The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-09-13

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d0 not hand over che rollins soon enough,
After o. man has had trouble, prayer i
with him taking hold ~ too arm Of God
and erYingo uf i0rhelp. / have heard earnest
prayers on two or thrao occasions that ] re-
member. Once. on tho Cincinnati expires
train, going at forty miles the hour, the train
Jumped the track. and we were noara ohasm
eighty feet deep, and the men who, iew
minutes before. had been swearing and hlas-
phominR God. began 20 pull and jerk nt the
bell rope and got up on the backs OF the
seats, and cried out, 10 God, save usl"
There was another time. about 800 miles
out at sea. on "a laundering steamer, after
the last lifohoRt had been spllt finer than
klndlIng wood. They prayed then Why Is
lt you so often hear people, IN rccitlng The
last experience OF some friend say, che
made the most beautiful prayer i ever
heardf" What makes Il beautiful u Is the
earnestncss OF it. OH tell you. a man Is
In earnest when hls stripped and naked soul
wades out IN the s0undless, shoroleas, bot
tomless ocean Oi eternity.
IL IS trouble. my friends. that makes us
feel our dependence upon God. We do not
know our own weakness or Gods strength
until the last plank breaks. IL Is contempti-
bic In as when there is nothing else 10 take
hold OF that we catch hold 81 God only.
Why. YOU do not know who the Lord isl He
Is not nn autocrat seated far up in palace,
from which He energies once % year, preceded
by heraIds swinging swords % clear the way.
No. But n Father willing, at our call, TO
stand by as In every crisis and Tredieament
OF life. / tell you what some OF you busl-
ness men make me think Of. young man
goes of from home 20 earn hts fortune. He
goes with his mothers consent and benedic-
ton. She has large wealth, but he wants 10
make his own fortune. He goes far away
falls sick, gets out OF money, He sends for
the hotel keeper where he Is STAYING, asking
for lenience. and the answer he gets r., "It
you don't pay up Saturday night, you'll be
removed 70 the hospital"
The young man sends to a cOmrade I'm the
same building. No help. He writes to q
banker who was q friend OF his deceased
father No relief. Ho writes TO an old
schoolmate, but gets no help. Saturday
night comes, aud he is moved 10 the hospital.
Getting there, he Is frenzied with grief.
and he borrows q sheet OF paper and post
age stamp, and he sits down, and he writes
home, saying; "Dear mother, am sick un-
20 DEATH Come" Il Is ten minutes OF 10
o'clock when she gets the letter. AZ 10
o'clock the train starts. She Is five minutes
from the depot. She gets there In time TO
have five minutes to spare. She wonders
why a train that can 90 thirty miles an hour
cannot 60 sixty miles an hour. She rushes
into the hospital. Sho says; "MysOn, what
does all this mean? Why didn't you send for
me2 You sent to everybody but me. You
knew I could and would help you. Is this
| the reward get for my kindness to you al
ways?" She bundles him up. takes him
| home and gets him we'll very soon. Now,
some Of you treat God just as that young
man treated his mother. When you get into
! a financial perplexlty, you call on the ban
| ker, y gu call on the broker, you call on your
| cred tors, you call on your lawyer for legal
/ counsel; you call upon everybody and when
| you cannot get any help, then You 90 to God.
| You say: 80, Lord, come to Thee. Help
/ me now out Of my perpleXity." And the Lord
comes, though it is the eleventh hour He
says: "Why did you not send for Me be'ore2
| AS one whom his mother comiOrteth. so will
| / comfort YOU" II is to throw US back upon
God that we have this ministry Of tears.
Again, it is the use of trouble to capaci-
tate us for the office Of sympathy The
| priests, under the old dispensation, were set
apart by having water sprinkled upon their
hands, feet and head, and by the sprinkling
| of tears people are now set apart to the Office
| of sympathy. When we are in prosperity we
like to have q great many young people
| around us, and we laugh when they laugh,
| and we romp when they romp, and we sing
when they sing; but when we have trouble
we like plenty of Old folks around. Why
They know how to talk.
Take an aged mother, seventyyears Of age
and she is almost omnipotent in comfort
Why2 She has been through it all. Al
o'clock in the morning she goes owe
to comfort young mother who has just los
her babe. Grandmother knows all about
that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. Al
IL O'Clock OF that day she goes over to com
fort widowed soul. She knows all abou
that. She has been walking in that dRrl
valley twenty years. At 4 O'Clock in thu
afternoon some one knocks at the door
wanting bread. She knows all about that
Two or three times in her life she came t
her last loaf. At 10 O'clock that night sh
goes over to sit up with some one severel
sick. She knows all about it. She know
all about fevers and pleursies and broker
bones. She has been doctorng all her life
spreading plasters and pouring out bite
drops and shaking up hot pillows and con
irving things to tempt poor appetite
Drs. Abernethy and Rush and Hosack an
Harvey were great doctors, but the creates
doctor the world ever saw is an old Christia
woman Dear mel Do we not remembe
her about the room when we were sick |
our boyhoOd? Was there any one wh
could ever 50 touch sore without hurtin
it,
Where did Paul get the ink with which {
to write his comforting epistle? Where di
David get the ink to write his comfortin
Psalms2 Where did John get the ink
write his comforting Reyeations2 They *
it out Of their own tears. When man hi
gone through the curriculum and has take
. course of dungeons and Imprisonment
and shipwrecks, he is qualified for the wor
= of sympathy.
: When began to preach, my sermons o
the subject of trouble were all poetic and
semi blank verse, but God knocked the blan
s verse out of me long ago and have four
+ out that / cannot comfort people except as
/. myself have been troubled. God make II
t the son Of consolation to the people!
would rather be the means of soothing Of
t perturbed spirit to-day than to play tul
& that would set all the sons Of mirth reeli1
s in the dance.
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