The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-08-16

NOR recreation It mas be- wound up. aliW ihn
machinery b. Hl out % gear The hhnla turn
around with % velocity tHW fheiic ono h.
Constituent 0f the world. Sion cannot un-
druiand tho wonderful activity. hnl ll.ff ]
g. "a roar. and n buzz. and % rniilHahoui iheaH /
dIs0rlorsI lives. and tbey strike Cen when /
ihey ought O. strike lYe, and they strike /
twelve when they ought to strike hf, ..1d |
thny strike l0riy when they ought io strike /
nothing. and suddenly they stop foa, /
norton examination reveal the net that oll /
the sDriuaa aud plv3ls and weights ana bale
aneo wheels 0i health are completely de-
ranged. mo human clock has simply run
down. And ni tho time when the steady
hand ought l0 DE pointing to the industrious
hours ON clear and sunut dial Or whole
machinery of body mind and earthly cnpae-
lty stops forever Tho cemeteries have thou
sands of business men who died oi old ago
az thirty. thlrty-Aye. forty, lorty-ly'.
Now. what is wanted i8 grnre-liv'ne
grace Cor ordinary business mcn men who
are harnossed from morn till night and Wl
tho DAYS OF their e-barnos4ed in business.
Not grace 10 lose 500 00J but graeo 20 lose
$40. Not gmce 10 supervise $50 employees
/ in o factory, bul grace To supervise the book
| keeper and two statesmen and the small boy
/ that sweeps ont the store. Grace 90 Invest
not the $4,000 Of net profit, but the $500
/ OF clear gain. Grace not 60 endure the loss
/ OF % whole shipload oI spices from the ln-
/ dies. but grace 90 endure the loss OF paper
/ on collars from the leakage OF o. displaced
/ ehingle on q poor roof.
Grace not TO endure the Hardness OF the
/ American Congress in passing q necessary
law, but grace TO endure the tardinc-5 OF an
| errand boy stopping to play marbles when
ho ought TO deliver the goods; such grace
/ us thousands of business men have to-day,
keeping them tranquil whether goods sell or
do not sell, whether customers pay or do not
pay. whether the taru Is up Orturin is down.
whether the crops ARE luXurian. or dead
failure. calm I'm all circumstances and amid
all vssicitudes- that Is the kind OF grace we
want Millions OF men want Il, aud they
may have 4 for the asking Soms hero OF
heroine comes 60 town, and asthe procession
passes through the street the business men
come out and stand on tiptOe on their store
steps and look at some one who in arctic
cline or In ocean storm or I'm day Of battle or
I'm hospital agonies did the brave thing. not
realizing that they, the enthusiastic specta-
tors, have gone through trials I'm bushes.
life that are just rs great before God. There
are men who have gone through ireezine
Arctics and burning tOrrids and aWlu
MarengOs Of experiences without moving
Ave miles from their doorsteps. Now VIVA
ordinary business men need Is 10 realize tina
they have the friendship of that Christ whJ
l looked after the religious interests o
Matthew. the custom house clerk. aud helpe,
4 | Lydia OF Thyatira to sell the dry goods, AM
who opened a bakery and Ash market In tn
: wilderdess OF Asia Minor TO feed the 20 4
I who had come out on a religious picnic, AM
Z who counts the hairs OF your head with q
! much particularly as though they wer
{ the plumes Of coronation, and VIII
! took the trouble TO stoop down with Hi
: finger writing on the ground, althoug
= the FIRST shuttle Of feet obliterated the diyin
= callgraphy and who knows Just how man
locusts there were in the Egyptian plagu
r and knew Just how many ravens were neee
y sary to supply Eiiah's pantry by the broo
n Cherith. and who as floral commander leaC
d, forth all the regiments Of primroses, fo-
4 gloves, dafIotis. hyacinths and lilies waiC
> pitch their tents OF beauty and kindle the
- camp fires OF color all around the hem
y. sphere; that that Christ and that God kno
= the most minute affairs Of your business lii
IL and. however inconsiderable, underestimate
ts all the affairs of that woman who keeps
~ thread and needle store as well as all the a
> fairs Of ROthschild and Stewart.
y Then there are all the ordinary farmer
1, We talk about agricultural life and we il
. mediately shoot off TO talk about Cinci
IA natus. the patrician who went from the pic
,e to a high position, and after he got throu
~ the dictatorship in twenty-One days we
al PACK again to the plow. What encouraG
~ ment is that to ordinary farmers2 The VI
20 majority OF them, none OF them, viii be |
~ tricians. Perhaps none of them will be Sc
u ators. If any ofthem have relationships
~ ~ will be over forty or fifty or 100 acres OF
~ old homestead. What those men want
oU grace to keep their patience while plo
- ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerl
~ amid the drought that destroysthe corn or
- and that enables them to restore the gard
P1 the day after the neighbor's cattle he
~ broken in and trampled out the strawbaI
- bed and gone through the lima bean pat
~ and eaten up the sweet corn in such lal
ifa quantities that they must be kept from
~, e water lest they swell up and die; grace
IN catching weather that enables them withC
~ imprecation to spread out the hay the tn
a. time, although again and again and agaiI
W. has been almost ready for the NOV; or
~ to doctor the COW with hollow born,
NJ NJ the sheep with the footrot, and the he
IA with the distemper and to compel the
w. .5C. willing acres to yield livelihood for
w, family, and schooling for the children,
IL IL little extras to help the older boy in busn
~. and something for the daughters wedd
NJ 10 outfit, and little surplus for the time W
AoN the ankles will get stiff with age and
,o.,, breath will be little short, and the swi
,,ssS ing of the cradle through the hot har'
&C., field will bring on the old mans VERT
~ Better close up about Cincinnatus / XII
az 500 farmers just as noble as he was.
ino What they want is to know that they h
20 the friendship of that Christ who often d
az His SMILES from the farmers life, as W
~ ,uo He said, "a sower went forth to sow,
IS when He built His best parable out Of
W. scene Of a farmers boy coming back Il
no on his wanderings and the old farmhousesh
% that night with rural jubilee, and who c
10 pared Himself to a lamb in the pasture fl
l and who said the eternal God is a farI
' ut declaring, MY Father is the bnsbandmi
on- oI,o,,t ~, ris4oylba. Wa, ,be orcbitecf
~ built st. Paurs cathedral 1t would be
Li Ii ter to tell them how to carry the nod OF
"a up the ladder without slipping, and how
l9'- a cold morning with the trowel to smoot
~, the mortar and keep cheerful, and how
l IN thankful to God for the plain food ia
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