The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-27

ihalr iaD5r and tHelr Woraad 8 I0u1wtham
IhH sense oI ina ludleInnH D. H1 thoroughly
developed iu mo that Whon 4 boar thrsa
scripture NarlH read af the ohr4ulea of one
oi the religious DO n1thluFa ln tha churches
y D. Too much iof my gravity "rhuF works
Do follow ihem.' What work. Aud en- Whnl
difrcil0u 40 lheY follow them=up of down.
And d. they follow ou foot or 900 iha winrI
And how long viii they follow before ihUy
rMeh upi More appropriate innnrai teTl
I0r al such RELIGIOUS dead beats would D.
ihH words ln Matthew KNV. Bs "Our lHmus
ara gone out" One would think that sneb
Christians would show at least uudef wh0as
hammer they hfe enlisted. In onu of the
hapoleouic wars womHn-Jeanne.tn bF
namo-took her position with che troops auf
shouidored q hroOmstiek. The colonel said.
"lelnnotto. why DO you take such a usel,s
weapon into the mnksf' "WeIl." enc said.
~ can show, nt least which side i am on.
Now, the object ul this sermon o. ID stlr nt
least 0neiourih Of you Co un ambition fos
that which my text presents in blazing
vocabulary -uhnely. passion Tor souls. 10
prove that lt D. possible to have much of that
spirit, bring the conservation Of 1890 foreign
missionaries. u BE- usually estimated that
there ars 90 least 5000 missionaries. mike
% liberal allowance and admit there may De-
10 lad missionaries out OF the 5000, but DO
not believe there Is one All English nnI
American merchants leave Bombay, Cal.
eultRs Annoy and poklu ag soon as ihey
make their fortunes. Why} Because u1
| European or American in his senses would
tny I'm that climate nffor monetary Undue.
ments nave ceased. Now tho missionaries
there are put down on the barest necessities.
and most oithom DO not lay up 81 IA twenty
years. Why, then, DO they stay In those
7! lands OF intolerablo heat and e0brus and
| raging foyorB, the thermometer sometimes
| playing az $50 and 40 degrees OF oppressive
| ness, $4,000 miles from home, because Of the
unhealthy climate and the prevailing im-
momliuea OF those regions compelled 90 send
/ their children 20 England or Scotland or
| America, probably never 20 SEQ them again2
| o blessed Christ! Can q bo anything but a
| passion for sOul82 II Is easy 30 understand
/ all this frequent depreciation Of foreign mis-
| sionaries when You know that they are all
/ opposed 10 the opium traffic. and that inter-
/ leres with commerce, and then the mission
| aries are moral, and that Is an offense 20
/ many OF the merchants-not all OF them, but
/ many OF them-who, absent from all home
| restraint, are 80 immoral that we can make
1 only faint allusion 20 the monstrosity OF
/ their denominations. Oh, / would like 20 be
/ az the gate OF heaven when those missions
/ aries 20 In to see how they win have the
/ pick Of coronets and thrones and mansions
/ on the best streets OF heaven. We who have
had easy pulpits and loving congregations.
| entering heaven, will, In my opinion. have
| 10 take our turn ana wait for the Christian
workers who, amid physical sufierIngs and
| mental prlyatlon and environment Of
| squalor, have done their work. and on tho
| principle thai In proportion as one has been
self-sacriaclng and suffering for Christ's
sake on earth will be their celestial prefer
ment.
Who is that young woman on the worst
street In Washington, New York or London,
| Bible In hand and a little package In which
| are small walls OF medicines, aud anothNr
bundle In which are biscuits2 How dare she
| risk herself among those "roughs," and
where is she going2 She is one OF the queens
OF heaven hunting up the sick and hungry;
and before night she will have read Christ's
"Let not your heart be troubled" ia eight or
ten places, and counted out from those Walls
the right number Of drops to ease pain, and
given food 10 a family that would otherwise
have had nothing to eat to-day, and taken
the measure Of dead child that she may
prepare for It a shroud-her every act of
kindness for the body accompanied with a
benedicdon for tho soul. You seq nothing
but the filthy street along which she walks
aud the rickety stairs up which she climbs,
but she Is accompanied by an unseen cohori
Of angels with drawn swords to defend her
and with garlands twisted for her victories
all up and down the tenement house dis
trlcts / tell you there was not so much
excitement when Anne BOleyn, on her
1, way to her coronation, found the Thames
stirred by fifty gilded barges, with bril-.
liant flags, in which hung small bells
rung by each motion OF the wind, noble.
men standing in scarlet, ami wharf spread
with cloth OF gold, and all the gateway.
surmounted by huzzainC admirers, and thu
/ gfr han with inns firm I'M.
pets and cannon sounding the jubilee, anC
| Anne dressed In surcoat Of silver tissue, anC
brow cleaning with circlet Of rubies, anC
amid fountains that poured Rhenish wint
passed on TO Westminster Hall aud rode il
on a caparlsoned palfry, its hoois Gathering
on the classic floor, and, dismounting
passed into Westminster Abbey, and between
the choir and high altar was GRO Tned queer
amid organs and choirs chanting the ct
Deum"--I say there was not much in al
that glory which dazzles the eyes OF hlstor
when 1t is compared with the heavenly re
ception which that ministering spirit of tn
back alley shall receive when she goes up t
coronation. When she goes in, what wei
come on the river of life, its banks of pear
lined with splcndors seraphic and In temple
Of eternal worship, whose music is com
manded by swing of archangelc scepter an
before thrones where sit those who haY
|
begun their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn
10 two years after that pageant, lost life anC
throne by one stroke of headsman, but thoS
who on earth have divine passion for soul
shall never lose their thrones. "Hhey shall
reign forever and ever"
But. after all, the best way to cutivat
that divine pass on for souls is to work 70
their salvation. Under God save one, an,
you will want right away to save two. Saw
two, and you will want to save ten. Say
ten. and you will want to save twenty. Say
twenty. and you will want 70 save u hundred
t Save a hundred, and you will want to saw
everyb' dy. And what is the use OF talkin
about it when the place to begin is here an
, the time is now2 And while you pray wi
, | In one minute tell all there Is Of It, Flu
pardon for the worst man on earth II he wi
believe in Christ, whose blood can Instant
wRsa away the fouest crimes. Full comfol
for the most narrowing distress that eve
crushed human being. At your frs
3 moment OF belief, a process by which tn
, whole universe Of God will turn cea
' around for your eternal advantage. For tn