Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-08

broke his widowed mothers heart. Four
teen years passed and he returned, ant
came to the window at which his old moth
er was sitting
She looked up and Immediately recog
nized him and said, ooh. Robert, Robert
Come inP' No" said he, mother, shall
never come in till hear you say you for
| give me-" Heranswer was Robert, have
! forgiven you long ago. There is nothing
to forgive now except that you staid away
so long" My hearer forgiveness has beer
ready for you good while. With more
than mothers tenderness God will take
you back. They are waiting for you up in
the palace. Nebuchadnezzar was the sor
of Nabopolassar who ruled before him, and
you are the child of king
CONVICTION is NOT CONVERSION.
The next thought that presses into my
mind from the contemplation of this Incl
dent Is that conviction is not conversion
| Who is this monarch that makes the boast
about Babylon3 The very man who, under
the revelation of dreams that Daniel made
from heaven, deeply humbled himself
while he confessed that God is God OF
Gods and Lord of Lords, yet behold that
that humbling and arousing which he be
fore felt did not result in radical change
There is no mistake more frequent than
of supposing conviction a synonym for con
version. Conviction is merely sight OF
sin; conversion is view of pardon. Con
viction is merely alarm; conversion is con
| fidence. Conviction is dissatisfaction with
| depravity; conversion is turning away
from it. Conviction is a sword wound
conversion is the healing. Conviction is
the fever of thirst conversion is the slak-
ing of that thirst. Conviction is the pain
conversion is the medicine that cures it
| Thousands have experienced the former
and never experienced the latter. There
are mutitudes who think that as soon as
a man is serious he is fit for profession of
religion.
What if man should only think seri-
ously Of being merchant; would that
make him a merchant What if man
should only think seriously of being law
yer; would that make him a lawyer9
What if man should only think seriously
of being Christian would that make
him Christian Felix was convicted
but not converted. The jailer was con
victed before he got out of bed but not
converted until at the advice of Paul he
believed in Christ. Are you convicted
but not convertedP | tell you what you
make me think of.
You have made up your mind for proper
consideration to deed away a property
You have drawn the deed. The seal is af-
fixed opposite where you are to write your
name, The commissioner of deeds is pres
ent to witness, You have your pen in
hand. There is ink in the pen There is
only one thing for you to do and that is to
sign your name. Suppose you stop now
without signing your NAME what does it
all amount tor Nothing So you have re-
solved to give yourself up to God You
propose to sign off to him your body, your
mind, your soul. You have all things nee
essary for the transfer The angels of God
are here to witness the eternal transfer
Why do you not now with your will com,
plete the work. Halt where you are, and
all goes for nothing. Sign your name to
this spiritual transfer.
Professor Arago, the mathematician, got
woefully discouraged in his work and was
about to give up, when he saw some words
on the paper which had been used to stiffen
the cover of his book, and the words being
indistinct he dampened the cover until he
could take it off and see the words plainly
and he found they were words of advice
given by D'Alembert to a student, and the
who are convicted go onl" You must
take one more step, or all the steps you
have taken will amount to nothing. Go onl
PRIDE THE PRECURSOR OF SORROW
Learn also from my subject that pride
is the precursor Of overthrow. Pride is a
commander well plumed and caparisoned
but it leads forth a dark and frowning
host. Pride goeth before destruction,
and naughty spirit before fall" The
arrows from the Almighty's culver are
apt to strike a man when on the wing.
Goliath shakes his great spear in defiance,
but the smooth stones from the brook
make him stagger and fall like an OK un,
der butchers bludgeon. He who is
down cannot fall. Vessels scudding under
bare poles do not feel the force of the
storm.
What are those three seds that have
just gone into the yard of a miserable hotel
in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold night of
December the tenth, 1922 Who are they,
who from these sleds have entered, and
the servant is trying to build for them
fire with some green wood2 Napoleon,
with six attendants, on retreat from Mos
COW. The fire amid the green wood has
gone out, and the emperor is walking the
floor to keep from freezing.
Then bounding into his SLED, the Their
momvter twenty six degrees below zero, he
disappears in the darkness He whoa little
before had an army under his command,
together with troops offered by other ma
tions, in all l1S70O0 men, now retreating
through that December night with three
sleds, and those of his army not dead under
the snow reduced for food to a handful of
rye dough- seasoned with guupowder for
lack of salt, and a mouthful of horsefesh.
From what height to what a depthl
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Nebuchad
nezzar forsakeu in the fields
Again learn from the misfortune OF the
king of Babylon what terrible thing is
the loss of reason There is no calamity
that can possibly befall us in this world so
grpat ms the arrangement of intellect-to
have the body of man and yet to fall even
below the instinct of brute. In this
world of sad sights, the saddest is the
idiots stare In this world of awful sounds,
the most awful is the maniac's laugh. A
vessel on the rocks, when hundreds go
down never to rise, and other hundreds
drag their mangled and shivering bodies
up the wintry beach, is nothing compared
to the laundering of intellects full of vast
hopes and attachments and capacities
Christ's heart went out to those who
were epileptic, falling into the fire, or
maniacs cutting themselves among Che
tombs We are accustomed to be more
grateful TOR physical health Unan Tor the
proper working of our mind We are apt
to take it for granted that the intellect
which has served us so well will always be
faithful. We forget that an engine with
such tremendous power, when the wheels
have such vastness of circle and such swift