The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rnR NOTED DIvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
sableol. "DIvIae ohIrography."

Ike the science 81 acoustics la In very uh-
satisfactory state While constructing
church. and told by some architects that the
voice would not DO heard In building shaped
like that proposed. / came IN much anxiety
30 this city and consulted With Prof Joseph
Henry, Of the Smithsonian Institution, about
the law Of ac0ustlcL lie said. SEQ ahead
and build your church IN the shape pro-
posed, ana / think n viii be- all right
havn studied the laws Of sound perhaps more
than any man 0i my time, ana 1 have come
80 far as this, Two audltodums may seem 20
be- exactly alike, AMI in one tho acoustics
may be- good and IN the other bal. In inc
same unsatisfactory stage % chirography,
although many declare they have reduced it
20 a science. There are those who say they
can read character by handwriting. 10 %
said that the way one writes the letter 81
decides hls eg0usm or modesty, and the way
one writes the letter go" decides the height
aud depth of hls emotions. II Is declared a
Cramped hand meansn crumpad nature, and
ana easy, flowing hand iucilo aud liberal
spirit; butif there BIO anything ln this science,
there must bo some rules not yot announced,
for some OF the b0ldest and most aggressive
men have delicate and small penmanship,
while some Of the most timld sign their
names with tho height aud width and scope
OF the name OF john Hancock on the immor-
tal document But while the chlrography
OF the earth As uncertain, our blessed Lord
IN our text presents the chirography eoles-
tlal. When addressing the seventy disciples
standing before Hin, He said: "Reloice be-
cause your names are written Ia heaven"
or course, the Bible, for tho most part,
when speaking Of the heavenly world, speaks
ilguratiyely while talking about books and
about trumpets. and about wings and about
gates and about golden pavements and about
Of NaHFtH
crop each month-and about the white
horses OF heavens cavalry; but We do well %
follow out these inspired metaphors and reap
from them courage and sublime expectation,
and consolation and victory We are told
that In the heavenly library there Is a Book
of Life. Perhaps there are many volumes In
1t. When we say book, we mean all writ
ten by the author on that subject. / cannot
tell how large those heavenly volumes are,
nor the splendor OF their binding, nor the
number OF their pages, nor whether they are
pictorializod with some exciting.s scenes this
world. / only know that the words have not
been impressed by type, but written out by
| some hand. and that all those who, Ike the
seventy disciples 10 whom the text was
spoken, repent and trust the Lord for their
| eternal salvation, surely have their names
written IN heaven. Il may not be the same
name that we carried on earth. We may,
through ths inconslderateness Of parents,
have q name that Is uncouth, or that was
aiterward dishcnored by one after whom We
were called. do not know that the seventy
entrances OF the names Of the seventy dis.
| ciples correspond with the record in the
| genealogical table. II may not bethe name
! by which we were called on earth, but 1t will
| be the name by which heaven will know us,
AM we will have II announced TO US as we
pass in, and we will know II so certainly that
| we will not have to be called twice by It, as
| in the Bible times the Lord called some peo-
pie twice by name: "Saul! Saulr samuel
| Samuel"' "Alartha! Martial
In examination Of your name In the
| heavenly archives, II you find 1t there at
| all, you will find it written with a bold hand.
| You have seen many signature that because
! Of sickness or old age had a tremor in it, yet
| 1t was as bold as the man who wrote it.
| Many an order written on the battlefield and
amid the thunder OF the cannonate has had
| evidence OF excitement IN every word aud
! every letter and In the speed with which II
was folded and handed to the officer as he
! put his foot in the swift stirrups, and vel
| that commander, Notwithstanding his trem.
| bling hand. gives a boldness OF order that
| shows itself In every word written. You dc
not need to be told that a trembling hand
does not always mean cowardly hand. Il
was with very trembling hand Charles
! Carroll, Of Carrollton, signed his name to
! the Declaration of American Independence,
! but no signer had more courage aud when
| some one said, There are many Charles
! CAROLS, and it will not be known which one
1t is. he resumed the pen and wrote Charles
! Carroll Of Carrolton. Trembling hand no
| sign OF tlmidity. The daring and defiance
seen In the way your name is written il
heaven is a challenge to all earth and hell tc
come on If they can to defeat your ransomed
soul.
Again, II according to the promise OF the
| text, you are permitted to look into the
volumes of eternity and see your name there
you will find 1t written In lines, in words, 10
letters unmistakabe. Some people have
come to consider indistinct and almost un.
readable penmanship mark OF genius, anC
so they affect 1t. Because every paragraph
that Thomas Chalmers, and Dean Stanley
and Lord Byron, and Rufus Ohoate anC
other potent men wrote was puzzle, imita
tors make their penmanshtp a puzzle. Alex
ander Dumas says that plain penmnnship Il
the brevet of incapaclty. Then there arr
some who, through too much demand upoI
their energies and through lack OF Time LOST
the capacity Of making the pen Ineligible
and much of the writing Of this world is in
decipherable. We have seen piles OF mex
plicable chirography, and we ourselves hav,
uelp0u augment the ulhRuIuu6. we nav
not been sure Of the name signed, or tn
sentiment expressed, or whether the repl.
was affirmative or negative. Thr ugh in
distinct penmanship last wills and tesla
ments have been defeated. widows ant
orphans robbed OF their Inheritance, railroad
trains brought into collision through tn
dim words OF a telegram put into the han,
OF conductor. and regiments. in this wise
installing their instructions, have beel
sacrificed In battle. l asked Bisho
Qowie, in Auckland, New Zealand, tn
Bishop having been in many OF the wars
what Tennyson, in his immortal poem
"The Charge OF the Lignt Brigade,
meant by the words, ''Some one hat
Numbered" and the Bishop said tina
the awful carnage at Balaklava was tn
result OF AN ndlstincty-writteu an
wrongly-read military order. "some on
had Numbered" But your name, one
written in the Lambs Book OF Life, will b
so unmistakRbe that all heaven can read /
at the first glance. 1t will not be- taken 10
the name OF some other. 80 that in regard (
II there shall come to be dlsputaton. No
one Of the millions and billions and quad
trillions OF the finally savei will doubt tina