The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-26

years ago, 10 seemed flui lhe FHp1rnr nla1l
i1 iakn thr sermon. and hla chief idea Wha t9
csueaiuro @. and these ars some OF fhn ~
p0u0ual lnloH'unga 0f she sermon -
George WhiFnsld. After calling him bya
nickname Indicative % "a physical deieft in
the eye. tg0ra Ga foaay. "Herothe preacher
clasps ha chin on tdo pulpit cushion. Hsfe
he fiffntra hls voice. Here Pee lowcu hf
voice. Holds Dts arms extended. haWia
aloud Stands trembling. Makes n iusnl~
iul face. Turns 40 tho whites Qi bis eyes.
Clasps hia hands behind ban. CLASPS be
arms around him and hugs bimsoli. Roau
aloud hnIl0oa jumps, cries. Changes from
eFyinr. Hallooa and jumps again. Well,
my brother. ~ thar good mHn went through
at thar process. lu your occupation, in your
profession. in your store. IN your shop. az
che bar. in Che sick room, IN thn editorial
chair. somewhere, you VIII have 90 SO
through o similar process. You cannot
tseane a.
Keats wrote bis famous poem, and the
hard criticism OF the poem killed hlm-lit-
orally killed him. Tasso wrote his poem,
entitled, "Jerusalem Delivered" aud Il had
such cold reception Il turned him into a
raying maniac. aiilingfieet was slain by
hia literary enemies. The irown OF Henry
VIII slew Cardinal WOlsoy. The Duke OF
Wellington refused 90 have the fence around
excited mob, rebuilt. because he wanted the
fence 20 remain as It WINS, o reminder Of the
mutabilty and uncertainty Of the popular
favor.
And you viii have trial OF some Sort. You
have had q already. Why need prophesyi
/ might better mention an historical fact IN
your history. You are % merchant. What
time you had with that old business partner
How hard It was 10 get ria OF him. Before
you bought him out, or be ruined both Of
you, what magnitude OF annoyance! Then
after you had paid him down q certain sun
OF money 30 have him 20 out and 70 promise
be would not open a store OF the same kind
Of business In your street, did no not
open the very sume kind OF busi-
ness as near 10 you as possible and take
all your customers as far as he could take
them2 And then. knowing all your irailties
and weaknesses after being In your business
firm for 30 many year,, IS be not now SPEND
Inc his time IN making q commentary on
what you furnished rs a texl2 You are
physician. and In your sickness, or IN your
absence. You get a neighboring doctor 70
take your place In the sick room, and he in-
rraiiates himself into the favor Of that fam
iiy, 20 that you forever lose their patronage.
or, you take a patient through the serious
stages % a fever, and some day the impatient
father or husband Of the sick one PUSHES
out and GETS another medical practi-
toner, who comes In Just In time to set the
credit Of the cure Or. You are lawyer,
and you como in contact with trickster IN
your profession, and in your absence, and
contrary 20 agreement, he moves nonsnH
or the dismissal OF the case Or the Judge
on the bench, remembering an old political
grudge, rules against Won every time he gets
chance, and saws With n snarl, III Won
don't like my decision, take m exception.
Or, you are q farmer and the curculio stings
the fruit, or the weevil gets into the wheat
or the drought stunts the corn, or the long
continued rains give you no opportunity Tor
gathering the harvest Your best COW gets
the no How horns your best horse gets toun-
dered. A French proverb said that trouble
comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
SO trouble dashed in on you suddenly; but,
| oh. how LONG Il was In getting away! Came
on horseback, goes away on foot. Rapid in
coming. slow in going That is the history
OF nearly all your troubles. Again and
! again and again you have experienced the
| power Of the east wind. 1t may be blowing
| from that direction now.
Nv friends, God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose. They
! do not come NJ random. Here is the promise:
size stayeth His rough wind In the day OF
! the east wind" In the tower OF Londonthe
| ished and arranged into huge passion how-
ers and sun1owers and bridal cakes, and you
wonder how anything so hard as sleel co1ld
! be put into such floral shapes. have to tell
! YOU that the hardest. sharnest most cutting
! most piercing sorrows Of this life may be
| made to bloom and bosom and put on
! bridal fesfivity. The Bible says thew shall
he mltigated. they shall be assuaged. they
| shall be graduated God is not going to al
low you to be- overthrowp. A Christian wo-
man. very much respondent, was holding
her chill In her arms, ami the pastor, trying
to console the woman IN her spiritual depres-
sion. said. "There. YOU will let your child
drop" ooh, no." she said, 81 couldn't let
the child drop" He said, "You will let the
child drop" "Why." she said. "f should
dron the child here. 1t would dash his life
outr' ''Wefl. now" said the Christian min.
lister, "dont you think God is a. good as
you are? Won't God, YOUR Father, take as
good care Of you. His child as you take care
Of your child? God won't let YOU drop"
I suppose God let's the east wind blow just
hard enough to drive us into the harbor o.
Gods protection. We all feel we can man.
age our own affairs. We have helm ant
compass and chart and quadrant. Give US
plenty Of sea room and we sail on and sal
on; bnt after while there comes q Caribbean
whirlwind up the coast, and wa are helpless
IN the gale, and va cry out for harbor. AL
our calculations upset, we say with the poet
Change and decay on all around see
Oh, Thou who changest not. abide with me
The south wind Of mid Providence makes
us throw offthe cloak Of Christian charac
ter aud we cateh cold, but the sharp east
wind of trouble makes us wrap around n
the warm promises. The best thing tina
ever happens to us is trouble. That is
hard thing perhaps to say; but I repeat it
for God announces 1t again and again. tht
best thing that happens to us is trouble.
When tho French army went down int
Egypt under Napoleon, an engineer, in dig
cling for a fortress. came across table
which has been called the Rosetta stone
There were inscriptions in three or fou
languages on that Rosetta stone. Scholar
studying out the ALPHABET of hieroglyphic
from that stone were enabled to read ancien
inscriptions on monuments and on tomb
stones Well. many Of the handwritings o
God in our life are indecipherable hierogly
phics. We cannot understand them until VI
lake up the Rosetta stone of divine inspira
ton, and the explanation all comes out. AM
thn rovyafaY.lpa NIL vanish and what was be