The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-28

Gather un a1 coo eaelwle. 0f BODY. mind
ana H9al, nd appealing M God i8f slfer
declare ihls daY eVef.8slltE wAr ngalr1 alI
drinking haN Hll Enmmg practices. aIl
houses % ala. naltani-alI warl WIH
amount 90 nothing. lt NUS Doll Waterloo.
Shrink back now. and Yuu Hra LOST Push
on, and sou ares nvedi a Spartan General
leli m che yefF moment ol victory, b1t hs
dippri Dis finger iu hls blood und wrote 10
q rock. near which be- was dylEs "snarn
has conquered" Though your struggle DO
sei udof fIn may soem io he nlmost n death
struggle. sou can dip your nngor ln
your oWr blood and write on ihe Rock of
Aen Victory through our Lore Jesus
ChrldW
Oh whnt glorious news q would b. lof
some 0i these young mCu "a send home d
their parrnis in ths couutryl They - DO
th8 pus,onIce every day Or 90 Sec III there
Ar8 amy letters from you. How anxious
they nre Co honrl Nothing would please
them hall s0 much as the n8wa YOU might
send home tomorrow that you had given
your heart Co God. I know how b is Ma tho
country The night comes on. Tho cattle
stand under the rack through which burst
the tru of bay. Tho houH8, just having
.rskod pthrough tho meadow I'd the nlrht-
ialI, stand knee deep in the bright straw
porch OF the bowel Is full Of fowl In the
old farm house az night no candle BE-
lighted. Tor the flames clap hands about the
great ,tneklog, and shake the shadow OF
the g-oup up aud down the wall Father
and mother slt thoro for half an hour saw
inc nothing. / wonder what they are think
inc OIL After q while tho father hrenks tho
silence and says. "Weu. / wonder whore
1ur boy IS In town Tonight" And tho
mother answers: SIN NO bad place / var
rant youi we always could trust him when
be was homo, and since no has b8an away
there have been so many prayers offered for
him we can trust him STILL Thon at s
O'cl0ck-l0r tney retire early ln the country
at O'Clock they kneel down aud c0m-
mend youto that God who witches in conn
try and In town, on the land aud on the
sea.
Some one said 10 q Grecian Genorali
"What was the pr0uicst moment OF your
lf03' ITO thought % moment, and saidi
"The pr0ulest moment OF my lie Was when
] sent word home 10 my parents that had
gained the victory" And tho proudest and
most brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you can send word 20
your parents IN tho country that you nayo
conquered your evil habits by the grace Of
God, and become eternal victor.
0Ns NfaNlhH NOT HAAtNNAA NNAAHAgs ANN
limo will come when YOU have neither
father nor mother, aud You will 20 around
the place whore they usei 20 watch you, aud
End them gone from the house. and gone
from the field. and gone from the nelghbor.
hood. CRY "a loud for forgiveness as you
may over the mound 10 the churchyard they
will not answer Deal Dea1l And then
YOU will take out the white lock Of hair that
was cut from your mothers brow Just before
they buried her, and you will take the
cane with which your father used 10 walk
and Won will thiuk and think, and WISH that
YOU had done just as then wanted You to
and would give the world II you had mover
thrust a pang through their dear old hearts
God pity the young man who has brought
disgrace on his father name. God pity the
young man who has broken his mothers
heart! Better II he had never been born
better II, In the first hour OF his lite Instead
OF being laid against the warm bosom Of ma
ternal tenderness, he had boon cof1ned and
sepuchred There is no balm powerful
enough 70 heal the heart OF one who ha
brought parents to sorrowiul grave, anC
who wanders about through the dismal Gem
etery, rendn2 the hair and wrlnging The
hands. and crying. "AIother, mother.' Oh
that today, by all the memories OF the past
and by all the hopes OF the future, yoU
would yield your heart TO God! May youl
fathers God ADD your mothers God b'
your God forever!