The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-12-11
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.


h9aae 30 ORDER iof th1u shalt dio cad not
AFe'-u Kings gx., 4
30 alarm bell DO ring IN tho utloranee OF /
THIS Test, Tor 10 tho healthy glow ol your
eonntanane 4 God caua3 only Cor cheerful
pfopheefi hHf 4 shall apply the Test nl
spoken in iha ear of Hczstlah. down with "a
bal enIeuneIc. to the nineteenth CENTURY.
nQF closing. ~ will take only four mor1
iot hfeaths, each yaar H breath. and tho
reaf ~ wlll expire Nyth,m1 iH "rho Dye
ingEeni = decus 81 f an'hour whom our
National Legislature la about 90 assemble.
some of tho mnmbUr now hero present and
Others soon tourrve from the North, South.
East and West An tho public conyeyances
coming thIa way VIII bring important addi-
Tons oi public men, s0 chat when on Dscem-
hrf 2. go hieh noon, the guvel8 oil SENATE and
House ~ Repro eBlatiye8 shall liii and inll
ono dcatinlcs oi th.s Nation. anl through Il
iho dea.lnia 0i all Nations aIrursllne % DO
Aeo. VIII DE put on solemn uul tremendous
ulai. Amid such lntenaifyns circumstances
y stand oY the venerable century aud address
% iu lhe woris oi my tex. "rhus saith the
Lord, fei thine house Ina order, for thou
hnn|t dls and not i've"
Eternity Is TOO bis a subject for us 20
Understand. Some one hH8 SAID 80 Is
great clock that says "rlek" ln one Gene
fury and "Iuck" On another. Bul we can
p,ttte understand old time, who has many
chgren-and they aro the centurles-and
may grudehldlUg-lnd thoy nro the
yee9. With the dying nineteenth century
we shal. this morning have n plain talk.
telling him some of the good things no has
done aud then telling him some OF tho
tmngs no ought TO adjust before no quits
ms sphere and passes out Co Join tho
eteniues. We generally wait until ps0ple
gre dead before we say much Ia praise OF
them. Funeral ouIogium is generally very
palmetto and eloquent with things that
ought 10 have been said years before. We
put ON cold tomhs,ones what we ought 10
Aayo put I'm tho warm ears Of the living.
We curse Charles Sumner while he Is live
iAtaud cudgel him into spinal meningitis
and wait until, In the rooms where 1 have
been living tho last year. De puts his hand
on his heart and cries "Oh." aud is gone,
und then we muke long procession IN his
honor. Dr.. Sunderland. chaplain OF the
American Senate. accompanying; stopping
long enough 10 allow the dead Senator 70 he
~ state In Independence Hail. Philadelphia,
e9d hating az Boston Statehouse, where not
~ before damuat0ry resolutions had been
~ 8ad In regard 30 hun, aud then move on,
AMID the t0lnng bells and the boom Of min
ute guns, until we bury him at Mount Au-
burn and cover him with flowers 1--WE feet
deep. What pity BIO could not have been
awake at his own funeral to hear the grati-
tude OF the Nation! What pity that one
green lcnf could not have been taken from
eacn one OF the mOrtuary gariands and put
upon his table while he was yet alive at the
Atingtonl What pity that out Of the great
cfSirs who cAanted at his obsequies one lit
'tleglrl dressed in white might not nave sung
10 MS living ear complimentary solol The
postmorten expression contradicted the ante
mortem. The Nation could not have spoken
the truth both times about Charles Sumner.
Was Il before or after his deceasa it lied2
No such injustice shall be inflicted upon
this venerable nineteenth century. Before
he goes we reeito In his hearing some OF the
good things he has accomplished. What
an addition TO the worlds intelligence he
has made! Look at tho Old scnoolhouse,
WIN the snow sitting through the roof and
thee filthy tin cup hanging over the water
pail in the corner and the little victims on
the loag benches without backs, and the
illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory CAD,
and then look at our modern palaces OF
free schools under mon and women Gull
tured and refined to the highest excellence.
50 that whereas in our childhood we had to
bs whipped to 90 TO school, children now
cry whoa they cannot so. Thank you,
venerable century: while at the same time
we thank God! What an addition to the
: worlds Notwithstanding our century the
Motion gin, the agricultural machines for
Manning, reaping and thrashing: the tele-
graph; the monograph, capable of pre-.
serving a human voice from generation to
generations the typewriter, that rescues the
world from worse and worse penmanship,
and stenography, capturing from the lips Of
the swiftest speaker more than 200 words a
minute! Never was / 50 amazed at the
facilities Of our time as when afeW days age
telegraphed from Washington to New York
long and elaborate manuscript. and a few
minutes after, to show its accuracy, il was
n read TO me through the long-distance tele
Shone. and it was exact down to the last
.Bemicolon and comma.
What hath God wrought! Oh I am Sc
glad / was not born sooner. For the talloW
candle the electric light. For the writings
OF the surgeons table God given ansesthetics
and the whole physical organism explored
by sharpest instrument and giving not 81
much painas tho taking OF q splinter from
under o childs finger nail. For the lumber
ing stagecoach the limited express train
And there Is the speetroscope OF Frauphofer
Ey which our modern scientist feels the pust
OF other worlds throbbing with light, Jen
ners arrest by inocuation of one of thu
worlds worst plaques. Dr. Keoleys enamel
pSti0n for inebriety. Intimation that the
virus OF maddened canine and cancer anC
consumption are yet to be baked by magnt
UEtNL IiHAlChl llbdlAliFlAls LlAO ~ OoiShL "
the doctor sharpened till he can look through
thick flesh aad lind the hiding place OF thu
bullet. Whit advancement in geology, O.
the eatechism of the mountains; chemistry
or the eStechism of the elements; astronomy
or the eateehism of the stars; eeetrology, o
the eateehism of the lightnings. What al
varcement in music Attic beginning thi
century, combining itself, SO far as tn
a1aat masses of the people were con
cer3ed, to a few airs drawn out Of
accqkdion or massacred on church bias
vioi. now enchantingly dropping from
thousands Of fingers in HandePs Concert
In B Fiat" or Gullmant's "Sonata In
Minor" Thanks to you, 0 century, befor
you die, for the asylums Of mercy that yo
have founde3-the blind seeing with thei
fingers, the deaf hearing by the motion G
your lips, the born imbecle by skilliul obiec
less0u lifted TO tolerable intelligence
Thanks to this century for the improved con
difon OF most Nations. The reason that Na
poleon made sneh successful sweep acros
Europe at the beginning OF the century wa
that most OF the thrones OF Europe were "
euDied either by imoecles or prohigate'