The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-15

MNAi u pr 90 De NHmH.IFN oven amid UlHnHN
saff8undinga. bat Christ slept "a butts, ano
NC Waa mhlrai, nnd llo was n-hungered, and
ha WM on iho way from being born in
another mans barn to being buried in
another mans grave.
have road how the swiss. when They ara
Oar away from their native couuirY, at tho
sound 81 their National cir get ao h0meaick
that theY iall Into melancholy, and SOME
times they die under thohOmualckneaa. But,
OBJ. the h0moaicknoa of Christi Poverty
homeslck Tor celestial riches. Persecution
homealek for hosanna Wearlne@ home
alck iQr psf HQmeslek ior aus Nf
and archangelio e0mpanlonahlp. Homo
sick 10 got ont ol Che night and
the storm. and tho EorldB exocraiion
Homeslckness viii m6-.o week seem a7
long as a moath. and it seems 20 me that tho
three decades of Chrisi'a residence on earth
must have seemed 20 Him almost as inter-
miuahle You have often tried 20 measure
the other pangs of Christ, but you have
never tried 10 measure tho magnitude and
ponlerosltv OF savlouF'a homeslekness.
tak0 step farther and tell you that
Christ was Ga an exile which Ito knew would
end ln assassination. Holman Hunt, the
master painter. has a picture Ia which he
represents Jesus Christ IN the NWarene ear
penter shop. Around Him are the saws, the
hammers, the axes. the drills OF carpentry.
The picture represents Christ as rising from
the carpenters working bench and wearlly
stretching out His arms ne one will after be-
ing In contracted or uncomfortable posture,
aud the light Of that picture ia 20 arranged
that the arms OF Christ. YEARLY stretched
forth. together with Hls body, throw on the
wall tho shadow Of tho cross. Oil my
friends. that shadow was on everything Ia
Ohrista lifetime Shadow OF a cross on the
Bethlehem sWaddling clothes. Shadow OF a
cross on the road over which the three fugi-
tIyes fed into Egypt. Shadow Of q cross on
Lake 0allleo as Christ walked us mosaic
floor Of opal and emerald and crystal.
Shadow Of cross On the road 70 Emmaus.
Shadow Of cross on the brook Kedron. and
on the temple, and on the side Of Ohyet.
Shadow OF a cross on sunrise and sunset.
Constantine, marching with bis army, saw
Just once a cross in the sky, but Christ saw
the cross all the time.
Hawthorne, turned out OF the office Of col
lector at Salem, went homo In despair. His
wife touched him on the shoulder aud said,
"Now Is the time 70 write your book" and
his famous "Scarlet Letter" was the brill
liant consequence. Worldly good sometimes
comes from worldly evil. Then DO not un-
believing whom I tell you that from the
greatest crime Of al eternity and Of the
I whole universe. the murder Of the Son Of
God, there shall come results which shall
eclipse all the grandours Of eternity past and
eternity to come. Christ, m exile from
heaven opening the way for the deportation
toward heaven and 20 heaven Of all those
who will accept the prefer. Atonement, a
thlp large enough TO take all tho passengers
that will come aboardit.
For this royal exile I bespeak the love and
Eervice Of all the exiles here present, and In
one sense or the other that Includes all oil
us. The gates OF this continent have been 50
widely opened that there are here many vol
hntary exiles from other lands. Some oil
you are Scotchmen. / see it in your high
cheek bones and in the color that lllumine.
your face when / mention the land OF your
nativity. Bonny Scotland Dear old kirk
Some Of your ancestors sleeping in Grey
lriars churchyard, or by the deep lochs flllet
out Of the pitchers Of heaven, or under Il
heather, sometimes so deep Of color il make
one think q rtBe BI92a Fl l9g G9ve3,aRterI
IE9 signed lP9lg 9e@eg ~, G tbd 9PRiR;
6Bsb9H fof fbSt b1f56g6. aa5W sEs5SS;;
fiber Of your hatupe thrills as l mention
the names of Robert Bruce and the Camp
bells and Cochranel 1 bespeak for this roya
exile Of my text the love and service Of al
Scotch exiles. Some Of you are Engllshmen
Your ancestry served the Lord. Have moi
read of the sulferings Of the Haymarket, ant
have mot seen IN oxford the very spot wher
Ridley and Latlmer mounted the red char
iot2 Some OF your ancestors heard Georg
Whteneld thunder, or heard Charles Yves
ley sin, or heard John Bunyan tell his dream
OF the celestial city, and the cathedrals un
der the shadow Of which some OF you wer
born had in their grandest organ roll tn
name Of the Messiah.
l bespeak for the royal exile OF my sermO
the love and the service of all English o.
Hes Yes, some OF you came from the islam
of distress over which hunger, on athrone {
human skeletons, sat queen. All efforts {
amelioration halted by massacre. Proce.
sion OF famines, procession Of martyrdom
marching from northern Channel to Car
Clear and from the Irish Sea across to III
Atlantic. An island not bounded as geogr,
piers tell us, but, as every philanthropi
knows, bounded on the north and the sout
, and the east and the west by woe which n
, human politics can alleviate and only A
! mighty God can assuage LAID OF GolC
smiths rhythm, and Sheridan's wit. an
O'ConnelFs eloquenee, and Edmund Burke
craftsmanship, and O'Buen's sacrac
, Another Patmos with its apocalypse
, blood. Yet you cannot think of 1t to-da
without having your eyes blinded with EN-,
+, ton, for there your ancestors sleep in grave
some Of which they entered for lack
bread. For this royal exile OF my sermon
+ bespeak the love and the service Of all Iris
oxiles. Yes, some Of you are from German
4 the land OF Luther, and some OF you al
, from Italy, the land of Garlbaldi, and son
I Of you are from France, the land OF Joh
! Calvin, one Of the three mighties of Il
. glorious reformation. Some OF you are d
: scendants Of the Puritans, and they we
exiles, and some Of you descendantsof Il
i Huguenots, and they were exiles, and son
! OF you are descendants OF the Holland ref
q gees and they were exiles
! Some OF you were born on the banks oftl
! Yazoo or the Savannah, and you are now II
4 ing In this latitude. Some Of you on II
4 banks OF the Kennebec, or at the foot Of II
a Green Mountains, and you are here nov
/ Some Of you on the prairies of the West.
4 the tablelands, and you are here now. o
I how many OF us far away from home. A
i of us exiles. This is not our home. Heav,
\ is our home. Oh, am SO gli
q when the royal exile went back |
/. left the gate ajar, or left it wi
Z open. "Going homer That is the dyii
= exclamation OF the majority Of Christian
/ have seen many Christians die. / THU