The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-18

NlH. hud saved MIN Iuf iNd NE that Dr. o.
come. ue Was a0efWafd Attorney General
of th0 United States bui, higher than ali. ho
bHcamu che c0nafrraitd disciple oi Jesus
ChHt Kind w0r1s are so cheap d o. awen-
der we DO not nee them ononer There afr
tons of thousands 0f people 10 these cltios
wh0 are dying iof The lack of one kind word
There Is a business man who has fought
against trouble until De s perfectly rxhau#
ef. He hna boon thinking about forgery
about robbery. about suicide
90 90 the business man. Tell him that
better times are coming. and tell bin that
YOU yourself we're IN a tight business pass.
and the Lord delivered YOU Toll him 90 put
he trust IA Christ. Tell him that Jesus
Christ stands beside every business man in
hls porploxites Tell him OF tho sweet
promises OF Gods comforting grace. That
man ls dying for the lack OF Just one Kind
word. Go tomorrow and uitor that ono
saving. omnip0tent kind word. Here is
soul that has been swampod Va sln. He
wants 70 and tho light Of The Gospel 10
feels like o shlpwreekod mariner looking
out over tho beach, watching for n sail
against the sky. o. bear down on him.
Tell him that the lord waits % DO gracious
10 him, that though ho has been q great sln-
ner. there "a q great Saviour provided. Tell
him that though his sins are ne scarlet they
shall be a. snow; though they are red like
crimson. they shall be ne wool. That man
Is dying forever for the lack OF one kind
word.
o. that we might IN cur families an In
our churches try tho force OF kindness. You
can mover drive men, women or children into
theklngdom 81 God. A March u0rihoaster
will bring out more h0neysueklos than fret
fulness and scolding viii bring ont Christian
grace. wish that ia all our religious work
we might be saturated with the spirit OF
kindness. Missing that. we miss q great
deal of usefulness. There % no need OF
coming out before men and laundering 70
them the law unless at tho same time you
preach 20 them the Gospel. The world Is
dying Tor lack Of kindness.
These young people want Il just as much
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
to think they have q monopoly OF the rheu-
matisms, aud the neuralglas. and the head
aches, and the physical disorders OF the
world; but I tell you There are no worse
heartaches than are felt by some Of these
young people Do you know that much Of
the work Is done by the young2 Raphael
died at thirty-seven, Richeheu at thirty-one;
dustavus AdOlphus died az thirty-elght; In
nocent III. came 20 his miFhtiest influence
at thirtv-seven. C0rtez conquered Mexico nj
thirty; Don John won Lepanto at twenty
Ave; Gr0tius was Attomey-General Mt twen-
iy-four; and / have noticed amid all classes
OF men that some Of the severest battles and
the toughest work come before thirty.
| Therefore we must have our sermons and
our celebrations in prayer meeting all sym.
| pathetic with the young. And so with these
| people further on in life What do these
! doctors and lawyers and merchants aud me-
/ chanics care about the distractions Of re-
| llgion? What they want Is help to bear the
| whlmsicalites OF patients, the browbeatinr
! OF legal opponents. the unfairness Of Gus
! toners, who have plenty Of fauitnnding foi
every imperiecuon Of han1iwork. but 10
] praise for twenty exeellences. What doe
| that brain-racked, hand-bistered man care
! for Swlnge's "DOctrine Of Original Sim" Of
| Augustine's "Anthropology2" You might a.
we'll 80 TO q man who has the pleurisy anC
nut on his side plaster made out Of DR.
PARIS "Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.
In all our sermons there must be- help 70
every one somewhere. You 90 into an apo
thecary store; you see others being waite,
on; we do not complain because we do no
| Immediately get the medicine; we know on
turn will come after while. And so, Will
all parts Of the sermon may not be appro
pirate to our case, if we went prayerully
before the sermon is through we shall hav
the divine prescription. say TO these youn
men who are going to preach the GOspe
these theological students-Is aYt them, w
want in our sermonslnot more metaphysic!
nor more imagination, nor mora logic, no
more profundity. What we want 10 our ser
mons and Christian exhortations is NOR
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached /
the Sailors Bethel at Boston. the jack tar
felt that they had help for their duties anon
the ratlines and the forecastes. Whe
| Rfohord Waauar chad n fhp OnnFn vs.
in Oldham, England, all the working me
felt that they had more grace for the spin
dies. When DR.. South preached to King
and Princes and Processes, all the might
men and women who heard him felt prepare
ton for their high station.
DOyou not know that this simple story {
Saviour's kindness is to redeem all M
tions? The hard heart OF this worlds oil
duracy is to be broken before that stor!
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one OF th
most remarkable pictures / ever saw. 1t
''rhe Descent of Christ from the Cross.
It Is one of Rubens's pictures. No man ca
stand and look ct that descent from I'll
Cross" as Rubens pictured it, without ha
ing his eyes flooded with tears, If he have al
sensibility ut all. It 10 an overmasterln
picture-one that stuns you and stagge
you and haunts your dreams. One afternoC
a man stood in that cathedral looking ut RI
bens's descent from the Cross. He WI
all absorbed in that scene Of Savlour's su
ferings, when the ianitor came in aud sal
lit is time to close up the cathedral for Il
night. l wish you would depart" III
pilgrim looking at that descent from Il
Cross" turned around to the janitor an
! said. ''No, no; not yet Wait until they &,
Him down" Oh, it is the story Of Saviour
: suffering kindness that is to capture Il
world. When the bones Of that great beh
moth Of antiquity which has trampled q
} Nations shall be broken and shattered,
! will be found out that the work was n
!; done by the hammer OF the iconoolast, or
the sword OF the conquerer, or by the tor
{ of persecution, but by the plain, simp
: overwhelming force Of ''the soft tongue th
( breaketh the bone.
: Kindness! We all need more Of II In o.
hearts, our words and our behavior. Z
1 chief characteristic OF our Lord was kin
Y ness. A gentleman in England died. leavl
Y his fortune by will to two sons. The 8
, that stayed at home destroyed the fathe
: will and pretended that the brother who "
Q absent was dead and buried. The absC
brother, after awhile, returned and claim
% his part of the property. Judges and jurt
u were to be bribed to say that the return
n brother and son vas no son at all but