The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-02


/ kind of merchandise that you are. but God
intended TO oyerruie for your immortal
| help. oh" you say, there Is no need
/ talking that way TO me. Z don't like % be
/ cheated aud outraged" Neither does the
| corn Ike The corn thrasher, but after it
| has been thrashed and winnowed It has a
| great deal better opinion Of winnowing
mills and corn thrashers.
Wei" YOU say, If [ could choose my
! troubl's ! would be willing 10 betroubled.h
An. my brother, then 1t would not be
trouble. You would choose something that
would not hurt, and unless It hurt 1t Goes
not get sanctihed. Your trial perhaps may
| be chi!dessness. You are tond OF chil,
| dran You say, why. does zoo sehu
| children 10 that other household, where
| they ere unwelcome and are beaten and
| banged about when / would have taken
| them "a the arms of ny Affection You
say. "Any other trial but this. Your
| trial perhaps may be a disfgured counte-
nance or a face that is easily caricatured,
/ and YOU say, "T could endure anything II
/ only / was good loo.Ing.' And your trial
perhaps is a violent temper, and you have
| TO drive it like six unbroken horses amid
! the gnpowder explosions Of a great holl-
| day. and ever and anon it runs away with
/ YOU. -Four TRIAL is the asthma. You say,
! ''If it were rheumatism or neuralgia or
/ erysipeias. but IL Is this asthma. and 1t IS
! such an exhausting thing to breathe"
/ Your trouble is a husband, sharp, snap
/ by and cross about the house and raising
/ a small riot because a button is of. How
! could YOU know the button is ofy Your
! trial 10 a wife ever in contest with the ser
wants, and she is a soyen. Though she
was very careful about her appearance IN
/ your presence once, now she Is careless,
I l.ss. a. al
| Your trial is a hard school lesson you can
not learn, and you have bitten your finger
| nails until they are a sight TO behold.
They never cry in heaven because they
| have nothing to cry about. There are no
/ tears of bereavement, for you shall have
your friends all round about You. There
are no tears of poverty because each one
sits at the Kings table and has his own
chariot of salvation and free access to the
wardrobe where princes get their array.
No tears or sickness, for there are no
| pneumonias in the air and no malarial ex.
| halatiols from the rolling river OF life and
no crutch for the lame limb and no splint
for the broken arm, but the pulses throb-
| binc with the health OF the eternal God in
a climate like our June before the blossoms
fall o. our gorgeous October before the
caves scatter
In tat land the souls will talk over the
different modes of thrashing. On the
story of the stat that struck the titches
and the rod that beat the cummin and the
! iron wheel that went over the corn! Dan
iel will describe the lions and Jonah levia-
THAN and Paul the elmwood whips with
which he was scourged, and Eve will tell
how aromatic Eden was the day she left
it, and John Rogers will tell OF the smart
of the flame and Elijah Of the fiery team
that wheeled him up the sky sleeps and
Christ Of the numbness and the paroxysms
and hemorThages of the awful crucifxion.
There they are before the throne of God
on one elevation all those who were
struck Of the rod, on the highest elevation
and amid the highest attitudes of heaven
all those who were under the wheel. He
will not ever be thrashing it.
Is there not enough salve in this text to
make a plaster large enough to heal all
your wounds? When a child is hurt, the
mother is very apt to say to it, Now. it
will soon feel better" And that is what
God says when He embosoms all our trou-
be in the hush of this great promise.
Weeping may endure for night, but
Joy cometh III the morning" You may
leave your pocket handkerchief sopping
wet with tears on your death pillow, but
you will go up absolutely sorrowess. They
VIII wear black, you will wear white; cy-
presses for them, palms for you You will
say: 'Is it possible that l am here? Is this
heaven? Am | so pure now | will never
do anything wrong? Am / so well that l
will never be sick again? Are these COM
Partnerships so firm that they will never
again be broken? Is that Mary? Is that
John? Is that ny loved one / put away
into darkness? Can it be that these are
the faces of those who lay so wan and
emaciated in the back room that awful
, | los
Look at chem! How radiant they are!
Why, how mike this place is from what
: | thought when | left the world below
Minister'S drew pictures of this land but
} how tame compared with the reality! They
tod mo on earth that death was sunset
, No, no! 1t is sunrise! Glorious sunrise
J see the light now purpling the hills anC
, the clouds fame with the coming day"
Then the gates of heaven will be opened
: and the entranced soul, with the acuteness
and power of the celestial vision, will ooE
: thousands Of miles down upon the ban
nered procession, river of shimmerine
splendor, and will cry out, "Who arr
| they? And the angel of God, standing
2 close by, will say, do you not know WIKI
? they a-e% NO." says the entranced soul
e i cannot guess who they are" The ange
/ will say II will tell YOU, then, who the!
, are. These are they who came out of grea
l tIlpuldllOu, OF CnIdShlng, ana Jner rODe
S washed and made white in the blood Of TIN
lcmb."
/. Would that I could administer some o
. these drops Of celestial anodyne to thes
/ nervous and excited souls. If you woult
8 take enough of it, it would cure all you
pangs. The thought that you are going t.
s. get through with this after awhile, all thi
S sorrow and all this trouble.
e We shall have a great many grand day
d in heaven, but l viii tell you which will b
s the grandest day Of all the million eyes @
e heaven. You say "Are you sure YOU ca
,, tell me-" Yes l can. 1t will be the da
n we get there Some say heaven is GROWN
J. more glorious. I suppose it is, but l d
NOT cara rnnnh ahnnt that Laa-an now