The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-01-04


Suppose by some extra prolongatlon Of
human life ut the next fifty years Jon should
walk around the world, You would not la
all that walk find one personthat you reeog-
nize Why7 All dead or so changed that
you would not know them. In other words,
II you postpone the redemption OF this
world for fifty years, you admit that the
majority Of the two whole generations shall
20 Off the stage unbessed and unsaved. /
tell you the church OF Jesus Christ cannot
consent to It. We must pray and toll aud
have the revival spirit, and we must strng-
gle to have the whole world saved before the
men and women now ia middle life pass of.
9Oh," you say. iii is too vast HI enter
prise to be conducted In so short time.
DO you know how long It would take to save
the whole world II each man would bflng an-
ether Il would taEe ten years. BY q cal
culation Ia compound interest, each man
bringing another, and that one another, and
TINT one another, in ten years the whole
world would be saved II the world Is not
saved in the next ten years it will BIO the
fault Of the church of Christ.
Is ittoo much to expect each one to bring
one2 Some OF US must bring more than one,
Tor some will not do their duty. I want to
bring 1O,0 600 souls. should be ashamed to
meet my God in judgment il, with all my OPP
porthnities OF commenting Christ TO the
people, I coald not bring 10000 souls. But
II will MI depend upon the revival spirit. The
hook and line fishing will not do II.
1t seems to me as ii God Is preparing the
world for some quick and universal move.
ment. A celebrated electrician gave mo d
telegraph chart of the world. On that chart
the wires crossing tho continent and the
cables under the sea looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart / see that the
headquarters OF the llghtnings are In Great
Britain and the United States. In London
and New York the lightnings are stabbed,
waiting to be harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows yon that tho telegraph
Is In possession OF Christianity.
IL Is a significant fact that the man who
invented the telegraph was an old fashioned
Christian-Professor Morse-and that the
man who put the telegraph under the sea
was an old fashioned Christian-Cyrus W.
Field-and that the president of the most ia
nous of the telegraph companies OF this
country was an old fashioned Christian
William Orton-going from the communion
table on earth straightto mis- homein heaven.
What does all that meant
do not suppose that thetelegraph was in
vented merely to Let us know whether -four
Is up or down. or which flly won the race at
the Derby, or which marksman beat At Dol-
lymount. suppose the telegraph was tn
vented and built TO call the world 70 God.
In some ofthe attributes Of the Lord We
seem to share "a a small seale-fog instance
In His love and in His kindness. But unffl ef
late forelnoWledge, omniselence, omnlepres-
enee, omnipotence seem to have been CT
clusively Gods possession. God desiring to
make the race like Himself gives ne spe-
cles OF foreknowiedge in the weather pro5a-
biities. gives rs a species of omniseeneela
telegraphy, gives US a species OF omnlpEes
enee In the telephone, gives us q species q
omnipotence in the steam power. Dlscov-
cries and Inventions All around about -.
people ars asking what next
I will tell you what next. Next,
EIpendous religious movement. Next, the
end OF war. Next, the crash Of despotlsms
Next, the worlds expurgation. Next, the
Christlike dominion. Next, the Judgment
What becomes of the world after that / eare
not. It will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it up n the
drydocks of eternity, like an old man-of-war
gone out OF service, or fit 1t up like SHIP
of relief to carry bread to some other suffer-
ing planet, or let ii be demolished. Fare
well, dear old world, that began with
paradise and ended with judgment con-
Migration
One summer I stood on tho Isle Of Wight,
and had pointed out to me the place where
the Eufydlce sank Win AJu OF ouu 4ounB
men who were in training for the British
navy. You remember when tho training ship
went down there was a thrill Of horror all
over the world. Oh, my friends, this
world q only q training ship. On It
we ere training for heaven. The old
ship sails up and down the ocean OF inn
mensity, now through the dark wave OF the
midnight. now through the golden crested
wave OF tho morn, but sails on and sails on.
After awhile her work will ho done, and the
inhabitants OF heaven will look out and find
a world missing. This cry will be: "Where
Is that earth where Christ died and the hui
man race were emancipated2 Send out
fleets OF angels to find the missing
craft. Let them sail up and down,
cruise up and down the ocean Of eterni-
~, and they will catch not one glimpse Of
her mountain masts or her top gallants Of
floating cloud. Gone down. The training
ship Of a world persisted in the last tornado.
oh, let It not be tnat she goes down with all
on board, but rather may it be said OF nerr
passengers as it was said of the drencned
passengers of the Alexandrian corn ship that
crashed into the breakers OF Melita, "They all
escaped safe to land"