Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-22
GOOD SERMON YESTERDAY.
A Large Congregation Hears Brother
Duncan at the Methodist Church
At the Baptist Church.

pit by interchange with Rev. r. M.
Harrell. Mr.. Duncan was greeted
by large congregation, among
them being many Of his old friends
and companions, who listened with
close attention to good sermon, de
livered with much force and fer
vency.
Mr.. Duncan's text was the first
verse of the fifth chapter of End Cor
inthians: ''For we know if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, we have building of
God, house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens" ut was a
fact" said the speaker, "that Chris
tianity alone throws any light on the
other side the of grave. The great
problem that touches every human
soul is its final destiny, the aDiding-
place of the spirit beyond the grave.
Reason unaided falls short of an ans
Wer, and to the Christian alone, who
looks by faith beyond death, has its
solution been given. He has the as
surance that though a man perish
yet shall he live, for God has provid-
ed home, the architecture OF which
is beyond human conception, for his
higher life."
The comparison of the body to a
tabernacle was forcible and apt. ga
tabernacle was temporary habita
ton or portable structure for worship
and sacrifices, which the Jews carried
through the wilderness in the exc,
dus. There was nothing permanent
about il; nor was the body for the
permanent indwelling of the soul
but only its temporary abiding place
while undergoing the process of fit
ting it for the presence of God. This
temporary home should not be neg
lected, but it must lot be allowed tC
overshadow and shut out the great
interests of dwelling place, the
boundaries of which were coeXtensive
with eternity. What profit it if q
man gain the whole world and lose
his own soul?
"The Christian never doubts that
there is an eternal home prepared foi
hlm-a land of rest beyond the con-
seriousness of the human mind, per-
haps, but there God is, and He will
gather His children in a perpetual
home, where love is and spiritual
recognition shall reunite the broken
ties of the temporal home"
The sermon was strong one and
well delivered.
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Baptist congregation heard
two able sermons by their pastor al
both services yesterday. In the
morning he preached from these
words, found in Timothy 2:15
"Study to show thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed" If in his flock
| there were those who doubted that
religion is a matter of progression,
even as is farming, manufacturing
merchandising, school-teaching, 0,
any of the arts and sciences, those
doubts were swept away by the dr..
guments suggested by the text. That
they were applied without gloves
goes without saying. The idea that
one may advance in religious life
and not wo,k and study with unre.
hitting zeal is clearly impossible
In support of this position a scathine
rebuke was administered to the luke
warm, lazy, slipshod, uniformed
church member, the patron Of the
theatre, the dance, the card-tabIe, the
wine. bibber, the hustler for the al.
mighty dollar, etc. In short, these
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the text, and for obvious reasons
EscheWing all these things, the man
who is approved by God is he who
by a patient, earnest, prayerful study
of His word, finds out what is re-
CURED of him and does it.
DIR. Lupton was absent at Bowling
Green yesterday. The Presbyterian
pulpit, however, was filled at the II
O'Clock service by Rev. Mr.. Houston,
secretary of the Board Of Missions OF
the Presbyterian church. His dis
course was confined to the work OF
missions and was very interesting
effort. Dir. BardWell preached an
excellent sermon at night on the
Prophet Daniel. This was DR.. Bard
wells first sermon to GAINESVILLE
audience since his return, and il
brought to the church y large con
gregation.
The services at the other churches
We're conducted by the respective
pastors.
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