The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-11-22

up tai they reached the prosperity, ana
since they have reached these heights
there have been perplexities, anxieties.
and crises which were almost enough TO
shatter the nerves and turn the brain.
10 would be hard TO tell which have the
biggest fight in this world, the prosperi-
ties or the adversities. the conspicuities
or the obscurities. just az soon as you
have enough success TO attract the atten-
ton OF others the envies and iealouses
are let loose from their kennel. TIE
greatest crime that you can commit ia
the estimation of others is to get on bet.
ter than they do. They think your add
ton Is their subtraction Five hundred
persons start for a certain goal Of mc-
cess. One reaches II. and the other 400
are mad. IL would take volumes to hold
the story of the wrongs, outrages and
defamahons that have come upon you az
result Of your success The warm sun
Of prosperity brings into life a swamp full
Of annoving insects. On the other hand,
the unfortunate classes have their strug-
giles for maintenance. To achieve liveh-
hood by one who had nothing 10 start
with and after awhile for n family as well
and carry this on until children are reared
and educated and fairly started in the
world and 10 do this amid all the rival
ries Of business and the uncertainty of
crops and the fickleness OF tariff legisla-
ton, with an occasional labor strike and
here and there a financial panic thrown
IN. ls mighty thing TO do. and There are
hundreds and thousands Of such heroes
and heroines who live unsung and Gle UNI
honored.
What we all need, whether IN or down
in life or half way between. is the infinite
solace Of the Christian reioion. And 90
we employ the word come" It will take
all eternity to find out the number of
business men who have been strength
ened bv the promises of God and the peo-
pie who have been fed by the ravens
when other resources gave out and the
T1en and women who, going into this bat
tie armed only with needle or saw or axe
or yardstick or pen or type or shovel or
shoelast, have gained a victory that made
the heaven resound. With al the re-
sources of God promised for every exi-
gency no one need be left in the lurch
I like the faith disnayed wears aco in
Drury lane. London. in an humble home
where every particle OF food had given
out and n kindly soul entered with tea
and other table supplies and found a kpts
tie on the fire ready for the ten. The
have the kettle ready for the tea when
YOU had no tea in the house" And the
DAUGHTER in the home said: Mother
would have me nut the kettle on the fire.
and when I said. What is the use of
doing so when We have nothing IN the
house" she said: NV child, God viii pro-
vide. Thirty years He has already pro-
vided for me through all pain and help
lessness, and He will not leave me to
starve at last. He will send us help
though we do not see how. We have been
waiting all day for something to come,
but until we saw you we knew not how
it was to come. Such things the world
may call condolences, but I call them
Almighty dehverances, and, though YOU
do not hear Of them. they are occurring
every hour of every day and in all parts
of Christendom
Those who follow the advice of this
world in tine of perplexitv are in fear
full round, for it is one bewildered soul
following another bewildered soul, and
only those who have in such time got
their eye on the morning star of our
Christian faith can find their way out or
be strong enough to lead others with an
all persuasive invitation.
But, says some one, you Christian
people keen telling us to come yet YOU
do not tel us how to come" That
charge shall not be true on this occasion
Come believing! Come repenting! Come
praying! After all that God has been
doing for 5000 years, sometimes through
patrlarchs and sometimes through nro
Dhets and at last through the culmina
ton of all the tragedies on Golgotha, car
any one think that God will not welcome
your coming? Will father at vast out
lay construct mansion for his son anC
lay out parks white with statues anC
green with foliage and all a.sparkle with
fO11ntaInu and 4bov, cnn 4
live in the house or walk in the parks
Has God built this house of gospel mercy
and will He then refuse entrance to Hi
children? viii a Government at great
expense build life-saving stations al
along the coast, and boats that can hover
| unhurt like a petrol over the wildes
surge and then, when the lifeboat ha,
reached the wreck of ship in the ofing
not allow the drowning to seize the lifC
line or take the boat for the shore II
safety? Shall God provide at the cost O
his, only Sons assassination escape for
! sinking world and then turn a deaf ear Il
the cry that comes up from the breakers?
But" you say, "there are so man7
things l have to believe and so man1
things in the shape of a creed that havt
! - adopt that | am kept back" No, no
| You need believe but two thirgs-name
! ly, that Jesus Christ came into the worlt
to save sinners and that you are one o
them. But" you say, "I do believe boil
Of those things" Do you really be,iev
them with all your heart? eyes" Why
then, you have passed from death int
life. Why, then, you are a son or
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why
then, you are an heir or an heiress of al
Inheritance that viii declare dividend
from now until long after the stars ar
dead. Halleluiah! Prince of God. VIII,
do you not come and take your coronet
Princess of the Lord Almighty, why d
you not mount your throne? Pass u,
into the light. Your boat is anchored
why do you not go ashore? Just plan
your feet hard down, and you will fee
under them the Rock of Ages.
l challenge the universe for one in