The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-12-13
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I the QOOT WITH i 1OuQ CldHS. y NdSI
plain slipped under us, and the hills
swept by, and that great monster on
/ which we rode trembed and bounded
and snOrted and ragged as it hurled
us on. L said to the Methodist min
/ lister on the other side of the loco
motive: My brother, why should
ministers quarrel about the DEGREES
and free agency? You see that
! track, that firm track, that iron
| track; that is the decree. You see
| this engineers arm; that is free
! agency. How beautifully they work
together! They are going to take us
through. We could not do without
the track, and we could not do with
out the engineer"
So 1 rejoice day by day. Work for
all to do, and we may turn the crank
of the Christian machinery this way
or that, for we are free agents. But
! there is the track laid so long ago
no one remembers it-laid by the
hand of the Almighty God in sockets
that no terrestrial or Satanic pres
sure can ever affect. And along the
| track the car of the worlds redemp-
ton will roll and roll to the Grand
Central depot of the millennium.
have no anxiety about the track. 1
am only afraid that for our indo-
lence and unfaithfulness God will dis
charge us and get some other stoker
and some other engineer. The train
is going through with us or without
US. So, my brethren, watch all the
events that are going by. If things
seem to turn out right, give wings
| = 10 fI1r
out wrong, throw out the anchor of
faith and hold fast.
There is a house in London where
Peter the Great of Russia lived
awhile when he was moving through
the land incognito and in worLman's
dress that he might learn ship car
pentry, by which he could supply the
needs of his people. y stranger was
visiting at that house. whats in
that boX?" The owner said: Il don't
know. That box was there when L
got the house, and it was there when
nv father got it. We haven't had
any curiosity to look at it. L guess
there's nothing in it." ''Well," said
the stranger. III give you Sc for 1t.
"Weu, done" The 6 was paid, and the
contents of that box were sold to the
car of Russia for $4,000. In it the
Iathing machine of Peter the Great,
his private letters and documents OF
value beyond all monetary consid-
Grafton. And here are the events
that seem very insignificant and I'M
important, but they incase treasures
of Divine Providence and eternities
of meaning which after awhile GOD
will demonstrate before the ages as
being of stupendOus value.
When Titans play quoits, they pitch
mountains, but who owns these gigan-
tic natural forces we are constantly
reading about? Whose hand is on the
tbrottIeyalveo of the volcanoes? Whose
foot. suddenly planted on the foot
stool, makes the continents culver?
| God. [ must be at peace with Him.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ, this
God is mine and He is yours. put the
earthquake that shook Palestine at
the crucifixion against all the down
BOOKINGS of the centuries. This God
on our side, we may challenge all the
centuries OF time and all the cycles of
eternity.
| Those of YOU who are in midlife may
well thank God that you have seen so
MANY wondrous things, but there are
people alive to-day who may live to
see the shimmering veil between the
material and the spiritual world up
lifted. Magnetism, a word with which
we cover up our ignorance, will yet
be an explored realm. Electricity, the
fierce courser of the sky, that Ben
iamin Franklin lassOed and Morse and
Bell and Edison have brought under
complete control, has greater won
ders to reveal Whether here or de-
parted this life, we will see these
things. 1t does not make much differ
ence where we stand, but the higher
the standpoint the larger the prospect.
We see them from Heaven if we do
not see them from earth.
Years ago [ was at Fire Island,
T.. l., and [ went up in the cupola
from which they telegraph to
New York the approach of vessels
hours before they come into port.
There is an opening in the wall, and
the operator puts his telescope
through that opening and looks out
and sees vessels far out at sea. While
; [ was talking with him he went up
and looked out. He said: 1--WE are eN-
pecting the Arizona tonight" ]
said: ''Is it possible you know all
: those vessels? Do you know them as
YOU know a mans face?" He said:
Eyes. 1 never make a mistake. Be-
,, fore | see the hulls ! often know them
by the masts. 1 know them ALL have
l watched them so long" Oh, what a
, grand thing it is to have ships tele-
graphed and heraIded long before
they come to port, that friends may
7 come down to the wharf and welcome
their long-absent ones! So to-day we
take our stand in the watch-tower
; and through the glass of inspiration
we look off and see a whole
! fleet of ships coming in. That is
: the ship of peace, with the stal
of Bethlehem floating above the
top gallants. That is the ship of tbs
: church, mark of salt water high upor
g the smokestack, showing she has haC
e rough weather, but the Captain o
g Salvation commands her, and all i:
= we'll with her. The ship of heaven
e mightiest craft ever launched, mil
) lions of passengers waiting for mil
0 lions more, prophets and apostles anC
q martyrs in the cabin, conquerors a
e the foot of the mast, while from the
e rigging hands are waving this way a.
e if they knew us, and we wave bacl
again, for they are ours. They wen
t ont from our own households. Ours