The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-08-22

A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PAsToR.EVANCEusT.
Subjects Tie Paid His Fars-The Bible Il
But "a History Of Every Human Lie
In 10 We Find a Pc-feot Revelation Of
Outselves-sins Arc Bought Dear.

Ia 10 We Find q Pc~lect Noveintiun OF
Oupelves-sins Arc Bought Dear.
NEw YORK CIrY.-The following schol-
0rly and readable sermon has been pre-
pared for the pie5s boy the popular pastor
evangelist. the Rev Dr. j Wilbur Chap
man. The subject Of the discourse is Tie
Paid bis Fare, and 10 was preached from
Che text, $50 he paid bis fare" Jonah
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Whatever else men may say about the
Bible at least this is true that it contains
the history of every human life, and when
we see Jonah fleeing away from Joppa
seeking 60 get TO Tarshish instead of Nine
yeh, wc have q vision of our own past ex-
pcrienee when God commanded and we
dsobeyed, and we believe the Bible not be-
cause it Is an old book, for there are other
old books. but we believe IL because il
speaks to our deepest and truest hearts
experience 1t is q perfect revelation TO us
OF ourselves. The Mediterranean Sea is in
tCrestlng
First. because Of its sunsets, and sec
oudly because 10 is tdeess, but also for
the reason chat it is visited by frequent
storms which are beyond description.
Eight hundred and sixty-two years before
Christ the passengers boat piled upon the
Mediterranean Sea from port TO port One
Z
nm excited passenger hurried on board,
looked into the faces Of OH he met as II be
| feared detection, paid his fare and went
down into the bottom of the boat that be
might get away from the sight of men. A
terrific storm overtakes them as soon as
they leave The port but we have not so
much to do with the storm as with the ex-
cited passenger. The boat had crossed and
| recrossed the sea many times in safety,
but this is to be an exception, for the
wind bowls and the waves beat against
the bark, but as l say we are not to study
the storm but the frightened man N the
vessel. The word Of the Lord came to
him to say, "Jonah, 60 to Niueveh," and
instead Of obeying he set sail for Tarshish.
| lt was an expensive trip, and brought him
neither pleasure or escape; is like the jour
neys that the most of us have made. The
text must appeal to every one; you never
/ committed a SIN, you never have INDUCED
/ in appetite, you certainly never have OBJ
| tanned a success and never have met with
a defeat, but you have been obliged to pay
a fare. There are but two.lines to travel in
! this world one is the line of duty per-
formed and the other the line Of duty dis
/ regarded.
There may be different modes of travel,
/ but two great divisions; those who have
! known their duty and followed it. and on
| the other hand those who have shirked re-
| spOnsibihty; the one company is bound to
| the Nineveh of duty done, the other for
Tarshish of duty shirked, but in every case
we pay a fare.
Men must pay price for attainments in
this world always. 1t is the price Of exer-
ton, of earnest, continual effort, Of severe
discipline.
Two men in Philadelphia years ago were
nrNpl~r,oA IN tho ebon fl1n Of than
used his noon hour to teach a little dog to
play tricks, and the other occupied his
time in perfecting an invention which has
astonished the world and made him a mil
lionaire many times over.
l.
There are some things that impress our
minds as we study the text and read this
story.
First, it is vain to try to defraud God.
Men some times think they are succeeding,
and they laugh at the puritanical ideas of
the Christian, but you may SIN month after
month and apparently prosper, and at last
when you least expect it you will be dis
covered A man cleaning out well on one
of the farms in our State came across a
skeleton the other day. He reported to
the authorities, and murderer guilty OF
sin twenty-five years ago was apprehended
and sent to his punishment. Jonah found
that that was true; that God could not be
Knocked. The storm was against him, the
sailors against him, God Himself sought
him out. "Be not deceived, God is not
Knocked; whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap"
Second as soon az we go contrary K
God everything is against u.s. God said
Go to Nineveh," and Jonah started fol
Tarshish, and the sea roars, and the winds
blow, and the ship rocks, and no man evel
gets to Tarshish in comfort when Goo
commands him to go to Nineveh The mo
ment you turn away from Him there i
} conflict, and you cannot hide from Goo
either by day or by night. There is on,
text which ought to be written in letter
Of fire for all men to read, Thou Coz
seest me"
If we could only make men understand
the eternal cost Of sin many man woult
forsake sin The word of God has state,
plainly THE wages of sin is death" an,
{ the cost is an infinite price. There is dan
ger, however of being deceived because s
Aatters and fascinates At the time of tb
Inquisiton there was a punishment know
as the Virgins Kiss. The one to suite
was pushed forward and made to kiss tn
lips of the Virgin and instantly the arm
Of iron were about him and hidden dag
Y gers pressed their way to every part of hi
body How like this is to our experience
in sin, and in this world sin does not pa.
, for conscience disturbs us and the remors
2 brushes us, while in the world to com
! there is weeping and wailing and gnashin
! Of teeth 1t is an awful thing to be witt
out God here, but who can describe beiI
> without God there 1t is true that no gu
s cess was ever achieved without paying
t price, but it is here where the devil CONF
l. in to say, "You can escape all this druid
cry and take cross cut to success" The
L is an innate desire in the human heart
Q get the most for the least effort, and
= takes advantage of this.
!. Let me give you an illustration of
/, young man Of thirty years of age who h