The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-12-19

u have a Friend 20 precious,
So very dear 20 me,
lie loves me with such tender love, /
He loves 20 faithfully.
j could not live apart from Him,
/ love 30 feel Him nigh;
And 20 We dwell together,
My Lord and /"
There is such a thing az being too busy |
30 see Jesus. "Be still, and know that / |
am God q" Is the message for many Of u.s. |
while that line In the 23d Psalm. "Ile |
makes me 10 lie down In green pastures
He leadeth me beside the still waters"
must never be forgotten. We must be
quiet first, active afterward.
Second, He is the secret of power always
Contrast ver,es 3 and O. The first one
says that night they caught nothing"
The second one says, nov they were not
able 10 draw 10 for the multitude OF
fishes" They had the same nets and the
same fishermen and the same sea and the
same difficulties 70 contend with. Jesus
made the difference by adding His own
power. How many times we have toiled.
How often we have grown weary. How
many days we have failed oil because the
effort was in our own strength. Never be-
gin day until you strike. step with Him
and clasp His hand in yours; then nothing
con overthrow you.
q
land they saw q fire Of Goals This is the
9th verse. There is only one other place
where this expression is used, and that Is
in the 18th verse Of the 18th chapter OF
John, the place of Peters denial The
first thing that Peter saw was doubtless
this FIRE OF Goals after his vision of the
Saviour. How the story of his denial
must have flashed across his mind. II is
better for US not TO begin day until we
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| failed yesterday. Ile will do it, not with a
| fire of Goals always, but with the touch of
/ His finger. For a Christian to fail at the
same place two days in succession is an
| awful sin.
/ Fourth, Just as He made a feast for
| those disciples in the early morning so He
/ makes a feast for us every morning Of our
/ lives. Be spreads the table with His own
! purity. How that will help us in the pres
/ euce of all that is impure. He displays
! His own gentleness. How that will
| strengthen US in the time when we are ria
! BILE to be irritable He sets before us His
/ own love. How that will enable us to
/ love the things that we might naturally
! hate. and in our presence He makes display
/ of His own power. How that will encour-
age us in the hour Of temptation / like
the close of the Dist chapter of John, the
| 25th verse. "And there are also many
other things which Jesus did the which,
| if they should be written every one, / sup
pose that even the world itself could not
contain the books that should be written.
Amen" Doubtless many miracles were
wrought beside the miracle of the changing
of water into wine and other parallels
sweeter than the Prodigal Son and the
| Lost Sheep He spoke and we never heard
of them There is many a morning when
we shall talk of these things with Him.
If you turn to Genesis, the first chapter,
you will notice that the first six days OF
creation have both an evening and a morn.
ing, while the seventh day has a morning
but no evening. 1t is typical of that day
which shall be ushered in by the resur
rection morning when we shall have eter.
nifty with Christ and 60 out from His pres
enee no more forever, and we shall talk
of these things.
Noon. "Jesus, therefore, being weariet
with His journey sat thus on the well, anC
it was about the sixth hour" John 4: 6
It is high noon. The husbandman rests
from his labors; the cattle seek the
shadow Of the rocks; the birds have
stopped their song. Even Jesus Himsel
is weary. He has left Jerusalem becaus,
He has been surrounded by the wronl
kind Of crowd, and under the impuls,
of the Spirit He must needs go through
Samaria. The disciples are away and HI
sits alone upon the wei curb. Beyond al
question the story of the giving of jacob
well is in His mind, and as He looks ou
toward Ebal and Gerizim He has the vision
of the crowds listening to the blessing ant
cursing of the servant of God, when sud
denly as He looks there comes a womal
on the scene bearing upon her head
water pitcher. The people OF the Eas
know good water. and for this reason sh
has often dipped her water pitcher, not i
the running streams, but comes to Jacob
well, where the water is most refreshing
Tt is not night, as when Nicodemus came
but the sun has reached the meridian.
, always have thought that this was beat
tiful picture of our meeting with the St
viour for the purpose of solving our diff
culties. Who of us has not had them
, From 8 to Il o'clock in the morning, whe
we have said, "Why have | met TIL
J temptation and had that trial. and bee
face to face with this problem"
ga little talk with Jesus,
3 How it smooths the rugged road;
r How it seems to help me onward,
) When faint beneath my load;
Z When my heart is crushed with sorrow,
4 And my eyes with tears are dim,
There is naught can yield me comfort,
3 Like little talk with Him."
e Will you note the following point
1 Jesus said, Give Me to drink" lie alWa!
8 speaks first. Genesis 3: 8, "And the Lon
:, God called upon Adam, and said uni
g him, Where art thou" gives us a pictul
: of God, and all through the Old Test
/ ment and New His word is spoken fir
e to the sinner and to the wandering on
e Whatever may be your own desire +,
e blessing His is greater than yours. "
i always think of Him giving to US. Indee
II His was a life of giving, but is it not wo
e derful that we may give to Him? III
s. woman gave the annointment and Jes
j said, wherever the gospel is preacht
/ this shall be told as a memorial" Pa
q writes to Titus, "Adorn the doctrine
y the gospel to-day" and he sends his me