The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-21
DR.TALnAdE'S sERnON
The Eminent Dlvine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subjects when the Sun n Life sets-Ths
Christian finds Fuihiiment IN tho
Time Of Ola Aas-Ths light Of Even
tido-Last Houra Iilumlned.

AAAmH OF NAM AHa@AAa AANMA OF AaNNN@
tido-Last Hours Illumlned.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-In this subject DR..
Talmage puts a glow of gladness and
triumph upon passages Of life that are usu-
ally thought 10 be somewhat gloomy; text,
Iaehariah xiv, 7, AT evening time it shall
be light"
While might in all languages is the
symboi for gloom and suffering, " Is often
really cheerful, bright and impressive. /
speak not OF such nights as come down
with no star pouring light from above or
gilyered wave tossing up light from be-
neath-murky hurting, portentious, but
such as you often see when the pomp and
magnihcence OF heaven turn out on night
parade, and il seems as though the song
which the morning stars began so long ago
were Ginning yet among the consultations
and tue sons Of God we're shouting for JOY
Such ights the sailor b,esses from the fore.
castle, and the trapper on vast prairie, and
the belated traveller by the roadside, and
the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts
gazing upon heavenly and shepherds guard
ing their hoclls afeld while angel hands
above them set the silver bells a-ringng,
GLORY TO God in the highest and on earth
peace; good will toward men"
What a solemn and glorious thing is
night in the wilderness! Night among the
mountains! Night on the ocean Fra
grant night among tropical grovesl Flash
ing night amid arctic severitiesl Calm
night on Roman campagnal Awful night
among the cordilleras! Glorious night mid
sea after tempest Thank God for the
night The moon and the stars which rule
it are lighthouses on the coast toward
which l hope we are all sailing and blind
mariners are we if, with so many beaming,
burning, flaming gories to guide US, we
cannot find our way into the harbor.
/ My text may well suggest that, as the
! natural evening is often luminous, so 1t
/ shall be light in the evening Of our sorrows,
\ of old age, of the worlds history, Of the
! Christian life. Eat eventime it shall be
light"
This prophecy will be fulfilled in the
evening of Christian sorrow. For a long
time it is broad daylight. The sun rides
high. Innumerable activities 60 ahead with
a thousand feet and work with a thousand
arms, aud the pickax struck mine, and
the battery made a discovery, and the in
vestment yielded its twenty per cent, and
the book came to its twentieth edition, and
the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden
fortune hoisted to high position, and chill.
dren were praised and friends without
number swarmed into the family hive, and
prosperity sang in the music and stepped
in the lance and glowed in the wine and
ate at the banquet, and all the gods of mu
sic and ease and qualification gathered
around this Jupiter holding in his hands
so many thunderbolts of power But every
sun must set, and the brightest day mus
have its twilight Suddenly the sky wal
overcast The fountain dried up. The
song hushed. The wolf broke into the fam
lily fold and carried of the best lamb.
deep howl of woe came crashing dowr
through the joyous symphonies. At on,
rough twang of the hand Of disaster thu
harpstrings all broke. Down went tn
strong business firm! Away went long es
tabished credit Up flew flock of calum
MES! The new book would not sell! 4
patent could not be secured for the inven
ton! Stocks sank like lead! The insurance
company exploded! "How much" say
the Sheriff, Twill you bid for this piano
How much for this library? How mucl
for this family picture? How much? VIII
you let it go at less than half price? Coin
going -gone!"
Win the grace Of God hold one up il
such circumstances? What has become o
| the great multitude of Gods children VIII
have been pounded of the fail and crushe
under the wheel and trampled under Tn
, hoof? Did they lie down in the dust, weeI
3 ing, wailing and crashing their teeth? Di
, they when they were afflicted like 10
curse God and want to die? When the 70
4 of fatherly chastisement struck them, di
5 they strike back? Because they found on
bitter cup on the table of Gods supply
did they upset the whole table? Did the
kneel down at their empty money vau
and say, "All my treasures are gone ?
Did they stand by the grave of their deaf
. saying, There never will be resurre
3 ton"
e Did they bemoan their thwarted plar
o and say, 1.-THE stocks are down; would Go
were dead?" Did the night of their di
4 aster come upon them moonless, starles
s dank and bowling, smothering and chokir
n their life out? No, no! At eventide
was light. The swift promises overtoc
5 them. The eternal consultations, fro
S their circuit about Gods throne, pourt
# down an infinite lustre Under their shi
ing the pillows of trouble took on ores
9 and plumes of gold and jasper and am
4 thyst and fame. All the trees of Ii
IS rustled in the midsummer of Gods low
4 The night blooming assurances of Christ
: sympathy filled all the atmosphere wi
Is heaven.
y The soul at every step seemed to sta
T. up from its feet bright winged joys, war
ling heavenward ut is good that J. ha
-e been afflicted" cried David. "The Lo
is gave. and the Lord hath taken away
n exclaims Job. "Sorrowtul, yet always ]
. joicing," says St. Paul "And God sh
IS wipe away all tears from their eyes" {
ID claims John in apocalyptic vision.
PC eventime it was light. Light from t
- cross Light from the promises! Lig
n from the throne! Streaming, joyous, OF
r gushing, everlasting light!
70 Again, the text shall find fulfllment
:, the itime of old age 1t is grand thing
u be young, to have the sight clear and
Il hearing acute and the step elastic and
ty our pulses marching on to the drumming
:, stout heart. Riidlife and old age will
v denied many OF us, but youth-we all KIN
IN what that is. Those wrinkles were not
ways on your brow; that snow was not
ways on your head; that brawny mus
SO did not always bunch your arm; you hs