The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-02-15


the Impression that man like that would /
cure the denominations OF New York about ne /
soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fever |
or buzzsaw render liaydn's "Creaton. /
Politics In all our cities has become so cor |
rupt that the only difference between the |
Republican and Democratic parties Is that /
each is worse than tho other. But what |
nothing else in the universe can do tho gOs- |
pei can and will accomplish "rhoy shall |
come from the West, and for that purpose |
the ovangelistlc batteries are planted all |
along the Pacific coast, as they are planted
all along the Atlantic coast. An the prai-
rles, all the mountains. all the valleys all
the cities are under more or less gospel In
huence, and when we get enough faith and
consecrotion for the work this whole Ameri-
can continent will! cry out for God. "They
shall come from the Wast"
The work Is not so difficulty as many sup
pose. You say, "Ihere are the foreign pop
ulations.' Yes, but many Of them are Hol.
andors, and they were brought up to love
and worship God, aud il will take but little
to persuade the Hollanders TO adopt the re-
ligion OF their forelathers. Then there are
among these foreigners so many OF the
Scotch. They or their ancestors heard
Thomas Chalmers thunder and Robert Nc
Cheyne pray. Tho breath OF God so often
swept through the heather of the highlands
and the voice Of God has so often sounded
through the Trossachs, and they all know
how to sing Dundee, 50 that they will not
have often to be invited to accept tho God OF
John Knox and Boutwell, Bridge.
Then there arc among these foreigners so
many of the English. They inherited the
same language as we inherlted-the English
in which Shakespeare dramatized, and Mill
ton chimed his cuntos, and Henry Melville
gospeized. and oliver Cromwell prorogued
parliament, and Wellington commanded his
eager hosts. Among these foreigners are
the Swiss and they were rocked IN cradle
under the shadow OF the Alps, that cathedral
OF the Almighty in which all the elements,
snow and hail and tempest and hurricane,
worship. Among these foreigners are vast
host Of Germans, and they feel centuries
afterward the power Of that unparalleled
spirit who shook the earth when he trod 1t,
and the heavens when ne prayed-Martin
Luther From all Nations our foreign pop
ulatious have come. and they are homeslck,
far away from the placs of their childhood
| and the graves of their ancestors and our
| glorious religion presented to them Alright
will meet their needs and Ill their souls and
kindle their enthusiasm. They shall come
| from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, and
from the ore beds OF Wyoming and from
the silver mines Of Nevada, and from the
| golden gulches OF Colorado. and from the
| banks of the Platte, and the Oregon, and the
Sacramento, and the Columbia. "They
shall come from the West"
But what will they do after they comes
Here is something gloriously consolatory
that you have never noticed. "rhey shall
come from the East and the West, and the
North, and the South, and shall sit down. p"
Oh, this is a tired world The most Of peo-
pie are kept on the run all their lifetime.
Business keeps them on the run. Trouble
keeps them on the run. Rivdlries OF life
keep them on the run. They are running
from disaster. They are running for re-
ward. And those who run the fastest and
run the longest seem best to succeed. But
my text suggests a restful posture for all
Gods children, for all those who for a life
time have been on the run. "They shall sit
down" Why run any longer When a man
gets heaven, what more can he get? "1heJ
shall sit down" Not alone, but picked com
partnership Of the universe; not embar
raised. though a seraph should sit down OF
one side of you and an archangel on thu
other.
There is that mother who. through all tbs
years OF infancy and childhood, was KEEP
running amid sick trundle beds, now (
shake up the pillow for that haxen head
and now to give a drink to those parchet
lips and now to hush the frightened dream
/ Il
OF the children, because the great lover c
children had lifted one out OF the or CUP int
the easy breathing Of celestial atm ospherC
the mother putting all the more anxiou
care on those who were left, so weary {
arm and foot and back and head, so ofte
crying out II am so tired am so tired
Her work done, she shall sit down, and this
business man for thirty, forty, fifty year
has kept on the run. not urged by sci fish
ness, but for the purpose Of achieving
livelihood for the household. On the ru
from store to store or from factory 70 fac
tory, meeting this loss and discovering tina
inaccuracy and suffering betrayal or disap
pointment, nevermore to be cheated or per
picked or exasperated he shall sit down
not in a great armchair of heaven, for tn
rockers OF such chair would imply one
need of soothing, of changing to easy pos
ture or semi-invaIidism, but throne, soil
as eternity and radiant as the morning afte
: night of storm. "They shall sit down
/ notice that the most Of the styles OF to
require an erect attitude There are tn
thousands of girls behind counters, man
such persons through the inhumanity {
!, employers compelled to stand, even whe
because q lack of customers there Is no nee
that they stand. Then there are all the ca
penters, and the stonemasons, and II
blacksmiths, and the farmers, and the eng
= neers, and the ticket agents, and the col
: ductors. In most trades, in most occupi
; tions, they must stand. But ahead OF a
those who love and serve the Lord is a res
ing place. a complete relaxation OF fatigue
! muscle, something cushioned and uphol
!! tered and embroidered, with the very ems
! of heaven. "They shall SIT down." Re
I. from toll, rest from pain, rest from persecl
ton, rest from uncertainty. Beautiful, 10.
Gus, transporting, everlasting rest
: Oh, men and women of tho frozen Norti
: and the blooming South, and from ii
= realms OF the rising or setting sun, throug
y Christ got your sins forgiven. and start e
J the place where you may at last sit down
. blissful recovery from the fatigues OF cart
while there roll over you the raptures
!, heaven. Many of you have had such a roug
y tussle in this world that II your faculti
: were not perfect in heaven you would son
. time forget yourself and say, SIT is time (,
;, me to start on that journey" or 'It must