The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-24


its chief beauty III hogshoads and
bills of sale? Will parents be com
petent to rear their children for high
and holy purpose, if their infancy and
boyhood and girlhood were neglected,
when they are almost ready to enter
upon the world and have all their
habits fixed and their principles
stereotyped! No, no; now is thetime
to be happy. Now is the time to
serve your Crcator. Now is the time
to be Christian. Are you too busy?
! have known men as busy as you are
who had u place in the store-loft
whe"~ 5h"y went /" pray Some one
asked Christian s,>llor where he
found place to pay in. He said:
81 can always find Quict place at
masthead" And in the busiest day
i'll the season, ifyoulr heart is right,
you can find 10 place to pray. Broad
way and Fulton strcetare goodplaces
to pray Ill &r You go to meet your
various engagements. Go home q
little earlier and get introduced to
your chIliIcn. BE not q gallery slave
! by day in;l n;yht, lnshed fast to the
oar OF .,u-In".;S. Let every day have
It's hour of worship and intellectual
culture and recreation. Show your
self greater than your business Act
not rs though after death you would
enter upon an eternity of railroad
stocks land coffee andribbon. Roast not
your manhood before the perpetual
fires Of anxiety. With evory yard of
cloth you sell, throw not in your soul
to boot. Use tirkin, counting room,
desk and hardware crate as the step
to glorious usefulness and Christian
character. Decide once and forever
who shall be master in your store, you
or your business.
Men appreciate the Importance Of
having good business stand, store
| on the right side Of the street or in
the right block. Now every place OF
business is II good stand for spiritual
culture. Gods angels hover over the
world Of traffic to sustain and build
up those who are trying to do their
duty. Tomorrow, if III your place of
worldly engagement you will listen
| for 1T, you will hear q sound louder
than the rattle of drays and the
shuttle of feet and the chink Of dol
lars, stealing into your soul, saying:
| Seek We first the kingdom Of God
and His righteousness, and oil other
things shall be added unto you" Yet
some Of those sharpest at e bargain
are cheated out of their immortal
blcssedness by stratagems moro pal
pable than any "drop game OF the
street. They make Investments in
things everlastingly below par. They
put their valuables in safe not fire,
proof. They give full credit to in,
tlucnccs that will not be able to pay
one cent on a dollar They plunge
into n labyrinth from which no bank,
rupt law OF "two-thirds enactment
will ever extricate them. They take
into their partnership the world, the
flesh and the devil, and the enemy of
righteousness will boast through eter-
nal ages that the man who in all his
business life could not be outwitted
or Over-reachcd, at last tumbling into
spiritual defalcation, and was swim
| died out of heaven.
Perhaps some of you saw the fire
in New York in 1885. Aged men tell
us that it beggared all description.
Some stood Oh the house tops of
bIOOkIyn, Anu looked aC GnC req rum
that swept down the streets, and
threatened to oblitcrate the metrop-
Oils. But the commercial world
will yet be startled by greater con-
| migration, oven the last. Bills of ex-
change, policies Of insurance, mort
cages and bonds and government
securities, will be consumed in one
lick of the flame. The bourse and
United States mint will turn to ashes
| Gold will run molten into tho dust of
the street. Exchanges and granite
blocks of merchandise Will fall with q
crash that will make the earth trem-
BILE. The tiashing-up Of the great
light will show the righteous the way
to their thrones Their best treas
ures in heaven, they will go up and
take possession of them. The tolls of
business life, which racked their brain
and rasped their nerves for 80 many
years, will have forever ceased. ."Thero
the wicked cease from troubling, and
| the weary are at rest"
|