The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-10-11

switch. IL will not hurt them, and It will
save you. Peace with God; peace with
man. If you cannot take those two doe.
! trnes, YOU are no Christian
/ But my text goes further IT SAYS Go
up into the mountain and fetch olive
/ branches and pine branches" Now. what
| b. suggested by the pine hTanchy The
/ pine tree Is healthy; Il is aromatic: IL rs
| evergreen. How often the physician SAYS
/ 10 bis invalid patients. GO and have
breath of the pines that viii invqorate
| you" Why do such thousands of people
60 South every year. II Is not merely to
/ get TO a warmer climate, but 10 get the IN.
| duence Of the pine. There is health in Il,
| and this pine branch of the text suggests
/ the hepfulness of our holy religion. 1t Is
| full of health. health for ALL, health for
/ the mind, health for the soul i knew an
aged man who had no capital of physical
health. He had had all the diseases you
/ could imagine. He did not eat enough 10
/ keen a child alive; he lived on a beverage
Of hosannas; he lived high, for he dined
! every day with the King: he was kept
/ alive simply by the force of our holy reli-
/ gion. It is a healthy religion. healthy for
the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for
the feet, healthy for the heart healthy for
/ the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy
for the whole man. It gives a man such
peace, such quietness, such independence
Of circumstances such holy equipoise Oh,
that we all possessed it; that we possessed
it now!
And some one says. my business Is
to manufacture horseshoe nails" Then
manufacture horseshoe nails to the glory
of God. There is nothing for you to do
Of God.
Usefulness is typifed by the palm tree.
All, we do not want in the church any
more people that are merely weeping will
lows. signing into the water, standing and
admiring their long lashes in the CLASSY
| spring! No wild cherry dropping bitter
fruit We want palm trees. holding
something for God, something for angels
something for man. l am tired and sick
of this fiat, tame. insipd, satin slippered,
Mandy pambv highly tightly religion 1t
is worth nothing for this world, and it
Is destruction for eternity. Give me 500
men and women fully consecrated TO
Christ, and we will take this city for
God in three years; give me 10000 men
and women fully up to the Christian
Standard in ten years 10000 of them
would take the whole earth for God.
But when are we going to begin? We
all want to be useful There is not a
man in the pews that does not want to
be useful. When are we going to be-
gin?
Ledyard the great traveller. was
trough, before the Geographical Society
Of Great Britain. and they wanted him
to make some explorations in Africa, and
they showed him all the perils and all
the hard work and all the exposure, and
after they had told him what they want
ed him to do in Africa they said to him,
Now. Ledyard.. when are you ready to
start" He said, Tomorrow morning"
The learned men were astonished. They
thought he would take weeks or months
to get ready. Well, now, you tell me
YOU want to be useful in Christian service.
When are you going to begin? Oh that
you had the decision to say, Now;
noW!" Oh, 60 into the mount and gather
the palm branches
But the palm branches also mean vic
tory. We'll, now, we are by nature the
servants of satan. He stole us; he has
his eye on us; he wants to keep us But
word comes from our Father that if we
will try to break loose from this doing of
wrong our Father will help us, and some
day we rouse up, and we look the black
tyrant in the face, and we fly at him,
and we wrestle him down, and we put
our heel on his neck, and we grind him
in the dust and we say, Victory, vic
tory, through our Lord Jesus Christi"
, Oh, what a grand thing it is to have
sin underfoot and a wasted life behind
our backs! blessed is he whose trans
gression is forgiven and whose sin is
covered"
Some one says, GLOW about the fu-
ture" What, says the man, / feel so
sick and worn out with the ailments of
life. You are going to be more than
, conqueror. But, says the man, | am so
tempted, | am so pursued in life. You
, are going to be more. than conqueTOr. l.
who have so many ailments and heart
aches, going to be more than conqueror!
Yes, unless you are so self-conceited that
you want to manage all the affairs Of
T your life yourself instead of letting God
manage them Do you want to drive
+ and have God take a back seat? ooh
. no" you say; 81 want God to be my lead
err" Well, then, you will be more than
! conqueror. Your last sickness will come
, and the physicians in the next room vii
! be talking about what they will do fol
= you. What difference will it make what
/ they do for you? You are going to b.
G well, everlastingly well. And when thu
\ spirit has fled the body your friends vii
I be talking as to where they shall bury
you. What difference does it make tt
E YOU where they bury you? The angel o
E the resurrection can pick you out of tn
( dust anywhere and all the cemeteries o
: the earth are in Gods care. Oh, you ar
+ going to be more than conQueror!
I Do you not think we had better begil
" now to celebrate the coming victory? Il
: the old meeting house at Somerville m,
i father used to lead the singing, and h
had the old fashioned tuning fork, an,
e he would strike it upon his knee and the
Z put the tuning fork to his ear to catcl
e the right pitch and start the hymn But
u friend, do you not think we had bette
y be catching the pitch of the everlastin
= song, the song Of victory, when we sha
u be more than conquerors? Had we no