The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-23
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIvINWs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects 'rho Day 4. at Hand !"

~ the hprnea, ana che farmhouse. your
tneoAa bronzed and your spirits lighted. i
1an you home again with the words of
1enal 90 the 8hunummlta; nIs II we'll with
thoof Ia u woll with thy husbnnd3 h h
ven with the childY on some faces sea
tne marx Of recent grief, but an along the
uaeA OF tears / SEQ the story of resurrection
ana reunion when all tears are done, the
aeop Flowing Of the keel, followed bv tho
naah OF the phosphoroaconce. Now that
nave sko2 you IN regard 70 your welfare,
you naturally ask how / am. Very we'll
thank you. Whether Il was the .iraeine AZ
OF the mountains, or bath IN the surf of
long Island beach, or whether Il Is the 10y
OF standing In thiA great group OF warm
hearted friends, or whether Il IS new an
probation OF the goodness OF God, j can not
ts,l. lamplY know | am happy.
~ was said that John Monagl. the great
aenodist preaeher, occasionally got fast In
ms sermon. and 20 exthcate himself would
cry "halelulah!' i am Ga no such predion-
ment to-day, bul am foil OF the same rhap-
hollc ejaculation. Starting out this morn
ing on new ecclesiastical year. 1 want TO
give you the keynote Of my next twelve
months ministry. l want TO set lt 10 the
tunes Of antioch, "Arlol" and "Corona-
uon.' / want to put a new trumpet stop
into my sermons. We do wrong II we allow
our personal sorrows 10 interfere with the
glorious fact that the Kingdom Is coming.
We are wicked u we allow apprehension OF
National disaster 10 put down our faith I'm
God and the mission OF our American moo
PIE. The God who hath been on the side OF
this Nation since the 4th OF July, i776. will
see 20 It that this Nation shall not commit
suicide on November 3, 1896. BY the time
the unparalleled hnrvests Of this summer get
down 70 the sea-b0ard, we shall be standing
In sunburst Of National prosperitythat will
paralyze the pessimis.s, who by their evil
pr0phesies are disappearing the God who
hath bleat this Nation as He hath blest no
other.
In all our Christian work you and want
more OF the element OF gladness No man
had q right 70 say that Christ never laughed.
Do you suppose that He was glum at the
wedding In Cana Of Galtlee2 Do you sup
pose that Christ was unresponsive when the
children clambered over His knee and
shoulder at His own invitation Do YOU
suppose that the Evangelist meant nothing
when he said of Christ: "He reioiced IN
spirilT Do you believe that the Divine
Christ who pours all the waters over the
rocks at Yernal Falls, Yosemite, does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumul-
tuous Joy aud rushing raptures Of human
IifeS believe not only that the morning
laughs, and that the mountains laugh and
that the seas laugh, and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover,
the outlook Of the world ought to stir Us to
gladness.
Astronomers disturbed'many people by tell
ing them that there was danger OF stellar
collision. We were told by these astrono-
mers that there are worlds coming very near
together, and that We shall have plaques and
wars aud tumults and perhaps the worlds
destruction. Do not be scared. III you have
ever stood at a railroad centre, where ten or
twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each other,
and seen that by the movement Of the swift !
one or two inches, the train shoots this way
and that, without colliding, then you may
understand how fihy worlds may come with
in an inch Of disaster, and that inch be
as good as a million miles. III
human swltch-tender can shoot the trains
this way and that without harm, cannot the
hand thar for thousands Of years has upheld
the universe, keep our little world out Of
harms way3 Christian biologists tell us
that this world was millions Of years in
building. Well, now, / do not think God
would take millions Of years to build al house
which was to last only six thousand years.
There Is nothing in the world or outside the
world, terrestrial or astronomical, to ex-
cite dismay. I wish that some stout
Gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria
Of human foreboding.
The sun rose this morning at about G
o'clock, and think that is just about the
hour In the worlds history. "The day is al
hand" The first ray Of the dawn I see IN
the gradual substitution OF diplomatic skill
for human butchery. Within the last twenty
five years there have been international diff
ferences which would have brought a shock
o. arms In any other day, but which were
peacefully adjusted. the pen taking the place
of the sword. The Venezuelan controversy
in any other age OF the world would have
brought shock of arms, but now is being SO
quietly adjusted that no one knows just how
AZ Is being settled.
The Alabama question in any other age o.
the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How was
It settled? BY men-of-War of the Narrows
or of the Mersey2 No. A few wise men go
into a quiet room at Geneva, talked the
matter over, and telegtaphed to Washington
and London, Gan settled" Peace Peace
England pays to the United States thu
amount awarded-pays really more than sht
ought to have paid. But still, all that Ala
bama broil Is settied-settled for forever
Arbitration instead Of battle.
SO the quarrel about the Canadian fish
cries in any other age would have caused
war between the United States and England
So the Samoan controversy In any other az
would have brought Germany and tn
United States into bloody collision Blu
all Is settled. Arbitration instead OF battle
France will never again, think, through
the peecadlllo OF an AmDasshuoLi pIlnS On
battle with other Nations. She sees tina
God. in punishment at Sedan, blotted on
tho French Empire, and the only asplran
for that throne who had any right OF ex
pectation dies in a war that has not even tn
dignity of being respectable What Is tn
leaf that England would like to tear on
of her history? The Zulu war. Down wit
The sword and up with the treaty.
We In this country might better have set
tied our sectional difficulties by arbitration
than BY the trial OF the sword. Philau
thropy said to the North; "Pay down Gel
tain amount OF money for the purchase Q
the saves, and let all those born after Ger
tain time be born free" Philanthropy sal
TO the South; 'You sell your slaves, and &c
rid Of this great National contest and trou
be-" The North replied: ~ won't pay
cent" The South replied; ~ won't sell.
War! War! A million dead men, and a M
tional debt which might have ground thi
Nation 70 powder Why did we not Il