The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-16


band of music on board the train.
You do not want to be in company
with rustic Jacob and Rachel and be
drinking. out of the fountain where
10000 sheep have been drinking be-
fore you. You will have to remove
the obstacle of pride or never find
your way to the well. You will have
to come as we came, willing to take
the water of eternal life in any way
and at any hand and in any kind of a
pitcher, crying out: "Oh, Lord Je-
sus, L am dying of thirst! Give me
the water of eternal life, whether in
trough or goblet! Give me the wa
ter of life! I care not in what it
hindrances of pride from the wells
mouth!
Here is another man who is kept
back from the water of life by the
stone of an obdurate heart which
lies over the mouth of the well. You
have no more feeling upon this sub
ject than if God had yet to do you
the first kindness or you had to do
God the first wrong. Seated on His
lap all these years, His everlasting
arms sheltering you, where is your
gratitude? Where is your morning
and evening prayer? Where are your
Daniel said to Belshazzar: "The God
in whose hand thy breath is, and all
thy way, thou hast not glorified."
If you treated anybody as badly as
you have treated God, you would have
made 500 apologies; yea, your whole
life would have been an apology.
Three times a day you have been
seated at Gods table. Spring, sum-
mer, autumn and winter He has APP
propriately appareled you. Your
health from Him, your companion
from Him, your children from Him,
your home from Him, all the bright
surroundings of your life from Him.
Oh, man, what dost thou with that
hard heart? Canst thou not feel one
throb of gratitude toward the God
that made you, and the Christ who
came to redeem you, and the Holy
Ghost who has all these years been
importuning you? If you could sit
down five minutes under the tree
of a Saviour's martyrdom and feel
His feblood trickling on your fore
head and cheek and hands, methinks
you would get some appreciation of
what you owe to crucified Jesus.
Heart of stone, relent. relent.
Touched by Jesus cross, subdued;
See His body mangled, rent,
Covered with a gore of blood.
Sinful soul. what hast thou done?
Crucified the Eternal Son!
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push, took the stone from the wells
mouth so that the fiocks might be
watered. And 1 would that this day
my word, blessed of God, might re-
move the hindrances to your getting
up to the Gospel well. Yea, take it
for granted that the work is done, and
now, like oriental shepherds, l pro-
coed to water the sheep. Come, all We
thirsty! You have an underlined long
ing in your soul. You tried money
making; that did not satisfy you. You
tried office under government; that
did not satisfy you. You tried pic
lures and sculptures, but works of art
did not satisfy you. You are as much
Disconnected with this life as the
celebrated French author who felt
the misfortunes of the world and who
said: ''At four o'clock this afternoon
I shall put an end to my own exist
ence. Meanwhile [ must toll on up
to that time for the sustenance of my
family" And he wrote on his book
until the clock struck four, when he
folded up his manuscript and, by his
own hand, concluded his earthly life.
There are men who are perfectly
disconnected. Unhappy in the past,
unhappy to-day, to be unhappy for
ever, unless you come to this Gospel
well. This satisfies the soul with a
high, deep, all absorbing and eternal
satisfaction. 1t comes, and it offers
the most unfortunate man so much of
this world as is best for him, and
throws all Heaven into the bargain.
The wealth of Croesus and all the
Rothschilds is only a poor, miserab BILE
shilling compared with the eternal for
tunes that Christ offers you to-day.
In the far east there was a king who
used once year to get on the scales,
while on the other side the scales were
placed gold and silver and gems-in-
deed, enough were placed there to
balance the king. Then, at the close
of the weighing, all those treasures
were thrown among the populace. But
Christ to-day steps on one side the
scales, and on the other side are all
the treasures of the universe. and He
says: ''All are yours; all height, all
depth, all breadth, all eternity-all are
yours" We do not appreciate the prom
Uses of the GOSDel
When an aged clergyman was drin5
"a man very eminent in the church, =
a young theological student stood by
his side, and the aged man looked up
and said to him: Cant you give me
some comfort in my dying hour?"
No" said the young man: 81 can't
talk to you on this subject. You know
all about it and have known it so long"
"Wel," said the dying man, Just re-
cite to me some promises The young
man thought u moment, and he came
to this promise: The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all SIM" and the
old man clapped his hands and in his
dying moment said: That's just the
promise 1 have been waiting for-'The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sim" Oh, the warmth, the grand
eur, the magnificence, of the promise!
Come also to this Gospel well, all
We troubled. 1 do not suppose you
have escaped. Compare your view
of this life at Is years of age with
what your view is of it at 40 or 60
or 20. What great contrast of opin-