The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-07


% quctudo that viii not be broken until
heaven breaks in upon them with IFS bar.
monie5 The bird voices of the springtimo,
the chatter Of the children, The sublime
chant of the sea. the solo of the cantatricC
and the melody of the great worshiping as
rambhes mean nothing TO them. Have we
dcyout,y thanked God for these two won.
ders of our hearing, with which we can
now uut ourselves under the charm of
sweet sound and also carry in our memoir
les the inlantile song with which GU
moth IA put us to s.eep and the voices OF
the great prima donnas like Lind and fatu
and Nelson, and the sound of instruments
like the violin of the Swedish performer
or the cornet OF Arbuckie, or the mightest
of an instruments, with the hand OF Nor
gan on the KEYS and his foot on the peduli
or some Sabbath tune like Coronation
i'm tine acclaim of which YOU could hear
the crowns Of heaven coming down at the
feet of Jesus? Many of us have never
thanked God for this hearing apparatus
bf the soul. That is one of the ten strings
of gratitude that we ought always to
/ thrum after hearing the voice OF the loved
/ one or the last strain Of an oratorio or the
] clang of a cathedral tower.
Further, there are many who never rec
/ ognize how much God gives them when
| He oives them sleep. Insomnia is a calam-
| ity wider known in our land than IN any
other. BY midliie vast multtudes have
their nerves so overweight that slumber
has to be coaXed, and many are the VIC
Tins Of choral and morphine. Sleepless
ness is an American disorder ii 1t has
not touched you and you can rest for seven
or eight hours without waking-if for that
length of time in every twentyfour hours
you can be free of all care and wOrrlment
and your nerves are returned and your
limbs escape from all fatigue and the ris-
ing sun finds you a new man, body, mind
and soul-you have an advantage that
ought to be put in prayer and song and
conHatulation.
AS long as you collect vast dividends
and have health jocund and popularity UNI
bounded you will have crowds of seeming
friends, but let bankruptcy and invalid
ism and defamation come, and the num-
Der Of your friends will be ninety-iive per
cent. off. If you have been through some
great crisis and you have one friend lett,
thank God and celebrate 1t on the sweet
est harpstring
But we must tighten the cords of our
harp and retune it while we celebrate gos-
pei advantages The highest style of civ
ilization the world has ever seen is Amer
Jean civilization, and it is built out OF the
gospel of pardon and good morals. That
gospel rocked our cradle, and it will cpl
: taph our grave. tt soothes our sorrows,
brightens our hopes, inspires our courage
forgives our sins and saves our souls. 1t
takes a man who is al wrong and makes
him all right. What that gospel has done
for you and me is a story that we car
never fully tell.
What it has done for the world and vii
yet do for the nations it will take the thou
sand years of the millennium to celebrate
The grandest churches are yet to be built
} The mightiest anthems are yet to b'
hoisted. The greatest victories are yet t
? be gained. The most beautiful Madonna
, are yet to be painted. The most trlum
plant professions are yet to march.
4 Oh. what a world this will be when i
e rotates in its orbit redeemed planet
girdled with spontaneous harvests AM
O enriched by orchards whose fruits ar
o speckess and redundant, and the last pai
t will have been banished and the last tea
e wept and the last groan uttered and Their
e shall be nothing to hurt or destroy In
), Gods holy mountain! All that and NOR
= will come to pass, for "the mouth of th
e Lord hath spoken il"
IL So far have mentioned nine of the tie
strings of the instrument OF gratitude.
is now come to the tenth and the last
r mention it last that it may be the MOI
a memorable-heavenly anticipation. By I'll
e grace of God we are going to move into
re place so much better than this that on a
re irving we will wonder that we were for s
many years so loath to make the transfe
Is After we have seen Christ face to face an
IS reioiced over our departed kindred the
1T are some mighty spirits we will want
IS meet soon after we pass through the gate
i We want to see and will see. David,
as mighter king in heaven than he ever WI
a rfb md IUn IN a
Or psalmody and get from him exactly VIII
ry he meant when he talked about the instr
ne ment of ten strings We will confro
III Moses, who will tell of the law giving
J! rocking Sinai and of his mysterious burij
n with no one but God present
of We will see Joshua, and he will tell
ld of the coming down of the walls of Je
We cho at the blast of the rams horn and {
,e- plain to us that miracle-how the sur al
pit moon could stand still without demoliti
er of the planetary system.
We will see Ruth and have her tell
M the harvest field of Boaz, in which S
III CLEANED for afflicted Naomi. We will s
al Vashti and hear from her own lips
Sc story of her Punishment from the Persi
ng palace by infamous Ahasuerus.
I'd We win see and talk with Daniel, a
in ne win tell us how he saw Belshazza
be- banqueting hall turned into slaugh
at house, and how the lions greeted him w
ir- loving fawn instead Of stroke of cruel pa
es We will see and talk with Solomon, VIII,
Of palaces are gone, but whose inspired e
grams stand out stronger and stronger
us, the centuries pass.
VS.. We will see Paul and hear from h
mo how Felix trembled before him and
10 audience of skeptics on Mars Hill W
so confounded by his sermon on the broth
DOL hood of man, what he saw at Ephesus q
hip Syracuse and Philippi and Rome and 3
lie dark was the Mamertine dungeon and
,ul, sharp the axe that beheaded him on
for road to Ostia Yea, we will see all
tep martyrs, the victims of axe and sword {
fire and billow. What thrill of exc
,wo ment for us when we gaze upon the her
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