The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21


not got the victory. then lel ua make thh nf-
Mult with a backwjoda chorus If prayer
meeting ~ half past 2 IN tho evening does
not succeed lei us have one aa early in the
morning al when the angel found wrestling
Jacob too much for him. 10 sermon With
three authorized heads does not DO the work,
thUn let us have q sermon with twenty heads
or no heads a. all. We want m0rs heart ia
/ our song, more heart in our a.msgiying,
more heart Ia our prayers, moro heart in out
/ preaching.
Oh, f0r les OF Abimelcsh's sworl an
more OF Abimeleoh's eondagfationl / had
/ often heard
There Is a fountain filled with blood
sung arlisueally by four birds parched on
/ their Sunday rooH In the gallery until /
| thought Of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and Som
/ tag and all the other WARRIORS, but thoro
I came not one tear 90 my eye nor one master
j emotion 20 my heart. But one night ] went
down TO the African Methodist meeting
/ house In Philadelphia, and at the close o.
/ the service q black woman IN the middle 81
| the audience began % sing that hymn. and
/ oil tho audience Joined In, ana we were
/ l0ated some three or four miles nearer
heaven than I have ever been since. saw
| with my own eyes that fountain iillo3 with
blood"-red, agonizing saorincial, redemp-
| uve-and henrd the crimson splash Of the
wave as We all went down under II
For sinners plunged beneath that food
Lose oil their guilty stains.
Oh, my friends, the gospel Is not q syllo-
gism; Il Is not casuistry; it As not polemics. or
the science OF squabbles. tits blood red fact,
Il Is warm hearted invitation; Il il leaping,
bounding, flying good news; II Is efilorescent
with all light; Il Is rubescent with al sum
| merry glow; II Is arborescent with all sweet
I hnu "A sfna
Washington, and from the Tlptop House, but
there was no beauty In that compared with
the dayspnng from on high when Christ
gives light 70 a soul. l have heard parepa
sing, but there was no music In that COM
pared with the voice Of Christ when He said,
'Thy sins are forgiven thee; 20 In peace.
Good news! Let every one cut down branch
Of this tree Of life and wave It. Let him
throw Il down and kindle Il. Let all the way
from Mount Zalmon to Shechem be filled
with thetosslng JOY. Good newsl This bon
fire Of tho gospel shall consume the last tenn
pie OF sin, and will illumine the sky with
apOcalyptie 10y, that Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinners. Any new plan
that makes a man quit his sin, and that pros
trates a wrong, am as much in favor OF as
though all the doctors, and the bishops, and
the archbishops, aud the synods, and the
academical gownsmen Of Christianity sane
toned IL. The temple of Berth must come
down, and do not care how II comes.
Still further learn from this subject the
power Of example. II Abimelech had sat
down on the grass and told his men to 90 and
get the boughs and 90 out to the battle, they
would never had gone at all, or II they had
It would have been without any spirit or
effective result, but when Abimelech goes
with his own ak and news down a branch
and with Abimelech's arm puts IL on Abime-
lech's shoulder and marches on, then, my
text says. all the people did the same. How
natural that Was What made Garibaldi and
Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic COM
manders of this century? They always rode
ahead. Oh, the overwhelming power Of ex-
amplel Here is the father on the wrong road.
All his boys go on the wrong road. Here is
a father who enlists for Chr His children
enlist. IBaw in some OF the picture CALLER
les OF Europe that before many OF the great
works OF the great masters, the old masters,
there would be sometimes four and Eve ar
lists taking copies Of pictures. These copies
they were going to carry with them. per-
haps to distant lands, and 1 have thought
that your life and character are mas
terpiece, and ii is being copied, and long af-
ter you are gone will bloom or blast In the
homes Of those who knew you and be q Cor
gon or a Madonna. Look out what you say.
Look out what you do. Eternity will hear
the echo. The best sermon ever preached is
/ a
a consistent walk. II you want others to
serve God, serve Him yourself. II you want
others to shoulder their duty, shoulder
! yours. Where Abimelech goes his troops
60. Oh. start out for heaven to-day, and
your family will come after you, and YOU
business associates will come after you, ant
your social friends will join you. With on,
branch Of the tree Of life for baton, marsha
, just as many as you can gather Oh, the in
of a rOp
I or bad example!
] l saw last summer, near the beach, q
, wreckers machine. 1t was a cylinder with
some holes at the side. made for and thrust
ing in OF some long poles with strong lever
age, and when there Is any vessel in trouble
: or going to pieces in the ofing, the wrecker
! shoot rope out to the suffering men, They
grasp it, and the wreckers turn the cylinder
and the rope winds around the cylinder. an,
;, those who are shipwrecked are saved. So a
= your feet, to-day, there is an influence will
: a tremendous leverage. The rope attache,
to it swings far out into the billoWy future
/ Your children, your children's children ant
: all the generations that are to follow will
I grip thatinfluence and feel the long reach
q ing pull long after the figures on your tomb
q stone are so near worn out that the yisito
y cannot tell whether it was 1895 or 1895 0
= 1896 that you died.
= Still further 1 learn from this subject the
y advantage Of concerted action. Ii Abime
a Tech had merely gone out with tree branch
" the work would not have been accomplished
. or If ten, twenty or thirty men had gone
"a but when all the axes are lifted and all tn
- sharp edges fall, and all these men carr
. each his tree branch down and threw
= about the temple, the victory is gained-th
temple falls. My friends. where there is on
= man in the church of God at this day Shout
- dering his whole duty there are grea
- many who never lift an AK or swing bougt
~, ~ It seems to me as If there were ten drones
y every hive to one busy bee; as though Their
20 were twenty sailors sound asleep in til
II ships hammocks to four men on the storm
~ deck. 1t seems as If there were $4,000 me
y belonging to the reserve corps, and only 10C
II active combatants. Oh, we all want OF
:. boats to get over to the golden sand
y but the most of us are seated either
." ~ the PROV or in the stern, wrapped
90 our striped shawl, holding a big handle
~ sunshade, while others are blstered in tn
~, heat and pull until the oarloeks groan an
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