The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-28

with tho sides plunel back ami che white /
hIuNHFe on tHt Df0# may n8l have answered /
nll iho demands of elegant Taste. but you
could noi persuade tbal soldier dyiug 1000
miles from home that Il Waa anything bui an
angel THAT looked hlm ia the face. Oh. with
rhrerY look, With bel piul word. with Kind
action. Cry 90 make ihe world Wafmi
Count that day lost whose low descending
Views from lhy hand no generous action
done.
10 was liia strong sympathy that brought
Christ from q warm heaven e. a cold world
The liant where Hs dWelt bad i serene sky.
bllsimic atm1sphere. tropical luur.aucf
no storm blasts bee heaven. 80 chill i0uu-
tains. On a cold December might Christ
stepped 0ut ui a warm heaven into tho
worlds iugdty The Thermometer ln
Palestine never drops below zero. uIt De-
cfmhsr n "a cherries month. and che pasture
pge i1 very poor on the hiItors Christ
stepped Out of warm heaven into tho cold
world that cold December night Tho
worlds rH option wac cold Tine surf of be-
stormrd GaiiIss wac cold. J1ssph's -epu'-
cher was cold. Christ came ihe great
warmer. 90 warm the eafIh. aud $40 Chrisien.
dom tO-iay ieels the glow he viii keep on
warming tine earth until the frop.c viii drive
away the arctic aud ihe antarctic. ne eayb
an intimuiOn % what is WIS going to go
when ITO broke up tine funeral Ht tho eatp ol
Main aud turned it into reunion festival.
aud when with Ills warn lips 10 melted the
Galilnan hurricane and stood ON tha do.i.
and stamped His foot, crying "silence!" and
the waves crouched and the tempesis folded
their wings.
Oh. Il was this Christ who warned tho
chilled disciples when they had no food by
giving them plenty 20 eat, and who I'm the
tomb OF Lazarus shattered the shackles un-
til the broken link Of the chain Of death
ratified into tho darkest crypt Of the
maus0leum In His genial presence the girl
who had fallen into the fire and the water is
healed Of the catalepsy, and the withered
arm takes muscular, healthy action, aud tho
ear that could not hear an avalanche catches
| a leafs rustic. aud the tongue that could not
| articulate tdlls o quairain, aud the blind
| eye was relumed, aud Christ, instead Of
/ staying three days and three nights In the
| sepucher, as was supposed. az soon as the
/ worldly curtain Of observation was dropped
| began the exploration Of all the under
/ ground passages OF earth aud sea- wherever
/ a Christians grace may after awhile be, aud
| started light Of Christian hope, resurrection
J hope, which shall not 20 out until the last
cerement Is taken of and the last mausoleum
| breaks open.
All 1 am so glad that the sun Of Right
I eOusness dawned Oh the polar night OF the
Nations. And II Christ is the great warmer,
then the church IL the great dollhouse, with
| its plants and trees and fruits Of righteous
| ness. Do you know, my friends, that the
| church is the institution that proposes
warmth have been for twenty-seven years
| studying how TO make the church warmer
Warmer architecture, warmer hymnology
warmer Christian salutation. All outside
Siberian winter we must have Il a princes
dollhouse. The only institution on earth To-
day that proposes 20 make the world warmer
Universities and obsergU9r,es, they all hav,
their work. They propose TO make tn,
world light, but they do not propose TO MAKE
the world warm. Geology informs us, but 4
Is as cold as the rock 1t hammers. The tele
scope shows where the other worlds are bu
an astronomer Is chilled while loollinl
through it. Chemistry tells us OF strange
combinations aud how inferior affinity ma
be overcome by superior affinity; but 1t can
not tell how all things work together 70
good. Worldly philosophy has a grea
splendOr, but IL is the splendOr Of mOonligh
on an iceberg. The church OF God propose
warmth and hope-Warmth for the expecta
lions. warmth for the sympathies OH
am so glad that these great altar fires hav
been kindled. Come In out OF the cold
Come in, aud have your wounds salved
Come, and have your sins pardoned. Com
in blythe great gospel fireplace
Notwithstanding all the modern inven
tions for heating, tell you there is nothin
so full Of geniality and sociality as the oil,
fashioned country Fireplace. The neigh
bors we're to come in for winter evening
of sociaity. In the middle OF the afternoon
, in the best room of the house, some on
, brought in a great backlog with great strait
, and put it down on the back of the hearth
Then the lighter wood was put on, armfu
after armfui. Then a shovel Of Goals wa
taken from another room and put under tn
, dry pile, and the hndling began, aud th
cracking, and it rose until it became a roar
ing flame, which filled all the room wit
, geniality and was reflected from the famil
, pictures on the walls. Then the neighboI
came in two by two. They sat down, thei
, faces to the fire, which ever and anon wa
stirred with tongs and r0adiusted on th
, andirons, and there were such times
{ rustic repartee and story telling and mirt
> as the black stove and the blind registt
) never dreamed of. Meanwhile the table Wa
) being spread, and so fair was the cloth an
so clean was the cutlery, they glsten an
gltsten in our mind to-day And then th
: best luxury Of orchard and farmyard Wa
- roasted and prepared for the table. to met
Y appetites sharpened by the cold ride.
4 0, my friends, the church of Jesus Chri
is the worlds fireplace. and the woods al
4 from the cedars OF Lebanon. and the fires al
fires Of love, and with the silver tongs Of Il
} altar we stir the fame, and the light is r
Elected from all the family pictures on Il
1 wall-pictures OF those who were here an
/ are gone now. o, come up close to the fir
! place! Have your faces TRANSPORTED in Il
light. Put your cold feet, weary of the iou
. ney, close up to the blessed conaagratio
| Chilled through with trouble and disappoin
/: ment, come close up until you can get war
d clear through. Exchange experience, Ia
' over the haryests gathered, tell all the 20
i pei news. Meanwhile the table Is beiI
spread. On it, bread of life. On it, crap
n OF Eshco On it, new wine from the kin
4 dom. On it, thousand luxuries celestis
g Hank! as a wounded hand raps on the tab
! and tender voice comes through sayin
@ "Oome, for all things are now ready Eg
g 0 friends! drink, yea, drink abundantly,
q beloved"
h My friends, that is the way the cold wor
v is going to be warmed up, by the great 60
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