The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07

and it is built out of the Gospel of
pardon and good morals. That Cos
pei rocked our cradle, and it will
ePitaph our grave. 1t soothes our
SORROWS, brightens our hopes, in
spires our courage, forgiyes our sihs
and saves our souls. 1t takes a man
who is all wrong and makes him all
right. What that Gospel has done for
you and me is story that we can
never fully tell. What it has done
for the world and will yet do for the
nations it Will take the thousand
years of the millennium to celebrate
The grandest churches are yet 20 be
built. The mightiest anthems are
yet to be hoisted. The greatest
victories are yet to be gained, The
most beautiful Madonnas are yet to
be painted. The most triumphant
professions are yet to march. Oh,
what a world this will be when it ro-
tates in its orbit redeemed planet,
girdled with spontaneous harvests
and enriched by orchards whose
fruits are speckless and redundant,
and the last pain will have been BAN
ished and the last tear wept and the
last groan uttered, and there shall
be nothing to hurt or destroy in all
Gods holy mountain! All that and
more will come to pass, for 'the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
So far have mentioned nine of the
ten strings of the instrument of graft
tude. L now come to the tenth and the
last. l mention it last that it may be
the more emorable-heavenly antici-
Is I'D
going to move into a place so much
better than this that on arriving we
will wonder that we were for so many
years so loath to make the transfer.
After we have seen Christ face to face
and rejoiced over our departed kindred
there are some mighty spirits we will
want to meet soon after we pass
through the gates. We want to see and
will see David, a mightier king in
Heaven than he ever was on earth, and
we will talk with him about psalmody
and get from him exactly what he
meant when he talked about the instru-
ment of ten strings. We will confront
Moses. who will tell of the law giving
on rocking Sinai and of his mysterious
burial, with no one but God present.
We will see Joshua, and he will tell US
of the coming down of the walls of
Jericho at the blast of the rams horn
and explain to us that miracle = how
the sun and moon could stand still
without demolition of the planetary
system We will see Ruth and have
her tell of the harvest field of Boaz, in
which she CLEANED for afflicted Naomi.
We will see Vashti and hear from her
own lips the story of her banishment
from the Persian palace by Infamous
Ahasuerus.
We will see and talk with Daniel,
and he will tell us how he saw Bel
shazzar's banqueting hall turned into
slaughter house and how the lions
greeted him with loving fawn instead
of stroke of cruel paw. We will see
and talk with Solomon, whose palaces
are gone, but whose inspired epigrams
stand out stronger and stronger as the
centuries pass. We will see Paul and
hear from him how Felix trem bled be-
fore him and the audience of slleptics
on Mars hill were confounded by his
sermon on the brotherhood of man,
what he saw at Ephesus and Syracuse
and Philippi and Rome and how dark
was the Mamertine dungeon and how
sharp the ak that beheaded him on the
road to Ostia. Yea, we will see all the
martyrs, the victims of AK and sword
and fire and bilIow. What a thrill of
excitement for US when we gaze upon
the heroes and heroines who gave their
lives for the truth. We will see the
gospel prOclaimers Chrysostom and
Bourdaloue and Wkitefield and the
Wesleys and John Knox. We will see
the great Christian poets Milton and
Dante and Watts and Mrs. Hemans
and Frances Havergal. Yea, all the
departed Christian men and women of
whatever age or station.
But there will be one focus toward
which all eyes viii be directed. His
infancy having slept on pillow of
straw; all the hates of the Herodic
government planning for his assassi-
nation: in after time whipped as
though he were criminals; asleep on
the cold mountains because no one Of
fered Him lodging; though the great
est being who ever touched our earth,
derisively called 'this fellow" His last
hours writhing on spikes of infinite
torture: His lacerated form put in sep
uIcher. then terminated and ascended
TO be the center of all heavenly admi-
ration-upon that greatest martyr and
miphtiest hero of all the centuries we
will be permitted to look. Put that
among your heavenly anticipate
Now take down your harp of ten
strings and sweep all the chords, MAX
inc all of them tremble with a great
gladness. 1 have mentioned just ten
delightsome food, eyesight, hearing,
comotion, illumined nights, mental fac
ulties in equipoise, friendships of life,
Gospel advantages and heavenly antici-
nations. Let US make less complaint
and offer more thanks, render less
dirpe and more cantata. Take paper
and pen and write down in long col
umns your blessings. l have recited
only ten. To express all the mercies
God has bestowed you would have to
use at least three, and think five, nu-
meraIs, for surely they would run up
into the hundreds and the thousands.
"Oh. give thanks unto the Lord. for He
is good, for His mercy endureth for
ever" Get into the habit of rehearsal
of the brightnesses of life.
Notice how many more fair days
there are than foul, how many more
good people than bad you meet. Set
YOUR misfortunes to music, as David
opened his dark sayings op a harp"
If it has been low tide heretofore, let
the surges of mercy that are yet to roll
in upon you reach high water mark.