The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-20


are under their influence we need 20 ex.
c0rito ourselves and clear our vision,
but this promise Is co.ored not only by
Johns natlonalism, but possibly also by
certain traits of his personal character. 10
was John who saw a man casting out dey.
is ia Jesus name and forbade him. be.
cause he did not follow with them-thcre
was a strong party spirit in him. John
was one OF two who wanted the chief
places In the kingdom. lie. loo. wanted 10
call fire from heaven upon the Samartans.
The portrait of John in' most peoples
minds. as the loving disciple rests upon
the Christ's Gospel and the Epistes, but
the temper sometimes Displayed ln the
Apocalypse lils with tio indications Of the
sy01rtie gospels.
What does the man who Is 'ulhlul iindy
What does he get to feel sure ct? lie
finds the very best there is IN life. lie
tastes life at lbs hest, II viii rive him to
eat Of the tree Of life, which is in the para
disc of Cod" There is a very common mo-
ton that though goodness may bee n safe
track 10 some far.oif celestian city it ls n
considerable sacrifice of the content of life
here and now. Naturally enough not n
few decide 10 take what they can in the
present and leave the struggle for 7oodness
alone and chance the future. Well, the
truth is that only in a worthy character, IN
the ascendancy over evil, in the mastery
OF impurity ond Of egoism in all its forms,
on the higher levels of special cultivation,
does a man really get the core Of life now,
Get the very best there is in 1t. IN tact
the Old Eden story comes true again and
again in the lives Of men Get vour pleas
IRE. satisfy vour desire in Illicit ways. in
defiance or in neglect of the divine order
Of life. il simply means paradise lost You
tlrn Yourself ont Of the best by 40 DOING
LOYALTY 10 goodness is the way % blessed
ness There is no happiness like that
which comes from simple goodness
What does the victor find? lie finds the
unseen reserves from which he may draw
sus'e0ance and power to his own surprise
and that of the world. "To him .hat ever.
cometh I viii give to eat of the hidden
ranpa." Tn the WINNING struggle you find
the soul s'zteraOce hidden from Won be-
fore and still hidden from the world. New
condolences new assurances. new faiths
arise in the soul: new visions break upon
It, new voices sneak to 1t and IN e; new
communiOns with unseen covers enrich
its inner solitudes. and the man Gets ly
ard by TO understand what Paul meant
when he smoke OF being "strpogthnnnd
with might in the inner man" The truly
earnest man who pPrseveres in the life of
the good Is constantly surprised at the re-
serve of mower upon which he draws Red
seas which looked as If they meant certain
death have been safely crossed. ard the
song Of triumph rang up to God on the
other side
Difficulties which seemed insurmountab'e
h"ve been successfully overcome. This is
why the man SAYS: Hitherto hath the
Lord he'Ded me-" lie cannot understand
himself by himself, and 60 he builds IN
alter to a higher power. In life's victories
we discover life's forces; in the onward
march we discover the enrichment Of the
wav, come to one after another of the
wells of salvation. hidden from all who do
not march that way. And. remember al
ways, that the larger our conquest in life,
the more abundant viii be life's sustau-
ance; it Is the conqueror who finds The
mama. In a sense, everything is hidden
from rs, and all growth is a discovery. It
is so in the intellectual sphere. You dis
cover treasures as you conquer difficulties.
You must CONQUER the alnhabet and the
spelling hook to discover the sentence;
CONQUER the sentence to discover the nara
graph; conquer every paragraph to know
the treasure OF the book. And 40 all the
way up Many cannot read book that is
at all difficult; the food there is il il they
cannot appreciate. Why? because their
conquests are too small; thev have not
overcome ignorance and super6cialty sufi-
! GENTLY, so the mama there remains hid.
! den.
The same is true in the moral and spir-
itual sphere. There are people who are
| quite incapable of understanding the high
| est kind of affection and the hottest
kind Of love because they have not them
selves overcome the vulgarity and coarse
ness of human natures lower levels. All
noble souls have "mest to eat which the
world knows not of" they have affee-
tions which the world would always dilute
! With base INGREDIENTS, and aspirations
which it would always tarnish with the
stains of earth. Be sure of it, your discov-
cry of life's best things will depend upon
| your conquest of its worst. and with every
victory you shall eat hidden mama and
be strengthened for victories yet to be
achieved The successful struggle con-
stanty discovers supports hidden from
him before, and stil hidden from lives
which do not know tt, loftier reaches and
the more earnest endeavnrs What does
life yield to the victor? Here is one Of the
finest of the promises: "T will give him the
morning star" What is this gift of the
morning star? 1t is the feeling that life is
sweet and pure, fair and fresh with the
life is full of promise, that day is coming
on; that the best is yet to be. It is the
power to be oneself a sweetenino. freshen.
ing influence in the world, living pro
phecy Of its bettement Now, friends
there is nothing like moral purity to keer
the touch Of morning on life. compromise
your morality and it IS marvellous how soor
everything is stale There IS an indescrb
able sweetness in the air Of early morning
when rhe world is as God makes it, wher
it is indeed in the process of His remakinc
before we light our fires and emit oul
turbulent life. Sometime like that sweet
! freshness Of morning beiorgs to the sou
that is pure and comes to it always in it,
hour Of victory over sin. As long as you
affections are clean they are fresh: yol
never tire of pure feelings or how loves
Again, what does the moral victor find
It is nromised that Christ will write mo,
him Gods name and the namo of God