The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-17
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are afraid to assault 1T. Millions OF
dollars in barrels, in watts, in spigots,
in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers, and in the
strychnine and the logwood and the
tartaric acid and the nuX vomica that
go to make up our pure" American
drinks. / looked with wondering eyes
on the heidelberg tun." 1t is the
great liquor vat of Germany, which is
said to hold 500 hogsheads of wine,
and only three times in 100 years it
has been filled. But as l stood and
looked at it / said to myself: THAT
is nothing-SOO hogsheads. Why, our
American vat holds 100000 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 100000
men with nothing to DO but to see
that it is filed"
Oh, to attack the great monster of
intemperance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanliness re-
quires you to rally all your Christian
courage Through the press, through
the pulpit, through the platform you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together, not for crack-brained
fanaticism, but for holy Christian re-
formi [ think it was in 1893 that
there went out from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest
hunting party that was ever project
ed There were 10000 armed men in
that hunting party. There were cam
els and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and
the desolate places of India were in
vaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
noceros and deer and elephant fell
under the stroke of the saber and
bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth $4,000
rupees, having left the wilderness of
India CHASTITY with tho slain bodies of
wild beasts Would to God that in
stead of here and there straggler
going out to fight these great mon
sters of iniquity in our country the
millions of membership in our
churches would band together and
hew in twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their
roar and are fattening upon the
bodies and souls of immortal meni
Who is ready for such a party as
! for the Lord?
I remark, again, If you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down game,
but bring it in. I think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" 1t represents
sportsman coming home and stand
/ ing under a grapevine. He has
| staff over his shoulder, and on the
! other end of that staff are hung a
rabbit and a brace of birds. Every
hunter brings home the game. No
one would think of bringing down a
roebuck or whipping up a stream for
trout and letting them lie in the
woods At eventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures of the
forest-beak and fin and antler.
If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down I'M
der the arrow of the Gospel, but bring
them into the church of God, the
grand home and encampment we have
pitched this side the skies. Fetch
them in; do not let them lie out in
the open field. They need our
prayers and sympathies and help.
That is the meaning of the church of
God-help. o We hunters for the
Lord, not only bring down the game,
but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so we'll
that for seven years he never went
indoors, what enthusiasm ought we
to have who are hunting for immor-
tai souls! If Domitian practiced arch
cry until he could stand a boy down
-,
hand out, the fingers spread apart,
and then the king could shoot an ar
row between the fingers without
wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought we to subject
ourselves in order to become spirit
ual archers and mighty hunters be-
fore the Lord!" But let me say you
will never work any better than you
pray. The ola archers took the bow,
put one end of it down beside the
foot, elevated the other end, and it
was the rule that the bow should be
just the size OF the archer. If it were
just his size, then he would go into
the battle with confidence. Let me
say that your power to project good
in the world will correspond exactly
to your own spiritual stature. In
other words, the first thing in prep
aration for Christian work is person
al conservation.
Oh for closer walk with God.
calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lambi
There is in a forest in Germany q
place they call the deer leap'-two
crags, about Is yards apart; between
them a fearful chasm. This is called
the deer leap" because once a hunt
er was on the track of a deer. 1t
came to one of these crags. There
was no escape lor it from the pur-
suit of the hunter, and in utter de-
spair it gathered itself up and in the
death agony attempted to jump
across. Of course it fell and was
dashed on the rocks far beneath.
Here is path to Heaven. 1t is plain;
it is safe. Jesus marks it out for
every man to walk in. But here is
man who says: 81 won't walk in
that path. I will take my own way"
He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from
Heaven. Now his last hour has come.
and he resolves that he will leap
from the heights of earth to the
heights of Heaven. Stand back now
and give him full swing, for no soul
ever did that successfully. Let him
try. Jump! He misses the mark, and