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


sins viii prove The existence Of q sinful
nature.
A famous ruby was offered for sale 10
Che English Government The report of
the crown jeweler was that 10 was The
finest he had ever seen or heard of, but
that one of the facets" one of the little
cuttings of the face, was slightly fractured
The result was that that almost invisible
flaw reduced its value by thousands Of
pounds, and II was rejected from the re.
gala Of England Again, when Conova
was about to commence his famous statue
Of the great Napoleon, bis keenly observaul
eye detected a tiny red line running
through the upper portion Of the splendid
block that at infinite cost had been
fetched from Paros, and he refused TO lay
shisel upon t. Once more, in the story OF
the early struggles Of the elder Herschel.
while he was working out the problem OF
gigantic telescope specula, you will find
that he made scores upon scores before he
got one 10 satisfy him. A scratch like a
spider thread caused one to be rejected,
although it had cost him weeks of toll.
II.
The race. Romans 3: p, "They are all
gone out Of the way they are together be-
some improbable; there is none that doeth
good, no, not one" IL we object to the
irst statement, which, nevertheless, ex.
perience proves TO be true, we certainly
cannot resist the power of the second
statement, for the apostle writes that we
have all gone away from God. When
there came time in our lives when it was
possible for us TO choose either the right
or the wrong we we'll remember that the
tendency all along has been to choose the
wrong, or at least TO permit it, and when
we remember that it is the wrong in His
judgment that we are responsible for the
message is a solemn one that we have to do
with. who taught the commandments and
made the look of lust idolatry and the
feeling of murder against a brother muir
der. There are two ways in which men
might get into heaven; one is the way that
is marked with blood, "And though your
sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow" and the other is the keeping of the
whole law If we could do that God will
accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly
know we have not. 'He that offends in
one point is guilty OF all, /" not that he has
broken all, but in the single offense he has
broken away from God. But from the
of the unregenerate man at
least this statement is true, and | speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
You are not lost because of Adams sin,
or an inherited tendency to evil but
for yourself. Let us imagine a case You
have consumption, and it has come to you
from long line of ancestry, and / went to
you and know a cure for consumption,
and if you viii but take it you may be
whole again. and | recite to you the in
stances of hundreds Of people who have
been sick and now are well, but you re-
fuse the cure and die, not because you were
a consumptiye with an inherited tendency
to this disease, but because you have re-
jected the cure, and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
III.
The finish. Hebrews O.: q, "And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but af-
ter this the judgment"
never speak the word Judgment that l
am not startled, not for myself, and when
l say that | do not mean to exhibit the
spirit that | am holer than thou, but
startled because Of the unsaved man who
is in danger of the judgment, for God has
distinctly said concerning the saved,
There is therefore now no judgment to
them that are in Christ Jesus" This is a
personal matter. No one can appear in
! judgment for us. We must stand there for
ourselves, and the thought of the judg-
ment will make us think when everything
else has been banished from our minds.
"All know OF the future judgment
! Or whatsoever it may be,
That to stand alone with my conscience,
Will be judgment enough for me-"
And he will meet his record. II will not
! be necessary that the book shall be
opened. The book of ones own record
will condemn; that sin of last night which
no one knows but you and God is against
you; that sin in London which no one
dreams of but yourself and your Maker
has made its record and the things that
we have forgotten are standing against us
/ God pity us If we do not make ready for
that day, and we cannot make ready ex-
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him, we
have trampled His love under our feet
we have rejected His Son, and in that day
4 we shall meet Him and who shall be able
to stand?
The weighing room. Daniel S: q, "Thou
art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting"
There is a machine in the Bank Of Eng
land that in very wonderful way sits
the soyereigns. You could hardly believe
1t. There Is a whole case of sovereigns
there by the man, who like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his SCOOP
and shovels up these sovereigns that men
have tumbled the one over the other to GET
hold Of, and he puts them in his machine
He feeds his mill the same way as the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine, and il
takes hold of the coins and tests them. II
weighs and poises each, throwing the light
ones to one side, and allowing those thai
are good and solid and up to the mark e
how into another receptacle. 1t is a mar
yelous bit Of human ingenuity, but it,
testing qualities are nothing beside tht
bar Of the Judgment Of God; nothing t.
the final assize, when the dead, small anC
great, shall stand before God You haC
better. put it right. The Spirit says vol
are a happy man if you realize your short
comlngs IN time and get it covered.
When that day comes He shall weipl
our motives 1t is not what we have done
but the motive that prompted the doing