Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-29


water out OF the we'll for them, and 1t was
very pure water. But the battle ragged,
and three hundred dead and half dead
were flung into the we'll for quick and easy
burial SO that the we'll Of refreshment be-
came the we'll of death, and long after peo-
pie looked down into the well and they
saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So
the human soul was a well Of good but the
armies of sin have fought around it and
fought across 1t and been slain, and 1t has
become well of skeletons. Dead hopes,
dead resolutions dead opportunities, dead
ambitions. An abandoned well unless
Christ shall reopen and purify and clean 1t
as the we'll Of Belgium never was. I'M
clean, uncleani
| Another seraphic posture in the text,
with twain he covered the face" That
means reverence Godward. Never SO much
| irreyerence abroad in the world RS today.
| You see it in the defaced statuary, in the
cutting out of figures from fine paintings,
| in the chipping of monuments for me-
mento, in the fact that military guard
must stand at the graves Of Grant and Gar
| field, and that old shade trees must be cut
down for firewood, though fifty George p.
| Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the
tree and that calls corpse cadaver, and
that speaks of death rs going over to the
majority, and substitutes for the reverent
| terms, father and mother, 'the old man"
and 1.-THE old woman" and finds nothing
| impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the
columns of Karnac, and sees no difference
| in the Sabbath from other days except it
allows more dissipation, and reads the
| Bible In what is called higher criticism,
making it not the Word of God, but a
| good book with some fine things in it.
Irreverence never SO much abroad. How
many take the name of God in vain, how
many trivial things said about the AL
mighty Not willing to have God in the
world, they roll up an idea of sentimental
| ity and humanitarianism and impudence
and imbecility, and call it God. No wings
Of reverence over the face, no taking off of
shoes on holy ground. You can tell from
the way they talk they could have made a
better world than this, and that the God
of the Bible shocks every sense of propri-
ETY.. They talk of the love of God in a way
that shows you they believe it does not
make any difference how bad a man is
| here he will come in at the shining gate.
They talk of the love of God in such way
which shows you they think it is general
Jail delivery for all the abandoned and the
scoundrelism OF the universe. No punish
ment hereafter for any wrong done here.
THE LOVE AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD.
The Bible gives us two descriptions OF
God, and they are just opposite, and they
are both true In one place the Bible says
God is love. In another place the Bible
says God is consuming fire. The explana
ton Is plain as plain can be. God through
Christ is love. God out of Christ is fire
To win the one and to escape the other We
have only to throw ourselves-body, mind
and soul-into Christ's keeping. mo" says
Irreverence, II want no atonement, l want
no pardon, want no intervention; l will
10 up and face God, and / will challenge
him, and / will defy him, and l will ask
him what he wants to do with me-" Sc
the finite confronts the infinite, SO tack
hammer tries to break thunderbolt, 81
the breath Of human nostrils defies thu
everlasting God, while the hierarchs o.
heaven bow tine head and bend the knee a!
the Kings chariot goes by, and the arch
angel turns away because he cannot endure
the splendor, and the chorus of all the EN-
pires of heaven comes In with full diapa
son, "Holy, holy, holyP'
Reverence for sham, reverence for thu
old merely because 1t Is old, reverence TO
stupidity however learned, reverence TO
incapaoity however finely inaugurated,
have none. But we want more reverence
for God, more reverence for the sacra
ments, more reverence for the Bible, NOR
reverence for the pure, more reverence fol
the good. Reverence characteristic o
all great natures. You hear 1t in the rol
Of the master oratorios. You see 1t in tn
Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandijos
You study it in the architecture OF tn
Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do no
be f1ippant about God. Do not joke abou
death. Do not make fun Of the Bible. ID
not deride the eternal. The brightest ant
mightiest seraph cannot look unabashe'
upon him. Involuntarily the wings com
up. with twain he covered his face"
Who is this God before whom the are
CANT and intractable refuse reverence
There was an engineer OF the name
,, Subsidiaries who was In the employ Q
Alexander the Great, and he offered to hey
, q mountain In the shape Of his master, tn
emperor, the enormous figure to hold !
the left hand city of ten thousand inhat
itants, while with the right hand 1t was
hold basin large enough to collect all tn
, mountain torrents. Alexander applaude
him for his ingenuity, but forbade the Ell
! terprise because of its costliness. Yet
have to tell you that our King holds In on
hand all the cities of the earth and all tn
: oceans, while he has the stars of heaven fo
his tiara.
THE OMNIPoTENT ONE.
Earthly power goes from hand to hand
from Henry to Henry IL and Henry III
0 from Charles to Charles ii, from Louis
r to Louis ii and Louis III--but from evel
Q lasting to everlasting is God God tn
a first, God the last, God the only. He ha
Q one telescope with which he sees ever!
: thing-his omniscience. He has one bridg
4 with which he crosses everything-his on
Q nipresence. He has one hammer with whfc
f he builds everything-his omnipotenc'
+ put two tablespoonfuls of water in til
T. palm of your hand and it will overflow
= but Isaiah indicates that God puts the A
t lantic. and the Pacific, and the Arctic, an
:. the Antarctic. and the Mediterranean, an
!. Tho Black sea, and all the waters OF II
r earth in the hollow of his hand. tn
4 fingers the beach on one side, the wrist I'll
IS beach on the other. HE holdeth Tn
IS water in the hollow of his hand"
e As YOU take pinch of salt or powdt
y between your thumb and two fingers, {
k Isaiah indicates God takes up the eartl
= lie measures the dust of the earth, III
r original there indicating that God tax
e all the dust of all the continents betwee
h the thumb and two fingers. You wra
1t around your hand blue ribbon five time
1t ten times. You say it is five hand breadth
e, or It is ten hand breadths. So indicate
re the prophet. God winds the blue ribbon
IT the sky around his hand. "He meteth oil
u the heavens with span"