The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-15

may be, Christ will never see it, and
bear down upon the helpless craft,
| and take tnem on board: and it will
be known i'll earth and i'll heaven
how narrowly they cscaped-"c escaped
rs with the skin. of their teeth
| There arc others who, in attempt
ing to come to God, must run be
| tween great many business per
plcXlties. Ii man goes over to busi-
ness ut 10 o'clock in the morning,
and comes away ut 3 o'clock in the
| afternoon he has somo time for re-
ligion; but how shall you find time
| for religious contemplation when YOU
| nre driven from sunrise to sunset,
and have been for five years going be
| hind In business, and arc frequently
| dunncd by creditors whom YOU can
not pay, and when, from Monday
| morning until Saturday night, you
are dodging bills that you cannot
meeR You walk day bv day in un-
certainties that have kept your brain
on fire for the past three years Some
with loss business troubles than YOU
have gone crazy. The clerk has
| heard n noise in the back counting
|
chief man of the firm II l'nving mani
ac; or the wife has heard the bang ef
II pistol in the back pallor, and gone
III, stumbling over the dead body of
| her huSband--n suicide. There are
IN this house to day 800 men pursued,
harnsscd, troddcn down and scalpcd
| by business pcrplcxities, and which
way to turn next they do know.
Now God will not be hard on you.
He knows what obstacles are in the
way of your being IL Christian, and
| your first effort in tho right dirCc-
| ton Hc will crown with success. Do
not let Satan, with cotton bales and
| kegs and hogShpads and counters
and stocks Of unsuitable goods, block
up your way to heaven. Gather up
all your. energies. Tighten the girdlo
| about your lOins. Take All agOniZ-
ing look into the face OF God, and
| thon say, "hcrc goes one grand effort
for life eternal" and then bound
away for heaven: escaping "as with
the skin Of your tccth.'
IN the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimrr and John Knox and
iluS:i and Ridley were not the great
est martyrs, but Christian men who
went up incorrupt from the cOntumin-
ationS and perplcXitios Of Wall Street,
Water Street, PCari Street, Broad
Str0ct, State Street and Third Street.
On earth they were called brokers,
oS stock -jOhbers, or retailers, or i'm
portcrs; but in heaven Christian ho-
rOeS. No fugOtb wore hcapcd about
their feet, no inQuisitiun dcmHrded
from them rccantati0n; no soldier
aimed spike at Uhcir heart; but
they had mental t0rturcs. compared
with which all physical consum-
ing is as the brcath OF Il spring morn
ing.
/ find III the community Il LARGE
class of men who have been so cheat
ed, SO lied about, so 0utragcouSly
wrongcd, that they have lost their
faith III everything. In Il world aherc
everything seems SO topsy-tnvy,
they do not SEQ how there can be- any
God. They are confoundrd and
frcnnica and miSantmOpic. EIaHOr-
ate arguments to prove to them fhc
truth Of Christianity, or the truth Of
else, touch thcm nowhere.
Hear me, all such men. I preach TO
you no rounded periods, no Oinamrn
tai discourse; but put my hand on
your shoulder, and invite YOU into
the peace of the Gospel. Here is a
rock on which you may stand finn.
though the waves dash against it
hnrdcr th;n the atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above EdHySt0nc Light
house. DO not charge upon God i'll
these troubles OF the wOrld AS long
rs he world stuck to God, God stuck
to tho world; hut the earth Scccdcu
from His government, and hence I'LL
these Outragca, and all these woes.
God is good. For many hundreds of
Years He has been cOaXing the world
to come back to Him; but the more
He has coaXcd, the more violent
have mon been in thcirrcaist;mcc,and
they havo stepped back and step
ped back until they have dropped into
ruin.
Try this God, yo who have had the
bloodhomds after you, and who
have thought tnat God had forgot
ten you. Try HIM, and sec if lie
will not help. Try Him, and see if
iht VII llob IGtlNOll. lTN lllll, an L
sec If Ho will not save. The flowers
of spring have no bloom SO sweet as
the Towering OF Christ's affections.
Tho sun hath no warmth compared
with the glow of His heart. The WA
| tcrs have no refrcShment like the
| fountain that will slakc the thirst OF
thy soal. AT the moment the roin-
deer stands with his lip and nostlil
| thrust in the cool mountain torrent
the hunter may be coming through
the thickct. WithOutcrackinga n stick
under his foot, no comes close by the
stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger,
and the poor thing re0rs in its death,
agony and falls backward, its antlers
ci a8himS on the rocks; but cpnnting
heart that drinks from the water
brook OF G0d's promise shall never
be fatally woundcd4 and shall never
die.
This world il poor portion for
your soul; OH business man! An Fast
crn king had craven ON his tomb two
fingers, rcprcsentc sounding upon
each oLhCr with snap, and lndcr
them the motto, All is not worth
that. Apiciua Crlius hanged him
self because . his steward informed
him that he rad only eighty thousand
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