The Tupelo journal., 1905-11-24

them as the fingers of the un.
known at Babylon as they wrote
was electrical. And when hi
came to describe the condition
of the lsot sinner, weighed in
the balances and found wanting
weighed in his own balances, anC
in Gods balances, wanting
toward himself, his neigh
Dor and his God; wanting toward
his country and wanting toward
society; wanting in time and
{, wanting to all eternity. Then
he lifted aside the vail and gave
us a word picture of the lost ones,
forever lost, on account of want
of weight, weighed and found
wanting, because Christ the meek
and lowly one of Gallilee, had
never come into their lives and
sanctifed their hearts.
Turning with enthusiasm and
brightness from this subject to
the worlds hope and the chris
tian's solace, he cheered the be-
lever in the promise of the Sa-
vior's heavenly home and the
life beyond this vale of sorrows.
have in my minds eye an
other sermon which | heard him
preach from the judges stand
in the court house at Fulton in
September 1860 The occasion was
that of the funeral of Burge Gal
ther, who died at Fulton early in
September, 1860, just after the
September term of the Circuit
Court was over. Burge Gather
was a strong Methodist, and
Billiard was minister in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
but they were such staunch
friends that Gather made re-
quest that Bullard should preach
his funeral. Burge Gather was
an old time ante bellum gentler
man, having as many friends as
anyone who ever lived in Fulton,
and at the time of his death was
a candidate for county treasurer,
, and it was almost universally
conceded that his election was
assured. He had a very inter-
esting family, a wife and three
children surviving him, and one
dying only a few days before he
did, a poor man, whose residence
had been burned about a year
before he was called away, and
to US it seemed as important and
necessary for Burge Gather to
live for the comfort and even
support of his family as any man
who had ever lived. When the
day came fer tie funeral, the
court house vas crowded to over
flowing. his friends from many
parts OF tn, c)lltcy coming t.
pay their last respects, and all
Fulton was out en- masse, all
anxious also to hear the eloquent
tribute of the gifted preacher. |
recall now as If yesterday the
solemn and interesting scene,
the packed house, the solemn
calm, the upturned faces and
watery eyes and heaving bosoms;
the widows weeds and the three
clinging little orphans, the as
cent to the judges stand as a
pulpit for the preacher, whose
high and lofty forehead and
bright, sparkling eyes showed
unusual intelligence, and whose
manner clearly indicated that he
realized both the Importance and
solemnity of the occasion. Be
fore him sat the beauty and
chivalry of the county, but there
also sat the widow and orphans
of the preachers dead friend,
and therefore what to say and
now to say it was the problem
of the divine. | can say as | now
remember it ne met and mas
tered the issue well and nobly.
Gods wavs are not mans ways,
because GOD power and Gods
wisdom are SO much greater than
mans, even as the heavens are
higher than the earth. The
preacher spoke of the mighty
and wonderful size of the Alps
and the Andes, the Rockies and
Himalayas, and yet God weighed
them in his balances; he pictured
to us the extent of the seas and
the oceans and the wonderful
overhowing volumes of the riv-
ers, and still God measures them
all in the hollow of His hand; he
scanned the far distant stars and
the sysem of stars, so far from
us that if some of them should be
blotted out today they would
still shine on for a million years,
and no grain of them all not in
His mind and every particle num-
bered. And the same God who
possessed such wonderful pow
er, had also all wisdom and in
finite love, and the wicow and
the orphans Of his dead friend
would be the special care and un-
der the guidance of this Divine
One. We cannot understand,
but He knows the end from the
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