The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-27

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man eyo re IS auel aai thlng 90 ht
blind lot us pray while Che doctor iH naa}
with tho delicate operation. hut Zoe how
long time VIII be- D. able % give hla patient.
Uyezighu Well. lf the patient la forty year
of age. Do win add to hia happiness perhap
ATTY yeara 90 ryaslFhf nui tUgf win rrint
the man 40 ninety year, Aud % p not prob
able that Ho win uYo longer than that oi
shat De Will lIFe s8 long. bHt what D. g0og
eyeaight iof nity years more 81 compared
with clunr Ysl0n l0f thH soul billion 9l
erntuHesY hone tle effort o. drive back
the iyuhod fewer from Wonder homo VIII ot
SUCCESSFUL Goa holp tho doctoni We VIII
wait IN great anxiety until the nrea OF thar
fever are oxtlngulahed, and when the man
rises from his pillow and walks out, With
what heartlnoas we viii welcome him Into
tho fresh air and the church and business
oiioIesl he ia thirty yoau Of ago, and II no
shall 1.-Two sixty years moro that will mako
/ him ninety Bat what aro sixty yeam moro
/ oi earthly ylgor compared with tho souls
health for n Quadulllon millcnnlumB-a
millennium, rs you know, n thousand years.
/ This world, since fitted up for mans rosl-
/ deneo, has existed about six thousand years
/ How much longer VIII Il Uxist2 We viii sup
pose Il shall last ns much longer, which a.
/ very doubtful That viii m AXE Ga exist
| en1o twelve thousand yenn. But what are
/ or viii DO twelve thousand years compared
/ With tho eternity preceding those years and
/ tho eternity following them-time, ua come
/ pared 20 eternity. like the drop OF the night
! dew shaken from the top Of grass blade by
| the cows hoot on rs way atlold this morn
/ ing, as compared with Mediterranean and
j Arabian and Atlantic and Pacific wa,ry do
minionsl
J A stranger desired TO purchase n farm but
/ the owner would not sell it-would only lot
| e The afra ufsnr hfraH IL hu 1aaan FOR only
one crop, but he sowed acorns and 10 ma
| ture that crop 800 years were necessary. That
| was n practlcet decepu )n, but deceive you
not whom toll you that the crop Of the soul
takes hold OF unending ages.
/ see the author Of my text seated IN tho
| house OF Gaius, who entertained him at
| Corlnth, not far from tho ovorhnnging for
tross OF Aero-Counthus, aud medltating on
| the longevity Of the soul and getting more
and more agitaied about It's value and the
| awful risk some Of his kindred were running
| concerning t., aud he writes this letter con-
tanning the text, which Chrysostom admired
80 much he had II read TO him twice q week,
and among other things be says those dar-
ing aud startling words Of my text, 81 could
wish that myself we're accur5ed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to
the hesh.'
Another way 70 get something Of tho
Pauline longing for redeemed immortalltles
IL by examining the vast machinery ar
ranged 10 save this inner and spiritual ma
ture. That machinery started to revolye on
the edge OF the garden OF Eden, Just after
the cyclone OF sin Frustrated It's sycamores
anc tamarsks and willows and will not cease
to revolys until the last soul OF earth shall
get rid Of It's last sin and enter the heavenly
Eden. On that stupendous machinery for
soul saving the patriarch uut his hand. and
prophet his hand, and evangelist his hand,
aud apostle his hand, and Christ His hand,
and almost every hand that touched Il be-
came a crushed hand. II WAS the most ex-
| pensiye machinery ever constructed. 1t cost
more to start It and has cost aud will cost
more 10 keep 1t running than all the wheels
that ever made revolution on this planet
That machinery turned not by ordinary
motive power, but by force OF teams and
blood. To connect It's bands Of influence
made out Of human and Christly with
all parts of the earth millions Of good men
and women are now ut work and will be at
work until every wilderness shall become q
garden, and every tear OF grief shall be a
tear Of JOY, and the sword Of divine victory
shall give the wound TO the old dragon that
shall send him bowling to the pit, the iron
gate changing against him, never again to
open. All that and infinitely more to save
the soul! Why, It must be a tremendous
tremendous for good or tremendous
for evil, tremendous for happiness or tre-
mendOus for woe.
Put on the left side OF the largest sheet OF
paper that ever came from paper mill sim
gle unit, the figure /, and how many ciphers
would you have to add to the right OF that
figure to express the souls value, each cipher
adding tenfold? Working into that scheme
OF the souls redemption, how many angels
Of God descending aud ascending! How
many storms swoopmg on Lake Galilee! How
many earthquakes opening dungeons and
striking catacysms through mountains, from
| top to base! What MONDAY sun was put on
| retreat! What omnipotence lifted and what
> Godhead was put to tortured All that foI
the SOUL No wonder that Paul, though pos
sesslng great equipOise Of temperament wher
he thought what his friends and kindred
Z were risktng concerning their souls, flung
aside all his ordinary modes Of speech. argu
ment and apt smile, and bold metaphor. an(
learned alluslon, as unfit to express how hi
: felt and Selling upon tho appalling hyper
, bolism Of my text cries cut, II could wish
J | myself accursed"-that is, struck OF the
} | thunderbolts OF the omnipotent. God, SUM
, to untathomed depths, chained into servi
' tude to Abaddon and thrust into furnaces
, whose fires shall never burn outfit only
l those whom love might now and forever b,
= saved. Mind you, Paul does not say. II dc
wish" He says. ~ could wish" Even IL
q the agony he felt for others he did not lost
! his balance. ~ could wish myself accursed.
: l could, but donot. Only one being tina
ever lived was literally willing to give nj
I heaven for perdition, and that was the di
Y vine peasant whom l mentioned few mo
: men;s ago. He was not only willing to ex
change dominions OF bliss for domnions 0
' wretcheduess, but Ho did 50, for, that II
fOrsook heaven, witness the STOPPING sta
! and all those who saw His miracles of mercy
and that He actually entered the gates OF tn
worlo OF perpetual confagraton the Bibl
= distinctly declares. He did not say. will
, Paul, 81 could" but He said. II will I do,
and for the souls Of men He descended int
4 hell
a In this last half Of the last decade of tn
o nineteenth century the temperature in tn
II churches is very low, and most OF the piet
IS would spoil II It were not kept on ice. And
Il taking things as they are, ordinary Chris
II tians will never reach the point where h
u cutlery OF Paulfn the text will not seem Xix
s extravaganza. The proprieties in most OF tn
K ] churches are so fixed that all a Christian