The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-07
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.0O Per Year

a pillar to the church of God, what q
specimen of truth and integrity and all
of characterI Is there any
comparison in usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators of the
money market?
The chief work of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. 1 have not so much interest In
the one man out of the million as L
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and 1T does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing.
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and righteousness, and
let all those with five or ten talents ml-
CRATE to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendid
.ly. The Woodworking, Industrious
classes of America are all right and
would give no trouble, but it is the
genius who gives up work and on a
big salary goes around to excite dis
satisfaction and embodiment, the
genius who quits work and steps on
the stage political platform, eats
beafsteak and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, COM
PEELED to idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and eat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
nightly improved if it could slough
off about 5000 geniuses, for there are
more than that on our planet. Then
the man or woman of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
it in a common sense and Christian
way. There would be less to amaze
and startle, but more to give equipoise
to church and state and world. TO
another one"
Among the $4,000 words of Noah
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands of words since then added to our
English voca bulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated, and it reaches so
far up and so far down, and that is the
word Come 1t has drawn more Peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word L now think
of. 1t has at times crowded all the
IL gates of Heaven with fresh arrlv-
ais. 1t will yet rob the path of death
of the last pedestrians. 1t will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned
with the music. 1t is piled up in the
Bibles climax and peroration: And
the Spirit and the bride say, Come, and
let him that heareth say, Come and let
him that is athirst come" Have 1T on
the point of your pen, have 1T on the
tip of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word "come" is the mightiest of mon
osylla bles.
After the resurrection day and all
Heaven is made up, resurrected bod
les Joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may be some day when
all the redeemed may pass in review
before the great white throne. If so.
l think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions.
With the first division will pass the
mighty ones of earth who were as
good and useful as they were great.
In this division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers, the
John Knoxes, the Wesleys, the Rich
ard Cecils, the Millions, the Chrysos-
toms, the Herschells, the Lenoxes,
the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law
rences and all the consecrated Chris
tan men and women who were great
in literature, in law, in medicine, in
philosophy, in commerce. Their
genius never spoiled them. They
were as humble as they were gifted
or opulent. They were great on
earth, and now they are great in
Heaven. Their surprising and mag
nificent talents were all used for tbs
worlds betterment. AS they pass in
review before the King on the great
white throne to higher and higher
rewards it makes me think of the
parabl of the talents: ''To another
ten" L stand and watch the other
divisions as they go by, division after
division, until the largest of all the
divisions comes in sight. 1t is hun
dred to one, a thousand to one, ten
thousand to one, larger than the
| other divisions. 1t is made up of
men who never did anything but sup
port their families and give whatever
of their limited means they could
spare for the relief of poverty and
sickness and the salvation of the
world, mothers who took good care
of children by example and precept
starting them on the road to Heaven,
millions of Sabbath. school teachers
who sacrificed an afternoons siesta
for the listening class of yo, ng i'm
mortals, women who declined the
making of homes for themselves that
they might take care of father and
mother in the weaknesses of old age,
ministers of the Gospel who on mig
gardly stipend preached in the back
woods, meeting houses, souls who for
long years did nothing but suffer,
yet suffered with so much cheerful
patience that it became a helpful les
son to all who heard of it; those who
served God faithfully all their lives
and whose name never but once ap-
peared in print and that time in the
three lines of the death column
which some survivor paid for, sailors
who persisted in the storm while try
ing to get the life line out to the
drowning. prosecuted and tried souls
who endured without complaint ma
| Lightly and abuse, those who had
only ordinary equipment for boz,
and ordinary endowment of intelle.~
yet devoted all they had to holy ~.
poses and spiritual achievement. an
L see this, the largest of all the -,
visions, from all lands and fror.-fs,-
ages, pass in review before thss dav,
| on the great white fbr1-o