The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-25

honorable descent But admit this to be
true, and it carries its own serious claim
along with ii. 1t was the observation of
one Of the ancients that the burden of
government is increased to princes by the
virtues Of their immediate predecessors
Commenting on the saying, DIR. Samuel
johnson, in one of his essays, remarked it
az always dangerous to be placed in a state
of unavoidable comparison with excellence
and that the danger ID always greater when
the excellence liz consecrated by death.
Privilege of ancestry means responsibility
of heirship. Duly and morally considered,
il can never be iordship. II ia essentially
stewardship. And ITO whom much is
given of him shall much be required" 10
the law universally here applied. That 10
the principle underlying this whole matter.
Children of God be imitators of God. No
b,esse oblige Nobility imposes the obli-
cation OF nobleness "Be we therefore inn
itators of God. as beloved children"
Whence am /? IT is the old question by
which every man is confronted as soon as
he begins to draw lines of distinction be.
tween himself and his surroundings. And
here. as everywhere, no comment on the
works of God like the word of God. 'In
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth" That sentence scatters dark
ness and doubt The world Is not eter-
nal; it had an actual and definite begin
ming Man liz not the child of chance: he
has Father in Cod After that God had
spent much time and labor in fitting and
furnishing the globe to be an abode, He
said, "Iet us make man in our image. af-
ter our likeness" 1t is written, $50 God
created man in His own image; formed
man Of the dust Of the ground and
hreathed into his nostris the breath Of
life, and man became a living soul"-the
masterpiece Of divine ingenuity and pow
er, in whom there is no premonition what
soever of any higher physical life. "Iet
them have dominion over the fish Of the
ssa, and over the fowl OF the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
heart and on brain, a being of boundless
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit
ual nature, as by an impossible gulf, from
all other animal orders, man is at the head
rational. responsible. Immortal.
How often we speak that word "immor-
tall" Man does not die
"There is no death. What seems so is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but suburb of the life elvsian,
Whose portal we Ill death"
The good which man does lives FOR.
ever. And the good man lives in it. Au-
vindication. Watts and Wesley in the
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs by
which Christendom's praises are still at
tuned Robert Raikes. the publisher, and
Henry Duncan, the divine-the one still
gathers the children and the other still
guards the treasures OF the poor. Through
out all Germany, amid their restless lives
and the many temptations of their career,
hundreds of young journevWen mechanics,
H. LEA
hand Of Clemens Perthes, the learned pro-
-fessor of Bonn. because he laid the foun-
dations of the homes which open TO them
their hospitable doors. Yonder at Wei
mar, that "Necropolis of the poets OF
Germany" and hard by the grave of
Goethe, who was the prince of them all,
is the resting place of one whose fame was
different indeed from theirs but on whose
tomb the epitanh runs: "Under this lin
den tree, freed from sin through Jesus
Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange
child who visits this peaceful place dill
gently pray for him. And because he
cared for little children, receive him. o
Lord, Thy child, unto Thysef."
"Gone forever! ever? MOTOR since ou1
dying race began,
Ever, ever, and forever was the leading
light of man."
How are we to explain this? What ia
the philosophy of such power over tho raw
ages of time? My dear friends, I'VE ought
to take some things out of the region Of
speculative or ecclesiastical doctrine, where
they seem sometimes to have been con-
signed. We cannot contemplate immor-
tally simply as doctrine of the Bible, or
q teaching of the church. 1t is more. IL
is a vital power in the life Given the
Fatherhood Of God and the Immortality Of
man is the demonstration Of human life.
Do you seek the strongest and clearest
evidence of the existence Of God? You
take it with you wherever you 60 You
yourself are. that evidence. "The argu.
own body, the most wonderfully complete
of all known Organisms. "The argument
from being" In the consciousness of
yonr own dependence, Won have a convic-
ton not to be gainsayed of Him on whom
you depend Created as he is in Gods inn
age, man IS an epitome Of all Gods crea-
ton. He is duodecimo universe. The
human soul is a mirror which reflects God.
lt is true the image is marred and OBJ
scured; there is but little OF the intuitive
knowing; the tracer of the inherent right
eousness are very feeble: the flow of the
essential holiness is torpid and inert-the
image is a broken one; the picture is
moving picture; the lines in it are not
straight; they are vibratory-but the like
ness Is there. 10 be man Is to have
some perceptible trace in God.
My dear friends, however broken and
marred the image may be in any, Christ is
able to restore it in all And that verify is
the whole aim of Christianity to bring us
back to what God first intended lis to be.
Believers in Christ are in Him created
anew unto good works and have renewed
in themselves the whole man after the inn
age of God in knowledge and righteousness
and true holiness.
God DONNA All.
As the mountain Of Fujiyama dominates