
they cannot make up their mind with
all the data put before them, they
never will. There are all the archaeo-
logical combinations of the Bible
brought to view by the Palestine EN-
ploration society" there are the bricks
of Babylon, the letter 'N' impressed
upon them-''N'' for Nebuchadnezzar.
showing that he was not myth-and
L e L y L.
rian goes down the more is revealed of
that most wonderful city of all time.
Prof. Heilprecht, of the University of
Pennsylvania, presents US tablets found
in the far east ratifying and explain
ing Scriptural passages which were be-
fore in mystery. AS the builders in
Jerusalem to-day dig for the founda-
tion of new houses they turn up with
their pickaxes the ashes of the ami
ings in the temple ages ago, demonstrat-
ing the truth of the Bible story about
the sacrifices of lambs and heifers and
pigeons. There is the history by Jo-
sephus, described on uninspiring pages
scenes which the Bible depicts. On the
banks of the Dead sea there are pieces
of the very birthstone that fell in the
sulphurous storm that destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah. Make up your mind
whether the Bible is a glorious revela-
tion of God or the worst imposition of
the centuries. Why go gadding about
among infidels, atheists and deists ask
ing questions and surmising and guess
ing about the authority and value of q
l. - r
is either a good book or a bad book.
If it be bad book. you do not want
it in your house nor have your children
contaminated with it's teachings. If
it is a good book, your eternal happi-
ness depends upon the adoption of its
teachings. Once and forever make up
your mind whether it is the book of
God or the book of villainous pretend
ers.
My text also addresses those who
in search of happiness are going
hither and yonder looking for that
which they find not. Their time is all
taken up with "musicales," and ''pro-
gressive euchres," and teas, and vel
low luncheons, and "at homes" and
dances, and operas, and theaters; and,
instead of finding happiness, they get
pale cheeks, and insomnia, and indi-
gestion, and neuralgia, and exhaus-
ton, and an abbreviated lifetime.
There is more splendid womanhood
sacrificed in that way in our cities
than in any other way. The judg-
ment day only can reveal the awful
holocaust of tangled nerves and the
suicidal habits of much of our social
life. The obituary of such reads well,
for the story is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing
in attire of gauze, waiting for the
carriage on a raw night, on the front
steps. While in their lifetime they
possessed all the ability for the relief
of pain and impoverishment, yet they
have no time for visitation of the
poor, or to win the blessing of sucn
as comes upon those who administer
to those who are ready to perish.
Enough flowers in their dining halls
to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft
of heliotrope to perfume the room of
that rheumatic on the back street, to
whom the breath of one flower would
be like the opening of the front door
of Heaven. Find me one man or one
woman who in all the rounds of pleas
ure and selfshness has found a piece
of happiness as large as that half dol
lar which the benevolent and Christ
like soul puts into the palm of the
hand of that mother whose children
are crying for bread. Queen Victoria
riding in triumph through London at
her jubilee was not so sublime fig
ure as Queen Victoria in a hut near
Balmoral castle reading the New Tes-
lament to poor dying man. Let all