The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-17


curity, perfect justice prevail thel E
No concentration of wealth. no com
bines to force up the cost of living anC
make life burden, no selfishness anG
! greed to take the bread out of the
mouths of widows and orphan chill
dren, no low-lived passions to festeI
and rot and spread. the disease OF per
verted desires and appetites, no cor
ruption in public office, no oppression
| by those in power, no inconsistencies
and unreasoning passions of working
men, no hasty, ill-considered strikes
no mad mobs to destroy life and prop
erty, no anarchy, no socialism, no any
thing that would work evil or wrong
to ANYONE Don't you want to go to
Heaven where the perfect Will of God
| is done? do. Don't you want to stand
with God and try to bring as much OF
the will of God to pass in the earth as
you can? 1 do. Do you want your
prayer, ''Thy will be done in earth, as
1t is in Heaven" to count for some
thing? Then strive to learn what the
Will of God is, and begin to live it out
In your life as a practical demonstra-
tion, as David did. There is more pow
er in the living, practical demonstra-
tlon of Gods will than all the precepts
you can crowd in between earth aod
the blue of Heaven.
We know it is not Gods will that
over $4,000 miners should be idle for
over five months, bringing untold hard
ships upon over 100, 600 women and
nearly 900 children, and driving the
miners into habits of conduct which
are demOralizing to home and destruc
tive of the welfare of the state and ma.
tlon. We know that it is not Gods will
that an army of soldiery should be
Obliged to guard the property of the
capitalists because the wOrkingman
groaning under burdens, is driven to
desperation in his efforts to secure
what he considers his rights. We know
it is not Gods will that over $27, ,OOO, ,OOO
in wages should have been lost by the
miners and that the opera tors should
see their losses mounting up towards
the $70,O00,OGO mark We know that ii
is not Gods will that merchants should
suffer and in some cases be bankrupt
and that mills and factories in many
cases should be Obliged to shut down,
entailing hardships on the workmen
and their families by the enforced idle.
ness. We know that it is not Gods will
that the employer and employe should
have each other by the throat striving
to strangle the liberty and even the life
which they are entitled to. What
dreadful spectacle it isl The interests
of capital and labor so inseparably
linked and yet in so many cases at
such bitter strife. To those who are
not party to the strife that is now
shaking the state of Pennsylvania to
its very foundations and disturbing the
entire nation and creating comment
and concern abroad, what a terrible
spectacle it is! And if earth is shocked
by the struggle, what must it be in the
light of Heaven? As God looks down
upon the scene He knows, but earth
fOrgets, that reckoning day is com
ing, and that the capitalist and the
wOrkingman must give an account OF
the deeds done in the body. That If
capital sOws greed and hellish selfish
ness and labor sows unreasoning pas
sion and bitter hatred, they will both
reap the whirlwind of destructive con
the strife what does He hear?
Prayers! Prayers that Gods will may
be done in earth. as it is in Heaven.
Prayers from lips that are stained
with the bitterest acrimOny towards
fellow man or towards capital or labor.
Prayers by men whose hands clutch
the glittering gold that has been
ground from the helpless laborer, and
prayers by men whose hands are
stained with the violent deed and even
with blood, as the property of the
employer has been attacked and the
lives of the men anxious to work have
been imperiled. What blasphemy!
That we should pray: "Thy Will be
done in earth as it is in Heaven" and
that we should go on living and doing
our own will and preventing God from
doing His.
Gods will on earth! What is itf
Man cannot determine it for God, but
God reveals it to man through His Son,
Jesus Christ, Who came into the world
to do His Fathers will and show men
how to do the same. The world has
been plunged into sin and iniquity, and
ed out of that condition. And Christ
came into the world to do that very
thing. He did not come into the world
to be a great reformer as some so glibly
claim. He did not come into the world
to try TO patch up the miserable wreck
and failure of human nature, but He
came into the world to give man Gods |
nature, to make Him a new creature
He knew that the natural man cOulC
not do the will of God. Had rot man
kind been trying the experiment from
its creation. and how miserably it bad |
failed is set forth in human annals and |
in Gods Word. But Christ came into |
the world and did Gods will. Gcd's |
will is that righteousness shall tri |
umph. and on the cross sin was pEn |
ished. the Judgment of God was sat |
isfed and His righteousness was tri |
umphant. And now the way of Gods |
will stands revealed to man like a |
open book He may walk therein If he |
Will let Christ put His spirit within |
him. The command to love Gcd witt |
all our hearts and our neigh bors IS cur |
self leads faithfully along the line OF
Gods will, but man can only live it out
in his life as the Christ life is permit
ted to dominate. Labor troubles anC !
trust evils Will never find cure along |
the line Of mans will. and the Will @
God cannot be done in earth as il
Heaven until man surrenders uncondi.
tionally to God and accepts Christ q
Saviour. Until the mi1iennia dawn
Gods word makes itpla,A hat this con
h11f n G. |
has been put IN chains and Christ r2s