The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-01-23

AN joy, and IN her innocence She smiled.
asked tho aged. with her care oppressed,
AN suffering DER oh, heaven at last il
rest
asked Tho artist who adored his art /
Heaven BIS ull beauty spoke has rapLuIeg |
heart.
asked the poet with ne soul Of fire,
''Iis glory and he struck his lyce.
/ asked the Christian waiting his release, /
A halo round him, low he answered, |
Peace
So an may lool, with hopeful eyes above,
IT'S beauty, glory JOY rest peace ana
A CITY OF GATES.
There is something significant in the fact
that heaven Is a city Of gates The idea
must be that there Is some special way TO
ret in We can not live just as we please
and at the last enter heaven, we might IL
h typre not enclosed The Bible tells ms
that we may come in from the north, the
south. the east and west but we arc
| Obliged 10 pa5s through the gates, ana Do rs
not always easy. Straight Is the gaze anu
narrow is the way, one might pc Ilap'g 10
miss it, "Strve to enter IN says the
| piblo. an one must be very earnest. Christ
| said. 81 am the way the truth, the me-
| AZ am the door" and again. "No man COM
| eth unto the Father but by Me-. some
! noonIe thinl, that God IS SO mercful that
! after awhile they may stand IN His pres
/ cnce but He Is Just as well az mercllul,
| and He has provided the way by which
/ every one must enter heaven. 1t IS through
/ the gate. Reformation viii not 90, moral.
] itv can not answer; 10 is giving mp youfset
10 Him, putting your hand in His and let
ting Him lead YOU all the journey OF hte'
until YOU pass through the gates. n
/ child dying said to his father, j
! wouldn't be afraid 10 60 IT mamma
would 90 with me" but he said. little
one. she can't 60" Then the child SAID
~ want you to 60" and he Sald, my 4a!ri
ling. / can't 60" Then when the child
had prayed to Him who had promised to
walk through the valley OF the shadow,
after a little while he said, am not
afraid now. for Christ has said that He
will be with me, and He will" lift up
vour heads, oh. We gates, lift them up, for
the time is coming when with Jesus we
shall pass through!
GATES OF PEARL.
7 am sure that there is some meaning IN
the fact that the gates are OF pearl. 10
YOU know the history of pearls? Humanity
sneal;ing Il is a history Of suffering. When
discovered it is at the risk Of the pearl
fishers life 1t is said that pearls are
formed by the intrusion OF some foreign
substance between the mantel OF the mol
lusl, and its shell. This IS a source OF lrrl-
tation. suffering and pain, and substance
is thrown around about that which IS m
truded to prevent suffering, and thus the
pearl is formed DO you begin to see the
.. significance of the fact that the gates are
, of pearl and not of gold? There was a
} time when there was no entrance into
I heaven for MS; sin had closed 1t: man had
!, rrievously sinned, ne had broken. every
; ! law of God, and there was no hope Tor him
/ At ALL Then it was that the Babe was era
, died in the manger, became youth, grew
: to manhood. endured thirty-three years o
= suffering, eliminating in the agony upor
: Calvary. when in the tremendous tension
y His heart broke Then it was He died
> the lust for the unjust, the innocent TO
q the guilty; then it was that lie arose iron
n the dead, went out unto Bethany, ascende'
:. into heaven to swing wide open the gates
- And thus it IS they are open to-day. ant
!, one never hears of the gates of pearl bu
=, he must realize in some measure what sa
walton cost, not so much to You and to me
q but to INSTRUMENTATION, sorrow, suffer
v ing, death, and do you realize that ever
Il one who refuses allegiance to HIM Is al
{. raved against Him, for He said. lyon al
either for Me or against Me there Is Il
o TWELVE GATES.
s. How full the word of God is! In il
'e teaching beauty and sweetness come trol
re IL with every touch it Is a rock; va
ID can not touch it but the water Of life Wi
1t come forth. It is flower; you can ne
n come near it without being blessed by
-y fragrance. There is something to me eve
ne in the number of heavens gates. III
6 twelve gates were twelve pearls, three
q, every side, and the city ieth four squ9r
Ies Is this not an indication that God hi
OF made abundant provision for our entran'
III into the city above? 1t is man who hi
aC narrowed down the way The Bible INV
ne tation is, "Whosoever will, let him come
ne The provision is abundant, No one ca
ag stand at the judgment and say anythH
wv but .his, "Lord, I might have entered, b
SIS [ would not" Twelve gates, and II "
OF are not in it, it is your fault alone. Q,
ne has done all that He could do. The Iri
7s- ity has been exhausted, almost, on SIM
, world, and He will do no more; it is for
ne ourselves to choose to enter in, it IS We
Jay easy to be saved
DIV In ,one of the schools of a great city
le- the falling of a transom a cry OF fire W
no started The children were panicstricle
en- apd the teachers as well, In rushing frc
OF The building many we're injured; sol
' were Killed. Wheu IL was IOunu JudJ I
OF alarm was false, returning to her room o
of the teachers found sitting at her de
Is a young girl who had not stirred. VIII
ed, asked the reason for her braveness,
an said. "My father is a fireman, and he t.
eI' me if ever there was an alarm OF fire
Ugh the building just to sit still where I v
as and he would save me My father is a fl
man and he knows, and I Just trust
ct him" That confidence in Jesus Chr
1T would bring salvation.
lbe Said a man in Glasgow to a distinguish
nd evangelist, II am VERY anxious to
tile saved; what must I Go?" The evange1
ng- ouoted many pass6ceg (of Scripture to hi
the among them John III; l6: 'Eor God