The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-15

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they posted motion as the substantial 10 /
the world OF things. Now the world u in /
4 state 81 aow because it Is state oil N.
completeness. and that again because it is
expectant. There is something yet before
MS God has not made men who can long
and love and hope and struggle and deny
themselves. only that they may fall into d
hole in the grass
For what. then. docs this whole creation
wait? Paul tells us in one pace that it Is
for the revealing OF the sons oil God Isn't
that worth the time chat IS past: ism = II
worth all the struggle and suffering and
tears of our fathers? Ism it worth all the
pain with which JOY and sorrow have pol
ished us into shapeliness:
And who again arc these sons OF Godl
"As many as arc led by the spirit of God,
they are the sons OF God. 1t Is for these
that creation waits and without them the
universal process halts. This world began
with the fiat OF God. and the mechanical
forces with which the stars were flung III
thcr orbits But in the process OF tune
God said. Let us make man. and u was at
that point the purposes OF the universe
became personal and human and spiritual.
hnd now Oh, matchless wonder! the next
step cannot be taken without the help o.
nan. 1--WE are laborers together with
Him" Not even God Himself can &C.
velop the possibilities He has bound up {
us faless we give Him leave His final end
is reached not by law, but by His sons
How. then are we to swing things on
from this first to this last? From creation
to the coming, aad then again onward to
the glory that snail yet be reyealed2 Only
by finding the way oil God, and peihg
caught up in the mighty sweep OF lis own
purposes Here is a vessel longing for ner
port. and the wind is blowing tayorabiy
above. But she does not move, she cannot
move till men shall run up the sails ana
! they shall catch the wind. And then thF
shin that has lain like lfeless thing be-
comes thing of life and hurries on her
way. And so it seems that the time -
come when the crises OF history are hihgeo
| upon the work of man. The gospel ZOE
/ instance, has been committed to the hanos
! If men And. as [ understand 1T, the see
ond text cannot be fulfilled till this gospei
OF the kingdom is preached III all the eartn;
/ dwell upon the subject OF unfinished
! things because it gives to us an lnterpre-
tation that enhances the value OF lie. one
thinks Of his own life in comparison with
the circling orbs and says 1t IS an uhlm-
portant thing 1t is not useful 1t hhu,
ences no one. Why keep up this awful
struggle with heat and cold and pam ana
| nriy9tionY WHY strive to do better! why
not 90 with the tide that sweeps away to
fine dark The real danger is not that we
shall think TOO much OF ourselves, put that
we shall count our hives as worthless
things. We cannot afford to lose slg1t OF
the place we hold in the purposes OF COG.
a mans lie taken by Itself is an insignia
cant thing. But when we think OF it as a
nart OF a great whole it becomes OF INFINITE
ralue If is as vast as all the schemes OF
which it is the part This is an instance
where the part is as large as The whole
In his college sermons DIR. Peabody uses
beautiful Illustration OF TINS very
thought He refarg to the tive hundred
and fftieth anniversary of the founding O.
Harvard College The students marcheo
in torchlirht professions with Transparent
cies and banners The freshman class
) then only one month Old, had this for then
motto. The university has waited Zo'
t yeors for us" And that he says was
, nrofound truth. All the institutional llt'
) had been slowly evolving for these hight
5 hearted boys, and on their conduct nov
I rested the destiny of the future. L Wonde
{ # & is possible that this very world ha
: been waiting for MS. And II there arr
/. some things vet unfulflled that are wait
3 inc for the way we use these days. Ii s.
3 that makes life vastly insignificant. :, y
n course it does not mean that we small D
e notable or great, or prominent NoC lha
: other generations shall know our names
r But chat our little lives are OF eterna
e meaning. t4;f.
e Mr.. i. B. Meyer has said some beautiful
+ things. I remember nearing him say, on
8 time that we are Gods poem" (God
e workmanship. And you know that
poera is something very different from a a
= prose 1t contains thought that coul
Z, not be put in prose TO paraphrase 1t
u to dali its beauty. 1t flashes the idea onl
l. in that FORM just as a diamond gives tha
IS oleom only from that side. So we al
u Gods poem, And a poem, contains
10 thought. And to express that thoHSt
has meant to the writer great efior
le And every syllable is Of value. And
81 with Gods poem He is working upon
I'd that in the ages to come He might sho
le forth the exceeding riches of His grac
Is Can any life be insignificant?
OF Give no place then. to impotence Gt
IN made this world in the beginning, and
ne this present He has sustained 1T by we
formed plan The present finds us her
ut What place shall we take in this world
r. unfinished things? For myself L take
&C. Mac, of iov. and effort. and hope. l rea'
ng ont lame hands of faith for the way
us God. and lift up voice that is hall
IS prayer and half shout, Even SO, com
~ Lord Jesus
lg. r1arnestness.
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