The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-20

expectations and HHyl "tHthHf net mt VIII,
bat Thine. D. DONE" Oh. ye who are barefi.
~ anguish hlltsn come into this rsiusel The
roll 81 those wAo came for relief 10 Christ +
larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of om-
niputHnt sympathy the gathering of the peo.
pie shall b.. Oh, that Christ would stand
hy 80 these empty cradles and Rll these des0-
lated humesIHHlH ana all THESE broken hearts
and persuade ua Il q Well
Tie world cannot offer Y0u any help a.
such TIME. suppose iue world comes and
offers you money. You would rather live on
a crust In a cellar and have your departed
loved ones with you than live IN palatlRl sur
roundlnRs and they away. Suppose the
world offers you its honou 30 console you.
What Il the Presidency 20 Abraham Lincoln
when little Willie lies dead In the White
Houso2 Perhaps the world comes and says,
Thine viii cure It all" An. there ara grlefs
that have ragged on for thirty years and are
raglag yet. And yet hundreds have been
c0mt0rled, thousands have been eomf0rted,
millions have been comiorled, and Christ had
done the work. Oh, what Won want Is SYM
pathvl The worlds heart Of sympathy beats
very irregnlarly. Plenty OF sympathy when
We do not want II. aud often when We are In
appalling need oft no sympathy. There ara
multltudes Of people dying for sympathy
sympathy IN their work, sympathy In their
AhkAAMHHf H9WHAtAy IN tuelF NoFoAHHtN9NAHs
sympathy In their financial losses, sympathy
In their physical ailments. sympathy In their
spiritual anxletles, sympathy IN the time OF
declining years-wlde, deep, high, eYerlast-
Ing, almighty sympathy. We must have Il,
and Christ gives H. That Is the cord with
which He Is going 10 draw oil Nations to
Him.
AT tho story Of punishment mans eye
flashes. and his teeth set, and his fist
elinches. and he prepares 10 do battle even
though Il be against the heavens. Yet what
heart 30 hard but IL will sneeumb TO the
story Of eompasslonl Even a mans SYM
pathy IL pleasant and helpful When we
have been In some hour OF weakness, TO have
brawny man stand beside US and promise
to see as through, what courage II gives 10
our heart and what strength 1t gives TO our
arm. Still mightler Is a woman's sympathy.
Let MIN tellthe story who. when all his for
tunes were gone and all the world was
against him, came home and found in that
home a wife who could write on the top of
the empty nOur barrel. 1.-THE Lord viii pro-
Ylde.n or write on the door of the empty
wardrobe: Consider the lilies Of the field.
| If God 80 clothed the grass OF the field, will
| He not elothe US and ours2"
Or let that young man tell the story who
has gone the whole round Of dissipation.
| The shadow OF tle penitentary Is upon him.
/ and even his father says: "Be of Never
come home againr' The young man finds
/ still hts mothers arm outstretched for him,
/ and how she will stand at the wicket OF the
/ prison to whisper consolation or get down on
/ her knees before the governor begging for
/ pardon, hoping on her waywarl boy after
/ all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
story who. under vlllatnous allurement and
/ impairment or parental restraint, has wan
/ Hn~aH ~ N homo - v~hf aH IA "a
idol into the murky and thunderous mid
night Of abandonment, away from God, and
further away until some time she is tossed
| on the beach of that early home mere
splinter Of a wreck. Who viii pity her now
Who will gather those dishonorad locks into
her lap? Who will wash of the blood from
the gashed forehead VINO will tell her Of
4 that Christ who came to save the lost2 WhC
will put that weary head upon the clean
white pillow and watch by day and watch
by night until the hoarse voice OF the sufferer
becomes the whisper. and the whisper be
comes only faint motion OF the lips. anC
the faint motion Of the lips is exchanged fol
asient look, and the cut feet are still, and
the weary eyes ara still, and the frenziel
heart is still, and all is still? Who will have
compassion on her when no others hay,
compassion? Mother! Mother!
Oh, there is something beautiful in sym
patny-in manly sympathy, wiiely sympathy
motherly sympathy, yea and neighbour.
sympathy. Why was it that city wa
aroused with excitement when little chill
was kidnapped from one of the streets? VIII
were whole columns of the newspapers fille
with the story of a little child2 1t was be
cause we are all one in sympathy, and ever
parent said "How if it had been my Lizzie
How lift had been my Mary2 How if it ha
been my Maud2 How If 1t had been M
child? How If there had been one unoccupiet
pillow in our trundle bed tonight How
my little one-bone of my bone and flesh 0
my lesh-were tonight carried captive int
some den of vagabonds, never to come back t
me2 How If it had been my sorroy
looking out of the window watching an
waiting-that sorrow worse than death?
Then when they found her, why did we de
clare the news all through the households
and everybody that knew how to pray said
"Thank God?h Because we are all one
bound by one great golden chain of sym
pathy. Oh, yes, but l have to tell you tina
If you will aggregate all neighborlY manly
wifely, motherly sympathy, 1t will be foun
only a poor starving thing compared wit
the sympathy of our great Shiloh, who ha
held in His lap the sorrows Of the ages an
who is ready to nurse on His holy heart til
woes of all who will come to Him. Oh, Wha
: q God! What Saviour we have!
: But in larger vision see the Nations /
some kind of trouble ever since the worl
, was derailed and hurled down the embank
ments. The demon of sin came to tn
: world but other demons have gone throug
other worlds. The demon Of conhagratlor
$ the demon of volcanic disturbance, the dc
mon Of destruction.
Q La Place says he saw one world in th
o Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burr
( ing. Tycho Brahe said he saw another worl
Q burning. French astronomer says that /
, 800 years 1900 worlds have disappeared.
Q do not see why infidels find 1t SO hard to bt
4 heve that two worlds stopped in Joshua
s time, when the astronomers tell us that 15C
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is
Q world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar cata
Q trophies innumerable. But 1t seems as If ii
: most sorrows have been reserved for OF
d world. By one toss ofthe world at Ticubor
:, of $4,000 inhabitants only twenty-si
a people escaped. By one shake of IL
t world at Lisbon in five minut
' 10000 perished and 200 900 before the cart
:. stopped rocking. A mountain fallsin Swift
Il erland, burying the village of Goldau.