The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-06

out his discourse, while George Whit
field, with the manner and the voice anC
the art of an actor, overwhelmed hi,
auditory. 1t would have been a differ
ent thing ii Jonathan Edwards had trieC
to write and dream about the pilgrim,
progress to the celestial city, or Johr
Bunyan had attempted an essay on the
human will.
Brighter than the light, frssher than
the fountains, deeper than the seas, arc
all these Gospel themes. Song has nc
melody, flowers have no sweetness, sun
set sky no color compared with those
glorious themes. These harvests of grace
spring up quicker than we can sickle
them. Kindling pulpits with their fire,
and producing revolutions with their
power, lighting up dying beds with their
glory, they are the sweetest thought for
the poet, and they are the most thrilling
II lustratlon for the orator, and they offer
the most intenses scene for the artist, and
! they are to the ambassador Of the sky all
enthusiasm. Complete pardon for dircst
guilt Swceteet comfort for ghastiiest
agony. Brightest hope for grimmect
death. Grandest resurrection !or darkest
sepulcher. On, what Gospel to preach
| Christ over all in it. His birth, his snf-
fcring, his miracles, his parallels, his
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is looking olass and hnrr !, is in ,hn
Bible, Poor. and wrrtchcd and n,;sorn1
bic, and blind and naked from W.
crown of the head to tho soln of tha foot
full of wounds and nutrnfn;nn soros
No health in us. And than tnSn the foct
that Christ gathered nm all the notcs
against us and paid them. and then offer.
cd us the receint
And how much we need him in our
sorrow! We are independent of cir
cumstances if we have His grace, Whv
He made Paul sing in the dung .on, and
under that grace, st. John from desoatc
Patmos heard the blast of the apocalvD-
TIC trumpets. After all other candles
nave been snutfed out, this is the light
that gets brighter and brighter unto the
hoots OF calamity, all the pools of wo:ld.
ly enjoyment have been trampled into
deep nlre, at the foot Of the eternal rock
the Christian, from cups of granite lily
trimmed and vine covered, puts out the
thirst OF his soul.
Again, remark that Christ is above
all IN dying allevlations.
Saladn, the greatest conoueror of his
day, while dying, ordered that the tunic
he had on HIM be carried after his death
on his spear at the head of his army. and
that then the soldier, ever and anon,
should stop and say: "Behold. all that
Is lett OF Saladin, the emperor and con-
queror! Of all the states he conquered,
vi all the woalth he accumulated, moth
ing ala he retain but this shroud J" |
nave no sympathy with such behavior, or
such aosuo demonstration. or with much
that we near uttered in regard to depart
ure from this life to the next. There
IS comnonscnsical idea on this subject
tnat you ana L need to conslder-that
ther@ are only two styles OF depart
ure.
A thousand feet underground, ,.by light
of torch toilng in miners shaft, n
ledge of rock may fall uuon us. and we
may die miners death. Far out at sea,
falling from the slippery ratlines and
broken on the halyar0s we NAV dia q