The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-12-04

" JcluSdlClll JcIuSdlclll HOW OlIcll
would have gathered thee us Il hen
wings !" He had seen his mother open
the family wardrobe at the close Of
summer and the moth millcrS dying
out, having destroyed the garments,
and in after years he says "Lay not
up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth doth corrupt" In child
hood he had seen II mile Of flowers,
white us the snow, or red as the flame,
or blue us the S0a, or green rs the tree
tops. and no wonder i'll his manhood |
sermon he said. "ConSidcr the lilies"
While one day on a high point where
now stands the tomb of Neby lSmail,
he had seen winging past him so near
as to furry his hair the partridge and
the hoopOe and the thrush and the
osprey and the crane and the raven,
and no wonder afterward in his man
hood sermon he said, "Behold the
fowls of the air. In Nazareth and on
the road to it there are great many
camelS. | see them now in memory
making their slow way up the Zigzag
road from the plain of ESdraclon to
Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with
their appearance, also with that small
insect, the gnat, which he had seen his
mother strain out from 4 cup of water
or pail of milk, and no wonder he
brings aitcrWard the large Quadrupcd
and the small insect into his sermon
and, while seeing the phariSceS careful
about small sins and reckless about
large ones, cries out "WUc unto you
blind guides which strain out gnat
and swallow Il camel W
| IIE KNEW ABOUT TIE SHEEP.
He had in boyhood seen the shep-
herds get their ilocks mixed up, and to
one not familiar with the habits Of
Shepherds and their llOcks, hopcleSSly
mixed up. And a ShcepStealer appears
on the scene and dishonesty demands
some Of those sheep, when he owns not
: one Of them. "Wrll," say the two hon
est shepherds, eve will soon settle this
matter" and one shepherd goes out in
: one direction and the other shepherd
goes out in the other direction, and the
shprpStCalcr in another direction, ana
each one calls, and the docks Of each Of
the honest shepherds rush to their
/. owner, while the Shcepstralrr call and
> calls again, Iut gets not one Of the
$ flock. 40 wonuer that Christ, years
rit"r, preaching on great occasion
) and illustrating his own shepherd
f qualities, says "Whcn he putteth
| forth his own sheep he goeth before
: them, and the sheep follow him, for
e they know his voice. and the stranger
= they viii not follow, for they know not
D the voice Of the Stranger.' The sides
j Of these hills are terraced for grapes
\, The boy Christ had often stood with
5. great round eyes watching the trim
e ming Of the grapcVincs. Clip goc:
= the knife and off falls 4 branch. The
: child Christ says to the farmer, "Wha
r do you do that for" son." says tn
h farmer, that is dead branch and It'll
e doing nothing and is only in the way
h, so | cut it Off" Then the farmer witt
It his sharp knife prunes from livin
sc branch this and that tendril and tn
\ other tcndril. "But,' says the chill
Is Christ, these twigs that you cut o
If now are not dead; what do you do tina
y for?" son." SAYS the farmer, "w
X prunc off these that the main branc
IF may have more of the sap and SO h
le more fruitful" No wonder in afte
H. years Christ said in his sermon
J, am the true vine and my fathe: is tn
Is hu%bandman; every branch in me thu
10 hcarcth not fruit he taketh away, an
T. every branch that bcarcth fruit h
p purgcth it. that it may bring fort
re more fruit" Capital No one who ha
Iy not been country boy would have sal
h, that.
IS Streaks of nature all through Christ
IN sermons and conversations When
t. pigeon descended upon ChriSts hca
al at his baptism in the JOrdOn it was NJ
a the first pigeon he had seen. And the
ny he has such wide sweep Of discourE
he as you may imagine from one who h;
lg stood on the hills that overlook NaZ
'ir reth. AS far as | understand, Chri
~, visited the Mediterranean sea on
" once, but any clear morning he cou
IL run up on hill near Nazareth ar
y look of to the west and see the Med
dc teranean, while there in the north
~ snowy Mount Lebanon, clad rs in whi
Til robe Of ascension. and FOUNDER on Il
'"- east and southeast Mount GilbO
;ly Mount Tabor and Mount Gilead, al
on Wonder in the south IS the plain
'St ESdraelOn over which we rode yeSte
ed day on our way to Nazareth. Tho
I'M mountains Of his hoyhOOd in his mer
to DRY, do you wonder that Christ Wh(
I'm he wanted good pulpit made it out
lre Il seeing the multitndcs
went up into the mountain" Al
when he wanted especial commune
in with God he took James and John al
gS. Peter into "a mountain apart
he HE WAS \ COUNTRY BOY.
his Oh, this country boy Of NaZarc'
ng come forth to atone for the sins Of t
he world, and to correct the fOllieS of
zen world, and to stamp out the cruclt
lrS. of the world, and to illuminc the daI
me ness OF tho world, and to transligl
en- the hemiSphcrcs! SO it has bceu
ng mission of the country boys in all as
IaS to transform and inspire and resc
EN- They come into our merchandise a
rec our court rooms and our healing
ing and oar StudiOuS and our thcOlo
cir They lived in Nazareth before they
sly tered Jerusalem. And but for II
by annual influx our cities would ha
iCh rnrrSAtCu and SiCkcncd and slain
ing race. Late hours and hurtful appa
ion and OvcrtaXcd digestive organs a
md vrOWiliMg environments Of city |
on Wcrld lave halted the world; but
lrts valleys and mountains OF Nazar'
cen have given fresh supply of health q
IDS moral inVigOratiOn TO Jerusalem, Z
ook the country saves the town. From
no hills of New Hampshire and the h
: in Of Virginia and the hills of Gcor
no come into our national clOquenre
was WehSterS and the ClayS and the lie
hat w. Gradys. From the plain homes