Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-15


has provided great supper and the oxen
aud the fatliugs have been killed, AMI
fruits from all the vineyards and orchards
oil heaven crown the table The world has
been invited 10 come, aud they look iG, and
they ARE hungry. and people would pour in
by the millions to this worldwide table, but
the door is blocked mp by controversies and
men with whole libraries on their backs
are disputing ~ to what proportion OF
sweet oil aud cayenne pepper should make
up the creed cry, Get ont of the way
and let the hungry world come in"
THE CHURCH IN DANGER.
The Christian church will have to change
its tack or it will run on the rocks of
demolition, The worlds population an
nualy increases 100000 No one pre-
tends that half that number of people are
converted to God There are more than
twice ss many Buddhists as Professionals.
more than twice as many Buddhsts as
Roman Catholics Protestants, $4,000.
600 Catholics 19j00O.000, Buddhists, 400,
000000 There are 175.000,O00 Moham
mediums and 220,0O0,000 Brahmins Mean
while many of the churches are only re
ligious clubhouses, where few people 90
on Sunday morning averaging one person
pews, and leaving the minister ut night to
sweat through sermon with here and
there lone traveller, unless, by Sunday
evening sacred concert, he can get out an
audience of respectable size.
The vast majority of the church mem
bership around the world puts forth no di
rect effort for the salvation of men. Did
say there would have to be changer
hot nd ha
change. If there be fifteen million per
sons added every year to the worlds popu
lation, then there will be thirty million
added to the church and forty million and
fifty million and sixty million. How will
it be done2 1t will be done when the
church will meet Christ on the plain Come
down out of the mountain of exclusive
ness. Come down out of the mountain of
pride. Come down out of the mountain of
Journalism Come down out of the noun
tain of freezing indifference.
Old DIR. Stephen H. Tying, great on earth
and in heaven. once said to me: 81 am in
favor of change | do not know what is
the best way Of doing things in the
churches, but know the way we are doing
now is not the best way, or the world would
be nearer it's salvation than it seems to be-"
So feel so we all feel, that there needs to
be a change. The point at which we all
come short is presenting Christ on the
the plain, Christ on the level with all the
worlds woes and wants and necessities
The full change will have to come from
the rising ministry, We now in the field
are too set in our ways. We are numbered
up with technicalities We have too many
concoriances and dictionaries and encyclo
pedias and systems of theology on our
head to get down on the plain. Our vo
cabulary is too frosted We are too much
under the domination of customs regnant
for many centuries. Come on, young men
of the ministry Take this pulpit, take all
the pulpits, and in the street. and the mar
ket place, and the family circle preach
Christ on the plain.
As soon as the church says by its atti
tude--not necessarily by its words-"My
one mission is to help for this life and help
for the life to come all the people," and it
proves it's earnestness in the matter, people
on foot and on horseback and in wagons
and in carriages will come to the churches
in such numbers that they will have to be
met ut the door by ushers, saying: You
were here last Sunday, you cannot come
in today. Gentlemen and ladies, you must
take your turn"
And it will be as in the Johnstown
freshet and disaster, when government
station was opened for the supply of bread
and it took the officers of the law to keep
the sufferers in line, because Of the great
rush for food, When this famine struck
world realizes that the church is a govern
mcnt station set up by the government of
the universe to provide the bread of eter
nal life for all the people, the rush will be
and unimaginable.
THE WORLDS TROUBLE HAS NOT BEEN
WEIGHED.
Astronomers have been busy measuring
worlds, and they have told us how great is
the circumference of this world and how
great is its diameter. Yea, they have
kept on until they have weighed our planet
and found its weight to be six sextillion
tons, But by no science has the weight of
this worlds trouble been weighed. Now,
Christ standing on the level of our human,
ity stands in sympathy with every trouble
There are SO many aching heads. His
Rched under the thorns, There are so
many weary feet. His were worn with the
long journey up and down the land that
received him not There are so many per
secuted souls Every hour of his life was
under human outrage The world had no
better place to receive him than a cattle |
PEN and its farewell was slap on his
cheek and n spear in his side
So intensely human was he that there |
has not been in all our race grief or in
trinity or exhaustion or pang that did not |
touch him once and that does not touch |
him now The lepers, the paralytics, the |
mbecile, the maniac, the courtesan, the |
repentant brigaud which one did he turn |
ll, which one did he not pity, which one |
lid he not help? The universal trouble of |
the world is bereavement. One may es-
cape all the other troubles, but that no
soul escapes Out of that bitter cup every
one must take drink. For instance in
order that nll might know how he sympa-
.hi2es with those who have lost IA daugh
Ter, Christ comes to the house Of Jairus
There is such big crowd around the door
he and his disciples have 80 push their
way in.
From the throng OF people | conclude
that this girl must have been very popu.
lar, she WIS one of those children whom
likes, After Christ got in the
house there was such loud weeping that
lhe ordinary tones of voice could not be
heard do not wonder. The dead daugh.
leT was INeiNe years VI dSe. IL IL dDout
he happiest time in most lives. Very lit
lie children suffer many injustices because
hey are children, and childhood is not a
desirable part of human existence-they
get whacked or set on. But at twelve
years of age the child has come to self as
'ertion and ia apt to make her rights
known And then twelve years Of age is
90 early for the cares and anxieties of life
So this girl was think the merriment
If the household. she furnished for them
he mimicry and the harmless mischief
md rnnspd the rlfrnm that often rang