The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-15
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED.
UNFINISHED THINGS"
ane Rev. a. II. c. Morse Bases an Inter-
esting Address Upon the FIRST and
Last words in the Scriptuies-Be Not
Impatient, God Has Plan.


BROOKLYN, n. Yin the Strong Place |
Baptist Church Sunday morning the pas
tor. the Rev. \. H. G. Morse preached
stroag sermon on "Cnhhishea lhlnss'
He said:
Nv sermon this morning IS based upon
the first and the last words IN the Soup
ture: sin the beginning God created tha
heaven and the earth" Even 50, come
Lord Jesus And between these teAts
there is an immeasurablc distance, lhe
first deals with the beginning OF things:
The last closes the Bible with a note OF
incompe teness. The first takes us back
to the moment when the shining worlds
were hurled from the battlements OF hear-
en- by the hand OF the Creator. Inc Sec
ond points forward to some Tar oil divine
event to which the whole creation moves.
!. would solve many troubles ~ oul
thinking il we remembered that we i've IN
a world of unfinished things. This earth
is not finished product. 1t is rather the
sum of all the forces with which 1T was
| stored in the beginning. 1t IS what some
| one has called an eXpectant creation III
stands W h shaded eyes looking toward
the future. Hidden behind all ITS move
/ ment there is a divinely appointed end;
! Men may correct all their false ideas OF
| evolution in the light of this single truth.
But in the beginning they must post God.
Life is an unfinished product Whoever
saw a finished life! In a great workshop
we must look for noise and dust and tut
multi and confusion. We also look Tor the
finished product, but it is not there. AS
soon as q product is finished 1T Is removed;
| Its pace is not there in all that dust and
dirt. This world is Gods great workshop.
Are we startled at the noise and confu-
sion? Human beings are in process OF be
ing formed and perfected But the end Is
not vet. 1T doth not yet appear what we
shall be-" No one is perfect to-day And
what we call the best is made up OF I'M
finished and incomplete products. If this
world has ever seen the perfect, 1T Is only
that it would be removed LAte IS great
school What man is, or does, after grad
uation has not been told us yet with any
detail
We are appalled, at the evidences OF So
oial wreckaee They tell us there is moth.
ing good in all the world, that the whole
earth is a vast madhouse her inhabitants
are drunk Hith delirlum, the fields are be-
coming bankrupt and the harvests are
wei! nigh exhausted. They tell MS that tina
strong trample the weak to death III Their
cruel greed and hunger Now tins seems
TO me like false interpretations. Tine
world is filled with madness. 1t does reek
in cruelty and greed. But still L am
taught that this world is Gods, and that
it is working for a diNinely appointed end
1t manifests along its course one great III
tention. 49,
Who. then, are the pessimsts? They
are the disappointed whom fortune seems
to have shaken from her skirts, Here Is 9
man you used to. know. Then he was
bright and keen and vivacious and ener
getic. In those days his eyes were bright
!. with the CLEAN of far-off fire. But now Wt
, meet him and the light has faded from hi:
eye, and the spring has departed IRON nj
step, and he has joined the great army
the disappointed He had set his hear
upon obtaining something which the pass
ing wears have said he could never have
! And his life has failed and his possession
: have taken flight Now what does thu
4 mean? 1t simply means that he has beer
h displaced by the very progress OF tn
i world When an army Is marching tol
:, ward and it quickens its pace, the weake
. soldiers must fall by the wayslde. But tn
a army has gone to valiant duty. Ana Tn
' very fact that the world Is sweeping or
d ward means that some must be dropplu
f every year. They are flung backward BIT
II cause the race is hurrying forward.
: This world is an incomplete world b'
o cause it is divine. Ii life, as we know
,r were complete. if this were the end, the
o we should have to-day the ultimate stant
' ard OF success. Our Judgment OF ourselvS
l. and OF others would be final But is the
we not rathe4 look at this life as part OF
: whole, whose greater part hes beyond tt
s. vision? There isn't room in the lonse
human career to develop all we hope an
love and long for. And - we say that IL
most encouraging thing about this hie
that it is not yet complete. The basis
II. hope is the possibility OF growth-not
n. the perfection OF attainment now or in u
= immediate future.
at Shall | be misunderstood is | point o.
er that the earthly life OF the Saviour pa
. took of this same incompieteness! Ills q
~ tons. His parallels, His whole teachil
Is constitute promise of the future. ID
re- life led to His death. His death to His IL
direction, His resurrection to His asce
II SION His ascension to His throne OF glo1
OF and that again leads to His second comm
Even So Come, Lord Jesus" 1t is
=, though the lines of life projected lar
Vi vond our farthest ken and could be +
h. lowed only by an infinite hope. Why W
al not Jesus one of the disappointed! 1t ev
a man had right to be Il pessimst It W
a He. He found that the world did Il
want Him. the rulers OF the state had
n. place for Him, the church of Judea tn
= God had been training for 1900 years
IS, look for Him did not know Him. W
rk was He not in despair? Because He h
n in Himself the wells of JOY. Not the
of Indifference, not the JOY of Him W
or sees and does not care. But the JOY
ID Him who secs all, and through all to
- living Gotl. Just as in one of Corot's ?
. lures you can sec in the foreground
as gnarled and bluckeued trunks, and
s." yond all and behind all the clear shini
i'm Of the sky.
' 'n The gospel with its mission std nn
lat complished is another instance of &
cir thought before us. In the word in
church and in the soul of the believer
gospel sees not yet all things put under
And that foc the simple reason that
is a world Of unfinished things. And e'
This NAV come to us with inspiration,