The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-18
A SERMON ZOE SUNDAY
A BRILLIANT DISCOURSE eY THE REV
DAVID JAMES eURRELL o. D.. LID.
Bmbiooii Tho Wireless Messages n God
a Man Wine Would Hear the Word
Through the Scriptures Must Divsst
Himself Of PREF utlioe.

/ through the scriptures Muea Divost
Himself Of pref u,iioe.
New York City. --"Tbc. Wireless Nics.
sages of Cod was tltr subjeel Of tho ser.
mon preached by the Rev David James
i Burrel, D. d., LID, IN the Marble Col.
legiate Church, Sunday Ile took his test
| from / Corinthians ii:l4: "Ihe natural man
receiveth not the things Of the Spirit OF
4 God, Tor they are tOOhslness nnto him T.
neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discencd" nr Burell said .
A great principle is here laid down which
! governs IN the universal realm OF truth
! 20 wit, the principe OF mutual adjustment.
/ IL You strike a tuning fork which il keyed
/ to middle z 81 will awaken a response in
! another If KEYED to the same pitch, but not
/ otherwise. This ia the basic fact in wire.
/ less telcgaphy- On Cape Cod there IL. a.
! transmitting station, consisting OF four
/ steel towers with a bunch of wires suspend.
/ ed from the top and meeting at a common
/ point like an inverted cone. IL the power
| be applied TO the apex Of this cone, the
/ wires begin to- trumble, and this current,
| oscillatng at a rate Of, say, 500, 900 vibra-
! tons per second, create a series * corro.
| spending vibrations in the surrounding
/ ether; Just az. a stone cost into pond
| sends out concentrlc circles of water. This.
/ ether wave speeds outward with incaicula..
/ be rapldity in search OF It's receiver. Now,
/ there is such a receiver at Pol l3hu, in
/ Cornwall, and the wires at Pol Dhu are
| precisely attuned to- the transmitteT, that
| is, adjusted to an oscillation of 900 900 per
| second so that the message sent from the
| station at Cape Cod meets no response un.
| til it finds its sympathetic station at, Pol
| Dhu, and this welcomes it,
The system of wireless teleqraphy which
| is justly credited to- Marconi is not an in
| vention, but a discovery. He has simply
| lighted upon a process which has been
| going on perpetually in space. The sun AZ
| the great source and centre of energy in
| our solar overwhelmingly sending ont
| messages Of light. It. is a scientifically
| demonstrated fact that beam of light is
/ simply an electric message. that is, vibFa.
| zion of ether. And here the principle holds
/ that no message can be received except by
some object which is. sympathetiGally at
! tuned to welcome It.. Let US suppose, as
! Professor Pupin suggests, that beam OF
! light intended to convey the color red ia
| sent out from the sun. It goes forth repre-.
! senting a certain number of ether waves
| per second and speeds through space until
| it reaches the earth, and here. intent upon
! its eager quest, it passes without pausine
/ through all the meadows, since no grass
/ blade is adjusted tooreceive5it~ passes over
! all gardens no daisy or buttereup, no mig
/ nonette or helitrope being disposed to wei.
| come it, until it finds a. rose, and here II
| pauses and finds welcome; becase the rose
| has been precisely co-ordinated with it.
! Let us so a little further NOV, and we
/ shall find a spiritual analogy For tins
| process, which has been discovered to be
/ so prevalent in nature, has Infinite field and
/ scope of operation in the province OF spir.
| itual things God, as the great TRANSMITTED
| OF truth, bears to the spiritual world are
Il latlon corresponding with thascOf the sun
/ in the natural world. Let US assume that
Il there is a God, and that weearescreated in
/ His image and after His likeness; it TO-.
! lows, rs an inevitable conclusion, that He
| will somehow reveal Himself tor His oifi
/ dren and hold converse within them. But
here ia the application of the principle re
| ferred to. The man who wound hear the
wireless messages of God must himself be
gttuned, or adjusted to- the nature and
| character of God.
Let us begin with nature: .for-this IS the
universal medium through which God COM
municates with the children oBImen. Now
there are some who look througa natureeto
natures God and hear Him speaking, in
| everything about them, ass isL is written,
There are so many voices and none OF tnern
| IS without Specification Snch1 persons,
| though they dwell in the desert of INDIAN.
| find EVERY common bush afire with God"
At night the heavens declare His glory 80
them and tine armament showeth His ban
diwork. This was in Bryant sss mind vixen
ne wrote:
ITO him who in the love Of nature holds
Communion with her visible foTmsJ she
speaks
a various language
But there are others who,hear no, voices,
and see nothing that is nOtsvisible to fshshy
eyes, like Peter Bell, OF whsm Wordsworth
says:
"A primrose,by the rivers brim,
A yellow primrose was to, him,
And it was nothing more
Whence this difference3 1t ARISES from
the fact that some souls are sympathetic
with God and others are not TheEe was
Coleridge, who was, 500 devonGly inclined,
so'open to the reception of spirituaE truth,
that, walking in the vale OF Cham0anix, he
heard the snow capped mountains and ice
falls echoing His Names
"Godl Let the torrents like a. shout Of
nations
Answer, and let the ice plains eGho, Cod
God Sing we meadow streams with glad
some voice;
Ye pine groves with your sofE and soul
like sounds;
Ye living flowers that skirt the eterrs
forest;
Ye wild goats sporting round the eagSi
rest;
1e eagles, p,a0mates Of the mountain
stream;
Ye Rghtnings, the drcaE arrows OF. TIT
) winds;
Ye sounds and wonders on the elements
Utter forth God, and fill the hills, will
praise'
The wisest. Man that ever lived gst les
/ sons in Theology from the ravens, the lille
of'the field. she growing wheat. BIT, alas
there are those who have no ears 20 hea
the song which is Within the song of bird
} and the visions which are within tASa beaut
of the natural world. They are boznd dow
to things material, dreaming rra dream
and seeing no visions; of the earth, earthy
3 ''Great God, I'd rather be
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