The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-08-01

He may be able boldly to say in
meeting that his boast is in the
Lord, but if he has not learned what
it means to stand with his Lord in
| the heat of the everyday conflict
and peril, it is but an idle boast
and he knows not whereof he speaks.
David did not leave his Lord behind
with the priest Ahimelech, from
whom he secured the shew bread
and the sword of Goliath. Although
friendless and homeless, with a muir
derous king behind him and I'M
known perils ahead of him, his mouth
is filed with praise, as he knows
that his Lord is with him and will
| deliver him out of all his troubles.
And footsore and weary with his
hasty journey, with the starry heav-
ems as his only shelter and the hard
| ground as his couch, he learns the
secret that "The Lord is nigh unto
them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be contrite of
spirit" The night air watts to his
ears the whine of the young lions in
| the recesses of the rocks as they
fret in their gnawing hunger, and as
he refreshes himself with the Lords
bread which the priest gave him, he
understands and knows that "they
that seek the Lord shall not want
any good thing"
The Worlds Boast.-And if David
made his boast in the Lord in what,
| think you, does the world boast
itself? Its boast does not reach up
| into the heavens, where God has His
| dwelling place, but is found within
| itself, and is of the earth, earthly.
1t boasts of the riches, gold, silver,
precious stones, which are taken
from its bosom; it boasts of its pow
er, and in its strength Expresses the
| weak; it boasts of it's learning and
wisdom and speaks unto itself great
| things and high-sounding phrases.
forgetful of the fact that the fool
ishness of God is wiser than men; it
boasts of it's culture and refinement,
so-called, and fails to see under the
polished surface the seething mass
of corruption which has ultimately
wrought the destruction of every ma
ton which has yet in the worlds
history held sway for a time. Per-
STA, Babylon, Greece, Rome have
fiourished in their day, and made
their boast each in its turn of their
wealth, and power, and wisdom, and
culture, and refinement, and then
persisted miserably by means of the
very things in which they put their
trust.
The world is an awful boaster. 1t
boosted of its own security and pros
perity even while Noah was busy
building the ark and God was fill
ing the heavens with rain with which
to deluge the sin-cursed earth. 1t
boosted itself in the rearing of the
tower of Babel that it was going to
build into the heavens and above
another possible food, and even
while it wrought in the vain imagin-
ings of its own heart the wrath of
God fell upon the foolish boosters
and scattered them hither and
thither. But they carried their
boastful spirit with them, and if they
no longer all spoke the same lam
guage, this one thing they had in
common.
Friend, where is thy boast? In
what are you putting your trust?
In the things of time. which perish?
Goliath boasted in his strength, and
in the many gods of his nation, and
what was he and what were they
before that supplemented youth
who makes his boast in the Lord?
The Philistine said: 81 will give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air, and
to the beasts of the field" David
said: "Thou contest to me with
sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield; but I come to thee in the
name of the Lord of hosts, the God
of the armies of Israel, whom thou
hast defed. This day will the Lord
deliver thee into mine hand" And
the Lord did. AS the Psalmist says:
at is better to trust in the Lord than
to put confidence in man. 1t is better
to trust the Lord than to put con-
fidence in princes" Is it not time
that the world began to learn the
lesson? Is it not about time that
you began to learn the lesson, too?
In the daytime of its prosperity the
world feels no need outside of itself,
but the night cometh! All, how the
nighttime of failure and destruction
has been following the idle boast of
the world from the advent of the
prince of boosters, Satan, in the gar
den of Eden until now! Satan is APP
pointed to utter destruction. The
Lord hath spoken and it shall come to
pass. And the world will perish with
him if it continues to put its trust in
the perishable things of the world.
The people of the world are like the
little boy who, when asked if he did
not pray God to take care of him dur
ing the day the same S he did at night,
replied that he didn't have to, as he
could take care of himself then very
well. But, thank God! all hearts are
not blind to the greatest need of the
soul, and the boast of David in the
Lord sets other hearts to vibrat ting to
the same blessed tune, for our text
goes on to say: For the humble shall
hear thereof and be glad" And it
didn't make the mighty warrior, the
great king, the wise ruler sorry
bit to feel that his followers were
found in such a class. Jesus Christ
Himself thanked His Father that these
things were hid from the wise and pru-
dent and had been revealed unto bal es.
WHY so? Not because He wanted it
so, but because the pride of the human
heart decreed it so and would not yield
its will to the will of God.
"The humble shall hear thereof and
he clad" The boast of David in the
Lord Who never failed him did not
move the heart CT King Saul, who in
his selfwiIl was going to miserable de-
feat and suicides grave, but it found