The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rHE NOTED DIFINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.


TExTi "unio Him shall the gathering oftho
people be, "-oeneala Xix, 10.
Through a supernatural lens. or what /
might call a pf0pheseope, dying Jacob looks
down through the Gordon 81 the centuries
until be secs Christ the center Of an popular
attraction and the greatest holngin an the
world, 50 everywhere Acknowledged. Il was
not always 20. The world tried hard 10 put
HIN down and 90 put Him out. Ia the year
1000, while exeavatlng for antiquities fifty
tnfee miles northeast "a Rome, r. copper plate
tablet was found containing the death war
rant Of tho Lord Jesus Christ. reading Ia this
wise.
I'm the year II Of The empire Of Tlborlus
Caesar, and on the 25lh Of March l. p0ntlus
PLATE, governor Of the Prmtofe, condemn
Jesus oi Nazareth 10 die between two thieves.
Quinuus Cornelius to lead him forth 10 the
place Of execution"
The death warrant vas signed by several
names. First, By Daniel. rabbi pharlsee;
secondly, by johannes. rabbi; thirdly. by
Raphael, iourshly, By Capet a private eltl-
zen. THIS capital punishment was executed
according To- law. The name Of the thief
eruoiied on tho right hand side of Christ
was Dlsmas. The name % the thief eruei-
hed on the left hand side Of Christ was aes-
tus. Pontius PLATE describing the tragedy
says the whole world lighted candles
from noon until night ThiHy-three years
Of maltreatment. A wall Of the city, built
about those times and recently exposed by
archmologists, shows oaricaturo Of Jesus
Christ ,evldenclng the contempt In which He
was held by many In His day. that caricature
on the wall representing a cross and a dom
ley nailed TO IL, aud under Il the inscription,
This Is the Christ whom the people wor-
ship" But ! rejoice that that dnY Is gone
by. Our Christ is coming out from under
the world'sabuse. The most popular name
on earth to-day Is the name Of Christ. Where
he had one friend Christ has thousand
friends. The scoffers have become the wor-
shippers. OF the twenty most celebrated In
iidelsln Great Britainin our day sixteen have
come back to Christ, trying to undo the
teen out OF the twenty. Every man
who writes q letter or signs doc
ument, Willingly or unwittingy, honors
Jesus Christ. We date everything as b. G.
or A. Dbl. O., before Christ; A. D., Ammo
Domtnt, in the year Of our Lord. All the
ages Of history on the pivot OF the upright
beam OF the cross OF the Son OF God b. o,
A, d. / do not care what you call Him.
whether Conqueror or King or Morning Star
or Sun OF righteousness or Balm OF Glead
or Lebanon Cedar OF Brother or Friend or
take the name used In the verse from which
l take my text and call Him shilo, which
means His Son, or the Tranquilator, or the
Peaoemaker, Shiloh. | only want to tell
you that "unto Him shall the gathering Of
the people be-"
In the first place, the people are gathered
around Christ for pardon. No sensible man
or BEAUTIFULLY ambitious man is satisfied
with his past life. A fool NAV think he is all
right. A sensible man knows he is not.
do not care who the thoughtful man is the
review Of his lifetime behavior before God
and man gives TO him no especial satislac-
ton. "0h, he says, there have been so
many things l have done 1 ought not TO
have done; there have been 80 many things
| have said ought never to have said; there
have been so many things l have written ]
/ ought never to have written; therehave been
/ so many things Ihave thought l ought never
/ to have thought l must somehow gel
/ things readjusted. l must somehow
have the past reconstructed. There are days
and months and years which cry out against
/ me inhorribe moderation" An. my brother,
/ Christ adjusts the past by obliteraling it. He
/ does not erase the record of our misdoinp
with a dash Of ink from a registers pen, but
! lifting His right hand crushed, red at the
palm, He puts it against His bleeding brow
and then against His pierced side, and witt
He rubs out the accusatory chapter He
blots out our iniquties, Oh. never be anxious
about the future; better be anxious abou
the pastl / put it not at the end of my ser
mon; must put it at the front-mercy anC
pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardoninl
| Christ Unto Him shall the gathering oil
the people be-" sob" says some man, 4"
have for forty years been as bad asI coulC
be, and is there any mercy for me?'
Mercy for you, "Oh," says SOM
one here, ~ had a grand ancestry
the hottest OF fathers and the tenderest o.
mothers, and Tor my perfldy there is no ex
cuse! Do you think there is any mercy 70
me?" Mercy for you. "But," says anothe
man. II fear / have committed what the,
call the objectionable sin, and the Bibl
says If a man commit that sin he is neithe
to be forgiven in this world nor the world Il
come. Do you think there is any mercy 70
me2" The fact that you have any solictud
about the matter at all proves positivel,
that you have not committed the unpardon
able sin. Mercy for your Oh, the grace O
God which bringeth salvation!
The grace of God. Let us take the sur
veyors chain and try to measure God
mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one SUI
veyor take that chain and go to the north
and another surveyor take that chain and e
to the SOUTH and another surveyor take the
chain and 90 to the east, and another SUI
veyor take that chain and 20 to the Wes
and then make a report of the square mile
OF that vast kingdom OF Gods mercy Ayt
you Will have to wait to all eternity fuz tb
report of that measurement 1t cannot /
measured. Paul tried to climb the height
it, and he went height over height, altituc
above altitude. mountain above mountain
then sank down in Encouragement and ga1
it up, for he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond an
Matterhorns beyond, and waving his hanC
back to us in the plains he says, "Past find
ing out; unsearchable, that in all things
, might have the pre-eminence. You motto
, that nearly all the sinners mentioned as pa
doned in the Bible were great sinners-Dav
! II great sinner, Paul great SHINE
= Rahab a great sinner, Magdalene
! great sinner, the predigal son gre
sinner. The world easily understood no
Christ could pardon half and half SHINE
but what the world wants to be persuaded
is that Christ will forgive the worst SHINE
thehardest sinner, the oldest sinner, the mo
inexcusable sinner. To 1he sin pardonr
Shiloh let all the gathering Of the people b
But, | remark again, tho people WI
| yafhpr around Chriet 10 "A eVTn np fhi1er n