The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28

| And Satan does that sort of thing. too
| He paints religion in unattractive colors
| and deludeS young men into the idea thai
with 1t they are less manly, and less sue
cessful than without it. Do you think tC
find the really strong young man outside
| the ranks of the followers of Jesus
Christ? Let us see.
THE man of fine physique rejoices in
his strength, and during the vigor OF
lifeknows not what weakness means, but
when the chilling hand of death is laid
upon his powerful frame what has he to
depend upon? If he is a follower of
Christ he may shout with Paul, Death
is swallowed up in victory" But if he
has refused to receive Gods message to
his soul, of what avail is his physical
strength in the face of the eternal sum-
mons?
The moralist delights in his strength
of will which enables him to live a clean,
upright life, and he moves smoothly and
proudly through the world until at last
the grave opens and his career is ended.
His moral strength has enabled him to
leave with men a stainless record, but
how is it when his soul gets into the
presence of God? There moral worth
loses its potency. There only the blood
of Jesus Christ has the power to over
come the judgment of death standing
against the human race, and is able to
admit to Heaven. He has put his trust in
his moral worth and he hears God say
to his soul: "All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God; There is
none that doeth good, no not one" your
moral worth is of no avail this side of
the grave; depart from Me; for you have
rejected My Son who went to earth to
save you.
The man of intellectual strength may
encompass the learning of the world and
sit upon the pinnacle of the mountain
of the worlds wisdom. What towering
strength holds him in his position of at
tainment? He eXcels all his fellows in
learning. But the brain which has mani
tested such strength and capacity is soon
palsied by death, and the soul with all
of its learning is ushered into the pres
ence of Him in Whom center all knowl-
edge and wisdom. Dare the poor soul
longer trust in the strength of its own
wisdom as it hears the words: THE wis
dom of this world is foolishness with
God, because the foOlishnesS of God is
wiser than men; and the weakness of
God is stronger than men" "For the Lord
taketh the wise in their own craftiness,
and He knOweth the thoughts of the wise
that they are vain" And the simplicity
an OF of q obi &c oh
all his learning, for Jesus says: Except
We become as little children, We shall not
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven
yields a mighty power. The
w man with the golden key can I'M
lock the treasure house of this worlds
possessions and crafty almost any de-
sire of which flesh is capable Money
will buy any of the goods which are on
he worlds counters, but it will not buy
4 mansion in Heaven. Money will take
1ne anywhere almost on the face of the
earth, but it will not secire a passage
across the dark river and into the pearly
gates of the Celestial city. Money is able
to buy up legislative bodies, and nations,
and fill the offices of city county,
state and. nation; but all the gold
mined and minted and all the gold
yet resting in the bosom of Mother
Earth is not sufficient to buy up
God and alter His judgments. The man
With his millions is mighty factor in
he affairs of men, but, like the rich man
IF Jesus parable who was planning the
building of larger barns that he might
store his increasing treasures, when the
summons comes to meet his God, he has
O leave all his treasures behind. In
naked poverty he was ushered before the |
Judgment bar, and then what did it profit |
lin that he was one of the richest men
n all the world? For all that he could |
axe with him into the next world-his |
oul-was lost forever. Who would say /
hat the wealthy young man was the |
strong young man? So much for such |
trength as the world in various direc-
ions is able to produce. The superior
ype of young man is not found in any of |
hem. Under the final testing at the I
ands of God, the vital qualification is
ound to be lacking. The counterfeit /
DIN may pass current side by side with
he genuine. 1t may look to be genuine,
may have the true rung, but subject it
o the final test of the acid and its in
eriority is at once apparent. The supe-
Tor type of young manhood is not dis