The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-25

the class to define the human soul: and
the young man rose and said "The human
soul e that faculty that thinks and fees
and determine" another member Of the
class added that the soul IL immaterial
And then be said. VIII you tell me what
the soul is not; and the young man bad
the sense 30 say. 81 DO not knows" uod
the great professor, whose familiarity with
the sub 'et Is felt throughout the coniin.
emit, reuaed. Nor more do l." And
fancy that the first thooogan IN the world
were he asked to define love. and II he was
honest and candid az the teacher OF psv.
choogy he would cay, enc more do ]
That which comes nearest 10 being q DO.
Grit.on Of love is the summary Of the dt
vine law OF the Old Testament and the
New Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with an thy mind
and with all thy strength, and thy neigh
Dor as thyself. BIT tuis Is not a dehni-
ton OF love; nor would It Apply especi-
ally the former part OF it to the love under
consideration now. 10 is not the revevent
lore q the heart TO God, but it is that
mysterious bond that unites men, the one
10 the other. A love that exists between
people OF 4 common spiritual experience.
IL is as DR.. Dodds well says, "Ibe liga-
ment by which the BODY Of Jesus Christ
is bound together. IL is the cement by
which the stones in the temple are united
into one. That is as near a definition as
you will be able to Get from any known
writing. II has Christianity in II. And
so We sing and we sing it heartily:
Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts
IN Christian love,
The fellowship Of kindred minds is like to
that above"
But though we may not be able to de.
fine this Christian love, we know 1t when
we see it, when wo hear it, and we know
how it appears in the earth. We know
that love seeks with total sClf-forgetful-
ness the happiness Ct the object loved,
and so long as we know what it does and
| how it behaves itself in the social fabric,
we ought to be quite content. And want
YOU to notice at this point wherein love
is superior to the most eloquent speech.
| Eloquent speech may mean self advertise
zoont. Love always means self placement.
The gift in question" says the brilliant
Drummond, in his book entitled The
Greatest Thing in the World" and which
| l commend to you TO read, was once
/ splendid and dazzling. 1t was a brilliant
faculty drawing all eyes to the speaker
aud all ears to his voice" 1t is the gift OF
/ eloquence by which a man sways the
| mind and thrills the hearts of his hearers.
] ANON gIu Nuu SGT. uDN q AudlA NAAAAoek NV
/ possessing such a power, gives to himself
/ advertisement, and the fact is that some
! of the most brilliant orators of fame, and
among them occupants of pulplts, are so
! fond of themselves and glory so much in
| their eloquence, that they forget the other
! elements that go to make up a manly Chris.
tan character. And / want to say to
you that the man possessing that eloquence
! is in constant danger. The attraction
/ which he has for the people always tends
to centre his mind upon himself; and by
and by he gets to be greater if he is not
aware, than the Master Himself whom he
processes to serve and represent.
Love, on the other hand. is self-efface.
ment. Love goes forth in benefcent min
istry, alternating the wounds of broken
lives all around. In perfect harmony
with this thought is the teaching Of the
Master Himself You remember that
marvellous sermon in the mountain, IN
which He says: Even so, let your light
shine before men that they shall see your
good works and may glorify your Father
in heaven" The word so" is to be EN-
phasized as indicating the manner of the
shining. Light may be held so close Il
the eyes as to dazzle the eyes; Light may
be held so close before the eyes OF tht
world as to dazzle the eyes of the world
/ lOu dIG nOL 70 sec Tic 0lllulllA OAANg bu
you are 70 see the fruits, the results Of tint
shining. This is the way with the Ole
sun itself. You look out upon the lawns
IN the parks and tine country side, and
nave never seen the parks more beautiful
than when | visited them soon after m.
arrival in this city a few days ago. Iot
.ook out upon the grass and the growin
grains and the vegetation and the flower
and ysu feast your eyes. on the beauty AM
the wealth Of the earth's surface; and yo
begin to say, whence came al this; who l
the worker; who produced all this an
YOU undertake to look up at the sun shl1
ing wonder in the zenith of the heavens
And the Old sun, for your termerity, wi
dart his red hot fire into your eyes an
will leave a mark upon you tnat you WI
not forget for many a day. Do not loo
at me; look at the grass; look at the grow
ing grain; look at the trees-look at tn
, work, not at the worker. So with Go
, Himself. No man has seen God at an
time; we see Him only in Jesus Chris
No man has seen God the eternal, at an
; time; but we count the stars that bele4r
The dome above Us, when the great dayllgh
) is gone, and the more we study them tn
more are we thrown back on the teachin
Of our childhood, when we learned
! sing: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, ho
I | wonder what you are, up above the wOrl
! 50 high like diamond in the sky" 70
| see the stars and the glory of them tran
J ports your wondering soul, but you d
g not see Him who made and keeps I'll
i, stars. If God is Invisible in Himself, II
t is not invisible in His ministry. 70
= and l, beloved, who have been corn aney
n are sons and daughters of God, and W
s please Him most when like Him, we effa'
= ourselves and are seen only in the benei
c cent ministry OF our lives, in our home
q in our communities. in our churches,
e our city in the world Then under tt
J. first point, we say again that love is
!. greater value to the church and TO Il
|. world than the most eloquent speech. No
4 | may not say that eioquence is nos va,
o able. No one Of Us would refuse It