The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-01

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an engagement he must meet imme-
diately or he win start on a retreat
like that which our northern troops
made for yonder Long bridge after
the battle of Manassas. A discourse
- Gods omnipotence and mans linn
itations would not have had such an
effect upon Job as the interrogation
of the text: "Canst thou bind the
sweet influence of the Pleiades7"
These words also recognize far
reaching influences. Job probably
had no adequate idea of the distance
of the worlds mentioned from our
world, but he knew them to be far
off, and we, who have the advantage
of modern sidereal investigation,
ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with the question of
the text, as it puts before US the fact
that worlds hundreds of thousands
of miles distant have a grip on our
.sd-id. There are sweet influences
which hold us from afar. There may
have been in our ancestral line per-
llaps 200 years ago some consecrated
man or woman who has held over
ali the generations since an influence
for good which we have no power to
realize, and we in turn, by our
virtue or vice, may influence those
who shall live 200 years from now.
Moral gravitation is as powerful as
material gravitation, and if, as my
text teaches and science confirms,
the Pleiades, which are millions of
miles from our earth, influence the
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how we may be influenced by others
far away back and how we may in
huence others far down the future.
That rill away up among the Allie
ghanies, so thin you think it will
hardly find its way down the rocks,
becomes the mighty Ohio rolling into
the Mississippi and rolling into the
sea. That word you utter, that deed
YOU do, may augment itself as the
vars 90 by until rivers cease to roll
aud the ocean itself shall be dried
up in the burning of the world.
Paul, who was all the time saying
important things, said nothing more
startlingly suggestive than when he
declared: None of us liveth or
dieth to himself" Words, thoughts,
As Job could not bind the sweet in
huences of the Seven Stars, as they
were called, so we cannot arrest or
turn aside the good projected long
ago. Those influences were started
centuries before our cradle was
rocked and will reign centuries after
our graves are dug. Oh, it is a ire
mendous thing to livel God help us
to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the
PIeiades. They will take you into
their observatories on a clear night
and aim their revealing instrument
toward the part in the heavens where
those seven stars have their habl-
tude, and they will point to the con-
stellation Taurus, and you can sec
for yourself. But it is impossible
to point to influences far back that
have affected our character and will
affect our destiny. We know the in
fiuences near by--paternal, maternal,
conjugaI-but by the time we have
gone back two generations or at
most three our Investigations falter
and fail. Through the modern in
teresting habit of searching back to
find the ancestral tree we may find
Il long list of names, but they are
only names. The conservation or
abandonment of some one 200 years
ago was not recorded. 1t would not
be so important if you and L by our
good or bad behavior blessed or
blasted only those Immediately
around us, but our goodness or our
badness will reach as far as the
strongest rays of -Alcyone - yea,
across the eternities. Under this
consideration what do you think of
those who give themselves up to
frivolity or idleness and throw away
so years of their existence as though
they were shells or pebbles or pods
instead of embryo eternities?
Notice also in my text the infu-
ence of other worlds upon this world.
We all regard the effect which our
continent has upon other continents
or one hemisphere upon the other
hemisphere. Great harvest or drought
affects the other side of our world.
4 panic in Wall street, New York, has
its echo in Lombard street and the
bourse. The nations of the earth
cablegrammed together all feel the
same thrill of delight or shock of woe.
But we do not appreciate the infu-
ence of other worlds upon our world.
The author OIL ny text rouses US to
the consideration. 1t takes all the
worlds of known and unknown as
iron omy to keep our world in its or
bit, every world dependent on other
worlds. The stellar existence is felt
all through the heavens. Every con-
stellation is a sisterhood. Our planet
feels the benediction of Alcyone and
all the other stars of the Pleiades.
Yea, there are two other worlds that
decide the fate of our world, its re-
demPtion or its demolition. Those
two worlds are the headquarters of
angelology and demonology. From
the one world came Christ, come min
istering spirits, come all gracious in
hGences. From the other worl3
all satanic and diahciic influences.
From that world OF moral right rose
the power that wrecked our poor
world 5000 years ago, and all the
good work done since then has not
been able to get our world out of the
breakers. But the signals of dis
tress have been hoisted and the life
lines are out, and our worlds re-
lease is certain. The good influences
of the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help
from the heavenly world, and the Di-
vine power will overcome the de-
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