The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-17

Give Il FUN swing. and ii win pardon every
sin, heal every wound, cure every trouble,
emanelpnlo every slave and ransom every
nation.
81 Christian men and women who 10 ont
this afternoon 10 DO Christian work. as you
20 into the sundny-schools. the lay preach
Ing stations and the peniieniiaries and the
uyluma / want you 90 feel tnat you bear iu
your hand "a weapon compared with which
the lightning has no speed, and aYhlnuehcl
have no heii. and the thunderbola Of heaven
nave no power it no arrow % the 0mni-
p0nent gospel. Taee careful aim. Pull
the arrow clear back until the head strikes
the bowl Then lot Il nyl And may tho
slain Of the Lord be- mnnyl
Again. n YOU want 20 be sklllful IN spirlt-
nal archery y0u must hunt IN uufrequout0d
and secluded places. Why does tho hunter
90 three or four days IN the Pennsylvania
forests or over Raquetie Lake into the wilds
Of the Adirondack Il IL the only way 10
do. Tho deer are shy, and one chang" OF
the gun clears the forest. From the Calli0r-
MIA stage you see, as you 60 over the plains,
here and there n coyote trottlng along, al
most within range OF the gun-sometmes
quite within range OIL H. No one cares for
that; II IL worthless. The good game Is hid
den and secluded. Every hunter knows that.
So. many OF the souls that viii be Of most
worth for Christ and OF most value 10 tho
church are secluded. Thoy do not come In
your way. You will have 20 20 where they
are. fonder they are down In that cellar;
yonder they are up in that garnet. Far away
from the door OF any church. the gospel ar-
row has not been pointed nc them. The tract
distributor and city missionary sometimes
catch glimpse Of them, as a erthrough
the trees gets momentary sight Of part
ridge or a roebuck. The trouble Is, we are
waiting for the game 10 come 20 us. We are
not good hunters. We are standingtn some
street or highway expecting that the timid
antelope will come mp and eat out Of our
hands. We are expecting that the prairie
fowl viii light on our church steeple. II Is
not their habit
II the church should wait 10,0O0,OOO Of
years for the world TO come In and be saved,
L viii wait in vain. The world will no.
come. What the church wants now Is 10 lift
its feet from damask ostomnns and put them
in the stirrups We want a pulpit on wheels.
The church wants not so much cushions as
It wants saddlebags aud arrows We have
got 10 put aside the gown aud kid gloves and
put on the hunting shirt. We have been fish
ing so long IN the brooks that run under the
shadow Of the church that the fish know us;
that they avoid the hook and escape as soon
rs we come to the bank, while yonder Is Up
per Saranac and Big Tuppers lake, where
the first swing OF the gospel net would break
It for the multitude Of the fishes. There Is
outside work 10 be- DONE What Is that / see
IN the backwoods? II is a tent. The hunters
have made clearing and campe1 out.
What do they care IL they have wet feet, or
Il they have nothing but pine branch for
pillow or for the northeast storm? If a
moose In the darkness steps into the lake to
drink. they hear II right away. If loon
cry in the moonlight, they hear II. So In
the service Of God we have exposed work.
We have got 10 camp out and rough it. We
are putting all our care on the people who
come to our churches. What are we doing
for the thousands upon thousands that do
not come? Have they no souls2 Are they
sinlpss that they need no pardon2 Are there
no dead In their houses that they need no
comfor2 Are they cut of from God to go
into eternity-no wing to bear them, no light
to cheer them, no welcome to greet them?
hear to-day surging up from the lower
| depths a grcan that comes through our
| Christian assembages and through our
| beautiful churches, and it blots out all this
/ scene from my eyes to-day as by the mists
! Of a great Niagara, for the dash and the
| plunge OF these great torrents of life drop
| ping down into the iathomless and thunder
| ing abyss OF suffering and woe. ksometimes
think that Just as God blotted ont the
/ NuulEuG1 VI 4uNdlllH anu NOElHLu anu
| Laodicea, because Of their soth and stolidity,
| He will blot out American and English
| Christianity and raise on the ruins a stall
Yart, wideaWake. missionary church that
can take the full meaning of that command,
go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature"
remark, further, II you want to succeed In
| spiritual archery you must have courage. II
the hunter stand with trembling hand Of
shoulder that flinches with fear, instead o
his taking the catamount, the catamoun
takes him. What would become of the Green
lander if. when uthunting for the bear, hC
should stand shivering with terror on anic
berg2 What would have become of DU
Chaillu and Livingstone in the African
thicket with faint heart and weak knee
When panther comes within twenty pace
of you and it has its eye on you and it I'm!
squatted for the fearful spring, "Steadl
thera!"
Courage, 0 ye spiritual archersl Their
are great monsters in iniquity prowling al
around about the community, Shall we no
of the strength Of God 60 forth and comba
them2 We not only need more heart. bu
more backbone, What is the church o. Got
that it should fear to look in the eye an,
transgression? There is the Bengal tige
Of drunkenness that prowls around, an
instead Of attacking IT, how many of Il
hide under the church pew or the com
munion table! There is so much invested il
il we are afraid to assault it; millions Of dol
lars in farrels in watts, in spigots, in corr
screws, in gin palaces with marble floors an
Italian top tables, and chased ice cookers an
in the strychnine and the logwood and tn
tortarlc acid and the nux vomiea that go
make up our pure" American drinks
looked with wondering eyes on the "Heide
berg tun." 1t is the great liquor vat OF Gel
many, which is SAID to hold 800 hogshead
OF wine. and only three times in 100 year
it has been filled. But, as 1 stood an
looked at it. lsaid to myself; "That is notl
ing-S00 hogsheads. Why, our American VI
holds $500, 900 barrels of strong drinks, an
we keep 200, 900 men with nothing to do BIT
to see that 1t is filled" Oh! to attac
this great monster of intemperance, and Il
kindred monsters Of fraud and uncleanlines
requires you to rally all your Christian cou
age. Through the press, through the pulpi
, through the platform you must assault
: Would to God that all our American Chri
! tians would band together, not for crac
: Drained fanaticism, but for holy OhristiI
! reform.
think il was in 1893 that there went Of
from Lucknow, India, under the soyereig
: the greatest hunting party that was ev