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

the door Of heather temple, said |:
"Glory to thee, o God!" What did
dying Wilberforce say to his wifef
"Come aud sit beside nae, and let us
talk Of heaven. / never knew what
happiness was ustil I found Christ"
What did dying Hannah More say2 "To
60 to Christ, who died that l might
live! Oh! glorious grave! Oh, the
love Of Christ, tho love of Christ, the
love of Christ"
What did tho dying Janewsy sayH
81 can as easily die as close my eyes or
turR my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred aud
forty and four thousand and with thc
just mon made perfect, and We shall as
cribe riches, and honor, and glory, and
majesty, and dominion unto God and
the Lamb" DR.. Taylor. condemned to
burn at tho stake, on his way thither
went bounding and leaping and jump
ing toward she fire, glad to go to Jesus
and to die fer him. Sir Charles Hare.
in his last moment, had such rapturous
vision that he cried upward, upward,
upwardW And so great was the peace
Of one of Christ's disciples that he put
his finger upon the pulse in his wrist
and counted it and observed it; and 20
great was his placidity that after
while he said "stopped |" and his life
had ended here to begin in heaven. But
| graEacr than that was the testimony OF
tho WORKOUT first missionary, whan, in
| the Dlamartinc dungeon, he cried: ~
am now ready to be offered and the time,
Of my departure is.at hand ; l have fought
tho good fight. / have finished my course
| have kept the faith: henceforth is laid
up for me O crown Of righteousness,
which the Lord the righteous Judge,
will give me in that day, and not to me
only, but to all them that love his ap-
pearingw Do you not sec that Christ is
above all in dying alleviations3
Toward the last hour Of our earthly
residence we are speeding.
Brighter than a baDqueting hall
through which the light feet of the
| dancers go up and down to the sound of
trumpetcrs will be the sepulchcr through
whose riffs the holy light of heaven
strcameth. God will watch you. He
| will send his angels to guard your slum-
bering ground, until, at Christ's behcst,
| they shall roll away the stone.
So, also, Christ is above a}l in heaven
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
! tho chief theme Of the celestial ascrip-
ton. all the thrones flcing his throne,
all the palms waved tcioru his face, all
the crowns down at his feet. Chcrubm
| to cherubim, scraphim to scraphim, re-
| deemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall
rccite the Savior's earthly sacrifice
Stand on some high hill of heaven, aud
in all the radiant sweep the most glori-
Gus object will be Jesus. Myriads gaz-
ing on the scars Of his sufferugs, in
silence first, afterward breaking forth
into acclamation. The martyrs, all the
purcr for the flame through which they
passed, will say: This is Jesus, for
whom we died" The apostles, all the
happier for the shipwreck and the
scourging through which they went, will
say: "rhis is the Jesus whom we
preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at jerusalem. {"
Little children clad in white will say
"This is the Jesus who took US in His
arms and blessed us, and when the
storms OF the world were too cold and
loud, brought us into this beautiful
place" The multitudes of the bereft
will say: ''This is the Jesus who COM
forted us when our hearts broke" Many
who wandered clear off from God and
plunged into vagabondism. but wero
| eaSco ny grace, VIII say: nle is the
Jesus who pardoned us We were lost
on the mountain, and He brought us
home. We were guilty, and he has made
us white as snow" Mercy boundless,
grace unparalleled. And then, after
each one has recitcd his peculiar deliver
aaces and peculiar mercies, recited them
as by solo, all the voices will come to-
gether into great chorus, which will
make the arches echo and re-echo with
tho eternal reverberation of gladncss,
and peace, and triumph.
Edward |. was 80 anxious to 90 to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $160,O 900 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken to the
Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request
was complied with. But there are
hundreds to-day whose hearts are already
in the Holy Laxd of heaven. Where
your treasures are, there are your hearts
also. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom !
spoke at the opening of the discourse,
caught glimpse Of that place, and in
his quaint way he said: "And / heard
in my dream, and lo the bells of the city
rang again for joy; and as they opened
: the gates to let in the men looked In
, after them, and lol the city shone like
the sun, and there were streets of gold
and men walked on them, harps in their
hands, to sing praises withal; and afte,
, that they shut up the gates, which wher
. l had seen / wished myself among them.
, Gz-z7aEr-e%=NaR
o n Proposed State Ball League.