The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-16
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
run NOTED DWINWs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject "oates of Carbunclo.' ;,

lerhap ha1lu#8 human disease of mot
painful ana nIif4ma fatal eHameioria nHmod
lUrr ~ 900 church and thn world have mover
done justice Co. hai Intense aud ail-suef.
precious stone, Che carbune.o The pearl
ih1i CHRIST Picked zap 90 illustrate ma SCR.
moni ana Che jasper an1 the sapphire and
Che amethyst which the ap08lIypt.o vision
mnsou'i into the wall on heaven have had
proper recognition, hut this, On an The ages
IS thn frt sermon on ihe cafbune.c.
Ihis precious stone g. found iu tho East
lndlw, On color is nn intense scarlet. and
held pap between your ey8 aud tho aun lt lsa
burning coal. Tho poet puts it into rhythm
as hQ writes
Like 90 tho burning coal whence comes Be
Among tho Greeks a. Anthrax known to
fame.
God sets % high mp ln Blblo crystallography
he cuts u with a divine ohlsel, sharpens lt
Win precise geometry, and kInales Its Gre
into an almost supernatural flame of beauty
rs law of symmetry, its law Of zones. its law
OF paullellsn, something 90 excite the
amnzoment OF the scientist. chime tho cant0s
oI too poet and arouse the alteration of tho
Christian. No one bat tho luauito God could
fashion Q curbunele as large AS your thumb
nail, and as ~ 70 make an ages appreciate
ihis precious 7t1u0 He ordered It 20 bo scr IN
the iirst row on the high priests breast.plato
IN oiieu tiI18 and higher up than tho ONYX
and the emerald and the diamond. and I'm
E1lkielB prophecies concerning tho spland0rs
OF the Tgrian court, the cgrbunele o. msn-
toned, the brlllane.e8 OF the walls and of
the tasse.latei floors suggested by the Bible
sentence: "Ih0u hast walked up and down
IN the midst Of the stones OF fire." But In
my text II Is not solitary specimen that /
handyou, as tho keeper Of a museum might
take down from the shelf precious
stone and allow YOU 20 examine
H. Nor Is 10 in the panel Of a
door that you might stand and study for IT'S
unique carvings or bronZsd traeerles. but
there Is whole gate OF Il lifted before our
admiring aud astounded vision, ayel two
gates Of 1t, aye! many gates OF iti 81 will
make thy gates Of carcuncles." What gate52
Gates OF the Church. Gates OF anything
worth possessing. Gates Of successlul en-
terpris6 Gates 81 salvation. Gates OF Ma
tlonal achievement. Isaiah, who wrote this
text, wrote also all that about Christ "as the
lamb OF the slaughter" and spoke OF Christ
as saying 81 have tr0d the wine press alone"
and wrote, "Who Is this that cOmeth from
Edom. with dyed garments from Bozrah?"
And do you think that Isaiah IN my text
merely happened 10 represent the gates as
red gates, as earmine gates, as gates Of car
atOnement through blOod-red struggle,
through agonies we get into anything worth
getting into. Heavens gates may we'll be
made OF pearl, a bright, peilucid, cheerful
equalization, because all the struggles are
over and there Is beyond those gates nothing
but raptures and cantata and triumphal pro-
eession and everlasting holiday aud kiss of
reunion, and 80 the twelve gates are twelve
pearls, and could be nothing less than pearls.
But Christ hoisted the gates Of pardon in His
own blood and the marks OF eight fingers
and two thumbs are on each gate, and as He
lifted the gate II leaned against His forehead
and took from it a crimson impress, and all
those gates are deeply dyed, and Isaiah was
right when he spoke Il these gates as gates
of carbuncle.
What an odd thing It is, think some, this
idea Of vicarious suffering or suffering for
others! Not at all. The world had seen Vi
carious suffering millions Of times before
Christ came and demonstrated il on a scale
that ecipsed all that went before and all that
| shall come after. Rachael lived only long
enough after the birth Of her son to give him
a name. In faint whisper she said, "Call
him Ben-oni," which means "son OF my
pain" and all modern travellers on the road
from Jerusalem to Bethel uncover their heads
and stand reyerentlY at the tomb Of Rachel
who died for her boy. But in all ages how
many mothers die for their children, and in
many cases grown up children, who by re-
creancy stab clear through the mothers
heart. Suffering for others? Why, the world
Is full Of it. "Jumpl" said the engineer to
the fireman on the locomotive. zone Of
us Is enough to die. Jump" And so the
engineer died at his post, trying TO save the
| train. When this summer the two trains
crashed into each other near Atlantic City,
among the iorty-seven who lost their lives,
the engineer was found dead with one hand
on the throttle of the locomotive and the
other on the brake. Ayel there are hum
! dreds here to-day suffering for others. You
know and God knows it is vicarious sacri-
fee. But on one limestone hill about twice
the height of this church, five minutes walk
| from the gates of Jerusalem, was the sub
finest case OF suffering for others that the
world ever saw or ever will see. Christ the
victim, human and satanic maleYolence the
executioner, the whole human race having
an overwhelming interest In the spectacle.
J To open a way for us sinful men and sinful
women into glorious pardon and high hope
and eternal oxultation, Christ, with hand
dripping with the rush OF opened arteries,
! swung back the gate, and behold 1t is q red
gate, gate OF deepest hue, a gate Of car
| buncle.
What Is true in spirituals Is true in tenn
porals. There are young men and older
uueu WuO uOpo, through ln6 SetLlenonC OF
! this acrid controversy between silver and
! gold, or the oimetallic quarrel, that 1t will
become easy to make living. That time
will never come. It never has been easy TO
make a living. The men who have 1t very
easy now, went through hardships and self
denials to which most young men would
never consent. Unless they got 1t by inheri-
lance, you cannot mention twenty-five men
who have come TO honorable fortune that
did not fight their way, inch by inch, and
against fearful odds that again and again al
most destroyed them. For some GOOD rea-
son God has arranged it for all the centuries
that the only way for most people to get a
| livelihood for themselves and their families
Is with both hands and all the allied forces
of body, mind and soul to push back and
push open the red gate, the gate OF carbun-
Gle. For the benefit of all young men, If /
had the time, would call the roll OF those
who overcame obstacle. How many Of the
mighty men who went one way on Pennsyl-
vaDia avenue and reached the United States
Senate, or walked the other way on Pennsyl-
vania avenue and reached the White House,
did not have to climb over political Obloquy2
Not one. How much scorn and scoff, and
brutal attack did Horace Mann endure be-
| ; ban % Awkt