The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-24

ton. 10 has brought 10 Thorn what talent
aud executive force could not have achieved
Many of those who are making great effort
for place and power will never succeed just
because they are not of enough importance
20 be abused. 10 is Che nature of men-lhat
IS OF ail generous and reasonable men-to
gather about those Wh0 are prosecuted aud
defend them, and they are ap, to forget tnH
fault 0i thosa who arf the subjects oi attack
while attempting % drive back tbe slandeI-
err Persecution Is elevation. Helen BlirE,
the Scotch miuyr standing With her hus-
baud at Che place of execution, =ald. "Hus-
band. Doc us rrIoIc8 to-day. We have lived
together MANY happy years. Thlsia thohap-
piest time OF all our liie. You see we nre 90
be happy together forever. 80 brave now,
be brave. i WIN not say Good night 90 you.
for we shall soon be On the kingdom OF our
Father together Persecution shows tho
heroes and heroines / 20 into another do
partment, and / find that those great de-
nominations 81 Christians which havo been
most abused have spread tho most rapidly.
No good man was ever more violently
maltreated than John Wesley-belied and
carieatured and slandered until one day he
stood IN pulpit In London, and q man
arose Ga the audience and said, "YOu were
drunk last night" and John Wesley said.
"Thank God. the whole catalogue Is now
complete. have been charged with every
thing but thatw His followers we're hootod
al and maligned aud called by every do
testable name that Internal ingenuity could
invent, but the hotter the persecution the
more rapidly they spread until you know
what q great host they have become and
what a tremendous force for God and the
truth they are welding the world over Il
was persecution that gave Scotland to
Presbyteranism. II was persecution that
gave our land first 10 civil liberty and after
ward 10 religious freedom. Yea. might 90
farther back and say II was persecution that
gave the world the great salvation Of the
gospel. The ribald moekery, the hungering
and thirstlng, the unjust charge, the
ignominious death, when all the force Of
hells fury was hurled against the cross. was
the introduction Of that religion which Is
vet to be the earth's delverance and our
eternal salvation. The State sometimes said
10 the church, "Come, take my hand, and
will help YOU" What was tho RESULT The
church went lack. and II lost It's estate Of
holiness. and II became Ineffective. AT other
times the State said 20 the church, 81 Will
crush YOU" What has been the RESULT
After the storms have spent their fury the
church, so far from having lost any Of It's
force, has increased aud Is worth Infinitely
more after the assault than before. Read
all history aud you will find that true The
church Is far more indebted 10 the opposition
OF civil government than TO its approval
The fires of the stake have only been the
torches which Christ held In His hand. by
the light OF which the church has marched
10 her present glorious position. In the
sound OF racks and implements Of torture
hear the rumbhng Of the gospel chariot
The scaffo1ds OF martyrdom have been the
I a., .f.H.k tss .t.r
Learn also from our subieo' that sin will
come TO exposure. Long. long ago had those
brothers sold Joseph into Egypt. They had
made the old father believe that his favorlte
/ child was dead. They had suppressed the
/ crime, and 1t was profound secret we'll kept
\ by the brothers. But suddenly the secret is
/ out. The old father hears that his son is in
/ Egypt, having been sold there by the malice
\ of his own brothers. How their cheeks must
/ have burned and their hearts sunk at the
flaming out of this long suppressed crime.
I The smallest iniquity has q thousand
tongues, and they will blab out exposure
Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites
their sheep and their oxen. but when he go
down there among the pastures he saw somt
fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill. so he
thought he would steal them. Nobody
would know IT, He drove these stoler
sheep and oxen toward home, but stopped
to report to the prophet how he had exc
cuted his mission, when in the distance tn,
sheep began to bleat and the oxen to below
The secret was out, and Samuel said to tn,
blushing and confused Saul: "What mean
eth the bleating Of the sheep that l hear anC
the believing Of the cattle2" All. my nearer
you cannot keep an iniquity STILL At jus
the wrong time the sheep will bleat and thu
oxen will below. Achan cannot steal thu
noh~v1ova4ub
to death, nor Arnold betray his countr,
without having his neck stretched. Lool
over the police arrests. These thieves
these burglars. these counterfeiters, these
highwaymen, these assassins, they al
thought they could bury their iniquit,
so deep down 1t would never come to res
direction, but there was some shoe that an
swered to the print in the soil, some falls
keys found in their possession, some blood,
knife that whispered of the death. and tn,
public indignation and the Rnathema o
outraged law hurled them into the dungeon
or hoisted them on the gallows.
Francis ]. king Of France. stood counsel
ing with his officers how he could take hi
army into Italy, when Ameril, the fool 0
the court leaped out from a corner of tn,
room and said "You had better be consult
ing how you will get your army back" Ant
il was found that Francis l., and not Ameril
was the fool. Instead of consulting as t,
the best way OF getting into sin, you ha,
better consult as to whether you will be abb
to get out Of it. II the world does not ex
pose you, you will tell 1t yourself. There
an awful power in an aroused conscience
A hghwaYman plunged out upon White
} field as he rode along on horseback, a sac
Of money on the horse-money that he ha
: raised for orphan asylums-and the high
wayman put his hand on the gold. an
Whiteileld turned to him and said; "Touc
that il you dare; that belongs to the Lor
Jesus Christ" And the rufian skunk int
the forest. Conscience! Consciencel TIL
J rutflan had a pistol, but Whitefeld shook a
him the finger Of doom. Do not think 70
j can hide any great and protracted sin in you
heart, my brother. In an unguarded me
ment it viii slip Off the lip, or some sigl
action may forthe moment set ajar this doc
that you wanted to keep closed. But SUI
pose that in this life you hide it, and you e
, along with this transgression burning
your heart, as a ship on fire within for day
hindels the flames from bursting out }